hark

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Didn't the south join in the fight because Britain was in the process of legally abolishing slavery and they were afraid of this abolition applying to colonies?

[–] hark@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How can you stand 30 minutes of work?

[–] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think his endorsement still holds sway in his state of South Carolina, but thankfully it doesn't mean anything in New York.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You're just going to ignore the democratic party coordinating all the candidates to drop and put their support behind Biden while funding a PAC to keep Warren in the race to split votes with Bernie right before super tuesday? Plus having their big media buddies run the story of "the Biden miracle" after getting democratic party stooge Clyburn to endorse Biden and come out ahead in South Carolina (the state that went to Trump in the general election, by the way).

Also, the superdelegates made it look like the lead that Clinton had was so insurmountable that it was pointless to turn out for Bernie.

If you think these have no effect then, by the same logic, you'd think that billionaires spending tons of money on PACs has no effect.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Looking forward to Tesla reporting Q2 earnings next month. I assume another round of disastrous numbers paired up with some vaporware distraction. Perhaps they can keep this charade going, but at some point reality will catch up.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah, Jim Clyburn, the jackass who helped Biden win the primary and put us on the path to the second Trump term.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 86 points 4 days ago (24 children)

We should've gotten a 4-day work week decades ago. Now it should be a 3-day work week at most and I'm being generous. The capitalists are always screeching about the low birth rate, but if people were working 3 days a week and making a decent living off that time, it would help the birth rate because then a household with two working parents could be scheduled on different days and alternate staying home with the child, plus have a shared day off every week.

Anyway, that's just a selling point to make to the capitalists. Whether or not it helps with the birth rate doesn't matter as much as the fact that we're owed shorter work weeks thanks to all the blood, sweat, and tears that labor has put into making the world as wealthy as it is now. What's the point of all this work if not to improve our standard of living? Technology making our lives better is hitting diminishing returns and now it's often not making our lives better or it's even making our lives worse.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Being the country with the most solar power generation by far is not "green washing". For being the world's factory, they're doing quite well and it's obvious from trajectory that they're going to be among the greenest countries overall, including those countries that have externalized their pollution to China by using them as their factory.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It already jumped up about 10% on monday simply because the service launched. Even if the service crashes and burns, they'll jump to the next hype topic like robots or AI or whatever and the stock price will stay up.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Oh right, I forgot that history started on October 7th.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Iran is simply countering the terrorist state known as israel.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If only the parasitic middlemen were willing to reduce their ridiculous profit margins...

 

Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/14613536 Screenshotted context just in case:

A user claims that the killing in Palestine stopped under Biden now. I point out that biden had full-throatedly supported the genocide for over a year. A mod deletes my post and says that biden didn't "state" (keyword here) full-throated support for genocide.

I counter by saying I consider sending billions in support of genocide counts as full-throated support for genocide. I also point out that I didn't say Biden stated his support for genocide and that he didn't need to outright state it because actions speak louder than words.

I receive a temp ban for that counter and the mod adds a response where they claim the weapons were "provided for defense from Iran, full stop." which sounds to me like actual misinformation because how the hell does bombing hospitals in Gaza defend Israel from Iran? I'm not bothered by their stupid opinion, but I am bothered that they are enforcing it through moderation.

I ran into a similar moderation problem on the Political Memes community also on .world, but I didn't bother making a post here for that because that's just a dumb meme community and I was better off just blocking it, but now this is concerning a world news community and it's awful to see something like this happening in a community that's supposed to keep people aware of the news.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and it actually is misinformation to say it's full-throated support of genocide to send billions in weapons to a country using those weapons to commit genocide. Please let me know what you think!

 

Not entirely sure what this is, but it was revealed during the Jackbox collab on Calli's channel. Reveal on June 18th 8:00PM PDT apparently!

Edit: Here's the reveal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3GiWDqoR3s

 

So much power, and not even sponsored!

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