omegaworks

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by omegaworks 2y ago
We need a candidate on the ballot that can make a coherent case against Trump.
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by omegaworks 2y ago
Unfortunately, hostility towards science is increasingly bipartisan. The testing and tracing infrastructure spun up during the pandemic is largely defunct. We are reliant on wastewater sampling and hearsay as we ride the current COVID wave
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by omegaworks 2y ago
Protest at the conventions. Support people civilly disobeying. Call your congresspeople and demand that they put a candidate on the ballot that can make a coherent case against this policy. Backroom discussions are happening right now to
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by omegaworks 2y ago
Japan's economic system was crafted in post-war reconstruction by General MacArthur. It's literally the furthest you can get from "social norms precede policy."
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by omegaworks 2y ago
>have little to nothing to do with monetary policy. False. A monetary policy that prioritizes universal access to basic needs leads to less overall crime. It may not be sufficient, but it is a major factor[1]. 1. https://www.n
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by omegaworks 2y ago
The standard of living in Japan for the vast majority of people is orders of magnitude better than it is here. It might not look good according to metrics that optimize ploughing society's wealth into the hands of a few billionaires, b
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by omegaworks 2y ago
Ridiculous. They have plenty of their own quick and convenient food readily available in convenience stores. Lawson, Family Mart or 7-11 are walking distance everywhere. A significant number of (typically underpaid, overworked) people don&#
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by omegaworks 2y ago
> demand has far outstripped supply for decades Why has this been the case in every area in our country? Because we have a policy at the national level that encourages speculation and hoarding. The problem is not just supply, we have
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by omegaworks 2y ago
As long as cheaper lines of credit (or straight-up massive amounts of cash on hand) remain more available to RE corporations than regular people looking for their first home then no, building more housing will never solve the problem. The
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by omegaworks 2y ago
> the entire point of Al Jazeera was for Qatar to provide political influence through media, not as an unbiased news agency. This is the entire point of all mass media. There is no such thing as unbiased news.
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by omegaworks 2y ago
In the article: >North Carolina initially wanted to save money by limiting prescriptions to patients who first tried lifestyle management programs to lose weight This is exactly the kind of diversion program that the manufacturers are ho
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by omegaworks 3y ago
>it's the Hail Mary move which could make the Twitter thing anything but a dumpster fire immolating $20b+ While Twitter wasn't making money hand over fist, it was bringing in $4,500million in ad revenue prior to the rebrand and
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by omegaworks 3y ago
The police exist as an institution to harass the poor and the homeless. They were founded as escaped slave hunters. Their primary purpose isn't to protect or serve the public at large, no matter what their latest marketing claims. What
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by omegaworks 3y ago
Yes, exactly. Our natural environment is similar, but our monetary and economic policies support different priorities.
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by omegaworks 3y ago
Turns out sidelining, dissolving and privatizing any kind of social safety nets for older folks just leads to those older folks squeezing any and all assets in search of passive income. When the only rational choice for support in the years
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by omegaworks 3y ago
California suffers earthquakes and fires, yet we persist in our refusal to make our cities denser.
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by omegaworks 3y ago
> It was absolutely lightly populated back then. What makes you say that? Some studying the California natives put their population at 300,000, some all the way up to 1.5MM and that's after they were hit by waves of infectious disea
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by omegaworks 3y ago
>They saw the land was lightly populated and took it. This framing is passive and hides the history that our own government even admits to[1]. The west wasn't simply lightly populated. There were state-sponsored and well documented
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by omegaworks 3y ago
Cop City in Atlanta is being built to train American police forces to engage in urban warfare in the exact same way the IDF engages in Gaza. The Palestinian experience is coming our way: > Is it possible to even begin to imagine the horr
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by omegaworks 3y ago
Getting an SSL error - invalid HTTPS certificate. Site is being tagged as malware.
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by omegaworks 3y ago
It's precisely the costs of moving those food supply chains that is at hand here. Our entire system of private landownership and water rights assigns value to a plot and enables investment. To minimize or dismiss these as irrelevant un
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by omegaworks 3y ago
We're already seeing climate-related migration, loss and disaster. These things are quantifiable in dollars and lives. That certain regions are expected to "win" does not fully grasp the impact on our overall economic stabili
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by omegaworks 3y ago
>If there's inadequate water or sun to grow crops that need lots of both, perhaps that location is not the best for those crops. "omg lets just move the farms to where the water is" like you're not talking about growi
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by omegaworks 3y ago
3. Delivery companies are forced to extract less value from the people actually doing the work. A driver recently shared with me that he made $5 on a $23 ride I booked recently. Uber's margins are absolutely mad.
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by omegaworks 3y ago
Google is also in the market of using every bit of data it can possibly record of you to show you ads.
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by omegaworks 3y ago
A race to the bottom for globalized capital, capable of making cross-border moves with a freedom denied to labor in any meaningful capacity.
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by omegaworks 3y ago
>some of the people in our team died due to covid complications, others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all. Long COVID is having a real impact on technical people. There's a reason Google buys COVID
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by omegaworks 3y ago
Has it? The data shows we've just been shoveling more and more money into the same corrupt organization: https://twitter.com/chrisarvinsf/status/1278525578530840577
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by omegaworks 3y ago
The SFPD are used to doing nothing[1], and will continue to do so until they face actual consequences for their ineptitude. The recall of a DA that believed police should not be free to commit crimes and the appointment of a pro-police DA i
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by omegaworks 3y ago
SFPD blew up a bomb in front of the mayor's office in 1975 in order to assert their dominance over the democratically elected government of San Francisco. They exist only for themselves and their masters: the landed gentry of the city.

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