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Timothy Snyder: What does it mean that Donald Trump is a fascist? - We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs
  • It been all over since the guy[shrub] who lied us into two 20 year wars & brought us the Patriot act, got re elected
    Haliburton won, the DoD who can't pass an audit continues to have an open checkbook & ever increasing budget

    Then we moved to Hope & Change, that turned out to be great for banks & insurance companies

    Every cycle is portrayed as vitally important with a platform of
    We Suck Less
    The Donor Class calls the tune

    Allowing money to overtly be speech removed the pretense of representation for the rest of us
    The expectations have changed
    Avoiding the appearance of impropriety
    Degraded to Maintain Plausible Deniability
    Eroded to
    Prove it in a Rigged Court of Law Beyond any Conceivable Doubt no Matter How Absurd

    Enabling all this is a solid 1/3rd of the population that have reduced empathy
    Energized by the various corporate media that have been consolidated into unanimous support for our not so benevolent overlords

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    Greening Concrete: A Major Emitter Inches Toward Carbon Neutrality
  • "German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, says that “carbon capture and storage” (CCS) can be done safely in the saltwater and limestone pores at 600 to 1,200 meters below the seabed. “It will either dissolve as carbonic acid or bind with the limestone,” she says. Injection sites in the North Sea are the German government’s main solution for so-called “unavoidable emissions,” like those from the cement and other industries"

    Basically another subsidy harvesting scheme
    There isn't even the expectation that the co2 will stay in porous limestone, but instead end up making the oceans more acidic, which is already a problem with elevated atmospheric co2 levels

    A crisis of excess consumption & growth can't be solved, by growing in a slightly different way

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    Please suggest good right-wing comedians
  • Bill Maher is libertarian
    Ron White
    Kathleen Madigan
    Bill Engvall
    Dennis Miller Not really right wing as old & whiney
    Joe Rogan thinks he's funny

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    Israeli extremist settlers rapidly seizing West Bank land: A Palestinian grandmother says a man pointed a gun at her head and told her to leave the place she had called home for 50 years
  • Israel is an extreme example of colonization, formed with the barrel of a gun under the guise of returning to homeland. Somehow being at the wrong end of a genocide entitles Israelis to commit their own? Why does the USA continues to support & fund an overt theocracy?

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    "Even former Trump voters exhibit opposition to many of these policies:" U.S. citizens widely oppose Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025’, poll finds
  • Project 2025 = Powell Memorandum 2.0
    Conservative after having their wildest dreams come true packing the supreme court

    They needed new dreams
    The result a 900 page dream journal
    Complete with their very own self induced Armageddon/purge

    Conservatives over played their hand
    Playing for the tie only works if it's close

    We should all make sure it isn't, Again!

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    Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
  • What's a mouse?
    I use a trackpad
    The lenovo version of trackpad on my thinkpad has buttons on the top & bottom along with trackpoint that works when nothing else will..
    I even have a usb keyboard with a trackpad

    I bought a gaming mouse [not logitech] to set up a distro that wouldn't install by trackpad for $12 once the install finished, it sits on a shelf

    A forever mouse is a solution in search of a problem

    The customer base of people who use mice is shrinking, most people use their phones or pads a majority of the time

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    Lawmaker Jennifer Wexton - diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, which makes it difficult for her to speak - uses AI voice clone to address Congress
  • At least Wexton supplied some of the data to make it all work
    I wonder where the data to develop the program came from?
    Can AI be developed ethically? or do the datasets have to be so large the job requires pilfered data?

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    U.S. senators introduce bill to protect artists and journalists from unauthorized AI use
  • Artist is defined as someone who can afford to defend their rights in court
    It's great for the guild of lawyers, they would describe the situation as billable hours...

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    The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part II)- How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto Its Workers --- Citations Needed Podcast
  • I lived this from the factory floor in the central valley of california from 1980-2010
    In my experience safety was driven by workmens comp insurance companies. The would be a clip board conga line a couple of times a year made up of representatives of our company & insurance company people, checking to see if their "suggestions" had been implemented & new threats [to the bottom line] identified
    Anyone who had a moderate to serious injuries were fired with the expectation the injured would sue the [insurance] company, requiring a lawyer who got a percentage of the award
    A fun bit of outsourcing that generates billable hours for the guild of lawyers & shifts responsibility back to the victim

    As time went on the monthly mandatory safety meetings became the perfect time for all of us to sign off on liability for normal operations

    I found the suggestion box to be a powerful tool
    Careful wording can force managers to answer difficult questions in front of all the other managers :D

    The primary dysfunction is corporate personhood, more than all the rights of a human, none of the responsibilities beyond the bottom line
    Socialize the costs
    Privatize the profits

    Money as speech has always been the case
    Having an impactful political opinion has always required one to have excess resources, what rules there might have been eroded by the guild reinterpreting founders intent

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    Our Leaders and Media Have Totally Normalized Anti-Palestinian Racism
  • The whole exercise of forming a religious state with approval & support of overtly secular countries is weird? No idea why we have ever supported what amounts to a 70 year genocide...

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    Has Hollywood forgotten #MeToo? [Documentary] ‘Sorry/Not Sorry’ examines Louis C.K.’s return
  • People will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid knowing the obvious, especially when money is involved
    The rapists/perpetrators generally have stacks of cash/lawyers to avoid responsibility
    Attempts at oversight are co opted by the rapists/perpetrators. The same grooming skills can be applied most situations

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    What is a Just Transition? - We need a transition away from both fossil fuels and from the extractive systems harming both people and planet
  • We aren't going to solve a crisis of excess consumption, with slightly different consumption
    Example:
    Replacing a 200hp ice vehicle with a 500hp electric vehicle isn't more sustainable, less actually

    Extractive resources are greatly undervalued
    Socializing the costs & privatizing the profits is the root
    Example:
    Once you punch holes through the aquifer, there is no repairing the damage, just temporary solutions that last decades not hundreds or thousands of years
    As long as we use whatever the market will bear valuation, disconnected from the true long term costs & value added, the results will continue to do little to solve the issues

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    Ralph Nader would like to stop having to explain why the spoiler coverage is stupid
  • An important point:
    "The higher level is: What do we do with these big corporations? One is we’ve got to subordinate them constitutionally. So corporations should never have equal rights with real people. Now they’re connecting with AI. You want a deadly cocktail? Connect artificial persons called corporations with AI.
    Founders intent was for corporations to be temporary
    https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/

    We have a system designed for 1% of the present population
    We have a system designed for information moving at the speed of horse
    Founders intent was a representative for 30,000 citizens, presently a representative for 700,000 citizens
    We have a system that is completely over whelmed by the number & complexity of decisions to be made
    We need more channels for informed feedback
    Having a meaningful political opinion has

    I lived in California in 2000 & voted for Ralph, knowing Gore had Cali in the bag

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