reversebananimals @ reversebananimals @lemmy.world

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Ah yes, the famous cancel culture that the Right hates so much. I'm sure they'll turn on Elon for this.

And a disruptive protest just makes people hate you and your cause.

If you read the actual original Investopedia article, most of these claimed costs make silly assumptions about the definition of "The American Dream" and a lot of the data is cherry picked.

They claim the "American dream" requires an $800k house at an over 7% interest rate and they assume you only put 10% down.

They claim the "American dream" involves buying a different used car every 6 years.

They claim the "American dream" involves spending $70k on pets over the course of your lifetime.

Its an interesting exercise, but the assumptions are weird and the headline is sensational.

I think we should just ban people from driving completely.

Its free and people have been dying in vehicles for over 80 years. We can just stop selling cars, it doesn't require telephony.

The fact that driving hasn't been banned already should be criminal in itself.

/s

Frankly, I came in here hoping this would be about TV shows

Should have thought of that before deciding to commit crimes then.

Deep Impact (1998)

It got less attention because Armageddon came out at the same time, but its a way better apocalypse movie.

A bunch of good ol boys trying their darndest to re-live the "good old days" of slavery.

It's Alabama. It's never going to get better.

Then you should also check out his other film, Upstream Color. Primer is a genre-defining piece of scifi, but Upstream Color is arguably an even better film.

You're describing the poverty trap. Its very real. I'm wealthy now as well, but I remember a time when I took the subway 90 mins round trip to my job, and the fare cost almost an hour's pay. So I'd put in 9.5 hours to work an 8 hour shift and my takehome pay was for 7 hours.

Its very good. Its a low budget indie film. Its about two unremarkable engineers who work on toy projects in their garage accidentally discovering a type of time travel similar to the movie Looper. The film follows the realization, experimentation and ultimately the downfall of the engineers due to the power of their own discovery.

Primer is famous for being extremely complex and hard to follow. The characters speak in real engineering jargon, and there's constant time travel paradoxes happening in the background which you don't pick up on without multiple viewings.

If you like being intellectually challenged, its great.

Should also be mentioned that the director is a massive POS, which is why I don't promote the movie even though I like it.

Yes. I have no idea why but I'm completely blocked from archive.ph links due to the captcha. I'm assuming it has something to do with my privacy and cookie settings, but I'm too lazy to figure out the root cause.

I agree its disgusting there's not more transparency on both.

But according to the article, this is not a stat either - its technically an estimate from the DOJ.

One estimate from the U.S. Department of Justice suggests that police officers kill between 25 and 30 dogs every day, resulting in an annual total of approximately 10,000 dog deaths. This estimate is based on anecdotal evidence and may not fully capture the true scope of the issue[1][3][5].

The reason there are no stats is because there's no centralized reporting requirement, so a bunch of police departments just don't report.

Here's some info you can check out on the subject of the lack of official police violence data: https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/aboutthedata

Why didn't a good guy with a gun stop them right away like Abbot told me he would?

Don't blame me I banged Lae'zel.

I love this meme because its also relevant to any code written 2+ years ago in the software development field.

the entire system he worked for and upheld only produces violence

They all know that already - they just think its a good thing because the pain is inflicted on those they consider the "bad kind" of person.

The reality is that when fascists are confronted by their own violence, they aren't against the violence, they're just against it happening to them, because they think they are the "good kind" of person.

"we cant afford the API costs for 3P clients! we need that money for making our own open source font that no one asked for!"

She knew, and she's an enabler. Fuck her.