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  • Chiquita found liable for financing paramilitary group

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  • I don't know -- It feels like we should be able to use the internet to make grass roots new and hard to corrupt political movements but I don't see that happening at all.

    There's also the 250 year empire rule which we're at now against stability with the current system.

    I honestly have no answer other than a "vote or die" but we all know that doesn't work.

  • Don’t Call It an ‘Ethnic’ Grocery Store: As Asian groceries like H Mart, Patel Brothers and 99 Ranch expand, they are reshaping American eating habits, and the American grocery market

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  • pretty big talk for a people that think curry is an Indian food and still use vinegar as a fried food condiment :P

    And just for the record -- Butter, nor sugar, are spices ...

  • Chiquita found liable for financing paramilitary group

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  • end citizens united -- corporations aren't people

    end lobbying so shell oil doesn't have 10000000X time and money to affect the government as a person does.

    Quit assigning good/bad labels to companies that operate within the law and furious pursue laws that make us more equal, richer and safer overall

    ???

    profit

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  • isn't that the point? The corruption has tricked us to believing they can regulate themselves or are even not amoral about social issues. Companies make profit -- that is their singular goal. The laws and regulations control their behavior, not 'good will' or whatever we pretend motivates individuals

  • What is Cara, the Instagram alternative that gained 600k users in a week?

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  • ...and for that reason, I'm out

  • Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction

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  • ?

    It's distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 (or any later version) - see the accompanying COPYING file for more details.

  • Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction

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  • Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction

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  • is it not open source? That helps to decentralize power though powerful figures can still appear in those spaces too, like (benevolent) Torvalds on the Linux kernel

    e: yeah https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio

  • Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction

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  • absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's not that those softwares are noble, they're just decentralized. I will say it's impressive that Tor doesn't have some people pulling the strings trying to take over (but it's probably the NSA right?)

  • Rent monopoly crackdown continues as FBI raids corporate landlord for 18 Arizona properties

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  • sounds like carteling more than monopoly but maybe that's just a sub category

  • Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?

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  • wow haven't seen antipope in a long time

  • ‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff says

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  • ‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff says

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  • to be fair, he was attempting satire -- he is 'switching sides' and now wants a felon to run the country.

    They're so bad at everything lol WOOSH on satire

  • GOP senators warn judge against sentencing Trump to prison

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  • yeah the balance of power through the 3 branches scratching each other backs and the hidden 4th BOP group -- money

  • Kabosu, the Dog Behind the ‘Doge’ Meme, Has Died

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  • Will pour out some dogecoin for my boy -- RIP Kabosu

  • American Airlines backtracks after lawyers blame girl, 9, for not seeing hidden camera in bathroom

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  • American Airlines backtracks after lawyers blame girl, 9, for not seeing hidden camera in bathroom

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  • Fuck Sinclair 'media'

  • Families of Uvalde school shooting victims are suing Texas state police over botched response

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  • I wish so bad I believed in YHWH's hell so I could sleep knowing he would spend all of eternity there.

  • Families of Uvalde school shooting victims are suing Texas state police over botched response

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  • It's turning more to be If you weren't a fucking pussy, why would you associate and claim these as your people?

  • OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game

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  • is it good guessing that you know when you step out of your bed without looking you won't fall to your death?