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2·3 months agoEpicureanism, in a nutshell
13·10 months agoif one good thing can come from these senseless murders, let it be this. these services should not be allowed to operate without strict regulation.
iRiver= S tier mp3 nostalgia
you can also tag people on Lemmy, or at least I can. look for the About User menu then “Add Tag” or “Tag user” from their profile
8·1 year agoI’m extremely skeptical corningware contains lead which can come off… it’s sealed, ultra hard ceramic. that’s not how people have historically gotten lead contamination. there’s probably more lead in the soil in their front yard than in every piece of corningware in the house…
please don’t destroy these, just donate them to a thrift shop so sensible folks can use them as intended. many of those vintage ceramics are collectibles, more importantly they are infinity reusable.
i think tik tok might be in a position where they must sell in order to continue serving content to American users
The order was announced as White House officials believed they were nearing a deal for the app’s operations to be spun off into a new company based in the U.S. and owned and operated by a majority of American investors,
the extension only happened because after the TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, threw a big party for right wing influencers during Trump’s record breaking $200M
bribe acceptance partyinauguration, Trump mysteriously halted the order (despite being signed into law) to ban the app.from the article:
Top TikTok executives reportedly rubbed shoulders with American tech leaders and handed out business cards at an elite pre-inauguration donor event on Sunday featuring members of the Trump administration, as the app’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain.
Tiktok executives including CEO Shou Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman were reportedly on hand at the event, which President Donald and First Lady Melania Trump hosted at the National Building Museum in Washington. They joined a reported guestlist including Vice President JD Vance, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and conservative megadonor Miriam Adelson.
geeze, it’s almost like the tech oligarchs told Trump to pause the ban until they could negotiate a way to profit more from acquisition of TikTok (or a newly created US based subsidiary that Bezos is trying to invest in) than by outright banning users access to it, cold turkey.
me missing your point doesn’t make your arguments correct. you are factually mistaken in your framing.
Life doesn’t give an F about balance
you speak with the confident wrongness of someone who has no scientific understanding of natural cycles, equilibriiums, self-limiting reproductive rates, ecology, or biology. have you heard of chemistry? equilibriums?
you are confusing a linguistic object , the word “balance” (like from an Oxford dictionary) with empirically observable, falsifiable hypotheses which are well established in environmental science. humans are late arrivals to the millennia of life systems on earth, and the first thing they did was begin destroying balanced ecosystems to grow surplus foods, exert population pressures on other species, reshape rivers and lakes, clearcut forests, and general terraform the shit out of everything, other creatures be damned.
your comment suggests a stunningly anthropocentric hubris and a total ignorance to eons of geological time preceding homo sapiens which humans came along and completely fucked by rapidly terra forming the planet. go tell a black rhino or a dodo that only humans care about balance.
humans cause imbalance in nature, it’s literally our whole thing we do. transform the environment by whatever means possible, dominate other life forms to extinction if we feel like it, overcome natural limits or push others to extreme boundaries.
6·1 year agoso much for trusting the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe!
life expectancy was already backsliding, this will almost certainly reinforce the downward trend
yeah! with penalty fees and interest! and make him do it every year, again and again, forever. we could have it be due before April 15 or smthg.
while we’re at it, make all his billionaire pals pay too!
it’s a novel concept I just came up with… I’m calling it “taxes”. doubt it will ever catch on though, at least not in America.
not to mention the millions of man hours wasted responding to all these contradictory instructions across every federal office - having meetings, writing memos, discussing communication plans, notifying private partners and businesses, travel cancellations, etc etc etc…
in other words, tens of millions of taxpayers dollars in LOST PRODUCTIVITY… all because a petulant incompetent nazi oligarch thinks he knows better how the entire government should be run.
151·1 year agowhen entire world economies and hundreds of millions of lives can be destroyed by the childish petty illogical whims of a single man, we need to start banding together to figure out how to stop that man.
multiple generations of people will lead immensely more brutal, unhappy lives because some fucktard is throwing a tantrum that there might not be enough slaves to toil in his factories and mines someday.
8·1 year agofirst time hearing about this, any more details you can provide or link to a news release? is this Ubiik?
9·1 year agothis is a brilliant observation honestly. every accusation or criticism levied against the fascists gets reversed in a “I know you are but what am?” sneer. it works for many reasons, and it’s part of the right wing playbook.
- accused of nepotism? flip it around and prosecute Hunter.
- accused of Jan 6 violence? bring up the George Floyd riots or antifa.
- accused of sexual scandal? point out Bill Clinton’s many accusers and Bidens hair sniffing.
- greed? bring up Pelosi’s insider trading.
- coercing abortion? they point to vaccines/mask mandates.
obviously none are equivalent in scale or scope, but they have truthiness to them at first glance. and just as importantly, like in your purse thief example, they redirect attention and create doubt… just long enough to avoid getting caught or face the wrath of the crowd.
it also works, esp in America, partly because the so-called opposition party is actually kind of a piece of shit and has been for generations. Dems profess to hate the extreme consequences of capitalism, but love capitalism itself and benefit from it. so they ultimately can’t condemn it or offer long term solutions to the problems it creates. conservatives at least offer simpler solutions which all boil down to “hate who you’re told” and “obey your God King and you’ll someday be rewarded”.
saving this for later, thanks
so nice to see rational takes on killdozer.
i still see t-shirts trying to cast him as heroic or edgy or cool when the actual story plays out like a thin skinned entitled piss baby who thought the solution to petty personal grudges was a lone wolf rampage across town.