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- Comment on Trump scraps tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit in a push to lower grocery store prices 1 hour ago:
I don’t eat much beef but have seen prices rise along with everything else in the last 5 years but assumed it was just general gouging. Read an article last week that detailed how climate change (damaging crops and yields), increased feed cost and international competition have made many generational beef ranchers selling off stock in the last few years as they can’t afford to feed them.
- Comment on 'It's Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media' Says Leader of the UK's Trade Union Movement 1 day ago:
While easy platforms to start on, unions driving more energy into social platforms oligarchs and governments own, can buy or control is not the greatest idea. The idea that follower counts are real, that “impressions” equal influence or even action are stretchers created by the marketing ideas that sold social media in the first place.
- Comment on FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs 2 days ago:
Corporate welfare for them, austerity for you. Tax cuts for them, sorry not enough to fund social security we’ll have to raise retirement age or cut benefits.
- Comment on [Video] Anti-ICE protesters hold a 80’s themed yoga class outside the Portland ICE facility. 3 days ago:
Bad ass mofos, every one.
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 4 days ago:
I love that the article has the insane quote suggesting kicking out 55 million visa holding immigrants, and this quote says 30 million illegals… that’s 85 million people. That’s more than a quarter of the entire US population of ~340m. They propose, in a time of worker shortages, when basic needs aren’t being met to remove 1/4 of the people living here.
If you can look past the blatant racism and xenophobia that is driving by political ends I guess we can trust that this new “land grab” of available homes would be efficiently, effectively and responsibly distributed to those in need in a way that ensures continuity of communities, neighborhoods, cities, tax bases…don’t even want to imagine. America is falling apart and has been for 30 years. We’d go full RoboCop.
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 4 days ago:
“and just one more initial on page 452 sir, oh the coughing fits don’t bother me. We do need to get these sign and notarized before you expire.”
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 4 days ago:
Had me in the first half ngl
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 4 days ago:
How revolutionary. They’re going to upend the world of finance by trying to give loans to people who can’t structurally afford to pay them back in all likelihood? Isn’t that the entire playbook for wage slaves to those who are otherwise of sound mind and body?
Maybe they try to just continue with the current (awful)status quo without the psuedoscience? Course then they’d lose out on the fascism.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 4 days ago:
Sociology is one of the few majors that Florida is trying to cut from public school programs. They apparently think it radicalizes people to educate them about the way the world works.
- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 2 weeks ago:
Have you tried accommodation, no consequences and tolerance? Works every time toward fascists.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 weeks ago:
The bubble was accelerated by people assuming prices would always rise, often their own greed and flipping or becoming landlords, and this was only possible due to the financial engineering that made lending to these folks posivle, but all of that droce the value of the underlying assets down significantly.
You claim there wasn’t a bubble…look at home price values in the sunbelt in 05 vs 2009.
TF are you talking about there wasn’t a bubble
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on UK | Citizen's Arrest Network hold Anglian Water to account, because no one else will 4 weeks ago:
The article is heavy on narrative but…did the CEO leave? Did they take him into custody? Kind of the important result of reporting on the arrest, which if something came of it is great. I assume it wasn’t reported because the CEO just left and they didn’t hold him by force and no one took him into custody.
- Comment on In Georgia, Trump’s Cuts to Solar Projects Hit Some of His Voters | The Trump administration canceled a $7 billion program intended to help low & moderate-income families install rooftop solar panel 5 weeks ago:
I trust the informed electorate will note that and adjust their future votes appropriately.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 5 weeks ago:
The analytics are overblown, and coaches need to get back to the big picture. Stanford traded Hollins at the deadline for Wu, but picked up the player option on Candell for the 4th year. The performance bonus if they make the all-star team should provide enough motivation to ensure they don’t get saddled with a mid-career ball hog. Team chemistry will be key, hopefully during the preseason they can get it together and not have any niggling injuries interrupt. There is concern about the defensive strategy on set plays, their specialist Franco just had their contract waived and stretched under the current contract, so the team may look to the transfer market mid season when it opens, or potentially to move up in the spring draft to fill needs. Still can’t believe they traded Simpson and pay 2.7 per year for Johnson.
Universities run by MBAs and academics operating like sports franchises.Meanwhile, they’re arresting students in campus for protesting genocide and fascism.
Seems legit.
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 5 weeks ago:
Getting nervous about the general public are we?
Reap:sow
- Comment on JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon sounds warning on US stock market fall 5 weeks ago:
No, he’s toeing the line with the fact his org and a few other rich people call shots, and that they benefit from the current structure the US has on the world stage. Loss of fed independence, which any (fucking idiot as you say) can see is happening, will hurt either JPM or those they are beholden to so he does the PR bit for now while they reshuffle in the background aligning with new power and future advantages. Once they and theirs have adjusted, then the market will be allowed to crash.
- Comment on Gen Z's can't afford to move out 5 weeks ago:
It was incredible some boomers couldn’t see that between college debt, and a radically different world of cost in housing to say nothing of food, transportation and energy costs, that their generation’s corporate permissiveness and privatization had collectively taken away what was so generously given to them by society.
Corporate PR pushed the narratives to be fair, it was an early attempt to confuse or distract the clear end of the American dream for young Americans. Your college degree is worthless and your enormous loans are non-discharageable even in bankruptcy, and you need 10 years at median gross salary to buy a home. Meanwhile, salaries are now aggressively managed down or to a “market average” under the guide of equity but more to control paying for the value of work. The trap was laid and 30 years or so of Americans were slaughtered in it’s teeth.
- Comment on BOTS - a biting, satirical commentary on how online discourse is weaponized to divide and sow chaos. 1 month ago:
It’s too short! More!
- Comment on McKinsey: Global economic profit bounces back to an all-time high 1 month ago:
Do these people ever think about the connection between finance and economics and real, underlying value?
They make slide decks and persuade people who want to believe consultants can help and/or aren’t smart enough to see through the facade. The profit and business memecycles and bubbles are quick; by the time it’s flopped the consultants have not only long since moved on from accountability but also probably had 5 catchphrase meme pitch cycles since.
- Comment on BOTS - a biting, satirical commentary on how online discourse is weaponized to divide and sow chaos. 1 month ago:
Please tell me this is just a long trailer and not the whole thing?!?
- Comment on Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession 1 month ago:
I did not know that, though I would have assumed any scoring/ranking system that doesn’t take into account realities of history would systematically disadvantage minorities. Who/where did it come from? Chicago redlining? The good old South?
- Comment on Nearly 500 workers were taken in a raid at Hyundai’s battery plant. In a quiet Georgia town, the silence is deafening 1 month ago:
This raid happened days after a Korean presidential visit to the US with Trump to discuss trade negotiations, of which the US is looking for concessions, giveaways and fealty from Korea, as with other nations. Korea didn’t show up like a doormat and this was the calculated, premeditated response. The entire story is about international trade, manufacturing and economics, overlaid by broken US immigration practices.
That is how this is economics.
- Comment on Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar 2 months ago:
“let’s you”
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 2 months ago:
At least I can enjoy stupid corporate leaders lapping up the dogfood they’re told to eat, except for the pain workers and real people suffer as a result of this yheft, trash and grift.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
Apple isn’t a marketing company? Wow, if anything I would say that singularly defines what has made them successful. They put out solidly mid hardware, but are the best marketers in tech and always were.
- Comment on Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” 2 months ago:
Quiet I can hear you while we’re auctioning off Bytedance/tiktok to US corporations. No hypocrisy to be found here.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 2 months ago:
Remember, it’s important that technology and advancement only be used by capital, never by the underclass.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 months ago:
That flank. Sigh. I remember the turn after Occupy. It went from economics to being cool to just broadly bash men. I specifically remember outspoken, angry women at marches and protests and was like wait, where did the economics go? Like 60% of Republicans wanted wealth reform during occupy. It unfortunately coincided with really great–though apparently transitory–improvements in lgbtq rights. It was so weird to me that self-labeling “feminists” were suddenly talking like it was a zero sum game; for women to rise and improve and build and grow, men had to be put down. That is of course the language of someone seeking power, a charlatan, but it became quite normal. Even questioning the broad criticism of men wasn’t appropriate in “liberal” press or circles for a good decade. The whole "yeah but bashing men isn’t right/fair or clumsy” finally started working into the Atlantic, NYT and other large publications in 2023 but the damage had been done.
It of course drove lots of men right to the tall radio, podcasters–and those were young adults then–i can’t imagine what it was like growing up since then as a young person with the normalization of some of this stuff.
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 2 months ago:
RFK
Cancer causes autism