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Lasherz

@ Lasherz12 @lemmy.world

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If full time Walmart employees need government assistance programs to afford food and pay their rent, is it not Walmart who is leaning on government assistance?

  • Election Day Megathread! Tuesday, 11/4!

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  • Same, when the rachet effect going on has been so effective on the other side it no longer behooves us to "be better" than to flip the direction and do the same by the same methods. Righteousness is all well and good until it becomes part of your opponents strategy to take advantage of you.

  • Is re-visiting a location where you had a traumatic experience a good idea? Have anyone done it?

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  • I know most internet people are ready to offer psychological advice at the drop of a hat, but this is really a question for a therapist because every situation is different and we don't know your struggles even close to enough to speculate.

    This doesn't seem like something to rush into, personally.

  • Deciding To Win – Toward A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party

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  • How is it a good approach to formally mandate their cowardice on messaging? If something isn't popular it has literally nothing to do with whether it's correct. Also, we can all just look and see that billionaires and Israel are unpopular, yet they never concede those talking points. Why is it that they'd abandon the underprivileged minorities but not the power centers if it's not all entirely about consolidating their power? That's their real agenda and this only memorializes it.

    Can you imagine a hero in a movie having these beliefs? It's pathetic that they view politics as such a passive endeavor at a moment where we need activism more than ever.

  • Would it be correct to say that enshittification is the physical manifestation of the economic ai bubble bursting?

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  • Definitely a symptom, not the cause or the singular cause. It's very telling that everyone could see that AI, like robotics, was instead of being a boon for workers having to work less hard, obviously a harbinger of mass layoffs. People understand this system and know the ones in charge of its effects hate us and want us to die.

  • U.S. Senate votes 50-46 to nullify Trump tariffs on Canada, with four Republicans crossing aisle

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  • If the court was doing their job they would have ruled this unconstitutional in the first place. A tariff is a tax, the executive explicitly does not get that power

  • Help figuring out my pressure washer?

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  • Probably worth a warm soap soak or maybe vinegar treatment to reduce any calcium build up in the head. Electrical-wise you could bypass the circuit to power the motor and see if it spins okay with either a variac or a variable dc power supply depending on what motor it is. If it still stalls then could check brushes/any gearing jammed up. If it doesn't stall then I suspect a overcurrent or thermal protection circuit is triggering. Could be corrosion on the board, a heatsink coming loose, or simply a jam you can't see. Lots of possibilities, but people who work specifically on these would know more about the most likely things.

  • Trump Administration Plans a Shake-Up at ICE to Speed Deportations

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  • NYT using neutral speak and missing important context, as always. Anything to cover for those in power.

  • What do you use for photo/video backups?

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  • I keep it simple, two Exos drives in raid1 on a desktop computer facing the network. If you want to make it do other stuff it's an easy foundation to build on. For a while I used a robocopy script to cut from my dash cam sd card's event folder any time it was hooked up.

  • It's supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they're getting nothing

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  • On the bright side at least their health insurance extends during furloughs up to a year.

    It's important to be sympathetic but not capitulative imo.

  • Trump’s Cognitive Collapse Is Clear: Psychologist

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  • Wormtongue Miller sure had an easy time with whatever's left.

  • North Carolina Republicans advance map to secure another seat in Congress

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  • I look forward to the dam breaking on NC gerrymandering. They will never hold power again.

  • Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

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  • The point as I understand it is that they're allowing other unions to set their contract expiration to the same date, which increases the potential for pain during their next negotiations and makes for a quasi general strike across all unions who participated. It's a pretty good idea all in all.

    Also, it's complicated who Sean Fain aligns with. He's pro-tariff and praised Trump for incentivizing cars to be made in the US, although it seems like that's the extent of it, and I wonder how he feels about it now that it's been fully unmasked to just be market manipulation by Trump's circle of billionaires. Sean's speech still hit most of the socialist talking points of pro labor even though it was to a bunch of Republican donors, leading to the funniest and most revealing awkward silences after sections about how the working class is who provides all of the value in an economy.

  • Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

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  • I'm dubious that a general strike is possible in the US. All of the other countries that have had massive strikes affecting large chunks of the market were driven by large unions. Our unions don't have that sort of sway and they rarely help others to maximize their diminishing bargaining power with the ongoing degradation of workers rights. Importantly this also happens on the supply side, the consumer side will just buy it tomorrow instead usually. A day of no productivity has much bigger consequences.

    That being said, I'll definitely participate.

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    No Kings Protest vs. Trump's inauguration

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  • While judging visual matches for one of the most famous places to take exactly this photo at different times is difficult, it does appear to be Obama's inauguration, not No Kings. As a result this is considered misinfo and will be removed unless it can be proven otherwise in a DM.

  • Looking into this

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  • Pretty sure it was glass from the teleprompter. Ears have a lot of blood flow, especially when you're on a bunch of uppers. Probably wouldn't leave much more than a tiny scar line that you couldn't see. It also behooves them to not say this because it's less cool and laughter is antithesis of small men insecurity.

    Doesn't really matter, the fact that a right wing nut shot at him is still pretty noteworthy for the current climate.

  • The Right Jumps to Defend Young Republicans' Racist Texts

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  • I don't see her gaining prominence in the most misogynistic movement in America. She's also such a bad actor she can't even pretend to care about her husband's death convincingly, "Don't forget to buy the 'my husband was murdered' merch on the way out."

  • America Is Heavily Reliant on China for Raw Materials in Medicines

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  • Not just the poors, he's a eugenicist, and I'm pretty sure he'd need a muzzle in the same room as Anthony Fauci.. well more than he does normally.

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    Which kind of alcohol gives you the worst hangover?

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  • Plum wine. It is very good though.

  • Americans, what do typically have for breakfast?

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  • Coffee and water. Used to have a banana too, but they self destruct my digestion now.