Wertheimer

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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 46 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/

The analysis, from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP), looks beyond whether people can afford daily necessities like food and shelter to consider whether they have the means to pay for things like the technology tools necessary for their jobs, higher education, and health and child care.

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The Ludwig Institute also says that the nation's official unemployment rate of 4.2% greatly understates the level of economic distress around the U.S. Factoring in workers who are stuck in poverty-wage jobs and people who are unable to find full-time employment, the U.S. jobless rate now tops 24%, according to LISEP, which defines these groups as "functionally unemployed."

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By those standards, the lowest-earning Americans around the U.S. are falling well short of what they need to maintain a decent standard of living, according to LISEP. These households, which in 2023 earned an average of $38,000 per year, would need to make $67,000 to afford the items the group tracks as part of its index, which also includes the cost of professional clothing and basic leisure activities.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Our best bet at stopping this is getting ankle bracelet companies to go to war to protect their market share.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago

It took me a very long time to unlearn the notion that "proper English" is a sign of intelligence rather than class privilege.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Eve Fartlow's favorite month

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 28 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

There are 17 states with Alcoholic Beverage Controls who operate state-run liquor stores. I guess it's true that private liquor stores are unable to compete, because they're illegal, but there hasn't been a liquor shortage in what, 92 years?

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago

For this Finkelstein cites Lipstadt's Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993), pages 6, 12, 22, 89–90. Let's see . . .

It looks like this part is mostly from 89-90, where she discusses Austin J. App, an American professor who "formulated eight axioms . . . as the basic postulates of Holocaust denial." Unless the pagination on the copy I found is different from Finkelstein's, this must be one passage he's referring to:

App had to turn the Allies and the Nazis into traditional adversaries embroiled in the horrors of war. Reducing the numbers and deleting this unique technological means from the equation were thus a sine qua non for deniers -- one of the reasonable facades behind which they hide: War is an unmitigated evil, all sides are equally responsible, and there is no moral distinction between combatants.

Despite her distrust here and elsewhere in the book of anyone who mentions the internment of Japanese-Americans, elsewhere in the book she also briefly discusses the way Holocaust denial has led American cranks to claim that those internment camps were a hoax.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 20 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

It's the same playbook as Hindu nationalists attacking Sanskrit scholars for being "anti-Hindu" or Christians calling the end of mandatory school prayer a persecution equivalent to Diocletian's. Just because Lipstadt has gone after actual Holocaust deniers doesn't mean she's not horrible. In fact, as Norman Finkelstein has argued (in The Holocaust Industry, she's actually to blame for amplifying them:

Denying the Holocaust is an updated version of the “new anti-Semitism” tracts. To document widespread Holocaust denial, Lipstadt cites a handful of crank publications. Her pièce de résistance is Arthur Butz, a nonentity who teaches electrical engineering at Northwestern University and who published his book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century with an obscure press. Lipstadt entitles the chapter on him “Entering the Mainstream.” Were it not for the likes of Lipstadt, no one would ever have heard of Arthur Butz.

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To question a survivor’s testimony, to denounce the role of Jewish collaborators, to suggest that Germans suffered during the bombing of Dresden or that any state except Germany committed crimes in World War II – this is all evidence, according to Lipstadt, of Holocaust denial. And to suggest that [Elie] Wiesel has profited from the Holocaust industry, or even to question him, amounts to Holocaust denial.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

I swear I heard about something like this a few years ago. My memory is way too vague on it to overpower Google's enshittified search at the moment but I think it was in one of the Virginias and involved teachers (maybe?) getting cheaper insurance premiums if they went to an approved gym.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

You'd think the fire would repel the flies, but apparently Druggies just stink to . . . kelly high heaven.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Some fictional scientific backup:

At a dinner celebrating Nikolaj's 40th birthday, the group discusses a theory inspired by the work of psychiatrist Finn Skårderud—that humans are born with a blood alcohol content (BAC) deficiency of 0.05% and that maintaining a BAC of 0.05% makes one more creative and relaxed.

 

Two days later, crime analyst Kimberly Dunn of the Records and Identification Bureau emailed a team of crime analysts working within the Sheriff’s Information Bureau with instructions to “keep an eye” on me.

“Freelance journalist Cerise Castle is currently working on a series of articles that started being released yesterday. The project is called “A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department,” she wrote. “Just something to keep an eye on – to monitor what else she posts as part of this project, and for potential doxing purposes, as well.”

 

crab-party crab-party crab-party crab-party crab-party crab-party

 

Pat Bev, a basketball player known for dirty plays and last seen throwing a basketball so as to injure a fan, only to miss that fan and hit a woman sitting nearby, has signed with an Israeli team.

 

In france-cool , the ukkk , and now the amerikkka the ruling parties have essentially decided to give up on this year's elections. What are they trying to avoid being blamed for? Is it more than just a global recession? Wrong answers preferred.

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The only possible good that can come of this wretched campaign is the ever-increasing likelihood that it will cause the Democratic Party to self-destruct. A lot of people are seriously worried about this, but I am not one of them. I have never been much of a Party Man myself. . . and the more I learn about the realities of national politics, the more I’m convinced that the Democratic Party is an atavistic endeavor – more an Obstacle than a Vehicle – and that there is really no hope of accomplishing anything genuinely new or different in American politics until the Democratic Party is done away with.

hst-pissed From Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

 

Gonna print out a bunch of copies of this and get hit with 20 years of charges for flyering mailboxes of houses in my area flying these things

"At first, we wanted one of our flags in every home in America," Burman said. "Unfortunately, the practical applications of this product are far outnumbered by the risks it presents. Millions have died needlessly, and when you ask people why, they point to the flag."

Added Burman, "Frankly, we should have pulled it off the market decades ago."

 

I'm looking at doing a double feature of Al Jazeera's The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza, which I'm hoping will be something I can push on the maddening collection of people in my life who agree that Biden is committing genocide but think they have to vote for him anyway,

and Satyajit Ray's The Adversary:

Siddhartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to the unexpected death of his father. He has to now find a job instead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected: man landing on the Moon. The interviewer asks if he is a communist. Needless to say, he does not get the job.

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