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by joejohnson 2y ago
One of America’s biggest rivals is in fact the EU and a unified Eurasian continent. But luckily the ties connecting this continent literally blew up, the price of energy in Western Europe skyrocketed and it sent Germany (and thus the whole
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by joejohnson 2y ago
> normal position people take when it comes to Palestine out of curiosity, where are you from? sympathy for the Palestinian liberation struggle is very common where I live (despite what our government says and does)
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by joejohnson 2y ago
And in that time, Israel spied, hacked and intimidated ICC officials. They knew recognition of Palestinian rights would open the door to criminal cases like this, so they’ve been working for almost a decade to discredit the International C
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by joejohnson 2y ago
The rules-based order was always a fiction; international law is a tool used solely against America’s enemies. This arrest warrant could be executed in a day if the US would stop supporting this genocide, but that won’t happen. They will s
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by joejohnson 2y ago
Netflix also removed most of its Palestinian films: https://variety.com/2024/film/global/netflix-palestinian-sto...
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by joejohnson 2y ago
Is there an easy alternative to the standard Android version running on Sony TVs? In the past year, the home screen now shows ads and it can’t be disabled.
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by joejohnson 2y ago
This was news in 2020. Has it been fixed?
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by joejohnson 2y ago
This product will go the way of the Apple Watch. Deemed a failure before eventually becoming the category leader about 3 years and 3 iterations later. The price will come down, the (few) hardware rough edges will be softened, and enough s
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by joejohnson 2y ago
Amen! If it turns out we can’t make humans a multiplanetary species in any reasonable timeframe, at least we can make the last few decades of livable earth climate a friendly atmosphere for US business interests.
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by joejohnson 2y ago
There was a recall of the entire first production run because the accelerator pedal would slip off and jam the pedal down.
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by joejohnson 2y ago
Cybertruck is the perfect example of over promised / under delivered. The Cybertruck is the modern day Delorean, with even worse build-quality issues.
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by joejohnson 2y ago
Still not supported because it does not handle the Foreign Earned Income exclusion.
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by joejohnson 2y ago
The 401k is an invention that is yet to prove its efficacy. The first 401ks were opened in 1978, so if you were entering the workforce then you’d be retiring this decade! So, we will see if this privatization of pensions really benefits us
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by joejohnson 2y ago
Mastodon, Bluesky, many other less-popular federated social networks.
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by joejohnson 2y ago
Hopefully most people migrate to one of the alternatives not owned by an American oligarch
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Elon Musk and JK Rowling could be handed five-year sentences for cyberbullying(dailymail.co.uk)
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by joejohnson 2y ago
Not at my company. We’re more like a family than a traditional startup.
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by joejohnson 2y ago
Hacker News has become a bizarrely censored place on the internet. This is a huge hacking story and it’s been flagged and removed from the front page all day.
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by joejohnson 2y ago
Apparently this is the closest a post can get to discussing the in-progress genocide without being instantly removed from the front page. A few other comments here are saying the Brown study is rather sparse on details or recent examples.
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by joejohnson 3y ago
The fact that you’re dismissing such violence as a “relatively minor fuckup” is sort of the point OP is making.. Guantanamo and these black sites have been in operation for decades.
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by joejohnson 5y ago
You keep insisting there’s absolutely no connection between the US signing a defense deal with Ukraine and Russia invading. Then what’s your theory as to why Putin invaded?
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by joejohnson 5y ago
He substantiates his claim that the expansion of NATO is a perceived threat to Russia. Your mischaracterization of this as a “false dichotomy” with the other point (that Putin is a murderous dictator, which he agrees is true) doesn’t have
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by joejohnson 5y ago
This is not what a dichotomy is. Chomsky’s point is that both the expansion of NATO and Putin being a dictator played a part in the invasion of Ukraine. He’s presenting these two facts as the opposite of a dichotomy!
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by joejohnson 5y ago
This isn’t some speculative scenario about how JFK felt toward Dulles; JFK fired Dulles after the Bay of Pigs! But the failed invasion of Cuba was not an isolated incident. JFK was undermined by an intelligence community he did not control
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by joejohnson 5y ago
I’ve been to Dealey Plaza. The shot would have been far simpler to the left before the motorcade turned, and the car would have been going even slower then. The angle from the window toward JFK at point in the parade where was shot makes
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by joejohnson 5y ago
>> If you look at most good and great novel drugs and madical devices, they mostly are designed and made in the US or Europe. Mostly US. Citation needed!
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by joejohnson 5y ago
Looking at the data more closely, it seems this (international) survey is not representative of the average views among Americans. So there is a large propaganda gap between Americans and others in the western world.
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by joejohnson 5y ago
Wages across the western world have been flat for about 40 years, yet productivity has grown immensely in that same time. We should be asking ourselves where all that extra wealth ended up.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
The Grace Jones ad is discussed in more detail here: https://adage.com/article/media/facebooks-new-commercial-nar...
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Funny to see the replies to this comment I posted just 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26096563

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