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pleaseclap, 4 months ago to random

AI isn't replacing jobs: employers are firing people.

mcc, 18 days ago to random

I bet if you formed an electric car company made only of people who previously worked for Tesla then quit in disgust, you could make a really good electric car company

ayoub, 3 days ago to random

The Telegraph headline on Palestinian refugees is in essence identical to how rightwing British tabloids wrote about Jewish refugees when Britain denied them safe refuge during the Holocaust.

These institutions are dedicated to White supremacy at all costs. They view us as disposable nonhumans.

Any PoC and/or Jew who thinks these people are on their side is wrong. They may temporarily pretend to not hate Jews or Ukrainians or whoever but that’s all it is: temporary.

pleaseclap, 3 months ago to random

Car people at the office: "Hey what do you do when it snows"

Also car people: re-scheduling their remote days every time it snows

The office on snow days: the guy who biked there, the guy who walked there, the 4 student employees who all walked, and nobody else

pleaseclap, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Psst

Copyright law doesn't protect small artists; small artists don't have the resources to defend their "rights" with legal recourse

It protects investors in content factories like Sony and Disney

Everything they claim they can do thanks to copyright enforcement existed before copyright law existed, it was just more difficult for factory-owners to monopolize and extract profit from

pleaseclap, 6 months ago to random

I was today years old when I learned "parking" literally used to refer to civic green space lining the roads

So every time you say parking you're directly referencing a thing that was lost during the automobile's aggressive and costly takeover of public spaces

pleaseclap, 3 months ago to random

My microwave needs 2 minutes and 30 seconds to make 1-minute oats and I am very sympathetic

pleaseclap, 10 months ago to random

Notice how, as soon as the smoke stopped drifting over the Northeast, we're not getting any news about the canadian wildfires anymore

One of the top 3 articles in searches is "Canadian wildfires pretext for wrecking the economy in the name of 'Climate Change'"

As if climate change isn't real and isn't wrecking the economy right now

They're using the same strategy to kill climate action as they did covid lockdowns and track-and-trace: denialism and fear-mongering over the economy

pleaseclap, 28 days ago to random

pleaseclap, 6 months ago to random

The reason the IDF is 1000% convinced that Hamas is under the hospital is because the military bunker and tunnel system in the basement is real: the IDF built it for its own use in 1983

And yes it was all under a hospital back then, too

pleaseclap, 5 months ago to fediverse

So, like,

I'm pretty sure exploiting the fediverse is ridiculously easy: #activitypub
compatibility doesn't really restrict you from very much by default

If you're operating on activitypub your server is hoovering up raw JSONs from the rest of the fediverse and you can do all of the analysis you want, which is Facebook's core competency

Then, you serve all of that content to your users and you don't claim responsibility for it

And remember there are nazis in the fediverse, too

pleaseclap, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

#SQL is pronounced:

pleaseclap, 2 months ago to random

Reminder that lynching was predicated on the false idea that there was an epidemic of black male rapists

And it turned out it was actually an epidemic of white women falsely accusing their lovers

They'll be trying to prove Palestinians are deviant, subhuman rapists - reverse-justifying genocide - long after the war is over.

SallyStrange, 4 months ago to Economics

"Debunking degrowth" or trying to, anyway

"In the degrowth literature, a caricature of the typical economist is presented as believing in unlimited economic growth, and that growth should be pursued regardless of its environmental impact. This is a straw man. It would be a naïve economist who did not recognise that constraints exist. And economists usually limit their projections to a few decades to come, rather than to the infinite future, in which they supposedly believe in unlimited exponential economic growth. Certainly, there are theoretical economic growth models which portray the possibility of exponential growth into the infinite future, but economists have had enough common sense not to assume stylised theoretical models are the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to public policy."

Then why, Mr. Tunny, is it so hard to find an economist who can tell us when the economy should stop growing?

#degrowth #capitalism #Economics

https://www.cis.org.au/publication/debunking-degrowth/

sam, 1 month ago to random

Y'all are weird trying to say it's 'harm reduction' to vote for the person who is currently funding a genocide against the Palestinian people lmao

Will not vote for Biden

DrALJONES, 1 month ago to random

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pleaseclap, 4 months ago to random

"You should feature student art"
Myself, technically a student artist again: "So this picture is a lady urinating on a tank and she brought extra water"
"Other students"
"I see"

pleaseclap, 4 months ago to random

Apparently "they've exceeded their daily recommended sodium intake" meaning "they're salty" meaning "they're irritated"

is far too sophisticated a word game for Reddit, they are very mad at me

Andres4NY, 28 days ago to random

yay!

and then

boo!

#MTA #NYCTransit

Unfortunately, the budget also cut funding for MTA's free bus pilot, which included one fare-free bus in every borough, an initiative which legislators had been actively working to expand. In its first year, this program proved to be quite popular with riders and demonstrated great potential for building ridership by re-envisioning bus service around rider needs.