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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Forced Sterilization is a dangerous precedent to set. First it’s sex offenders, then it’ll be disabled people, “drug addicts” but really it’ll be the poor. The working class, disenfranchised by the wealthy. Crime is caused by poverty. We cannot do this as a society. Once you start deciding that one group of people are more deserving of basic biological function, you just open it up to moving the line on where that is. Rehabilitation does not come from castration. Peoples genitals don’t make them sex offenders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Money, They cornered the market and then they started yielding the profits from it to exert political influence. That’s why molten Salt Thorium Reactors were abandoned by american scientists in the 60s. With nuclear power it would mean the end of for profit energy consumption. That plus the surveillance network of the billionaire class is what’s fueling all of the political tensions and far-right (See Fascism) around the world. Denmark is already capable of producing over 140% of its daily energy usage through wind alone. The guardian wrote an article about it in 2015. Wind is still less than 1% of all global energy production. Alberta gets 300 days of sun a year, but have been brainwashed by big oil to invent and reflexively disavow any information otherwise. Then the fossil fuel industry and tech industry launched the Brexit disinformation campaign to weaken the EU that same year. With the advent of China as well as Copenhagen Atomics producing working prototype reactors capable of producing staggeringly vast amounts of energy with less than 1000x the nuclear waste of traditional light water reactors, the change is inevitable. That’s what all of this is for them the war in Ukraine, Trump, Italy, Romania. It’s the fossil fuel industry. With the advent of nuclear power, the obviousness of the effects of climate change and advanced battery technology, the only way they can ensure a continuous demand is war. There are no electric tanks. Russia is a petro state, Saudi Arabia is a petro state, trump is trying to turn the US into an authoritarian petro state. It’s oil, they are the reason for all of this bullshit. Coal power plants are the most dangerous form of energy production, they kill approximately 1,000,000 people a year. We’ve had the technology to move away from them for over 70 years. That’s 70,000,000 dead people. That is more people than died in the entire second world war and we aren’t even talking about it because we’d rather just fall into arguing about transgenderism online than actually stopping them. It all goes back to fossil fuels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what the denigration of the term conspiracy theory was about. Did you notice? Conspiracy theory was a term made up by the CIA in order to dismiss peoples claims about government experimentation during the MK Ultra experiments. Media called those questioning 9/11 “truthers.” Which just so happened to include guys saying the planes were CGI and people who questioned how a group of goat herders from a country with literally zero infrastructure, living in caves, managed to hijack and divert commercial airliners in a perfect sequence of synchronistic events and American intelligence agencies, had no idea.

  Now conspiracy theory means, electric pyramid, the flat earth conspiracy and heliocentricism. The rejection of intellectualism is all carefully co-ordinated. They don’t want you to know things, if you see them for how they are you might rebel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prices are out of control⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should try the Beef and Milk. Free Range, grass fed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Started with 8Chan, where the same radicalised incels who support the rise of fascism worked in unison to move the Overton window. Allowing big Tech and Rupert Murdoch to constantly run propaganda against immigrants, whilst sustaining high levels of legal immigration to afford cheap labour and push the working class against eachother. All while Google, Meta, Microsoft and all of those clowns sell our active location Data collected from our phnes to Saudis, Russia and other extremely wealthy families so they could see businesses with less footfall during COVID, allowing them to bankrupt the global economy by shorting those companies through options. Netting them billions in profit and bankrupting businesses causing further economic downturn, in conjunction with the hostile takeover of the taxi cab and food delivery businesses. Further damaging restaurants and creating more unemployment, leading to fewer entry level jobs, normalising isolation and creating an atmosphere of distrust between people. Allowing for the further radicalisation of now unemployed young men and circulating millions of misleading, and sometimes, totally fake stories about immigrants. People that they brought here in the first place. All in order to push the world into a global conflict, buy up Earth and install themselves as the rulers of the ashes at the cost of billions of peoples lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Distinguished gentleman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prices are out of control⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyday, I watch as we stray further from God.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Think “Zebra” (NA English) but with an ‘L’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People will kiss anyone’s ass for enough money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s been implicated in the recent genocide in Myanmar. Facebook cultivated the spread of the racist lies, allowed it to proliferate, spread in the region and then shorted companies operating there. If you know there’s going to be ethnic cleansing in the region, causing outrage and destabilisation, business takes a hit and the options pay off massively. All it takes was the deaths of thousands, but hey Mark has the capital to burn on his AR pet project that nobody wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨31 to 31⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my doggos and my girl looking after me. Remember to call home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨31 to 31⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, She’s in and out of stability. With the extent of the frontal lobe damage, I hope she passes, because she won’t be my Mom anymore if she wakes up.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yahoo wants to buy Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla profits plummet 71% amid backlash to Musk's role with Trump administration⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s just kill them. That is the only way we take this back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t look illegal bro. It’s not illegal to be you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z and young millennials battling ‘negative wealth’ as debt burden grows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Flouting that you’re incapable of reading a small paragraph of text in order to engage in good faith discussions does not bode well for our future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z and young millennials battling ‘negative wealth’ as debt burden grows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I said I agree with you. I never said anything about moral superiority. Why do you create conflict with those that are actively agreeing with you? You just serve the purpose of those that you claim to be against.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z and young millennials battling ‘negative wealth’ as debt burden grows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean absolutely no offence in this response, but if I might articulate myself further. The enemy of progress and the cause of this most egregious regression in The United States is division. Holding idealised standards of how political parties should be in the current political climate, is disingenuous virtue signalling and disregards how politics work(s)ed in America with AIPAC, corporate lobbying and a two party system of First Past The Post elections. I am not telling you you’re wrong, quite the opposite. I agree with you. I am instead asking you to contextualise your (valid) outrage into the broader scope of American politics. If we do not defeat the orange menace, there will never be any progressives holding office, ever. You are right to want further change, but right now our division only serves the ruling class. The fact is, at this moment in history, you cannot get elected to any federal office of the United States without the support AIPAC. It is wrong, it is unjust, it serves the purpose of warmongers, I understand. As does the act of poor Americans purchasing cheap clothes imported from China. Yet, there is no choice for the poor who rely on them to clothe themselves and their children. I see you comment a lot and I am glad to see that, because you obviously care. I recognise your frustrations with Centrist Democrats. Of course they’re impotent, they themselves are multimillionaires, just trying to hold on to their investments and not have their families disappeared. Spineless. Democrats are always targeted for their failings, both by republicans and from within the party and support is often split because of it. While republicans disregard all criticism and stay united through their hatred and obfuscation of the truth. They live with this absurd cognitive dissonance and they still won, because they are united. You can be right about everything, without also serving the purposes of our enemy. If they prevail, when they finally crush every last one of us. It will be because there was no united opposition. It does not matter how correct you are today my friend, being right won’t matter. “I told you so” means nothing in Hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z and young millennials battling ‘negative wealth’ as debt burden grows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the sentiment, but we need to educate and unite. Not sow further division amongst ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Horseshit, They’ve always just spied on us and paid the fine. Fuck Cuckerberg and his malware ridden profiling apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Smart Technology has always been about removing our ability to effectively communicate with nuance and assess reality that’s what it’s for. Autocorrect so you can’t spell, google maps so you can’t find your way out of a paper bag without them. People’s lexicons have diminished, substantially since 2007. The quantity and variety of expressions used have dropped off majorly. All this connection with people all over the world and we use it to maintain quasi social relationships with people we hardly care about. It’s a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Install Linux while you can, Meta has already banned groups discussing foss software.