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It's worth it if you accept the post pandemic, post crypto prices to be the new normal.

I'm still rocking my old 980ti because I refuse to pay $600 for an old, mid tier card.

There's nothing wrong about it.

Neither is worth it. But if you have unlimited money, XTX is the better card and therefore a better deal. But if money is a factor, get the XT because the performance per $$$ of the XTX isn't worth selling a kidney.

Well, they're Republicans. Those Pollacks were just dressing too slutty. Hitler had to invade. And France? Come on now.

And for scale

According to a 1941 census, the population of India was 388,997,955. This was an increase of over 50 million from the previous census.

In 1943, India was also experiencing the Bengal famine, which killed an estimated 2.1–3 million people.

70,000 tons, distributed over 389m people, is 0.0003598972 pounds of food were taken away from each Indian person, over a 6-7 month period.

Riiiiight.

Policy lapses such as prioritizing distribution of vital supplies to the military, stopping rice imports and not declaring that it was actually a famine were among the factors that led to the magnitude of the tragedy, he added.

So we're comparing some possible logistics mistakes, in a distant colony, during a defensive war where the ruling country was being bombed on their own soil. Comparing those "incendental" deaths to those of an aggressive conquering army literally rounding up their own citizens and those of the lands they conquered, to be killed.

Right.

She wrote that famine was caused in part by large-scale exports of food from India. India exported more than 70,000 tons of rice between January and July 1943 as the famine set in, she said.

That quantity seems pretty low. In comparison, I found an old post that indicated 300,000 tons of food aid had been supplied to Gaza over 190 days, so similar time spans, to a much smaller population.

Of course, exporting food while the residents are starving is terrible. But this is one study and one interpretation of results.

This certainly sounds like yet another bad faith strawman talking point by Nazi sympathizers.

I don't see anything different about his rambling, tbh. I think the only notable difference is him working out nicknames while in front of an audience instead of ahead of time.

His talking points aren't landing, so he's fishing around for something that gets the reaction he's looking for.

I think he would have done the same if "build a wall and make Mexico pay for it" was met with confusion.

He was always this incoherent, but he had "better" slogans to fall back on.

I'd say it's probably more due to him alienating most of his former team, and then surrounding himself with more incompetent yes men, than cognitive decline. His baseline of cognitive capacity wasn't high in the first place.

I consider it animal abuse, but I can understand that there's an argument that it's not. I think the distinction of requiring scientific evidence supporting their claim is a reasonable requisite to allow the discussion.

It seems like things worked out here. My knee-jerk reaction would be to classify vegan diets in carnivor pets to be animal abuse and probably would have reported. But discussion happened to allow for discourse, and they rolled back the decision to at least allow for transparency.

And to be clear, I still think it is hands down animal abuse and hope that others come to the same conclusion. Animals don't have the ability to make an informed choice. Subjecting them to a dangerous diet to satisfy your own niche moral compass is evil.

It's not about you, it's about the animal. Get over yourself.

But again, I think it's OK to have the discussion, and I hope the community buries their side into oblivion.

That's still a lot of people with criminal records whose lives are much more difficult for it, for something she's now antagonizing her opponent for flip flopping on as well.

Don't get me wrong, I'm voting Harris and donating to get campaign. But I find this particular attack vector to be massively hypocritical.

It's ironic to me that you people can acknowledge that Jill Stein is just virtue signaling from the side lines because it costs her nothing. She's not actually spending political capital on something that has any chance of happening. She's just paying it lip service.

You understand this. That's good.

But then in the same breath, you applaud AOC for saber rattling to pack the supreme court and other ideas that are impossible without a super majority. Which only served to make Biden look weak and disenfranchise progressive voters.

I wonder how many people she pursued possession charges on as a DA.

Edit:

But at different junctures of her time in office, she has been an enforcer of cannabis laws and an opponent of legalized use for adults in California.

Though she defended marijuana’s use for medicinal purposes as district attorney, her prosecutors in San Francisco convicted more than 1,900 people on cannabis-related offenses.

Trump argued that the legal actions against him set a bad precedent

Well, we finally agree on something.

The fact that he's a free man and the republican nominee 4 years after attempting to steal an election and then subsequently attempted a coup is a really fucking bad precedent and shows that the legal system is impotent to stop large scale corruption.

It sounds weird, but I can imagine it working. Sometimes sweet fruit and mild salt can combine well. And mustard is kind of salt like.

This is a ridiculous narrative.

Trump is sexist and racist. His base is sexist and racists. This isn't even debatable, it's about undeniable as you can get without them literally explicitly stating that's their motivation under oath.

It's also extremely likely that Trump idolized Hitler and is trying to use his playbook. And a bunch of "conservative" groups doing the same. There is plenty of evidence to support this.

Just fucking call it what it is instead of trying to draw parallels to ancient history.

"Trump is trying to campaign on sexism, racism, and xenophobia to rally the racists and misogynists, in an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle the same way Hitler did, in order to establish himself as a dictator"

Is that so fucking hard to say directly?

taking a lot of fridge / freezer space

Maybe you forgot the freezer part.

There's Starlink, now. But somehow, relying on a Musk product to be able to do your job seems... risky.

Ok. Agreed.

But that doesn't change the fact that Xitter is still number 1 by a large margin, unless I'm mistaken. And since no one here even seems to be disputing that, it seems we agree on that point.

So it's the other point that seems to be what is controversial. That, even with all the bad shit Musk has done - maliciously gaming the algorithm so these things won't rise naturally like they did before, actively banning "woke" accounts, etc.

Even with all these bad changes, Xitter is still the best way to get your crisis message to the masses, especially outside your country.

You can argue about idealistic things like "it won't change until people are forced to look elsewhere", but that's not a luxury that people in crisis have.

And that's exactly why I think this is more negative than positive. It takes away the most powerful tool available at getting your reality out of a war zone, out of dictator controlled media bubbles, etc, so that outside observers can get a glimpse at what's really going on.

And until you have a real contender for a replacement that's gaining massive traction, "not perfect" is a luxury of armchair activists.

The point of guerilla style social media activism that exposes oppression, is to reach as many eyes as possible.

Are there alternatives? Sure. But do they reach anywhere near the same size of an audience? Unless I'm extremely out of touch (I do not consume that kind of social media directly), then it's not even remotely close.

Maybe BlueSky is bigger than I think it is, but I rarely ever hear about it outside of very niche circles (like lemmy).

My point stands. Despite all the mishandling of Xitter, it's still a powerful tool to get grassroots news out for things like protests, oppression. The platform is certainly worse than it was before Musk, but it's still a decent tool for this specific usecase.

Fuck Musk and everything, but Xitter has traditionally been a very powerful tool for the masses in impoverished countries to get the word out.

I know Brazil isn't exactly a 3rd world country, but it's not exactly the most stable of governments, either. They just recently had a Jan 6th kind of coup attempt when bolsonaros lost.

I hesitate to consider this a net good, despite hating Musk.

And wanting to eat the same thing for a week+ because making it in quantities that's worth the time means that's taking a lot of fridge / freezer space

I think it's more likely that she's prepared to put someone like Adam Kinzinger on her cabinet. One that (eventually) fell on their sword, and represent a faction that would take the party away from fascism if they could.