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  • Racism in Germany is the norm not the exception – DW – 03/23/2025

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  • Islamic/religious beliefs don't necessarily infringe on others. I'm not religious. But religion is more complicated than what you're portraying.

  • Racism in Germany is the norm not the exception – DW – 03/23/2025

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  • Treating people badly simply for holding a religious belief, so long ad those beliefs do not directly infringe on others (paradox of tolerance blah blah), is bigotry. Using mental gymnastic to say that the people themselves are not being treated poorly is disingenuous.

  • Donald Trump's approval rating plunges with baby boomers

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  • All these articles are pure hopeium. I check his approval rating daily hoping my country will gain some sense. His approval is higher than his first term. Half the population has has their brains turned to scrambled eggs by social media. And I get the irony of saying this on social media.

    People are impressionable and the tech bros who control movement of information have fallen in line behind Trump. It's going to be a bumpy ride y'all.

  • Social media in 2025

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  • AI comic?

  • Racism in Germany is the norm not the exception – DW – 03/23/2025

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  • If you actually think gay people are accepted the same now as in the 80s then you're so dedicated to nonfactual pessimism that it's a lost cause. Is there still room for improvement? Yes. But gay people used to be treated like lepers by general society.

    Also its blatantly incorrect that half of society wants to tear down institutions that help black and gay people. Don't get me wrong. It's really bad. There are too many hateful people. But never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I think we both agree people can be very stupid, but really disagree in the way we see that play out. Many who vote maga are low information voters. But that's because the right wing runs a propaganda machine of the highest order that promises these people the fascists aren't the bad guys who want to take away peoples rights. Even then, not even half the population voted maga.

    You're not laying out facts. You're feeding into negativity in a way that exaggerates things in a way that is harmful. For example, you just inferred eugenics might not be a bad thing? Serious wtf my man. You need to get a grip on your pessimism because its warping your mind. You're seeing threats in a way that you're horseshoeing into what you criticize.

  • Racism in Germany is the norm not the exception – DW – 03/23/2025

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  • Maybe they were being genuine and not sarcastic. I came out swinging because I was riled up by the first poster to be honest. If they're genuine, then I feel like a bit of a dick. Oops.

  • Racism in Germany is the norm not the exception – DW – 03/23/2025

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  • Yes. Its observable just by looking at culture and society now versus thousands or even just hundreds or tens of years ago and comparing it to the time it takes for even a subspecies to arise. And, as information exchange speeds up due to technology, culture exchanges even faster and society develops faster.

    I didn't say we don't have in groups and out groups (tribalism). I say we have control over what we consider in and out groups. It's not idealism. It's not what the world could be. Its just observable fact. We've literally shifted cultural perception in the last 50 years on all sorts of in and out groups (black and gay people are easy examples).

  • Racism in Germany is the norm not the exception – DW – 03/23/2025

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  • Indicating that people who argue that humans aren't intrinsically shitty and appeal to our better nature are performative, as you're inferring due to social conditioning, by just being super dismissive is still underwhelming.

  • Racism in Germany is the norm not the exception – DW – 03/23/2025

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  • So it is! Still in underwhelming response.

  • Racism in Germany is the norm not the exception – DW – 03/23/2025

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  • For someone coming in with an air of all facts and logic in your first post, this response is pretty underwhelming.

  • Racism in Germany is the norm not the exception – DW – 03/23/2025

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  • A lot of words to defend bigotry. The human species can be a lot of awful things if we look to our worst nature. Our major advantage as a species is that we evolve faster culturally than most species can genetically. It makes us highly plastic and adaptable to our circumstances. It also means we don't need to be assholes just because we can be. We can redefine and shape what is means to be an outsider. And, if a human can look at a drawing of a cartoon dog and feel empathy and humanize it and have their brains label it as part of the in group, we can definitely manage to not dehumanize other people just because they have different religions and customs. Appealing to tribalism is a bullshit excuse.

  • HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

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  • I don't have cartridges and I've had no issue with the ink heads in the years I've had the printer.

  • HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

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  • You're probably right, but I'm just printing random documents on occasion.

  • HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

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  • I have an epson eco tank. No more ink cartridges.

  • Donald Trump's approval rating goes negative in another poll

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  • Exactly. After everything that's happened, barely negative is pathetic. Its game over.

  • Scientists issue dire warning: Microplastic accumulation in human brains escalating

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  • I got a soda stream with glass bottles. You can make soda from fruit (lemons and oranges are especially delicious - plus I can control whatever sweetener I use). Also, if you really want cola, then you can get concentrated syrup so there's less plastic and liquid transport overall.

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  • I can't fully tell but it looks like it might be ai. The left pupil doesn't go fully from top to bottom of the iris which doesn't look right.

  • fuck this

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  • Democrats are pragmatically there for the money. They aren't comically evil, but they are corrupt. They will throw an election before they ever give up AIPAC money and count on the next election swinging back to them. They get to sit back and watch the republicans be the bad guys and stir shit up for a few years. Then, when they get back in power, they fix the things that's don't make them money and look like he good guys but conveniently leave the unpopular policy the republicans enacted that makes them money and they don't have to look like the bad guys. They just look incompetent. But they aren't. This is all very purposeful. They love this dynamic. They benifit from it.

    The democrats as they are for sure need to go. But we need to be more pragmatic ourselves about removing them instead of throwing elections to the republicans hoping it will teach the Democrats a lesson. Because it won't. We need to focus on getting a foothold and changing the party. And that means turning out to vote in every election no matter what. Vote third party. Vote write in. Vote whatever. But sitting out of elections to teach democrats a lesson just isn't going to do anything. It's just throwing away the small amount of political capital most people have. If we don't vote now its either corporate feudalism or civil war in the future.

  • "u kidding me right meow"

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  • It definitely is! But why? Such a weird little edit that makes the picture uncanny valley. An older tech filter would have been less weird even. There used to be one on Snapchat I used on my cats years ago that was hilarious.