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BertramDitore

@ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

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  • Friday is a boycott day of online retailers. I saw this from CPUSA.

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  • Do something real

    If I had been planning to make a big purchase on Friday, but decided to join the boycott and not make the purchase, that is absolutely doing something. That is money that the retailer will not get from me.

    If I usually buy groceries on Fridays, or Friday is the day I drive by the local Target and sometimes stop in, but because of the boycott I actively decide not to, that is absolutely doing something. That is money that those retailers might have come to expect, that they will not get from me.

    If enough people make those decisions, the impact will most definitely be felt and reach the top.

    Collective action is incredibly powerful. Sometimes collective action means deciding not to do something, together. And that is also incredibly powerful.

    I’d love to hear your suggestions on what “real” looks like to you.

  • ‘Just wanted to apologize’: Americans pick up the tab for everyone at Canadian restaurant

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  • It's close, and malapropisms are great too, but they rely on a similar-sounding incorrect word being used in place of the correct word, usually resulting in hilarity. Your example is also hilarious, but I don't think it counts as a malapropism, not to get all linguistically technical (okay, I will lol). Rick Perry saying states are "lavatories of innovation and democracy" instead of "laboratories" is a perfect and awesome example.

    The genius of @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml's comment was that they combined two relevant proverbs into a single equally relevant but hilarious one: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink" + "Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth" = brilliance

  • Jamie Dimon calls U.S. government 'inefficient' and says Elon Musk's DOGE effort 'needs to be done'

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  • ‘Just wanted to apologize’: Americans pick up the tab for everyone at Canadian restaurant

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  • I’m not gonna lead a gift horse to water

    What a joyously adorable mix of proverbs. This made me smile.

  • DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers

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  • It looks like they’re still very much trying to build this stupid city, and are doing everything they can to circumvent local opposition.

    About a year ago, some guy knocked on my door as part of a canvas to gauge the support of towns in the surrounding area, but he never once mentioned that this dumb Silicon Valley wet dream was the project he was talking about. He spoke in very vague terms about “building community” and providing “housing and opportunities for the working class,” which sounded great so I said of course I support those things. He smiled, jotted something down and then left. I called after him asking what organization he represented, and he turned around, handed me a postcard with a shitty AI generated image on it, and then he was gone. Turns out it was California Forever, the org behind the dystopian exploitation fantasy that is their juvenile idea for a new city. I felt violated, humiliated, and furious. They’re doing some seriously underhanded bullshit to try to force this down our throats.

  • Bernie Sanders keeps saying Ol-ah-gawky but I thought it was o-le-garky?

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  • Bernie has a very strong Brooklyn accent which is why the R turns to aw, but either pronunciation is totally fine.

  • Who is a chef you love ?

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  • Seconding this. He has a great style that keeps it light and simple while still explaining the science behind why certain methods work better than others. I also love that he shows his work by talking about all the testing that goes into his recipes and methods.

    He also used to regularly respond to random comments and questions on the other site, which was super cool, though I don’t know if he still does since I went cold turkey so long ago.

  • The Coup Has Failed

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  • That article was all over the place, largely underestimates the moment, and completely misunderstands the purpose of the laughably weak Republican pushback, but the last paragraph at least tries to clean it up.

    This is also not a call to stand down, to relax, to be less vigilant. It’s merely an observation: Public outcry has succeeded. It’s made it impossible for Trump to sustain his coup. If the people keep this up, they will succeed even more.

    I’d also moderate his language significantly. Public outcry has absolutely not succeeded, but it has helped give some ammunition to elected officials and confidence to civil servants, so it’s true that we will absolutely fail without sustained public outcry. But we are still light years away from succeeding.

  • Media Afraid to Call Ethnic Cleansing by Its Name

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  • No, there are some great independent outlets that are still doing exceptional journalism. Many of the new outlets were founded by reporters who came from mainstream or traditional media but were either laid off or quit because of the profit-above-all-else mindset. As citizens and news consumers this means we have to be pickier and more discerning when it comes to what we read, because we can’t trust that we’ll get everything we need from just a single newspaper anymore. But if you look around you’ll still find some very high quality journalism, it’s just a bit more diffuse than we’re used to.

  • New York Times caught passing off GOP flack as average Black voter.

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  • To add some context, one nice thing about the independent model 404 Media has gone with is that they tell us exactly what their motivations are, in their own voices (it’s only four people). On their podcast they’ve been very open about what they want, and maximizing profit is not it. They’ve talked honestly about what it costs to operate, and they’ve said the infinite growth model is not what they want to emulate. They just want to keep doing good journalism, they are not in it to get rich. Since I believe and trust their journalism, I’ll choose to believe them on the business side too, and that’s up to everyone to decide.

    I think they’re in touch with their readership enough to know that they’d lose a ton of subscribers if they sold out or started making terrible profit-driven decisions.

    But who knows, I don’t know them personally so they could just be really really good liars.

  • New York Times caught passing off GOP flack as average Black voter.

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  • These stealth edits are unacceptable. They are tantamount to the NYTimes shouting about their cowardice from the rooftops. Do they really think people won’t notice? Clearly they underestimate how satisfying it is to catch them in a lie, which is ironic for a newspaper whose reputation has been bolstered by exposing (some) lies.

    I thought correction notices were standard practice. It’s not like they can correct the hard copy, so fuck all their online readers I guess? Infuriating, but we shouldn’t expect anything better from them at this point in their downfall.

  • France Far-right Leader Cancels US Speech After 'Nazi Gesture' By Ex-Trump Aide

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  • Oh that’s good…

  • What is the most bizzare opinion you have ever heard from a teacher or professor

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  • Wow that’s wild. The thing that bothers me most about shit like this is that a good teacher would put aside their pride and take it as an opportunity to learn something themselves and show the class how to find out an answer to a question like this. Instead, you’ll always remember her as the dumbass who didn’t know what fossils are.

  • Gov. Hochul says she won't remove NYC Mayor Adams from office

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  • Ugh Cuomo. I forgot about him. Would New Yorkers really vote for him? I go back and forth, but yeah, probably. That’d be on brand.

  • Gov. Hochul says she won't remove NYC Mayor Adams from office

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  • As much as I wanted her to get rid of him, because he’s clearly a corrupt asshole, she isn’t the kind of politician to take a risk like that. She has shown herself to be a very weak governor. I’m also not sure if I’m okay with “our side” acting like authoritarians because the other branches are unwilling or unable to act through the proper process. She has the power, and he’s a piece of shit, but he was duly elected and primaries aren’t too far off (July I think). New Yorkers definitely won’t give him the job again. Though they’ll probably vote in another shitty mayor, the city has a laughably bad track record.

    I think the best we can hope for is Judge Ho deciding to dismiss the case with prejudice effectively removing the Sword of Damocles from over Adams’ head. (The corrupt prosecutors asked for without prejudice.) That wouldn’t be ideal, because Adams’ would be off the hook completely, but at least it’d take away Trump’s leverage. And voters would finish the job by primarying him in a few months.

    It all sucks major corrupt ass no matter how you sniff it.

  • What is the most bizzare opinion you have ever heard from a teacher or professor

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  • Goood question. I hadn’t thought about her in ages, but it’s funny how random memories of her class are coming back now. She was a shitty teacher, she clearly didn’t want to be there.

  • Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian

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  • Ah got it, thanks for the clarification.

  • Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian

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  • Yup! I should have been more specific, Mobius Sync uses syncthing on iOS.

  • What is the most bizzare opinion you have ever heard from a teacher or professor

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  • A middle school teacher asked for an analogy about something, I don’t remember what specifically, but I raised my hand and excitedly said “Oh! Like how math can help you understand music and music can help you understand math?”

    The teacher looked at me like I was a total fool and said “music has absolutely nothing to do with math, how could you possibly think that?”

    Since I was a snarky little punk, and I knew I was right, I said “have you heard about the circle of fifths? Let me tell you about it” and I proceeded to explain the mathematical beauty of music to the entire class. I even had sheet music in my bag from my piano lessons, so I pulled it out and showed it to everyone to explain the bars, tempo, and time signature, all of which are based on mathematical principles.

    She was not happy to be proven wrong in front of a class of fifth graders.

  • Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian

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  • It’s always been free for me using Mobius Sync…