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    Trump says US has "captured" Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife in "large scale strike" - latest

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  • Yep. I can't see a reformist answer to the core problems of the US. A US president is still beholden to haute capital who own the mass media, the tech industries, the supermarkets, etc.. A hypothetical socialist president would turn out worse than Allende. In order to solve the core issues of the USA, it would need to cease being the USA and become some other country.

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  • but you’re saying this as an American citizen

    What makes you assume we're American citizens?

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  • freedom of speech reddit

    hahaha

    Pretty funny thing to say on a site filled with people banned from reddit for saying things, including but not limited to the word "Luigi".

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  • It doesn’t work like that

    Looks like it does work like that. Moderators moderate the discussion. lemmy.ml has no obligation to platform imperialists, nor is there any value in doing so.

    And it works well, this community is a lot more pleasant and educational without having to deal with antisocial war-hawks and trolls constantly starting arguments instead of discussions. It's certainly solves that issue.

  • Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library

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  • When one takes a step back, it's obvious that our own societies have their own ingrained systemic biases. All our journalists and other writers will have biases that they and us might not even notice are biases, since we believe they're just fact.

    AI datasets have run into this problem plenty of times, for example when government regulation has told insurance companies not to use factors like ethnicity or races in certain calculations, but it turns out that some ended up indirectly doing it anyway since postal codes approximated race in many regions. There are layers to systemic biases.

  • Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library

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  • Btw this is not an argument against Wikipedia in any way.

    I think it's perfectly valid to criticize it for accepting "blatantly false but "verifiable" " edits. I'm aware that the world is complex and perfection is idealistic, especially when it comes to topics where sources are inherently strongly biased, but publishing false information on a site with the format, style and reputation of Wikipedia is a real problem at a scale with far-reaching impact. To shift the onus of fact-checking onto the user is extremely inefficient and negligent.

    I'm not even saying that there is a better solution, but it's certainly an argument criticizing Wikipedia.

  • Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library

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  • Just as an anecdotal side note, just this year I found a typo (92 instead of 82) contradicted by a quote attached to the cite reference later in the paragraph, and very easily noticed if one checks.

    I only use VPNs so I can't fix it.

  • Have you been able to reconcile being very private and investing in fintech or buying online?

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  • private as possible

    What are you trying to hide, and who are you hiding it from?

    I dislike that some privacy forums, like reddit and therefore here by proxy, have a cultural habit of talking about privacy or security as an abstract value in itself. But when we start getting into more detailed questions, it's all vague and vibes until we make it clear who we're trying to hide from and what we're hiding.

    For example, most of the time I'm not hiding from my own government. Sure, I incidentally do make it a bit harder for them to track me, but I'm more focused on hiding from Meta/Alphabet/Amazon/etc. (plus from a small group of deranged online stalkers obsessed with some of my friends) so there are plenty of online services and stores I can buy from without taking inconvenient measures. It's fine for me if some services can guess my name and know where I live and one of my phone numbers. It's not fine if they learn some other details.

    It's important to get out of the habit of saying "more private", "less private", "most secure", and talk about what you're specifically concerned with and how tactics and tools specifically address that. What information will Google gain from knowing your investments? Is that a threat to you? Are there acceptable ways to mitigate that threat?

    Using google to create an account would mean giving them my real data

    I've been surprised how easy it was for me to make a fake Google account with no links to my real identity. I only use it for age-restricted YouTube videos, I wouldn't trust it with money like investments, because the way I set it up is inherently suspicious and I wouldn't be able to verify identity if challenged.

  • (cant find the aita community) am i a bad person for saying "women" instead of "people who can get pregnant"?

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  • Yes. Although I also believe there are also good reasons to continue to change norms. Plenty of normal things of the past are now understood as offensive or insensitive today, language included. So I understand why people try and 'correct' language, but when it's done tactlessly or unnecessarily, it's just annoying and rude.

  • Argentina-Cool and Many other Flag burning emojis

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  • I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it.

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  • If it was true, it would be horrendous security practices. Learn how to actually be anonymous if you ever need to be, or know someone who can help. Stop snitching on yourself.

  • When you get tired of Distrohopping

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  • In the past 5 years I've only ever had minor issues*, like a power button light not being on. But as a developer, I'm aware my hardware choices are more likely to be popular with other developers who would have already noticed and fixed issues.

    excluding on niche distros, like Puppy ones.

  • When you get tired of Distrohopping

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  • What are some things you preferred in KDE over Cinnamon? I haven't explored KDE much.

  • China Launches Major Military Drills Encircling Taiwan in Response to US Arms Sales

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  • He also can’t just tear down a third of the White House on a whim, but here we are.

    Tearing down the White House doesn't hurt capital. When we say that Trump can't just do anything they want, we're not talking about legality. You're right, it's very clear that Trump's regime disregards legal issues. They have strong institutional power over the writing, judgement and enforcement of law.

    We're talking about pleasing those who give Trump power - the upper echelon of the rich, the owning class. Trump's regime needs mass media for messaging (think of social media and news owners like Zuck, Musk, Bezos, Murdoch, ... ), it needs technology (add Thiel, Ellison, ... ), and obviously it needs money.

    If Trump and friends turn those supporters against him, that's a very real issue that would lose them material power. They're pressured into compromising or conforming to the wants of those supporters, so that they continue giving power to the regime. This is what people mean by a "dictatorship of capital" - those with huge amounts of capital dictate the country.

  • China Launches Major Military Drills Encircling Taiwan in Response to US Arms Sales

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  • Ireland: ‘We’re going to have an Irish Trump,’ claims former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon

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  • Billionaire-owned mass media is a hell of a drug. It's easy to forget just how much selective news reporting can distort a person's worldview.

  • China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan

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  • That's not whataboutism at all, that's extrapolating the logic of a claim to another case in order to test it.

  • Bay Area homeowners are hiring a sword-wielding man to help them kick squatters out of empty properties: ‘The average squatter has no melee experience’

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  • deus_vult.mp4 [reference to the person who took a sword to counter-attack a BLM event and got beaten until their limbs almost resembled a swastika]

  • Why isn't this website more popular?

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  • Watermarking is great when there is a strong enough community to make original content. I'm sure there are communities like that, but I'm not in many of the hobby communities here.

  • videos @hexbear.net
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    Finally, a good political Little Dark Age edit (Zootopia AMV)

  • bloomer @hexbear.net
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    "Positive Leftist News" video channel

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

  • music @hexbear.net
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    One Hour of Soviet Christmas Music

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    A friend likes the idea of a personalized "DNA artwork" but has privacy concerns. Any ideas for creating a unique marker artwork ourselves?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What power do citizens have to hold Mamdani, and other recently-elected social politicians in the US, accountable? What is needed to build such power?

  • badposting @hexbear.net
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    Republicans push to strip Zohran Mamdani

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    How much do some mega-expensive things cost?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    ok, yes, sure, but, if they pull it off I'm still celebrating

  • Greentext @sh.itjust.works
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    Anon has concerns about America

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are you doing about it?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Relatable

  • Film, TV, and Media @lemmygrad.ml
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    Requesting /u/Anarcho-Bolshevik review two more South Park episodes:

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    The rise of progressivism led corporations to misappropriate progressive values and language. How did this manifest before?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    There was a post yesterday havin a giggle about low resource usage Linux setups, shout-out to LOW←TECH magazine's solar-powered site (running Armbian Stretch)

    solar.lowtechmagazine.com /about/the-solar-website/
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    Japanese nationalism is so bad that they don't even learn about the war crimes their country committed wow that's so horrible and not like my country

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Women scientists: The legacy remains

  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
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    Looking for resources (books, pamphlets, wiki pages, w/e) summarizing the transition from feudalism to capitalism, how long it took and its struggles.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Scientists of Lemmy, how would you standardize or improve cooking recipes?

  • Luigi Mangione @lemmy.ml
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    A retro pixel ceramic tile mosaic of Luigi