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davel [he/him]
davel [he/him] @ davel @lemmy.ml
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LA Times reports that Palm Springs bomber had an account on Lemmy.world

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  • This person was removed as the sole mod for !antinatalism@lemmy.world three days ago.

    Edit to add:


    He’s still the sole mod for !efilism@lemmy.world and !chemistry@lemmy.world, though those communities never really got off the ground.

    • China's Internet Firewall is Good, Actually

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    • China's Internet Firewall is Good, Actually

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  • The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and once those efforts failed, it concocted and promoted a genocide narrative.

    • Have some civility.

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  • And Democrats aided & abetted a genocide until they lost control of the executive branch four months ago.

    • Have some civility.

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  • Also, I don’t know what liberals you’re referring to. I’m a progressive.

    As I’ve explained elsewhere in this post, unless you want to abolish private ownership of the means of production, you’re probably a liberal. The vast majority of both Democrats and Republicans are liberals. Progressive liberals like Bernie Sanders are still liberals. Sanders will say that It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, and he’ll complain about crony capitalism and über capitalism, but he’ll never question capitalism as such. He’ll never question private ownership of the means of production, in the sanctity of private property.

    Almost the only people who aren’t liberals are either socialists or fascists, and even fascists believe in capitalism just as liberals do.

    • Have some civility.

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  • Most Republicans also believe in those things, though they quibble with Democrats over the details. Only fascists, monarchists, etc. don’t.

    • Have some civility.

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  • Both Democrats and Republicans are liberals

    What?

    The first sentence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism:

    Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property and equality before the law.

    From the first paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_property[^1]:

    Private property is foundational to capitalism, an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

    That’s what liberals believe. Liberals are those who support capitalism, which both Democrats and Republicans do.

    [^1]: Not to be confused with personal property.

    • Ah yes the "enlightened" democracies

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    • Ah yes the "enlightened" democracies

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    • Ah yes the "enlightened" democracies

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  • This is all the more egregious now when Russia seeks to use a false accusation of Nazism to try to justify its unconscionable ongoing brutality against the people of Ukraine.

    • Ah yes the "enlightened" democracies

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  • Always the same map.

    • Barbara Walters How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them.

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    1. Barbara Walters was someone else. This woman is Barbara F. Walter.
    2. A successful socialist revolution is called a “revolution”; an unsuccessful socialist revolution is called a “civil war.”

    • Congratulations to Amazon on Its Partnership With the Saudi Prince Who Murdered Jeff Bezos’ Employee and Hacked His Phone

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    • Is there any way I can make my consumptuon more in line with socialism/communism?

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    • 7,000km range, 6 tonnes ammunition: the Chinese UAV dubbed ‘high sky’

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  • yo dawg i heard u like drones…

    • Social Democracy and Imperialism

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    • Trump tells Walmart to 'eat the tariffs' instead of raising prices

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    • Moody's downgraded the United Sates' credit rating for the first time in history citing unsustainable path for US federal debt and its resulting interest burden.

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  • Usually when credit ratings fall, fixed-income security yields rise…

    http://archive.today/2025.05.17-052540/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/business/us-credit-downgrade-moodys.html

    The 10-year Treasury bond yield has risen roughly 0.3 percentage points this month to around 4.5 percent. The 30-year Treasury yield briefly crossed 5 percent this week; the last time it did that, during some of the worst tariff fears, Mr. Trump cited the bond market among reasons he pared back his tariff proposals.

    It’s a sign that the government could end up paying a higher interest rate on its debt if it can’t soothe investors’ concerns over its mounting debt, a development that could snowball into a full-blown debt crisis for the world’s largest economy.

    Moody’s announced the downgrade just before bond markets closed on Friday, so investors will have to wait until Sunday to respond.

    • Which of these javascript expressions is false?

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  • Definitionally in IEEE floating point, NaN is not equal to anything, including itself. The only real abomination here is B:

     javascript
        
> Math.min()
Infinity
> Math.max()
-Infinity
>

    • Moody's downgraded the United Sates' credit rating for the first time in history citing unsustainable path for US federal debt and its resulting interest burden.

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