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stephen

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  • You Don't Hate the American Healthcare System Enough

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  • I’ve had a certain person accused of a certain thing as my lock screen for about a year because of how much I hate it. Maybe we’re already maxed out and not the target audience for this.

  • I'm glad psychedelics entered my life before entheogens became popular. Today's psychonauts are mostly imposters looking for a free ride and social status. Psychedelics aren't meant to be frivolous.

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  • Hail you!

  • How US aid to Israel has changed over time.

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  • A whole lot of Hava Nagila from the grassy knoll right after.

    Anyway, I’m downvoting OP. Stupid post about a serious topic.

  • The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia

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    ‘He Was Not a Pedophile’: Megyn Kelly Ties Herself in Knots Defending Epstein — ‘He Wasn’t Into 8-Year-Olds’

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  • If they were real Christian’s they’d know about Proverbs 26:11.

  • Apple told to remove LGBTQ+ dating apps by China

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  • I’m sure it is. My point is - what do Lemmy users expect out of a for-profit company operating inside of a capitalistic economic system? Saying “no” to China’s LGBT hating demands is impossible in this situation.

  • Apple told to remove LGBTQ+ dating apps by China

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  • Please please please be a good phone. I feel like that’ll be great. I’d like a Linux phone, but I can’t see that shaping up as a Linux reliable daily driver in the next couple of years.

  • Apple told to remove LGBTQ+ dating apps by China

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  • I’d love to give this a simple upvote. What is Tim Cook’s choice here? Operate illegally in China until the government shuts down their entire source of revenue in an entire market which, also, is the one that produces nearly all of its hardware?

    If he doesn’t do it - shareholders will remove him in the blink of an eye and replace him with someone who will.

    Where I’m agreeing though is - my current phone is my last Apple phone. I’ll be going with Graphene after this. I don’t want corporations telling me what software I can and can’t run on my decides while surveilling me.

  • Corporate Welfare Queens

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  • My ideals extend beyond my pragmatism in my comment. UBI for every human being would be terrific.

    I have a medical condition that seems to be cheaper in countries that have socialized healthcare as a non-citizen, than it is here with insurance.

    “We the people” indeed.

  • Corporate Welfare Queens

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  • In case you’d like to discuss this uncited social media post screenshot with others, a good place to begin would be this Forbes article, which focuses on Walmart primarily. https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/

    This is the very horseshit that the American K-12 public school system brainwashed me into thinking was “socialism”. SNAP is a governmental bandaid that exists as a symptom of a labor market predated upon by the already wealthy.

    Every corporate employee in the United States could be paid a living wage, be dignified with healthcare, and know that when their working days are over that they can rest without worrying about housing or food insecurity AND the rich can still have their yacht with a swimming pool.

    I don’t want the rich exist, but my point is - if this society wants the rich to exist, okay - I guess, they can, but the very poor don’t have to. That’s an optional thing because our society tolerates artificial scarcities created by the rich.

  • Kamala Harris teases 2028 presidential run: "I am not done"

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  • Hillary Clinton 2.0. Undesirable candidate supported by a party that’ll backstab candidates more desirable to those that’ll vote Democrat.

    Find out what Lee Carter who ran for governor of Virginia a few years ago - I’d camp out the night before at the polling station to vote for that guy.

  • ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all

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  • Trump vows to 'take a look' at Ghislaine Maxwell pardon after Supreme Court rejects case

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  • CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about the possibility of a pardon for Maxwell at an Oval Office event on Monday."I haven't heard the name in so long," the president responded. "I can say this, that I'd have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look."

    Who is that? I barely even remember who that is.

    jfc how has this horror show of a human being courted votes?

  • Older friend made out with me during a night out, but told me it was a friendly kiss

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  • Listen to this person, OP.

  • Do all American stores have greeters?

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  • Not by a long shot. It’s mainly just Walmart. There are others, but they’re the exception, not the rule.

    I worked in retail for about ten years. The company I was at did make a big deal about making a customer feel welcome, which might incidentally involve greeting a customer at the door, but we certainly were too busy to have someone perpetually posted up at the door like Walmart. Any sort of “greeting” we might have done would be the same as I what I experienced in Ireland or Italian retail where if I was approaching an employee, I’d get the local version of “hello”. Didn’t strike me as being very different.

    So, no, the American retail space that has a dedicated greeter is fairly uncommon.

  • What do you think: should all government software be open source?

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  • Public funds spent on anything that generates something that could be considered “intellectual property” should be public domain. Beyond software my first thought is pharmaceutical and general medical research.

  • Ted Cruz says FCC chair sounded like a mafia boss in threats against ABC over Jimmy Kimmel

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  • Fair point! I’d’ve liked something about the whole “market place of ideas” illusion that the ruling class says exists, but I guess your perspective gets right to the quick of things.

  • Ted Cruz says FCC chair sounded like a mafia boss in threats against ABC over Jimmy Kimmel

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  • More of the same.

  • Ted Cruz says FCC chair sounded like a mafia boss in threats against ABC over Jimmy Kimmel

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  • because it presents a slippery slope that could end with conservatives facing government censorship down the road

    Silencing speech in “the Land of the Free” isn’t really the problem to him. The problem is that the sword swings both ways.

    Turd continues to be turd.