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circuitfarmer
circuitfarmer @ circuitfarmer @lemmy.sdf.org
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The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues

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  • This is also true of large corporations in general, in the US. Tax breaks, loopholes, and similar everywhere -- if you're rich enough. Privatized profits, but socialized losses.

    • White House claims Elon Musk isn’t running DOGE after all

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  • I suspect one of two things are happening, or maybe a mix of both:

    1. Trump doesn't like the insinutations that he himself isn't in control.
    2. Musk's public image issues are now affecting the bottom lines of his companies.

    These things are direct results of both men being complete imbeciles. Nothing more to see here.

    • Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

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  • If When

    • Israel ready to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities ‘with or without’ US backing: Report

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  • Whew, good thing I heard there will be no new wars with Trump as US president

    • Mitch McConnell: Kentuckians can't afford the high cost of Trump's tariffs

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  • Gee, if only Mitch had known someone in some high position with an actual chance to stop the fucking Trump train...

    • Democrats keep helping Trump confirm his abysmal nominees.

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  • I get the sneaking suspicion that all the "but both parties are the same people" are going to end up kind of right -- but maybe not in the way they thought.

    From my vantage point, there is only rich vs poor. Any other ideological divide either a) has been worsened by rich vs poor, or b) was invented to keep attention away from rich vs poor, à la divide and conquer.

    • US inflation unexpectedly increases

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  • Republicans just took power.

    Not unexpected at all.

    • Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance.

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  • They don't want educated people. They want large numbers of the uneducated because it keeps labor costs low.

    There is reason that birthrate and education are always top of the list (after tax cuts for the rich).

    • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • Tax dollars are definitely being stolen... by this unelected buffoon

    • Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’

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  • My parents holding fast with "well, it's always been like that" made me realize how big this generational divide is.

    There are good boomers who get it, yes. There are also some really dumb ones who have literally no clue what kind of world they helped create. Full stop.

    • Elon Musk rages as judges uphold DOGE blockade: ‘Attempted coup!’

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  • attempted coup

    Never forget: the P in GOP stands for "projection".

    • Elon Musk demands firing of ‘disgusting and cruel’ WSJ reporter who uncovered DOGE employee’s racist tweets

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  • The free speech absolutist at work

    • Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging

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  • Telegram is the worst kind of "secure" messaging in that it gives you a false sense of security while not really being secure.

    • “Antiwar” Trump Wants the US to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza

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  • Trump was never anti-war and anyone who thought so is fucking dumb. Done mincing words.

    • /r/Conservative is hitting the front page almost every day now...with (relatively) low upvotes.

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  • It's not just you. There is a coordinated effort from Big Tech to effectively take over the US Govt.

    • Why do some programmers love emacs so much

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  • Maybe it has to be vim in emacs on an emac

    • Why do some programmers love emacs so much

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  • I suspect the world would collapse into some kind of singularity if someone ever ran vim on an emac.

    • Wall Street Journal mocks Trump supporters for calling tariffs 'genius power play'

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  • Stupid people have no idea what smart things look like. They have no point of reference. Remember that.

    • USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos

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  • The headline is updated on the article itself; USPS has resumed accepting such packages.

    • FAA warning system outage leads to flight delays

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  • A lot of this is because we are so used to things, by and large, just working. No one trying to dismantle this shit realizes the level of complexity and the years it took to assemble.

    The problems of our past will now be the problems of our future, because the people in the back not paying attention decided they knew better.