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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The uncommitted movement said they weren't endorsing her, but they also said that people should vote, but not vote for anyone other than Kamala. So, they effectively endorsed her.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

The intrusion of capitalism into sleep is a final frontier of absolute exploitation. Why work 8 hours a day when you can work 24 hours a day? Why use vast banks of computer servers to run AI models when you can capture the most efficient and powerful 'computer' to ever exist: the human brain. Why provide for housing and recreation when you can lock people in permanent dream states, where they can provide intellectual labor and live in dreamworlds while their physical brain is kept alive through an IV drip.

I am skeptical that any technology trying to directly interface with the slumbering subconscious could work, but I have no doubt that such attempts would be damaging to human health, and would be used to push material imiseration to impossible heights.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Looking at this International Crisis Group's list of donors:

BP

Chevron

ENI

Open Society Foundation

Rockerfeller Brothers Trust

As well as various Western European & gulf state governments, billionaires and billionaire-founded NGOs. Of course they're coping: their backers were hoping to get a piece of PDVSA.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I'm not saying it shouldn't be legalized or that those other benefits aren't present, I'm saying that cure-alls/panaceas don't exist and that legalization advocates in the past have indulged in that sort of myth-making.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Hemp/cannabis certainly has benefits, but a lot of those benefits have been exaggerated to support decriminalization/legalization. When it comes to medicine, cannabis has benefits as a non-opioid analgesiac/painkiller, so that's obviously a huge boon for chronic pain where the risk of opioid addiction and another side-effects are a major concern. However, I would be skeptical of claims of healing properties of cannabis or any other proposed panacea.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

The proposal is for a globally-levied tax. Where exactly is capital going to fly to?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

It's been an absurd mishandling of the IP by Take Two. Will probably be permanently stuck in early access with only maintenance development at best.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A lot of people (myself included) had the update installed automatically by Steam with no option for rollback, so it caught people off guard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

It's buried in the article, but yep it's a Boeing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I can't believe that some actually Vax-maxxed. Absolute legend. gigachad

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (19 children)

It's a hoax/transphobic rumor, allegedly from various unsubstantiated reports of schools keeping cat litter or litter boxes. The only case of this actually happening is keeping cat litter on hand to clean up large spills as an absorbant (specifically, it'd be used for cleaning up hazardous spills, like a chemical or blood.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Either the banking crisis that's been predicted over the past year due to high interest rates and bad debt, or perhaps there's more that will come out about how JPMorgan Chase directly facilitated Jeffery Epstein's operation in the Virgin Islands.

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