LostWon @ LostWon @lemmy.ca

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Working class doesn't mean poor, it means you don't own business assets and generally that you don't profit off the labour of others. It's a convenient method of control to keep working class people so divided that the fight remains amongst ourselves instead of it being focused on improving things for everyone.

You covered it implicitly here but I'll state explicitly that corporate media's narrow perspective and reluctance to seriously investigate real issues doesn't help either. It's creating a dystopian effect.

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They mean even less if a causal link isn't established, or even if there is a link but the issue is better explained by other factors. There are many signs people use social media to compensate for something missing in their lives (such as lack of connection, inability to find like-minded people close by, etc.), but no proof I've yet heard of that it's the root cause of unhappiness. The closest to that is maybe people falling into maladaptive patterns of seeking content that would enrage or depress them, but I imagine at least as often it's going to be people using it as an escape from a difficult reality. We should be discussing why reality is so difficult to manage and in more extreme cases, why talking about mental health issues is so scary that so many people need to escape via alcohol, drugs, screen time, etc.

4 facts about quick cats, I think

Because fuck being an empathetic human and actually connecting with people as equals, right? Keep on winning the entire Internet over with that unimpeachable charm and welcoming approach.

They're pretty clearly saying that nut milks are watery and taste nothing like dairy milk. Coconut milk would be closer to the creaminess of dairy milk at least, but it's expensive and might require heating first for those of us with sensitive stomachs. It'd also have to be grown ethically, for those who actually care about human labour and environmental impacts.

Seems when both parties in a 2 party-dominated system have unpopular candidates, the horse race ends up being purely about who turns off their base the least. Not who they impress or win over, but just how many votes one doesn't lose and the other does.

Yup, just walk away... or answer 'no' since smart folks don't always say 'yes'

Romaine says you'd better keep sewage runoff out of its water supply, if you know what's good for you.

No surprise here. Frankly getting sick of decades of media conflating GDP with the wellbeing of citizens as opposed to the largest, most powerful financial interests. Yes there's a correlation there, but we would be using far more accurate and direct metrics if the status of citizens was the actual goal.

No doubt, but what I was getting at was how shoddy the reporting clearly is there. They don't even say if they asked for more details on this very bizarre claim.

This is CTV. :/

Also...

Gaza health authorities said more than 100 Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces. Israel challenged the death toll and said many of the victims were run over by aid trucks.

WTF? And who was driving these trucks?

Good call. As with every other industry where bullshit rent-seeking has taken hold, the attempted fee tack-on and walkback are an experiment in how far they can go before appeasing customers. It's about testing waters before wearing people down. Rest assured, the one CEO's peers have taken note of this noble effort. Eventually, as they see it, one of them will succeed in making it stick, paving the way for them all to do the same. The first CEO to make it stick will get additional bonuses, praise, and a higher level of notoriety within their rarefied circles.

Every single time.

There absolutely is. Parties encourage people to treat elections like a sport and identify with a "side." Corporate media play along with the horse race paradigm, rather than pushing back on this kind of framing that distracts from actual issues. (And heavens forbid we talk about conflicts of interest, especially when they cross party lines and are endemic to entire governments-- ruling and opposition parties alike.)

It's been increasingly normalized for vast swathes of the voting public to pay little to no attention what each party stands for now, and what they've done in the past. Media also fails to give fair attention to a variety of methods by which a given crisis could be tackled, since the interests of the corporate world tend not to be in line with the interest of the public.

100% agree with all the people saying it's not enough, but it could be a start, which potentially forces interesting changes at the company level even if it doesn't do much with the economic system.

I would rather see no shareholder influence, but weakened shareholder influence and less incentive for CEOs and execs to be douchebags can still be meaningful (though perhaps not alone). Unfortunately, since people who want to lead others tend to be empathetically challenged, they still need explicit incentives for them not to just go through the same old exploitative and abusive patterns. Say this went through, the people who replace the spoiled CEOs who decide to leave would just end up being corrupt as well if some kind of positive reinforcement doesn't also exist.

So without any media attention, when no one is paying attention?

And no doubt every other closely-tied economy, as well.