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  • First projections of EU Parliament election results

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  • This is what neoliberalism ignoring the needs of anyone who isn't a billionaire for couple of decades gets you.

    Well, that and the political left selling out.

  • Linux really has come a long way

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  • When you say that the keyboard works: do the brightnesss, mute and volume controls do what they're supposed to do?

    HP laptops--at least business-grade ones--are notorious for sending nonstandard scan codes and requiring custom drivers.

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    Google avoids jury trial by sending $2.3 million check to US government

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  • More like seventy five cents, given Google's profit margins.

  • Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud for an easily frustrated boomer...

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  • Pirate an old, pre-CC version.

    That’s what I do. Admittedly it’s Photoshop 3.0 on a Mac Quadra.

  • European elections: Centre left struggles to hold back surge from right

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  • Because the political left got enamoured with corporate cash and forgot that they're ostensibly a labour party. The spent the post-Soviet era indulging on third-way neoliberalism.

    Heck, several of them are more actively hostile to actual leftist economics. Labour in the UK fought its own voters and threw elections over Corbyn, the Democratic Party in the US hates the Sanders wing more than it hates Republicans and the Canadian NDP voted for a fundraiser instead of actual lefties.

    And in doing all this, they ceded working class politics to protofacists.

  • European elections: Centre left struggles to hold back surge from right

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  • The populist right is quite happy to talk about "kitchen-table" issues.

    The problem is that they usually don't offer real solutions, preferring to says stuff like "immigrants are going to steal your kitchen table, and only I can stop them! Vote for me! Ein Reich Ein volk Ein gott!"

    They might truly only care about corporations, but they lie very well.

  • European elections: Centre left struggles to hold back surge from right

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  • Do more for the poor.

    It's really that simple. Do more for more people, and less for corporations. Deliver results.

    That's why the Right is eating everyone's lunch: they're promising they'll make things better. They're lying, of course, and their path to making things better is just basic scapegoating of out- groups, but at least they're speaking to people's insecurities, where the neoliberal left is clinking glasses with billionaires.

  • Gay Republican candidate melts down when he figured out that his party is homophobic

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  • Tribal psychology is a helluva drug.

  • Europe Has Fallen Behind the U.S. and China. Can It Catch Up?

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  • Because dying for GDP is the only thing that matters.

  • Oculus Rift Creator Palmer Luckey is Developing a New XR Headset

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  • He's also a right-wing douchebag, if that helps.

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    Rapper Fat Joe wants hospital price transparency. Here's how he's fighting for it in D.C.

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  • I'm Canadian. I know.

    Apparently our fiscally responsible conservative leaders are a-ok with paying private nursing agencies and clinics more than they would if they just staffed public facilities adequately.

    I'm not sure why, but I'm always told that conservatives are "good with money" and "fiscally responsible", which Ive learned means "good with transferring public money into private coffers".

  • Israeli nationalists march through Palestinian area of Jerusalem, some chanting 'Death to Arabs'

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  • Do they have tiki torches? Are they talking about replacing Arabs?

    Because holy shit do these people not have any sense of self awareness.

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    Rapper Fat Joe wants hospital price transparency. Here's how he's fighting for it in D.C.

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  • The other point from that thread is that the whole idea of having to price shop when you need care seems sadistic and inhumane to anyone from any other civilized country.

    Even if pricing was transparent, it's still the wrong way to manage it. Healthcare should be a utility, paid for by taxes, like it is anywhere else in the world that isn't a capitalist dystopia like the US is.

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    Rapper Fat Joe wants hospital price transparency. Here's how he's fighting for it in D.C.

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  • As someone from a country with single-payer: this still seems backwards and barbaric.

    When I'm in medical distress, the last thing I want to worry about is what it'll cost. That's why I pay taxes to make all this work.

    "Price transparency" seems like a way to avoid the core problem.

  • The reich stuff – what does Trump really have in common with Hitler?

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  • That these articles are normalized is horrifying.

    Ten years ago, being seriously compared to Hitler should have been a political death sentence. Now? Now it's just this week's op-ed.

  • Holocaust museums debate what to say about the Israel-Hamas war

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  • That they even have to say that they're having to have these discussions speaks volumes on its own.

  • Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict

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  • Either PBS or NPR had a thing a few years back where they’d read sections of the Bill of Right on air, as part of Independence Day celebrations.

    The right wing folks who heard it thought it was communist propaganda.

  • Israel War Cabinet member Benny Gantz files motion to dissolve parliament

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  • This'll be interesting, because staying in power is the only way Netanyahu stays out of court, if not out of prison.

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    Report: Institutional Investors Will Own Over 40% of Single-Family Rental Homes by 2030

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  • This isn’t going to stop until the rich are afraid.

    In case you're wondering why fascism is on the rise, it's seen by the wealthy as a safe way to manage populist rage; get people angry about out- groups and they'll ignore the rich picking their pockets.

    The wealthy don't think they're a line in Niemoller's poem.