US, China, Russia; toss in Israel and you’ve got old money, new money, muscle, and religion. It is a story as old as time, but just to pick two: Chicago in the early 20th, or Florence in the Renaissance. But this time; on a global scale.
100% - stop imagining. Go do it.
Get a $10 tin whistle, spend 15 minutes a day for one month practicing, go on a hike. At the top of the mountain / hill / in a field / near a brook - pull out the whistle and play “Black Velvet Band.” You may have to dance around a bit to get others to figure out WTF you’re on about, but they’ll join in. And they’ll tell the story for ages, hoping you come on the next hike.
Because extractive capitalism hates informed consent. When interacting with an extractive capitalist, keep one hand on your wallet and one hand covering your drink.
The vote was 211 to 204. An additional 11 no votes would have forced 5 more republicans to go on record. They would presumably have been from 5 districts which are less safe from criticism of Hegseth than the 211 who voted yes.
Perhaps more importantly; those 11 votes would have showed that it takes more than 8 days for the DNC to wipe their ass with the will of the people.
Good on them! The kids these days are figuring out The Scam younger than I did. The powerful few prey on the weak many, until the weak many rise up.
The next part of the recurring tale is ugly.
WWII was really good at cleansing the global soul of fascism. But that deep cleansing gave us longer to forget. Longer to become complacent.
Not bad; even your office servers score a 10 out of 11 on a scale from 0 to 3. :)
Good callout, thank you! A tale as old as 56k: don’t feed the trolls.
Thanks, Lemmy folks! I have been, and intend to continue to be, intending to put up a server.
I’m sorry, in advance, for what is going to happen to all your hard work, as Reddit craters and all the oligarch bots start coming here to manipulate the populace / control the narrative.
As I’ve been saying since Usenet and Slashdot; it was good while it lasted.
Solid format. Here’s a demo, using the most obvious examples I could think of.
I agree - they do usually cite their sources well, even if they are presented in an over-the-top fashion. I appreciate the citations.
futurism .com links often seem like clickbait for people who are skeptical of the broligarchy.
I’m all for covering that side of the story - we need a lot more resistance against the oligarchy. But clickbait is sleazy no matter what story it’s pretending it can tell.
The US market is expected to drop because the US market is massively overloaded with bubble tech stocks. DJIA and VGK (FTSE Europe ETF) are up in extended hours. Even VUG (Vanguard Morningstar Growth; US growth stocks ETF) is up.
You can inflect them to imply all three things go in, but I prefer pausing after each comma, suggesting that the third item in the list includes “in the ass” as part of its identifier.
Dear Proton Engineers,
He means they won’t do it yet, because the backlash is causing problems. Either because they fear the loss of customers, or because they fear the engineers leaving before getting their replacements trained.
I suspect some folks would poison the training while looking for another job.
They’re looking for authentic-looking projects that they can use to whitewash their LLM injection attack.
Two ways to leverage the projects:
Then they wait for the LLMs to suck it in and start spitting it out into corporations who have Proton’d their engineering staff.
I agree. It is hard, sometimes, to criticize a thing without referencing it. I think the moderators should have the latitude to decide when the value of a critique rises above the cost of presenting the very thing that this community exists to criticize.
It will be inherently subjective and case-by-case, regardless of how the rule is worded. I think that means our job is to report things we think are wrong, and do our best to trust and respect the moderators who have to make the tough calls.
At first, I wondered why Comer would be opposing this sort of oligarchy-engineering. Maybe he’s just sniffing around to get his cut? But it could be Niemöller’s ghost finally rising to a level that reaches Comer.
And the CEO said:
The oligarchs might love this, but the third string C-suite execs that dine with Comer at the finest gas-station barbecue place in Paducah? The AIs have finally come for them.
they need to hustle else they get fired from their fourth job.
The problem is; wait another year and it’ll be, “get fired from their fifth job.” Alas; getting to that point, enough times, is what it takes. Once there is no time left, and no money left, and no food left, and the littles are too listless even to cry.
Get to that point a few times (eg: 1789, 1848, 1968), and you start choosing to stand in the tear gas early.
Rarely has so much been owed by so many to one comment.
I am serious. And stop calling me Shirley.