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Lump ALL insurance together, make it government run, or legislate it non-profit, with pay rates the same, and tiered the same as social workers.

We need to shame these companies that profiteer off of their neighbors. It's state sanctioned looting of someone's estate while they're down. If they want to profit, let them offer profit packages in other countries, we dont need anymore ambulance chasing opportunists. Beaurocrats...shudders

Remember when you encounter the dispossessed, disenfranchised or the doomers;

If voting didn't matter; if YOU'RE vote didn't matter, the rich wouldn't spend so much to try and get it.

I think every person of color in the country coming of age should apply to every police academy.

If for no other reason than as a survival strategy, like that black comic who dresses like Carlton from Fresh Prince, he calls it his body armor, says it makes him bulletproof. Poignantly sad and hilarious at the same time.

If everyone did that, imagine how transformative the next decade could be.

Insurance

The one purpose built industry that not only improves exponentially with but can only function by being at scale. That.is.it's.whole.reason.to.exist.

Every argument against M4A is a known lie consciously being said to our faces. It's parasites squirming in where they don't belong, to steal whatever value they can connive, instead of producing anything of value and actually contributing to society

Just like landlords, it's inherited generational bloatware. Like herpes, I think...um, kinda?? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Landlords = herpes.

I'm rolling with it. I don't need any clarification on that.

What part of our society is equitable tho?

I can't wait until crispr files get pirated and spread across the web. A few hundreds bucks in lab equipment to grow a culture, spin a centrifuge and bam! Remember, take your modified DNA milkshake with food.

But beyond crispr, 3d printing DNA, if not already possible, has got to be around the corner. The files might be huge, but it's just another 3 shades and a toner, we know how to do that.

And regardless how sweet that'd be, Id still be pissed off if it hypothetically came with a forced subscription. Will I need to hack those to remove the telemetry as well? cuz let me tell ya, I'm getting really good at that. Lots of practice lately. Defense catches up, all im saying.

This should surprise no one by now.

My only surprise is that this kind of scenario came up so fast. I expected years of matricide before all the right spines aligned.

Roe was passed in the courtroom on privacy - which another future court can still make a solid case for - but it was sold to the people as protecting women. Abortion is going to happen, that's the hard truth. How many women, and girls, have to needlessly die? That's just future mothers being removed from the field. Population goes down when abortion is outlawed, because girls will travel, or take it into their own hands. There isn't some mythical white baby boom. There is, however, a marked decline in crime starting ~20 years after Roe was passed. Cuz all the unwanted children weren't born and raised being reminded that they're unwanted their whole life.

I'm not a fan of abortion as elective birth control, but I can acknowledge when my opinions would make terrible policy. The "irresponsible" women who couldn't stick to a pill a day, or re-up on her implant appropriately, if she can't handle that, do we want her to raise children?

That's rhetorical. The answer doesn't matter. It's the implied reasoning that's the point.

In my humble opinion, Paxton can't leave this planet fast enough, Texas needs to go blue, and Republicans can prattle on and on on Fox news until they become a meme, the face of white fragility.

What did it work to accomplish? I don't recall any nuclear bombs being dropped on any cities post 1945...

Duck and cover was shitty ineffective social programming to placate yet keep the gen pop scared and nodding instead of the leaders of the world acting like fucking adults.

It's an example of politicians failing, of leaders incapable or unwilling to compromise and imagine any solution where they are a single color in a painting and not the whole painting.

Maybe he's born with it

Maybe it's Maybelline

A moving target drops your chances of being hit by 90%.

1 in 10 shots hit a moving target, in general.

In comparison to the shareholders who own the hospitals?

Yes, yes they are, it's not even close.

Thanks! I like lemmy! It reminds me of old reddit. Like 2010 reddit. Done right it feels like individual forums all within the same building. Done wrong, well, feels like reddit now. Or Facebook. Saccharine and sterile, emotionless money grab. As inviting as a room with drop ceilings and flickering fluorescent lighting, all the intuitive ambiance of chemotherapy.

So if that was meant as a knock, I don't see how.

Social Stockholm Syndrome, venerating their suffering as if ones capacity to suffer is something that should be respected and strengthened like a muscle.

....all while disregarding the dystopic culture that fostered the "growth".

I got in an argument with a pair of my brothers over student loan relief. All 3 of us have paid our student loans back the same way, by living an austere life with 2 jobs for at least a decade. My older brother, the most conservative "progress is a slow march" brother, was absolutely against it. He paid his off, others can too, or at least he should get his money back then, if everyone's just being let off the hook. I disagreed with him, as I usually do but I approach problems different than he does. He looks at the immediate, how it affects him and figures what's fair - and there's nothing wrong with that per se.

I look at the solution and try to identify the markers, or steps, necessary to get there. Then I weigh the steps against the desired solution to determine what is viable. I work backwards from the solution.

My younger brother and I share the same mind on student loans; forgive them, every outstanding balance and end the paygating of knowledge in general - because those holding the keys to the gates didn't come up with the contents theyre guarding, they themselves are stewards, not owners.

I don't care that I was able to pay off my loans, it's more important that we move past the paygating - which is really power projection - than any benefit I myself might be able to gain.

Moving ahead, either personally or socially will at times require looking ahead more than looking at now or the path preceding. I think this kind of insight is crucial to any leadership, large or small, union or otherwise.

I'm if the opinion that if we must make a choice to act together in a group, then let's figure out and establish our best practices, ensure the appropriate smart people are involved and do whatever with the soft (not-monetized) values we want fostered, ie with compassion, patience, understanding, offering respect and integrity, not demanding obedience before giving them. A society that doesn't work from those values will lose those values. And that's pervasive, from your HOA meetings to town hall, from loading dock smoke breaks to union halls. All the way to fancy granite buildings.

Buddy, that's every job where someone earns a paycheck.

If someone pays you a paycheck, you are labor. If you depend on that paycheck, they are capital, you are the proletariat.

We've been in the midst of a capital strike for 4 decades now, rebranded as neoliberalism, where capital only reinvests capital if it absolutely must, and then just the minimum. Every personal passion, every altruistic drive, or careers that give a sense of meaning will that same meaning held hostage and weaponized to silent dissent.

Complacency is complicity. The rallying cries have been handed down thru all of history

As long as one free man is jailed .... First they came for ....

Society, writ large, is a partnership. Highly specialized fields of study only exist because the cost to bring them in existence can be spread out amongst the bottom of the pyramid. If you're worked hard, learned hard and lucky enough you might be able to be at the top of it.

But you're just a part of the machine, not the driver or designer of it. The proper attitude at heights is gratitude and humility, being honored to have the chance to follow your passions, because how many below you, for whatever reason, had theirs compromised, stolen or confiscated. The brain outside the body isn't even worth its caloric density.

I'm proud you're fighting back and I'll stand in a protest line with you - even if that means state violence, and it often does. The police are mercenaries for the wealthy, whom you're at odds with, that means the police are not your allies here (some random cool sheriff notwithstanding).

We are all people here. We all have value independent of what capitalism rewards. No one is inherently better than anyone else. We are all just trying to live and be decent people. Don't forget that.

No one in the 90s could imagine the internet without AOL or Yahoo either, and yet..

Or the great Myspace collapse of 2008. Digg before that. Tumblr most recently.

Big sites go boom fairly often.

Now, watching Google go Boom, that's gonna be like modules breaking loose of the ISS and rez-entering the atmosphere. Drawn out over months, as one wing goes, government breaks up another wing, class action lawsuits bankrupt another wing.

Alphabets circling the drain. And good. Fuck em. Fuck Apple, Fuck Meta, Fuck Amazon, Fuck Reddit.

Just a couple more years now and imma nominate Craig from Craigslist for all the years nobel prizes for officially winning the internet.

Specific niche forums, Craigslist and Wikipedia are the last bits of honestness and fun online. And ymmv with Craigslist people being honest.

Buddy, you're jumping the gun, seriously.

Boomers have voted for their own interests at the cost of anyone else their entire lives, what makes you think this'll be different?

They'll take all the money social security had left and cancel it for gen x onwards, regardless of us paying into it for 30 years

The, obviously immoral, institutionalized racism in America (I said OBVIOUSLY for those in the back) has also had, and still does have, geoplitical ramifications as well. Further compounding the issue is the media, on the rare event it does get reported, it's almost always relegated to the back pages and never followed up on.

When the Nazi's (for clarity, that is the anachronistic 20th century spelling used to describe the German wave; the current 21st centuries spelling is NatC's - for Christian NATionalists, generally located in southeastern North America, tho not always, and not always just in the Americas).

I'm sorry, that aside aside; When the Nazi's received criticism from the Roosevelt administration about their treatment of the Jews (which was, in fact, reported on extensively during the war, the only surprise was the efficiency and extensiveness of the Germans, today much appluaded, record keeping), the Nazi's immediately clapped back with how America treats its black citizens. German officials spent a good amount of time in the mid 1930s, before any hostilities broke out in Europe, studying the souths Jim Crow laws for themselves so they could best implement their future aparteid state. Backed up with passport stamps and photographic evidence, Germany's rebuff effectively humiliated American opinion off the world stage.

Not known for learning from their mistakes, America continued doing what it does best, convincing the working class that they're the source of all their problems.

At the same time, the other never reported topic that America leads the world in, was amped up to 11. And that's rewriting history thru domestic propaganda campaigns. America did so well at this, that early in the 21st century it once again tried it's hand on the world's moral stage...

And was quickly reminded by the Chinese, who're deflecting their own allegations of crimes against humanity in their treatment of the Uyghers, that once again America's institutionalized racism, as shown evident thru its prison system, is a "functioning" aparteid state against non-white and poor white Americans, and forged the way, and that China was merely doing what has been shown as acceptable.

...when the rule of law is so corrupted that it's applied unequally, no one, rich or poor, respects the law. Those without the means to defend themselves may fear it, but no one respects it

Prob due to rising costs of rents.

Necessity is the mother(s) of invention

If they pay taxes, they deserve statehood. If not, give them independence.

The age of colonialism is over. No taxation without representation, its kinda what we're all about

The correct answer is

Fuck Pavlov

Motherfucker is like the Hitler of dogs. It's a shame his name is remembered for the conditioning and not the mutilation. Dude was a monster.