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  • Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school

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  • Rohollah recalls how his daughter wanted to become a doctor.

    “She used to tell me, ‘I promise I will become a doctor so you won’t have to pay medical bills anymore.’ I would hold her and say, ‘You are already my little doctor’,” he said.

    “When I saw her smile after coming home from work, all my pain disappeared. Now I don’t know what to do with this pain. I don’t know how to live with this.”

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  • ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets

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  • What fucking stupid, late stage capitalist, Pollyanna codswallop. Wow.

    DoorDash doesn't provide a delivery service. They don't pay delivery drivers to deliver, they don't provide vehicles, benefits, or even consider drivers employees. People pay DoorDash for access to use their software/platform to receive requests from customers for delivery services. DoorDash offers a series of contract plans in which a driver pays fees for various tiers of DoorDash acting as a payment processor, can opt for a per-job rate reductions to guarantee a "base job rate" (without any guarantee of jobs assigned), and are otherwise uncompensated for "non-active" time.

    The exploitation comes in the form of a monopolized rentier platform. In the same way that you might pay a landlord for access to a space to rest your pretty little head at night, restaurants and drivers pay premiums for access to a digital space to market services to one another. DoorDash doesn't make anything other than software, and you can't even "buy" DoorDash's software.

    Instead of creating value through the production of goods, DoorDash acts as a digital landlord that extracts surplus value (rent) from both restaurants and laborers by controlling the digital infrastructure necessary for exchange.

    Just like a landlord, DoorDash owns the digital "land" (i.e. the application, algorithm, and user interface) connecting customers, merchants, and workers.By controlling this infrastructure, DoorDash acts as a tollbooth. It charges restaurants a high commission fee (ranging from 15% to 30%+) for every order. This fee is a form of monopoly rent, where DoorDash takes a portion of the restaurant's profits simply for allowing them to access customers, similar to a landlord extracting rent.

    DoorDash does not cook the food or directly employ the delivery workers as staff (again, they're "contractors", which DD has lobbied heavily to ensure). The restaurant produces the value (the food), and the driver performs the labor of delivery. They are a glorified phone service, however convenient or "neato" you might think they are.

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  • Doordash absolutely is rent seeking, though. Restaurant operators are paying the rent—for being furnished with SaaS services that used to just entail calling the restaurant and placing a takeout/delivery order. Nevermind the SaaS platforms restaurants have to pay for in order to integrate their SCM software with the ordering apps.

    We used to call to order a pizza. Now, both the restaurant and we—the consumers—pay various abstracted-away "fees" to have a middle man do the same fucking thing.

    The restaurant doesn't "own" the software, and it doesn't "own" the data produced by its day-to-day operations. They pay to have third parties warehouse and manage their sales data for them, and sometimes even sell that data back to them for additional fees.

  • ICE whistleblower warns new recruits are receiving "defective" training

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  • I wish that these lawyers who are resigning "in protest" from these shit agencies would at least gum up the works a bit on the way out.

    It's not like they don't know how to bait out an easy 'constructive dismissal' case. Win or lose—make the people choosing to stay dedicate as much time and resources as possible to deal with your departure rather than enabling the fast march to total abandonment of due process by totally removing yourself as a wrench in the works.

    Make them fire you for refusing to carry out illegal orders. Claim wrongful termination. Waste their time on legal proceedings, not just the court of PR.

  • Epstein files place renewed attention on US authorities’ failure to stop him

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  • I know you're asking rhetorically, but for anyone else who missed it—the answer is Pam Bondi. Pam Bondi was Florida's attorneys general from 2011-2019.

  • Navalny Poisoned With 'Dart Frog' Toxin, Europeans Say

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  • Yeah I noticed that too. Yeesh. Do you think it's authentic (albeit self-absorbed) commentary, or deliberate well-poisoning?

  • Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancies and untreated miscarriages

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  • This is especially fucked up when you factor in just how many excess birth defects/miscarriages occur in Afghanistan as a result of the environmental damage done by the US's use of depleted uranium munitions all over the country.

  • EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Military Tells Key Middle East Ally to Prepare for Attack on Iran

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  • mate

    lol commonwealth muppet

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  • They're teabagging their victims, at this point.

    The smugness of it is just the outward expression of their need for self-affirmation through demeaning people who're powerless to retaliate.

    It's the literal opposite of humility or grace.

  • The church at the center of Don Lemon’s arrest had ties to Christian nationalism

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  • I like to shorten it to 'Cry-Nazis'. You know, seeing as how they love to cry about everything that so much as mildly offends their hwhite "sensibilities".

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  • alias ll="ls -al --color"

  • Christian bishop warns clergy to be sure ‘their wills written’ in wake of Renee Good’s death

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  • More than—he's saying that the clergy in his state must be prepared to place their bodies on the line for the protection of the vulnerable. Basically, "for those who have already proclaimed that they stand up for others, get your affairs in order."

  • The Donald "Hussein" Trump

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  • ADHD drugs don’t work the way we thought

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  • Well it's a good thing we make our kids get up at the crack of dawn to get to school. /s

  • Choosing the Right Python Docker Image for Finance Workloads

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  • Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision!

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  • u wot, comrade?

  • US military says eight killed in strikes on alleged drug vessels

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  • This reminds me of a Bush-era Robot Chicken bit where literally everything amounted to material support for "terrorism".

    https://youtu.be/jV5vRwnrlmQ

  • US military says eight killed in strikes on alleged drug vessels

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  • No, they're saying that that US Navy vessel was le tired and too lazy to go to the pacific to do interdictions. So it had its predator drone(s) fire missiles from above, instead.

    Totally relatable, btw. I hate having to traverse the seas to do my naval job and would much rather do it off the coast of a safe port.

    In fact, we should just arm police helicopters with R9X missiles so they can remotely disable suspects during police chases.

  • US military says eight killed in strikes on alleged drug vessels

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  • No, no, because, you see—when the government does it, it's 'summary execution' and not 'murder'.

    But I can see how easy it is to confuse the two.

    Imagine a Venn-diagram, but instead of two slightly overlapping circles, it's just one big circle (labeled 'murder') with a slightly smaller circle on the inside (labeled 'summary execution'). Does that make sense?

    (/s)