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by swed420 3y ago
Alcohol is considered to be a known carcinogen fwiw https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...
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by swed420 3y ago
Microsoft making the decision to own GitHub in the first place also speaks to my suspicion. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
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I find it intriguing that out of all the speculative comment threads I've read so far, none of them have suggested it was Microsoft attempting to make FOSS look bad/vulnerable.
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Reminds me of this from a comment yesterday https://boringtechnology.club/
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Transitioning out of a consumption based casino economy riddled with planned obscelecence and anticompetitive practices seems like an obvious thing to include.
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Some communities did exactly that. Jellyfin is one example.
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/04/if-you-want-solid-evi... Not the "nothingburger" establishment Dems like to claim.
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Looks like you got to the bottom of it. Good luck with your "democracy."
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by swed420 3y ago
Agreed. The manipulation became obvious with the capital fueled shareblue / "correct the record" campaign from Dems years ago and has only gotten worse since. The stated purpose of CTR was to defend against Trump, but it was
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How is the mental health of these chronically absent kids? Surely nonstop COVID reinfections aren't doing their brains any favors. https://whn.global/scientific/spectrum-of-covid-19-from-asym...
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For the communal masking method that was deployed early on in the pandemic due to N95 respirator shortages, you're correct. > At best, masking is a practice that makes the wearer think they're doing something "courteous&qu
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People are getting sick more often because COVID causes lasting damage to the immune system. https://whn.global/scientific/covid19-immune-dysregulation/ There is an orchestrated push by capital to not acknowledge
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Each side (those using social media to highlight systemic failures / those too 'busy' contributing to said failures to use social media) thinks the other has their head buried in the sand. It reminds me of how, depending on t
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Agreed. I only tolerate reddit (for now) because it's always been better than Twitter/X and the alternatives haven't matured yet.
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For me it's the basic moral position of avoiding companies who suicide their whistleblowers.
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Nope. We are overdue for a massive shift in how things are incentivized. I'm not suggesting the reporters doing work shouldn't have their basic needs met. Everyone should. The profit is everyone can read all the news. More things
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They're captured by capital, as are both corporate parties
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> Id prefer either full state ownership of the press, or state-funded worker coops. As long as it means abolishing paywalls I'm all for it. There should be no gatekeeping of news or information generally in a healthy human-first soc
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There was negligible difference between 45 & 46 on issues of COVID. Capital was driving that decision framework as always. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...
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by swed420 3y ago
But we already have awesome propaganda at home, orchestrated by capital. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...
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They likely know many users feel this way even if they're not the majority, which means old will probably go dark after the IPO (and after a bunch of people bought into their "direct share program")
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As someone with a tolerance, I've learned that consuming too close to bedtime will cause me to have difficulty falling asleep, and also not enter REM sleep. However, by consuming throughout the day on a daily basis but stopping by late
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by swed420 3y ago
Your sentiments definitely resonate, but what about an alternative path forward: We collectively agree to abolish all notions of intellectual property in recognition of the fact that everyone is standing on the shoulders of giants. As it st
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A good start is having your ducks in a row for when conditions inevitably and suddenly lead to people jumping ship en masse to whatever Next Thing is waiting. Lemmy was already built and deployed in several instances, but the reddit API con
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Cochrane review has many flaws https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/commentary-wear-respirat... People wear N95s to protect against COVID transmission because they work. Yet every time the topic comes up online, someone
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by swed420 3y ago
It might get worse soon across all sites if governments mandate AI content moderation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39669162
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by swed420 3y ago
It might get worse soon across all sites if governments mandate AI content moderation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39669162
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Report on NSF funding of AI-powered censorship and propaganda tools [pdf](judiciary.house.gov)
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Which would be a poor comparison in this context given what the linked article spells out: We already have a centrally planned economy, but it's only for the wealthy.
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Dismissing basic, reasonable expectations as "feel good slogans" is a smarmy tactic to distract from wealth hoarding. The sky is the limit with what humans can do, but under late stage capitalism, it boils down to the preferences

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