Never seen a goober-flange before?

The key point of Chevron was that laws like these are policy decisions, and those policy decisions should be made by the political branches responsive to the voters, Congress and the president, not by unaccountable judges with no constituents. … (in 1984) The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Chevron, allowing the Ronald Reagan admins industry-friendly EPA to stick with a lax interpretation of the Clean Air Act.

So the 1984 ruling, and now the overturn, are efforts by a corrupt conservative-stacked court to benefit the conservative political and ideological agenda. I always believed that Americans would never do anything about an illegitimate court dismantling democracy and the rule of law, but it’s still just as comically dystopian to watch it happen in real time.

I had legitimate bans and completely ridiculous power tripping bans. I was always able to create a new account though. The trick is to mix and match different VPN’s/IP’s with different browsers/containers.

As far as numbers go, it’s definitely a number.

It sounds like all it would take to destroy the predatory for-profit publication oligarchs is a majority of the top few hundred scientists, across major disciplines, rejecting it and switching to a completely decentralized peer-2-peer open-source system in protest… The publication companies seem to gate keep, and provide no value. It’s like Reddit. The site’s essentially worthless. All of the value is generated by the content creators.

“Please sir, may the peasants have some shred of justice”

If we didn’t live in corporatocracies masquerading as democracies dozens of decision makers at Boeing, all the way to the top, would be serving life in prison for killing hundreds of people.

The only libertarians in the general population’s consciousness are right-wing, as libertarian political parties were literally financed by fossil fuel, tobacco, and weapons manufacturer oligarchs — the US Libertarian parties first presidential candidate was a fucking Koch bro (billionaire fossil fuel oligarch) — all because they wanted to pay less taxes and deregulate their businesses, after regulations like the clean air act meant they could no longer destroy waterways and create acid rain without consequence.

99% of the human population have no idea that left-wing libertarians exist, or that libertarianism was considered left-wing and progressive prior to right-wing appropriation in the 1960/70’s.

That’s how you know we live in oligarchys masquerading as democracies.

National security laws, with vague legalise, that the majority disapprove of? Passed within days/weeks and little debate.

Anything that will improve the lives of everyone except the richest corporations and individuals? Months/years of national debate and a 90% chance of failure!

The “land of the free” has been committing crimes against humanity in the Philippines for over a century. Exerts from Wikipedia:

Tensions arose after the United States annexed the Philippines under the Treaty of Paris at the conclusion of the Spanish–American Warrather than acknowledging the Philippines’ declaration of independence.

The war resulted in at least 200,000 Filipino civilian deaths, mostly from famine and diseases such as cholera.[21][22][23] Some estimates for civilian dead reach up to a million.[8] Atrocities were committed during the conflict by both sides,[24] including torture, mutilation, and executions. In retaliation for Filipino guerrilla warfare tactics, the U.S. carried out reprisals and scorched earthcampaigns and forcibly relocated many civilians to concentration camps, where thousands died.

The U.S. annexation and war sparked political backlash from anti-imperialists in the U.S. Senate, who argued that the war was a definite example of U.S. imperialism, and that it was an inherent contradiction of the founding principles of the United States contained in the Declaration of Independence.

*Born in 1843

Died at 71; not 21.

Israel, he said, has a right to defend itself but not by “intentionally causing death, starvation, great suffering, and serious injury to body or health of the civilian population” which he said were criminal acts.

Which he said were criminal acts? Terrorising, torturing, starving, and bombing civilians are all war crimes. It’s pathetic how beholden mainstream media is to our economic and geopolitical interests.

Stealing people’s land from underneath them and giving it to another people (especially based on religion or ethnicity) is both a crime against humanity and a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (created 6 months after establishing the state of Israel), but the west just accepted Zionism because the majority of jews were white Europeans, the colonialists who dominated the league of nations didn’t consider brown people to be people, and none of them wanted to allocate any of their own land due to their own antisemitism.

Zionism has always been a crime. We were just lied to and told things were “complicated” by the same colonialist oligarchs who call the Islamic extremism their own historic crimes created and amplified “complicated”.

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I hear masochistic genocidal overlord is much nicer once you get to know him. You just have to look past all the masochism and genocide, to see the fluffy teddy bear inside.

The corporatocracy achieved their goal of gutting the developed worlds working class and nullifying both labor and environment regulations for their most pollutant and exploitative industries.

Now that like 10 corporations have monopolized most of the wests products and supply chains, they can extract even more value by removing Chinese owned products from the supply pool. Of course, most of their products will continue coming from the same Chinese factories. This is only the beginning.

When it comes to those in their 30s, Grattan Institute data shows that in 2016, 30-year-olds contributed twice as much to support older Australians’ living standards than Boomers did at 30. And that’s adjusted for inflation. … The data projections expect 30-year-olds in 2041 to be paying nearly four times more.

Solid data behind the ladder pulling younger generations have been calling out since before the whole “avocado toast” boomer entitlement.

this generation has contributed more to support older generations … in part, because more well-off, older Australians are paying less tax.

I guarantee boomers and Gen-X won’t support a rebalancing, especially the type of rebalancing required — where housing being treated as an investment vehicle needs to cease via a dozen extreme regulations — like banning all ownership beyond a single investment property, banning all corporate ownership including SMSF’s, banning of non-resident ownership, extreme taxes for empty property, and most penalties (beyond a sensible grace period) including outright forfeiture and resale of the entire asset; coupled with strong tenancy regulations to bring us in line with the EU, where the status quo is the opposite of Australia, instead of renting = temporary accommodation and housing insecurity.

This is why you should just use local or selfhosted services and encrypt everything you upload to someone else’s computer (any cloud).

You can’t trust capitalism not to enshittify and change the rules as they see fit. All your data belong to us.

We need to stop calling this shit “climate change”, which is the name fossil fuel lobbyists gave it because “global warming” was too scary, and the corporacrat-owned mainstream media machine dutifully obliged.

We need to call it “FOSSIL FUELLED climate/change/warming”

Doesn’t matter how you refer to it, as long as FOSSIL FUELLED is prepended.

TELL EVERYONE!

I disagree. I believe that our interactions with AI represent a breakthrough in the level of data surveillance capitalism can obtain from us.

AI isn’t the product. The users are. AI just makes the data that users provide more valuable. Soon enough, every user will be discussing their most personal thoughts and feelings with big brother.

Don’t forget how they’ve spent the last century lobbying against public transport infrastructure and walkable cities, requiring most people to own a car if they want the same mobility people across Europe and South East Asia have access to (at 2-5x the cost).