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  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against 'shockingly dim' Trump White House

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  • Even if the actions really do nothing, they get people active and organized, so that they can take more effective actions later on.

    I honestly think a lot of this criticism is people's internalized rationalization for why they themselves don't take action.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against 'shockingly dim' Trump White House

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  • Who? Who is selling you out? Ocasio Cortez? Really?

  • Trolley problem

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  • What are some of the outstanding issues that haven't been addressed? I feel like there are genuinely good ways of doing everything these days

  • Trolley problem

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  • They've done amazing work trying to turn the clusterfuck they started with into a good language

  • This is not a good look for brave.

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  • How many of these "lacking features" are actually standardized? Of course some draft under development by Google will only work in the latest version of Chrome. It might not even work in future versions of Chrome, since it's not standardized.

    If you built something that requires such a feature, it's you who is choosing to write code that is incompatible with the standards and only works on a particular browser version. You can't blame others for that.

  • Trump imposes tariffs, sanctions on Colombia after it refuses deportation flights

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  • Putting the die in diet

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  • That's what all the coffee and wine is for!

  • Didn't even need dmesg this time!

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  • Is this how people can claim that Arch is stable, they just redefine breaking to exclude anything that might actually happen?

  • Didn't even need dmesg this time!

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  • Debian in particular is rock solid, even Debian Unstable has been very reliable for me if you want a rolling release with newer packages.

    But I've also had very few problems with Ubuntu. My mother has used it for ten years at this point and will happily apply any dist upgrade she's presented with, and rarely does she need support.

    A pro tip is to check out the alternative desktop environments. A lot of people rightly hate Ubuntu's awful default DE, but it's not a core part of the distro, there are other complete desktop "flavours" available in the repositories and installers that will give you them from the start at https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours

    (Switching an installed system from one DE to another is in principle as easy as uninstalling one desktop meta-package and installing another, but you got to make sure you get the right packages, or you might run into annoying conflicts, so I would not recommend it for a newbie)

  • Rednote right now

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  • What do those NGOs have to say about Julian Assange or Steven Donziger

    "RSF defends Assange because of his contributions to journalism" https://rsf.org/en/rsf-dispels-common-misconceptions-case-against-julian-assange

    "CPJ welcomes reports that Assange will be released in plea deal" https://cpj.org/2024/06/cpj-welcomes-reports-that-assange-will-be-released-in-plea-deal/

    "USA must drop charges against Julian Assange" https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/julian-assange-usa-justice/

    "Biden Should Pardon Steven Donziger" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/01/biden-should-pardon-steven-donziger-before-leaving-office/

    I'm getting the distinct impression you have no idea wtf you are talking about

  • Rednote right now

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  • the stories that come out first tend to be most biased

    I honestly think the concept of news is actually harmful, because it's about reporting what happened, not about making the audience understand the subject. It puts a premium on getting the report out as quickly as possible, and favours the most shocking events and interpretations that draw people's attention.

    Ultimately most news are "empty calories" of information that mostly give an illusion of knowledge. "Explosion in Herptown, dozens wounded" does not meaningfully increase your understanding of the world, it mostly just makes you scared. It will take weeks until the cause and consequences of the explosion can be fully understood, and a lot of research to put that into perspective.

  • Rednote right now

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  • If you do not know the extent of pressure asserted on Chinese media that is willful ignorance.

    Of course "our media" (whatever you mean by that) is the only media that can report on it as Chinese media is heavily censored.

    If you want to know the extent the information easy to find.

    Here's some of what Reporters Without Borders have to say

    "The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the world's largest prison for journalists, and its regime conducts a campaign of repression against journalism and the right to information worldwide."

    "The Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party sends a detailed notice to all media every day that includes editorial guidelines and censored topics."

    "Independent journalists and bloggers who dare to report “sensitive” information are often placed under surveillance, harassed, detained, and, in some cases, tortured."

    Source: https://rsf.org/en/country/china

    This is from The Committee to Protect Journalists

    "China has long ranked as one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists. Censorship makes the exact number of journalists jailed there notoriously difficult to determine, but Beijing’s media crackdown has widened in recent years"

    Source: https://cpj.org/reports/2024/01/2023-prison-census-jailed-journalist-numbers-near-record-high-israel-imprisonments-spike/

    Here's Amnesty International

    "Chinese authorities continued to severely curtail rights to freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, including through the abusive application of laws often under the pretext of preserving national security."

    Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/asia-and-the-pacific/east-asia/china/report-china/

  • What the Fuck happened with Gen X?

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  • Don Lumo is in with them!

  • Rednote right now

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  • This is just untrue. There is plenty of legal press in the US of any persuasion, from anarchist to fascist.

    The major US news outlets are in bed with capitalists because that's where the money is, but there are lots of smaller outlets with other views. In China all news outlets kowtow to the government because anything else is illegal.

  • Rednote right now

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  • AFAIK often on Chinese services you'll get an error like "your message could not be delivered". Posts managing to discuss forbidden topics might be removed without warning, or just be silently hidden so they don't reach new people.

    The goal is not so much to prevent anyone from ever talking shit about the government, but to make those conversations difficult and to stop them from reaching a wide audience.

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    FDA bans Red No. 3 food dye in food, drinks

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  • Last I looked at it the support for that claim looked shaky. Can't we just use plant-based natural reds? No need to grind bugs when you can grind beets.

  • YouTube Warez

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  • Why does blocking ads not seem like a sustainable solution?

  • Guthib

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  • I tend to write guthub.com and then chuckle to myself imagining a social network where people have beer bellies as their profile pictures

  • This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason

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  • Yup, just like a library