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    I'm tired, boss

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  • While I do see your point, I think the main idea behind this post is that we're told that we live in civilized free western world, but once we rebel, speak ill or become in any way a 'threat' to people on top (while staying within the rules of society of course), that's when you get punished for it.

    Something I'll give to autocratic countries is that even though you have no freedom, at least you're fully aware of it. In western countries, you have some freedom but are led to believe you actually have more, if not full, freedom.

  • ‘We should have better answers by now’: climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating

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  • Doubt procrastination will stop even after 60-70 becomes a new high in those countries and people start dying en masse

  • US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google

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  • Good, but why now? For years, Google has been way more dominant both practically and culturally until very recently, and only now after they stumbled hard with their AI venture, Bing catching up, and their public opinion dropping do they decide to break the company up.

    Does this mean that a monopoly is good as long as it's successful, but once it starts stumbling and outlives its use that's when the government is gonna do something about it?

  • If buying it isn't owning it...

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  • Man, I wish. The problem nowadays is that denuvo is actually effective - many titles that are rather popular but have denuvo DRM haven't been cracked for years at this point, so the only practical choice is to wait for years until those game companies stop their contract subscriptions and DRM gets removed.

  • SpaceX accused of dumping mercury into Texas waters for years

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  • I remember this article from a couple days ago where some chess player poisoned their opponent's board with mercury, and I'd like to believe they copied this strategy from Musk's SpaceX. He is truly a visionary and innovator, inspiring chess players to discover new strategies.

  • Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular

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  • I don't think racism itself is enough for Trump and far-right to succeed, which is precisely why they've combined it with populism and working class rhetoric. Of course, there's still racism like how muslims are being portrayed as violent beasts as opposed to culture white christians, but a lot of it is also things like "immigrants are taking away money from welfare thats why you live bad" or "immigrants are taking our jobs" or "jews control everything and steal from workers" and so on, you know what they say.

    Like any good right-wing propaganda, there is a grain of truth in those statements, and it's that economic reality of working class is shit - wages are stagnant, exploitation is rampant and just pure stress when it comes to finances. I do believe that if people's needs are met then the racist rhetoric would lose a lot of its power and people will just stop caring as much as they do right now, but that's very unlikely without any radical action.

  • 'Neoliberal capitalism' has contributed to the rise of fascism, says Nobel laureate

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  • Bait used to be believable

  • 'Neoliberal capitalism' has contributed to the rise of fascism, says Nobel laureate

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  • the supposed resurgence of fascism never happened despite EU running capitalism for 79 years since the World War 2.

    If you took 5 minutes to look into elections in Europe and in US, you'd see that far-right are becoming more dominant in elections, white nationalists and neo-nazis are openly having marches on streets and attacking the "enemy" (like immigrants or muslims), Russia is pretty much an unofficial fascist state right now and so on.

    You're right, resurgence of fascism never happened, but it is happening right now.

  • 'Neoliberal capitalism' has contributed to the rise of fascism, says Nobel laureate

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  • Funnily enough, not even neoliberals believe in the free market regardless of how much they spout its nonsense.

    Thatcher was one of such neoliberals, she would always talk about how people should become self-sufficient and governments shouldn't interfere in the free market for it to truly work and so on, but during her rule she was spending billions in subsidies for corporations (aka government interference in the free market). Of course, they weren't called subsidies in the paperwork but some other bullshit like "public investment", but their effect was still the same.

  • Susan Wojcicki, Former Chief of YouTube, Dies at 56

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  • RIP. Even though she got a lot of shit from the youtube community, at least she was a bit better than what youtube currently has.

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    dysphoria rule

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  • Unrealistic beauty standards

  • In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercury

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  • These chess strategies are getting more and more creative

  • Evangelical pastor who condemned "wicked" & "evil" queers arrested in sex sting operation

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  • Always the ones you least suspect

  • Far-right riots erupt in U.K. in the wake of child murders

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  • Realistically, the only real way to deal with them is counter-protest, but that's difficult since the right has completely taken over the direct action/protest field in the past 10 years, so it's a question whether or not the left can organize anymore (unless things get really bad, like how Antifa was very active during Trump).

    We can try to combat misinformation and propaganda on the media to try and prevent this from even happening or telling people that it's all bullshit, but it's not effective since many popular sources directly benefit from this misinformation (be it in clicks or political goals) and either turn a blind eye or purposefully spread it (notable instance being Twitter).

    Unless some sort of magical fairy-tale leftist revolution happens where most people get rallied under class issues and inequality rather than race and shared bigotry, this will probably continue happening more and more.

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    Both sides!

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  • Far-left definitely isn't that - "we're gonna make sure everyone's needs are met" is literally a general leftist thing. Assuming you're trying to portray tankies and fascists, a more accurate depiction would be "we're gonna make sure working class needs are met with an iron fist and extermination of anyone potentially rebellious".

    That being said, holy shit there are so many bad takes in this thread

  • I swear I check them often enough!

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  • Same, as soon as I have to scroll in order to navigate my tabs I just instinctively go on a closing spree

  • The Air BnB market is very competitive

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  • The one time copypasting a bunch of buildings was actually a good idea

  • Before your change to Linux

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  • Same as you, I was somewhat already leaning towards Linux but seeing Windows 10 EOL announced around 3 years ago and seeing what new "features" are going to be implemented to Windows 11, I decided to hop ship.

    The main reason for switch was privacy concerns, got redpilled by Mental Outlaw while he was still making regular Linux videos.

  • French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third

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  • While yes, I don't doubt that people do care about immigration and that's why they vote far-right, the point of my original comment was that a lot of this "anti-immigration" sentiment is just an easy scapegoat by the right. It's something they puff up, blame most issues on then try to get votes by promising to deal with that said issue they pretty much manufactured, while leaving actual issues that they're going to make worse unaddressed (like low minimum wages, tax cuts for the rich, weakening of workers rights, mass privatization, etc).

    Liberals (left doesn't exist in most of EU still) rarely ever vow to do anything about immigration precisely of how overblown it is, and yeah they do lose votes because of it from people who do end up believing the far-right, the "easy" answer if you will.

    And here's a fun tidbit - most of the voters who vote far-right in European countries (checked Poland and French but undoubtedly there are many more examples) come from rural regions, which are the least affected by immigration.