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  • Number of Americans living paycheck to paycheck soars to 40%, expected to be majority by 2033

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  • Thankfully this country has a robust safety net and free healthcare so people aren’t hit with huge unexpected expenses /s

  • BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

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  • The nobel prize is literally the only thing that gives this a chance. Trump may want it bad enough that he puts some pressure on Israel to follow it.

    Would not be shocked if it falls apart anyway since once the hostages are released there’s basically no leverage. Could see it immediately falling apart after he gets the award if he somehow gets it too.

  • BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

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  • Multiple sources from Hamas and other Palestinian factions have told Drop Site that their central concern in these negotiations was that handing over all Israeli captives would remove nearly all of their leverage if it did not include a complete Israeli withdrawal. Israel has, as a matter of policy, systematically violated its ceasefire agreements with Hamas and also with Lebanon. In entering into these negotiations, Hamas negotiators accepted they were engaging in a high-stakes gamble.

    “This is a risk, but we trusted President Trump to be the guarantor of all the commitments made,” said Mousa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas leader, in an interview with Drop Site on Monday. “Had there been no commitment from the American president, we would never have agreed to take the risk, because we do not trust Netanyahu or his extremist right‑wing team in the current Israeli government.”

    The Palestinian negotiators, after consultations with a range of factions, agreed to a deal that will keep Israeli forces in Gaza even after all Israeli captives are handed over to Israel. Throughout the negotiations over the past several months, Hamas has insisted it would not enter into a deal that did not include the complete withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces. “This is something they were not able to move,” the source said. While the exact lines that Israeli forces will redeploy to as part of the exchange of captives are still being worked out, Israeli forces will remain entrenched in Gaza.

    That is an enormous risk but when your people are going to be starved to death I guess there wasn’t much of a choice.

  • Podcast recommendations?

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  • Citations Needed is a good media criticism podcast. They breakdown a lot of the talking points mainstream media uses for various topics and show how they’re wrong and why they are twisting narratives. They do have citations in the show notes too which is nice.

    Blowback is another good one. They have a bit of a different setup in that each season they focus on a conflict the US was involved in and cover what actually happened. Their seasons on the Cuban revolution and Korean War were especially good.

    Proles Pod I just started to listen to recently as I had heard their mini series on Stalin was good. I’m still early into that mini series so can’t say too much more.

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    Umineko no Naku Koro ni — General Megathread for October 4th & 5th, 2025

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  • The issue from Europes perspective is that to split like that they need energy security and not rely on US LNG. To do that they needed to one of:

    1. Go back to using cheap Russian fossil fuels but that isn’t realistic after the Ukraine war and Nordstream pipeline sabotage.
    2. Rely largely on Nuclear power. Also not realistic outside of maybe France given how long it takes western countries to setup these plants and how little they’ve invested up to this point.
    3. Rapid switch to cheap renewable energy. This would be the smartest option long term but would require them to invest massively which is highly unlikely given the neoliberals that run these countries, or to align with China which they also have chosen not to do.

  • People’s Republic of China turns 76: What stage is Chinese socialism in?

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  • The 14th Five-Year Plan, which ends this year, broke new ground by not establishing a quantitative GDP growth target for the first time in the history of China’s five-year plans. The strategy prioritized green transition, technological self-sufficiency, and common prosperity.

    @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net am I being overly optimistic that this may be a sign that they’re shifting away from the neoliberal model?

  • Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision"

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  • Yeah I liked their games on the 360 so it sucked when they fumbled so bad. It looked like they were on the right track when they were investing in studios but I can’t really think of a decent exclusive that came out of that. Although that was around the time I stopped gaming for a while so may have missed something.

    It’s interesting what will happen if Xbox leaves hardware. PlayStation probably gets more free reign to raise prices since Nintendo is a pretty different niche of the market and is pretty anti consumer too and a chunk of the market just won’t ever move to PC due to personal preferences.

  • Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision"

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  • They really shot themselves in the foot with forcing Kinect with the Xbox one and the initial (later walked back) decision to be always online required. The Kinect made the Xbox $100 more at launch vs PlayStation which was a big impact.

    The issue with losing that round of the “console wars” was this was when a lot of people started buying games digitally, this meant people aren’t as willing to switch consoles later since you can’t sell your digital collection. So that loss snowballs since it took a while for cross play to become a thing.

    If they had made really good console exclusives after that they made have had a chance to comeback but so many were mid (gears of war) or bombed (halo). It’s just been a slow spiral from there.

    I moved to PC after the Xbox one and am really happy I did.

  • Most Chinese have never seen real trees

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  • Closest you can probably get in the continental US is hiking in the Rocky Mountains which I would highly recommend.

    Being hours away from anyone else without cell service is really refreshing.

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    Parenting Chat - 09/21 - 09/27

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  • Hopefully the teething passes quickly!

    We’re also looking at putting our kids in daycare for the first time and it’s making us nervous too.

    Really wish countries would just pay people to spend the first 3 years or so with their kids if places are so concerned about birth rates.

  • Source?

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  • Teenagers to pay $300,000 for urinating in hotpot in China

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  • It also found that the teens' parents had "failed to fulfil their duty of guardianship" and ordered that they bear the compensation, state media reported. 

    This includes 2m yuan for operational and reputational damage, 130,000 yuan to one of the caterers for tableware losses and cleaning expenses, and 70,000 yuan in legal costs.

    Looks like it’s the parents on the hook for it

  • Southern Lebanon is experiencing an ethnic cleansing.

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  • Thank you!

  • Southern Lebanon is experiencing an ethnic cleansing.

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  • It’s Israel so I’m sure it’s true but does anyone have a source?

  • Welcome to Lemmygrad fellow Deprogrammers

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  • Lemmy.ml is the instance used by the developers of Lemmy to test patches but otherwise works like any instances and you don’t need to be one to join (I’m not).

    Dessalines is the main/original developer and you can read a lot of their political views on their GitHub page but to give you a quick answer yes they are Marxist!

  • Brazil: It is now a fact that Bolsonaro has been sentenced for attempted coup

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  • China’s Exports to Africa Are Soaring as Trade to U.S. Plunges

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  • Specific examples don’t match the best but it made me think of this!

  • @Grok is this true?

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  • I didn’t even notice the banner!!! Damn if this was in a story it’d be too unbelievable how poetic it all came together

  • @Grok is this true?

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  • Cathartic is a really good word for it and with him talking garbage about trans mass shootings the timing really was just