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2025-05-15 12:56:16

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We can leave it here, but before we do, I'd like to clarify on insurance in the US. It's not a matter of regulation. This is a longstanding issue in the US that predates any requirements for employers by decades. Until the Affordable Care Act in... 2010ish, there was zero requirement to offer healthcare coverage, and even that's halfway to worthless in achieving that goal. Even today, many employers actually actively try to weasel out of their obligation to offer insurance with trash tier offerings nobody wants or can afford, or with tricks to skirt the triggering requirements like avoiding giving enough hours to workers and keeping them part time.
You can try to pin the blame on modern regulations, but that's just not the case. Businesses started offering it as a benefit during/after... I think WW2. So that's 60ish years between this starting and the government making any serious attempt to regulate the matter. And THEN, after 60 years of learning how this can be used to manipulate your workers and held over their heads, the government stepped in and... Enshrined the relationship in law. They at least attempted to make ALL employers offer it, which would have reduced the capacity to use it for exploitation but not eliminated it. Threat of unemployment is still at minimum a threat of lapse in coverage, and not all employers are obligated to provide.
Another reason I brought it up as my example is that it perfectly illustrates a way that the free market and lack of regulation FAILED people. People couldn't afford health care if things got serious. They couldn't afford insurance. Employers took advantage of this to make their most vulnerable employees extremely dependent on them.
And since I've said so much on the subject so far, do you know WHY this isnt a problem in just about any other developed nation? Because they all have fucking universal healthcare mandated by the government. So in your defense of ancap philosophy, you highlighted a great example of how the government can help you where the free market will fail you. But honestly, that sort of inability to capably grapple with cause and effect is pretty typical of ancaps, agorists, etc. They think the free market will save them when history has shown it would literally put them in chains and cages to sell them as chattel given the freedom to do so.

2025-05-05 14:57:08

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You're really stuck on the modern reality of capitalism. Under socialism, yes, the workers would own it. That's the key part of the economic transformation. Under the current capitalist system, sure, you could call it stealing, but the whole point of socialism is to change that. Any new business started under socialism would be formed under the presumption that ownership would be shared among workers.

2025-05-04 08:47:03

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Funny you say he should just follow the law but totally excuse it when Trump wipes his ass with the constitution to send him to El Salvador. He was constitutionally entitled to due process, and he received none. This was an entirely illegal deportation, which makes it more akin to abduction and human trafficking.
And as for being illegal, he initially entered illegally but was legally allowed to be here when he was trafficked to El Salvador. You can try to argue that permission could be rescinded, but that requires due process, which he did not receive.

2025-05-03 22:50:21

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There's basically no real evidence he's MS-13, but Trump can never admit to making a mistake, so now he has to lie about it with the tattoo bullshit

2025-05-03 18:19:18

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Simple tags like #memes can attract it with too much regularity. The more extreme it is, the less common, but the more tame stuff still isn't exactly uncommon. Maybe I just have poor relays configured, but that isn't really a good answer because there's no easy to find information on choosing good relays, probably because it's such an evolving topic.

2025-05-03 18:14:41

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See, you're just proving my point because the only communist thing you mentioned was someone expressly identifying as communist. It's not a binary choice between communist or capitalist where if you're not one, you must therefore be the other. They're economic frameworks for how society should handle ownership of critical resources and infrastructure. Neither of dissatisfaction with the status quo or hatred for the extremely wealthy is part of communist ideology. Propaganda has completely robbed people of the capacity to even recognize the concept.

2025-05-03 15:23:34

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Shitload of economic power, though. Not all consequences will be felt on chain.

2025-05-03 11:52:32

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Would that even be a good thing if they did? It'd be good for price, but that's a lot of coins under the control of one organization.

2025-05-03 09:40:20

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Two things can be true at the same time.
But if you think the Reddit community is communist, I can only assume you have no idea what the word means besides having listened to Fox brand everyone they don't want you to like as communists.

2025-05-03 09:34:16

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Nah, even the most mundane #tags get a ton of crypto content, misogyny, racism, full on Nazis... A good client like Amethyst can pre-filter some of the worst, but step one of nostr for anyone who isn't into crypto and isn't a hateful asshole is to develop an extensive block list.

2025-04-29 14:33:45

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In what way does it hurt them? I've heard the claim before, but I've never once heard it articulated into something specific, nor have I seen it paired with defensible evidence.

2025-04-25 09:09:11

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I think that's just corporate propaganda. Sounds smart and forward thinking, vaguely alludes to unforeseen consequences, dismisses the idea without any real rebuttal. Workers quite literally fought and died for our labor rights, and business REALLY wants to claw back those gains. Throughout America's prosperous period from post-WW2 up into like the 80s or 90s, minimum wage was always higher in value than it is right now.
Taxes were way higher on the rich, too. That's another propaganda point they try to claim won't work but clearly did. Maybe it would be a good idea to consider who benefits the most from the idea that it's just not possible to reasonably make sure people are taken care of. It's almost ALWAYS the rich.

2025-04-18 17:09:14

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They're doing everything they can to demonize him and downplay the amount of support he receives. Every time they postpone last second, supporters waste their time off and may not be able to get it again for the right day. Fewer are able to show up. Slowly, a large crowd is whittled down into one that can be painted as fringe nuts.
They're absolutely TERRIFIED he'll become the starting point for something bigger than himself, so they're pulling out every trick they can to minimize him and how he resonates with the public.

2025-04-03 16:08:20

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Do currencies get tariffs? I thought tariffs were for products, not currencies, but I definitely could be wrong

2025-04-03 14:36:05

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2025-04-03 14:22:04

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Is OnlyOffice the precursor to LibreOffice? Pretty sure LO forked from some other project that wasn't doing great, but I forget the circumstances and what they forked from.

2025-04-03 14:20:44

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#Trump is really fucking us with his dumbass #tariffs, but his suckers just eat it up. More and more of our #trade partners are opting to not buy #American. Once it's clear how badly they fucked up, I wonder how #Republicans will try to pin this on the dems. As with all the rest of Trump's bullshit, only a few would have to break ranks to stop it, but the #Republican party is always the same, #PartyOverCountry at any cost.
#meme #memes #uspol #politics #tariff #tradewar #maga #Republican

2025-03-29 07:53:03

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Is it shit from people who refuse to coexist? It is, isn't it? Maybe shitboxes made by a Nazi supporter? Yeah. Yeah, burn some more of it.

2025-03-28 10:18:47

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I'm not saying it's right, but your display name looks to be in direct support of the Hamas military. You're literally advocating for a terrorist organization. Regardless of how just anyone thinks their cause is, yeah, what else did you expect?

2025-03-28 08:47:07

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I fundamentally disagree that insurance is the root cause of it being expensive. The root cause is a combination of the immense expertise required to properly diagnose and treat, and the supplies required to do the job. Pharmaceuticals and sterilized equipment and expensive machinery for tests and treatments, etc., etc. Insurance may exacerbate that, but you can't ignore a decade of training to be a doctor, the engineering experience to build their tools, the manufacturing techniques required to make sterile tools, the biochemical knowledge and experience to be able to create the drugs, etc. Insurance may inflate the cost some, but the price floor is already very high.
Something similar can be said for housing and mortgages. Have you seen modern build quality? It's fucking cardboard and paper mache over wood framing. It's the cheapest shit possible, and it's still gonna set you back hundreds of thousands of dollars. It takes tons of manhours and thousands and thousands of dollars in supplies, and that's before you even start really finishing it so it looks ready for move in. Getting rid of mortgages wouldn't magically fix home prices. It would just turn the vast majority of us into renters because there's no fucking way most people manage to save up the six figure sum for a house while paying modern rent prices.

2025-03-27 15:55:29

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Let's assume you're right and this leads to a price increase. Is it better to let the price increase or deny people medical care? I would argue the price increase is the better, more humane choice. From that perspective, the *real* problem is that people need insurance to be able to afford medical care in the first place. A humane system would not restrict medical access based on income. In my experience, the less you get paid, the *harder* you're expected to work.
As we saw in the pandemic, outside of the medical field, it seemed that a majority of people forced to continue working were the low paid, hard working workers, so there's real world evidence that regardless of how much or how little the capitalist class values them as individuals, the work they do is critical for the functioning of society and the economy, so I don't see any justifiable reason to deny them medical care.

2025-03-27 15:48:07

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What's up with MLS these days? Doesn't look like there's a NIP in the main repo yet. Last I knew, 0xchat was waiting for that to implement it.

2025-03-27 09:08:05

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Given it's super commonly used in electronics, gold is definitely useful for stuff. Not saying it's enough to justify the value since humans also go apeshit for shiny stuff, but it *is* very useful.

2025-03-27 09:05:13

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That makes sense, but it's kinda disappointing. If my car gets painted like that, I wanna cruise around in it!

2025-03-27 09:03:32

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The idiots cheering for these soulless cunts are in for a VERY rude awakening. A government with the power to do it to people you don't like has the power to do it to people you *do* like. And they WILL use it.
#meme #memes #uspol #Trump #ICE #secretPolice #AmericanGestapo #politics #MAGA

2025-03-27 08:52:08

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Looks amazing, but can they still see out the windshield?

2025-03-23 08:32:54

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Because silence is complicity

2025-03-20 10:05:54

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Woah, woah, maybe I skimmed too fast and missed the details, but what the fuck is this about hacking Signal?

2025-03-18 17:06:31

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Lol k

2025-03-18 17:06:13

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You'd say that about any source that disagrees with you. That's why you couldn't cite any proof of that and didn't answer when I asked what source you'd prefer.

2025-03-18 15:45:40

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You haven't made any claims about privacy to me at all, so I haven't asked for any sources there. You're just imagining arguments from me to refute.

2025-03-18 15:34:57

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Wait, now they're basic claims? What happened to them being too complicated to provide sources for?

2025-03-18 15:29:45

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British backdoor? Not familiat with that, but I'd like to be

2025-03-18 15:28:22

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No, you illiterate cunt, I said claims about security and privacy should be justifiable with evidence.

2025-03-18 14:37:25

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I seriously doubt you even know what the word Marxist even means. You're just throwing buzz words around and raging like a toddler being told no.

2025-02-25 08:33:57

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You don't just have to accept signals. You have to send signals and have the network accept them. Since Starlink wants to get paid, if they have the most basic level of competency, they'll have their network set up to require authentication, so they'd just refuse to carry your traffic.
Plus, they don't just broadcast the whole internet all at once, so even if you could just passively receive signals in your area, you'd have no way to make requests, so you couldn't direct it to send you what you actually want.
Ultimately, the issue isn't the endpoint Starlink kit. It's the entire rest of the network it depends on. The rest of the network won't play nice until you pay up, so even if you have 100% full control of the kit, you can't make the satellites serve you as an accepted network participant.

2025-02-24 21:15:00

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I would think that hacking the kit wouldn't get you access. Even if the kit wants to let you, the network probably does some authentication. I imagine it's similar to how hacking your phone will never get you free service from T-Mobile.

2025-02-11 19:40:51

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Lmao I went to watch it to see what the fuss is about, and if THAT video triggers you hard enough to call him "most annoying cunt", sounds like you're just a snowflake that can't handle a little truth in your safe space.

2025-02-06 12:56:58

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...Seriously? I'm running CalyxOS, forgot that probably isn't on the standard Android keyboard, so if the bug isn't universal, maybe it really is a bug in the keyboard. Maybe I'll try another one.

2025-02-01 13:37:08

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On Android, you can usually long press on an image or video to get a menu to pop up that includes saving. Sort of like right clicking on PC. Some sites prevent it, but if you have a link straight to the mp4, it should most likely work.

2025-01-23 10:36:22

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...I hadn't really considered the pink option. An interesting suggestion.

2025-01-21 23:47:27

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Is there a reason for the 140 limit? That was Twitter's original limit, but I think it was chosen because of SMS limitations, and even they have upped the limit years ago.

2025-01-20 17:20:03

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Trying to get this fresh NixOS install dialed in... First time with it, and it's going well, but I'm a veteran edge case finder, so there are always details to sort out.

2025-01-18 23:40:49

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Trump isn't in a shitcoin phase. He's not evaluating the whole market and investing in shitcoins. He's launching a personally branded, largely pre-mined shitcoin. He's grifting. He's taking advantage of people in their shitcoin phase.

2025-01-12 21:59:04

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You remind me a lot of this
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2025-01-12 18:34:26

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Have you heard of a fucking cache? How the fuck do you think Amethyst manages to actually display the media? Amethyst downloads a copy so it can display it. This means there's a copy locally available when it's viewed, even if it's not stored long term. Same way Firefox, Chromium, Discord, Reddit apps, and Lemmy apps do. It's just that all those other apps use a proper Android integrated share feature.

2025-01-12 17:41:49

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I DO NOT WANT TO UPLOAD IT. I want to send a picture directly through another app. Not a link to it. The media itself. Directly from one app to another. Firefox does it. Chrome does it. Half a dozen Reddit apps did it when the API worked. Signal does it. Discord does it. Half a dozen Lemmy apps do it. Only Amethyst fails to provide a share button that would allow me to directly send the media to someone through another app.

2025-01-12 17:39:20

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You can make that argument if you want, flawed as it may be, but that doesn't change the fact that some ardent opponents of the vaccine VERY MUCH changed their tune once they got deathly ill. They COMPLETELY regretted not getting it.

2025-01-12 17:37:29

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But Amethyst loaded it so it could be shown to me. Amethyst has the data in exactly the format I want it. I don't want it uploaded or hosted somewhere. I just want to share directly to another app like Signal or Discord. It's a solved problem on every non-Nostr social app, and it does not require an extra outside service.

2025-01-12 13:43:50

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I don't wanna share a link, though. I want to share the media itself, like any other social app I've ever seen would allow me to do.

2025-01-12 10:05:30

I wish #Amethyst let me share pictures directly to other apps without saving them first. I don't need a permanent copy of this meme, I just think my friend that doesn't have #nostr would enjoy it. Maybe they'll ask where I found it and get curious...

2025-01-12 10:01:17

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That's not entirely true. Well, maybe if you count the survivors. But there were definitely plenty of accounts from doctors of patients begging for the vaccine at the end and having to tell them it's far, far too late for it to do any good.

2025-01-08 10:43:41

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Lmao but they voted for Epstein's buddy, the rapist that used to bust in on changing teen beauty pageant contestants. The same guy who tried to appoint underage sex trafficking victim enjoyer Matt Gaetz to the fucking Attorney General. Smells like copium in here.

2025-01-04 09:56:37

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Bad link or something? Claims there's currently no text on that page.

2024-12-22 10:47:30

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Lmao fucking delusional to pin this to Democrats and not Republicans.
I remember white supremacists endorsing Trump in 2016, sure as fuck not Clinton. I remember when neo-nazis clashed with counter protesters in 2017, Trump said there were fine people on both sides. I remember when the stage was shaped like Nazi symbolism at CPAC 2021. I remember when Trump met white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at Mar-A-Lago in 2022. I remember in 2023 when Trump said immigrants were poisoning the blood of the country in 2023, one of many times he used Nazi language.
Republicans overwhelmingly support Trump, so don't been try to say he's just one man. They eat that shit up and ask for seconds. This is what they want and who they are. But sure, if words don't mean anything at all, we can call the Democrats the racist ones.

2024-12-05 09:10:09

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#GoodMorning, #nostr. Let's see if today can start as beautifully as yesterday.
#GM #meme #memes #healthcare #insurance

2024-12-04 16:20:20

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Wanna try addressing the argument I actually made and cited sources for, or do you prefer the much easier straw men you're constructing?

2024-12-04 09:40:13

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We have an increasing amount of evidence that being trans has some physical biological component. Here's a fresh article on the subject https://www.gilmorehealth.com/augusta-university-gender-dysphoria-in-transsexual-people-has-biological-basis/#The_biological_basis_of_sexual_dysphoria
I've also seen a shortish talk from a researcher in the field who said there have been instances of neurological evidence, too. I don't remember the details, and I can't find the specific talk without remembering them, so I unfortunately can't cite it and will have to speak a little more generally, but they found structures in the brain that corresponded to their chosen gender, NOT their assigned at birth gender.
So we do actually have some evidence for "wrong bodies" if that's how you wanna phrase it.

2024-12-04 09:33:36

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Could you explain the connection? I don't see how not actively polluting our environment means we have to abolish private business ownership and centrally plan our whole economy.

2024-12-03 09:31:24

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Oh word, so you got the inside scoop into how God gets things done? You've grokked His ineffable plan? Since you're clearly so in the loop, can you expand on what He has cooking with all the children with cancer? I have a close friend who would LOVE to know the reasoning behind that move.

2024-11-28 18:54:23

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I'm partial to QuakeWorld myself. That movement is so gooooood. Brood War was amazing, but there are definitely some nice quality of life changes it could get, like larger selection groups. I'm fond of Beyond All Reason and Zero-K these days for RTS.

2024-11-28 14:51:12

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The fact that gaming companies never open source anything anymore, even their thirty year old shit they don't even TRY to sell anymore, is a travesty. It was never that popular, but look at what cultural cornerstones Doom and Quake managed to become. Being great games helped a lot, but opening them for the community to maintain is what solidified their positions.
Of course, if you're still playing Doom or Quake or Warcraft 1/2/3 or original StarCraft, how much harder is it to convince you to buy the latest rerelease or shitty sequel? Or what if a competitor *gasp* moderately improved their code by studying yours? Fuck the culture, we need to make 0.3% more profit.

2024-11-27 13:10:47

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That doesn't necessarily mean they have your weight. A sensor that triggers at a fixed weight is gonna be waaaay cheaper than an actual scale that can maintain any degree of calibration over a decade as people plop into their seats.

2024-11-19 14:43:44

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Conservatives have to tell each other these sorts of things because they sure as fuck aren't gonna hear it from competent experts.

2024-11-17 09:54:54

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The human body doesn't make mistakes? Are you fucking serious? Down syndrome? Cyclopia? A dozen other common birth defects? Lethal allergies to mundane shit like peanuts?

2024-11-16 11:10:03

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For some techs, a network effect is required. Encrypted chats require multiple participants. The internet is only useful if people host servers. These things follow a circular logic of being popular because they're popular and have people on them already, so it's valuable to use them for you, too.

2024-11-16 11:06:47

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One has broad implications for public health, and the other is a personal choice with no real impact beyond themselves. You have chosen... Stupidly.
And before you try to make the equally stupid and bullshit claim that being antivax has no real impact beyond themselves, your choice to vaccinate or not impacts the health of everyone you encounter. Not just because of imperfect immunity with some vaccines, but also because there are a lot of people who can't vaccinate but want to. Primarily immunocompromised individuals and particularly young children.

2024-11-16 11:03:02

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Yeah, that wasn't on the ballot

2024-11-05 08:20:12

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I'm not even a little surprised you wanna gloss over the actual facts I mentioned. It's exactly that type of thing that lead to calling you a hypocrite. You think dems are ignoring the rulebook, but you have absolutely nothing to say about Trump refusing to leave office peacefully, failing to make claims of election theft in court, or Republicans refusing to impeach him for it. All the times republicans shit directly in the rulebook and smear it around, you're fine with that. Some vague overreach by the democrats, though, is an unforgivable sin. You don't actually care about the rules. You care about how they'll help you win and get what you want.

2024-11-04 08:41:22

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Accusations of TDS are a deflection and a confession. A confession you can't refute a damn thing I said and a pitiful attempt to deflect attention away from that.

2024-11-03 08:23:36

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Lmao Trump tries to stage the most inept coup I've ever seen and then spends the next four years lying that he really won but Democrats cheated, but yeah, no, it's the democrats with no regard for the rules. He even fucked up and publicly admitted he lost not long ago. Of course, it's obvious if you're paying attention because neither he nor his lawyers made claims near as bold in the 60+ court cases because he had to actually worry about a purjery charge if he lied about it there. And then Republicans refused to convict on impeachment and nominated him to run for president again.
You don't give a single solitary fuck about the rulebook. You care that you might lose. You're just a hypocrite, just like I thought.

2024-10-31 09:09:45

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It'd be on my desktop if they'd ever decide to support GPU pass through. I game, and I get tired of rebooting back and forth. I'll even get a cheap spare to dedicate to Qubes itself so it never has to trust the passed card again, but no.

2024-10-23 09:48:40

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Sure, I get that, but my point was that you asked what people here thought, and I don't expect that sort of genuinely nuanced analysis of economics and geopolitics here. Most that will tell you to study economics really only mean the parts you need to agree with them on bitcoin and/or other cryptos. The general sentiment is, in my opinion, likely to boil down to mostly "lol yet another fiat shitcoin".
It's an interesting question worthy of discussion, though. I don't really know much about any BRICS currency, so I can't comment meaningfully on it directly, but I'm not keen to trust Russia or China, and I'm not really liking the directions some other core members are heading, so I worry that even if it's a good idea, it will be corrupted just as badly by those in charge of it.

2024-10-22 11:08:11

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You're gonna get a lot of anti-fiat sentiment here since the community leans so heavily in favor of bitcoin and other crypto. That aside, I think it's good for world trade to not be dominated by one single country's currency, but I'm not sure I want to give much more power to some core members of BRICS, so not a bad idea in a vacuum, but not sure I trust the actors at work.

2024-10-09 12:47:28

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Okay, but what about researchers doing in-house gene sequencing? I just don't see this being something that can be intentionally hidden or unintentionally overlooked at this point. The human genome has been analyzed too thoroughly by too many independent parties, many of who possess the expertise to spot anomalies and have INTENSE incentive to publish those findings. Like seriously, any medical researcher would KILL to have their name on that paper if there was any actual truth to it.

2024-10-09 08:11:27

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I don't think it's a matter of sensitivity. I think it's a matter of practicality. Could one DNA company be hiding stuff? Certainly. A few? Probably. All of them? No way, too big a conspiracy. You don't just have to worry about 23andMe and the 1-2 other public testing for ancestry companies. There's tons of DNA testing done in the medical field, and doctors make actual judgments for treatment based on those test results. If the DNA reports were inaccurate, it would vastly complicate treatment for certain conditions, particularly genetic ones. It's also used extensively in medical research, where thousands and thousands of researchers are using genetic data to yield actual working treatments. With how widespread use of genetic information is, I don't see it as feasible to hide this if it was true. Maybe if genetic testing was extremely restricted and only a handful of entities were capable of it, but it's way too widespread to keep a whole ass extra species hidden among us.

2024-10-06 07:43:23

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Statistically speaking, I'm way less likely to shit my guts out from the twinkies, soda, and cereal than I am from the raw milk. Still not super likely with the raw milk, but if I had to pick one to call unsafe, it'd begrudgingly be the milk.

2024-09-30 09:44:20

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The part that bothers me is the part where all the options I have for my choices are selected by whoever has the most money and therefore power. I'm not rich enough to thrive under libertarianism.

2024-09-30 09:38:28

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Because some people aren't interested in their children learning the truth. For example, half of Americans apparently don't want schools to talk about the ongoing impacts of slavery and racism. https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/half-of-americans-dont-think-schools-should-teach-about-racisms-impact-today/2022/02
I could easily find more examples of laws and parents demand that children not be taught the truth. And that's what children should be learning in school, even if it means being uncomfortable at times. The world is what it is, and attempting to deny that and bury your head in the sand won't help your child succeed in life when they grow up and fail to grasp how the world works because YOU wanted to hide that from them.

2024-09-30 09:30:28

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The main problem is your initial assumption about hard work and earnings. As you frame it, the implication is that those on the right side in the picture are there because they don't work hard. That's just not right. Poverty is fucking exhausting, and the jobs that keep you there are doubly so. In every job I've worked so far with maybe one exception, the less money I made, the HARDER I was expected to work. Hell, why do we tell our kids to go to college? So they can get a nice, cushy office job where they don't have to bust their ass nearly so hard and get paid way more, too. So the guy in poverty works WAY harder but walks away with LESS money. I'm not saying it's wrong to earn more for in demand skills, but it's still disingenuous to frame earnings as a direct correlation to how hard one works.
You claim I'm advocating for us all to live on the right, but I never even advocated for anything here. I simply pointed out that the average anti-socialism meme almost ALWAYS depends on an example of people suffering CAPITALISM, not socialism or communism, while telling you that if we try to change, what's already happening will happen.
I'm not advocating for any sort of change when I say this, so don't take this as pro anything, just highlighting something about capitalism. It will never lift up those on the right without intervention like laws and regulations. Never. The existence of poverty, slums, and homelessness is excellent motivation for the worker class. Sell your labor to the owner class and let them keep the profits, or starve on the streets. Workers that don't have to worry about food and rent TODAY are free to turn down shitty jobs and refuse new or unsafe duties in their current job. Keep us cold and hungry, and we'll trade our labor at a loss every single time because, shitty as it may be, it keeps us fed and sheltered.
Again, not saying socialism or communism is the answer. But your job is the authoritarian fiefdom you choose to play peasant for. For all our love of democracy, we are loathe to introduce it to the workplace. If we won't, we need laws and regulations to protect us as workers because the owner class wields waaaay more power than us in every interaction we have.

2024-09-29 10:17:49

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I feel like you chose your meme template well

2024-09-29 10:15:45

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Cry more about having to contribute to the society you wildly benefit from

2024-09-29 10:14:33

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...as long as that life belonged to someone cishet and white.

2024-09-29 10:12:34

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Nooo, the same Trump that ran a teen beauty pageant and was known to burst in on changing contestants? Never wanna hear a fucking WORD about #savethechildren from fucking #Republicans again. Disgusting fucking hypocrites.
#meme #memes #Trump #Diddy #DiddyDoIt #pedo #MAGA #politics

2024-09-24 08:28:49

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Okay, lemme cite a dictionary since you seem to be struggling. Unfounded means "Not based on fact or sound evidence; groundless: synonym: baseless." That's what you call the Haitian pets story that you insisted on spreading after being informed it was not true.
You talk a lot of shit and make some personal accusationa, but you know what you can't do? Back literally any of it up. I don't think you're telling ME I'm deranged. I think you're telling YOURSELF because you have no valid response and can't cope with the introspection that would prove you've been listening to a shitty swindler.

2024-09-24 08:25:18

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You can argue about the lockdowns if you want, but even if we ignore those, Trump's dumbass still fucked up HARD. Before it even started, he'd slashed budgets for defending against a pandemic, which then promptly happened. Once it did start, he delayed a response because it was hurting blue voters more at first. Discouraged masks. Said it would just go away. Knew it was dangerous but publicly downplayed it. Promoted hydroxychloroquine as a remedy. Suggested INJECTING BLEACH. Demonized researchers that didn't back his stupid ass bullshit. Gave billions in PPP loans but made sure there was no oversight so the rich could plunder it, then forgave a ton of loans. He at least encouraged getting the vaccine, but by that point, he'd spent so much time minimizing the risk and fostering distrust in science, a ton of his followers wouldn't take the damn thing even when he recommended it.
Even if you wanna nitpick individual blunders, you can't argue the fact that the US had more documented deaths than any other country. Given we don't have the highest population, too, and by a wide margin, someone very, very clearly fucked up. And he was in charge, so it was his responsibility to get it right.
I'm glad you managed to get through covid unscathed, but with over a million deaths, not all of us were so fortunate. Some of us watched loved ones die. Some of us watched people who might have lived refuse to go to the hospital in favor of taking fucking horse dewormer. Some of us were filled with anxiety as we watched our oldest, least healthy, most vulnerable loved ones ignore it and gamble with their lives every day because they believed the stupid shit that came out of his mouth, and when they lost their gamble, we got to watch them die. Just because you got away clean doesn't mean it was nothing. Over a million fucking people died, and it could have been THOUSANDS less if Trump had just listened to experts, and then he'd have gotten reelected, but he couldn't stop himself from fucking it up.
As for Roe v. Wade, don't blame us for what you assholes did. Could more protections been put in place? Definitely. Does that excuse the fact that republicans are the ones making women and babies die avoidable deaths by the hundreds in Texas alone? No, it fucking doesn't.

2024-09-24 07:53:52

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Lmao did you forget you posted this in a thread that was like 9 days old on MY feed? Dumbass. Only posts of yours I've commented on came up in my feed. Because you used hashtags... So that more people would see them. Did you forget how that works, too?
Also hilarious that you wanna try to call me deranged because you can't cope with reality. I actually brought facts and sources to back my claims up, the fuck do you have? Bitter, unfounded hatred? A stubborn refusal to accept the truth? Sure as fuck not a damn thing resembling an actual source for a single word you've tried to pass as fact.

2024-09-21 10:57:00

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What, I'm mentally ill because I didn't fall for the stupidest fucking conman I've ever seen? All that happened. Everything I said. Feel free to cite a single fucking source, as long as it actually discusses the topic at hand, unlike that racist trash unfit for use as toilet paper that you embarrassingly tried to pass off as journalism.

2024-09-21 07:56:47

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He raised my taxes so he could cut taxes for himself and the rest of the rich, but he made sure the increase happened when he was out of office so idiots would blame Biden. His Supreme Court picks overruled student loan relief and cost my wife and I tens of thousands of dollars. His Supreme Court picks' decision to overturn Roe v. Wade combined with her health problems mean when we try for a kid, there's a very real chance it KILLS her for WANTING to have a child. Project 2025 that he supports would remove overtime pay and cost me yet more tens of thousands of dollars. I watched as THOUSANDS of my fellow Americans died ABSOLUTELY MEANINGLESS DEATHS because he wanted to downplay covid just because it was impacting his political opponents more heavily at first, but his stupid fucking ass couldn't grasp that it'd spread to his followers in time. I watched as the entire world laughed at us and our allies distances themselves for electing such a greedy, self centered, easily manipulated IDIOT.
So he cost me tens of thousands of dollars, threatened the life of my wife and every other woman I know, encouraged disease to ravage the citizens he swore to protect, and destroyed soft power that took us DECADES to cultivate. And I'm sure I could add half a dozen other things if I was willing to think about it for just 30 more seconds.

2024-09-20 09:14:28

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You'd also never see modern electronics ever again since the total manufacturing process is ridiculously complex, and the raw materials are spread across the world. Shit, most couldn't even sustain a colonial America standard of living just because of the metal. It'd be an absurdly huge undertaking just to mine and smelt the metal to make the tools and the nails required to build a period appropriate home.

2024-09-20 07:44:45

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Lmao racist super pissed to get called out for his racism and now offended that I would insult his feckless leader. Since you had to start wishing death on people you disagree with... https://image.nostr.build/0b5eae8dac8214bf920470f29a61b33a6a5b570ccd3873ee47c2999cac50d865.jpg

2024-09-20 07:42:09

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Yeah, you got nothing to really counter with, so you're just super pissy to get called out on your racist asshattery. If you don't like the source, I just picked one at random off Google because there are TONS of articles from practically every news agency. You can find one from a source YOU trust with practically no effort at all. Here's a second one chosen at random: https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/09/jd-vance-offers-proof-of-pet-eating-but-its-proven-false-with-1-phone-call.html

2024-09-20 07:38:34

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Lol do you think there's a standard issue immigration experience? I'm sure you or your family faced some discrimination and unfair judgment, but do you REALLY think black people are treated no differently? Did you have the legality of your residence routinely questioned like the Haitians are currently experiencing? Did you have the most wild, utterly unsubstantiated, batshit crazy accusations leveled at you and broadcast on a national stage? Somehow, I doubt it.

2024-09-19 09:13:56

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Yeah, something tells me you as a white dude did NOT have the same experience a bunch of Haitians are getting.

2024-09-19 09:12:56

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That's the whole point, though, there AREN'T enough anecdotes to justify a serious investigation. All you have are third and fourth hand accounts. If this was actually happening, you'd be able to get some first hand accounts. The one first hand account I'm aware of was a call to the police accusing Haitian neighbors of stealing the cat, but then the dumb racist bitch found the cat in her own basement. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-who-made-haitian-cat-stealing-police-report-found-pet-at-home_n_66eaf106e4b00648275b86da
You have zero fucking evidence. None at all. Just a bunch of rumors from racist assholes, and the only reason to continue spreading these lies is because you're a racist asshole, too. Otherwise, you'd realize how empty all this is, but that would detract from your ability to shit on brown people.

2024-09-19 07:03:35

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That's pretty cool. Seems like a Quake equivalent to Freedoom

2024-09-18 08:47:49

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Jesus fucking Christ, that article is such fucking TRASH. Unpacking this much horse shit is gonna take some work.
First off, most of it isn't even ABOUT the pets, it's just trying to rile you up about immigrants in other ways. A few anecdotal stories that may very well be true but are totally unrelated, e.g. crashes. It contributes NOTHING to the topic at hand.
Second, the Haitians are there LEGALLY, but that doesn't stop him from incessantly calling them illegals. That simple fact shows they have absolutely no journalistic integrity because it's fucking TRIVIAL to fact check it. Here's one of the half dozen articles I VERY easily found stating that the vast majority of Haitians are here quite legally: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/haitian-immigrants-fueled-springfields-growth-now-us-presidential-debate-2024-09-11/
Finally and most damning, HE HAS NO FUCKING PROOF. The best he can say is that people have heard stories from other people, but NO FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS. Meanwhile, they actually FOUND the lady who made some of the first posts starting the rumor. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099
So no, it really doesn't look like I'm wrong. But it does look like you should be embarrassed for trying to pass that off as journalism.

2024-09-17 11:19:42

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Nice, direct to the paper. Thanks a lot.

2024-09-17 08:29:29

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People are terrorizing the town of Springfield because people are actually believing the shit. Your memes have consequences when they paint a group as deserving of hatred.

2024-09-17 08:27:25

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If you're familiar with any specific sources, I'd love to see what exactly the science said to back it