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Mrfiddles

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  • Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of X Loans

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  • That was just a shitty negotiating tactic. From day one he's rolled out the red carpet for Trump. Twitter was just his foot in the door so that he's already on Trump's good side and can get his company town going in Texas.

  • Dutch pension funds divest from Tesla

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  • Oh, you meant move funds, I thought you meant countries 😂

  • Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of X Loans

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  • See, I've always maintained that he bought Twitter with the specific intention of earning his spot as the Goebbels in the upcoming Reich. It was never about money, it's always been a power play.

  • Dutch pension funds divest from Tesla

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  • Started looking for places to move to in 2017 because we lived in a red state and the writing was on the wall. Settled on the Netherlands and moved in 2019. Getting through covid was a bitch and I'd feel a lot better if the Dutch hadn't also just elected a right wing nut job, but my mental and physical health are noticeably better. Once you get out you really realize how toxic American culture is. It's like swimming downstream from a mine your whole life and then suddenly getting air lifted to some Icelandic spring.

  • Resist in seconds of your time with your social media accounts

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  • Yeah, good fucking luck boycotting AWS. I'd wager a non-trivial percentage of the fediverse is hosted on it too.

  • Americans are posting 3D-printed gun videos to China's RedNote with surprising success

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  • Even if they are legitimately pissed-- ignore them. Fusing the singular and plural second person pronouns was a mistake and "y'all" has come to deliver us from misery and confusion.

  • Americans are posting 3D-printed gun videos to China's RedNote with surprising success

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  • You can't look at switching costs in a vacuum. The real metric is the Expected Return. When the original app is going to remain open, there is a very high risk that, ultimately, most of the users you care about aren't going to make the switch. Even if the switching costs are low, the ER is negative because the most likely outcome is that you waste your time trying to migrate to a new platform that doesn't really take off.

    When the original app might stop existing then the calculus switches and even a high cost option is worth it because the odds are much higher that your efforts will pay off.

  • What's the deal with male loneliness?

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  • We absolutely can, but it's still a lot harder to pick these skills up as adults vs internalizing them as a kid, and a lot of men don't even realize the cause of their suffering.

    Like, I'm not trying to give men an excuse not to change-- you asked why men are bad at planning and I'm just giving you an answer.

  • What's the deal with male loneliness?

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  • A lot of men were never taught to do this. We raise young girls to be incredibly social, but boys are not socialized to nearly the same extent. You can see this in Autism diagnoses. Girls are diagnosed as a much lower rate and the ones that do receive the diagnosis tend to be really severe cases. The leading theory as to why is that society places so many social expectations on girls that the more mild cases quickly learn to mask and pass themselves off as neurotypical.

    Hell, I'm 35 and I just started a group chat with some of my bros in order to help with motivation to get things done (it's basically a stand up meeting but for our personal lives/goals). NONE of them even know each other, they were just doing this to help me out because I'm burned out. 2 weeks in and they had all thanked me privately for giving them a social outlet and improving their mood. None of us usually text people unless we need to, and now we'll routinely get roped into conversations because someone shares an interesting update.

    Meanwhile my wife is juggling 3 different group chats in addition to half a dozen friends she keeps in touch with 1-1.

    There might be some biological mechanism too, but I think a lot of it boils down to boys have "productive labor" modelled for them as ideal behavior while girls are taught how to be considerate friends.

  • International shipping rule

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  • Fuck me, this is the first Lemmy comment that actually made me laugh out loud.

  • President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

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  • Honestly, I think it's more of a practical matter. Even if they didn't have explicit pardon power, whoever's in charge of the executive has effective pardon powers by simply denying to carry out the orders of the court (see Jackson's behavior which lead to the trail of tears).

    At least by making it official it's a lot more clear what's going on, and maybe they had hoped this would lead to electoral consequences for those who abused it?

  • Conservative US influencer Candace Owens is barred from New Zealand weeks after a ban from Australia

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  • But what if your opinion is threatening to others? If you believe that white people are inherently superior to other races and it is right for them to be served by the inferior races, then expressing that opinion is inherently threatening to many non-whites.

    Sure, I've given hyperbolic examples, because I wanted to demonstrate that you can use freedom of expression to make threats, but there will also be examples that are in more of a grey area. There's nothing inherently threatening about the Confederate flag. If you had flown it in 1600 people would've just said "cool flag, what does it mean?".

    Now however, many people see it as a threat, a constant reminder of how things used to be for their ancestors. Expressing your opinion by flying that flag says to those people "I want your children to live as your forefathers did"

    Now, not everyone who flies that flag is making a threat, but some of them absolutely are. So what do we do?

    I'm not saying I have a one size fits all solution. Simply banning anything that neo-nazis adopt clearly isn't practical and could also be easily abused by the government to quash dissent. I'm just pointing out that it's not a simple fucking problem.

  • Conservative US influencer Candace Owens is barred from New Zealand weeks after a ban from Australia

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  • This sounds so good on paper, but completely falls apart without carefully defining free speech. Like, what if I hire actors with prop weapons to march around minority neighborhoods and scream that they'll shoot any non-whites who try to vote?

    You think that fun performance art is going to be healthy for democracy? Really?

    What if I use AI to make convincing video footage of politicians I disagree with mutilating dogs and then graphically fucking their corpses? Do you think my commentary on their lack of support for dog shelters is going to foster democratic dialog, or do you think that maybe some voters will develop a viscerally unpleasant disgust and have trouble looking at them or engaging in what they have to say?

    What if you buy a botnet and use it to convince both sides of the aisle that the other candidate is an authoritarian who will destroy democracy and try to control their life. Or to send death threats to people who publicly admit to being trans?

    It is important to make room for marginalized voices to be heard, yes, that is essential for democracy, but there are also tons of bad actors who will try to use the very freedom you're trying to protect to deny others that freedom. A completely laissez faire approach to free speech will ultimately serve to silence the marginalized and further empower the wealthy.

  • US Postal Service demands rural carriers send back “overpaid” wages right before Christmas season

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  • John Oliver did a great dive into the Post Office, and I think that segment is up on YouTube for free.

    It's actually even more impressive than you think. The only reason it looks like it's losing money is that conservatives passed a law that forces them to fully fund the USPS workers' pensions today, rather than investing some money and letting it grow. No private companies fund pensions this way, nor does the rest of the federal government.

    In 2022, PSRA was passed which removed this requirement and the postal service has turned a profit ever since. It operates better and more efficiently than any privately held parcel service, because it takes advantage of truely massive economies of scale.

    And as an American living in a country that privatized their postal service-- god damn do I miss the USPS. It was both cheaper and more reliable than what we have here.

  • Why only cyclists should wear hi-viz in the dark? Cars can too!

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  • I'm in a university town, so it's probably more of a problem here 😅

  • Why only cyclists should wear hi-viz in the dark? Cars can too!

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  • Unless you're in the Netherlands, where 2/3rds of the bikes will have the shitty "this is legally a light" LEDs from the convenience shops... Oh, and 2/3rds of those will be either out of battery, or installed facing the wrong way.

  • Greece stopped by 24-hour general strike over cost of living

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  • Where do you think food comes from that having fewer workers means more food for everyone?

  • Bro 😭😭

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  • At least the bad take is getting downvoted? 😅