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I mean, I agree about the fearmongering, but the comparison is off. 1947 was significantly safer than 2024 precisely because the USSR had tested successfully. If the US was the onl…

like trillion dollar bank bailouts, subsidies awarded through ruinous competition among jurisdictions, trillions and trillions of dollars of defense spending for which the governme…

what? no. Government money is a direct pipe to transnational corporations and the billionaires that run it. Welfare payments are peanuts compared to it.

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Also, while they save all the expenses on staff, meaning, gradually destroying hotel staff jobs, too. Airbnb: all the price of a regular hotel without the staff or attention.

I thought the same. The step to "renting to attend a protest" is miniscule. And they'll sell it, of course, as a "safety enhancing measure".

also strangely missing from this discussion about the supposed outrages of pricing when you round, and losing 0.1 or 0.2% in cash payments, is that credit card companies will charg…

but then, why do they not take no for an answer and keep nagging about it, and interpret "never" as "not in the next two weeks, but ask again, please!" if they don't have an intere…

I thought the opposite, at least as a first thought: Roughly two or three years ago, facebook announced their intent to integrate their messengers - so that you could send a messag…

This (she) is why we can't have nice (non-corporate) things

then the US would declare it part of the "rules-based order" that nobody may use guns and bullets, and then the US will use guns, bullets, missiles, and chemical weapons while expr…

and then you're still the product, They're just charging everyone they can get their grubby hands on.

and this, exactly, is why I scoffed when I read the headline touting wikipedia as the "last good place" on the internet. It's become a defender of hegemonic status quo narratives. …

"negative waifu" is genius.

also, you can propagandize quite well with something that contains no lies. The current discourse conflates "propaganda" with "lie", but of course that's .. well, part of propagand…

That explains SO much.

I have no idea, I can never remember, it makes no logical sense - no, 12 noon is NOT post-meridian, it IS meridian. I usually go 11:59 or 12:01, and then I'm still not sure if it d…

I've encountered software that just assumes everyone MUST have a middle name. I'm German, I have no middle name. Some software (well, online forms) make this a "hard" assumption, s…

I have a feeling there's a but of point-missing going on. The authors are not really getting paid for their work; modern copyright is a get-rich-cheme for rights-holding corporatio…

The lemonade stand put all the other stands out of business ... who all got lemonade delivered for free by a million lemonade aficionados who wanted to share their lemonade with th…

it also has little incentive to do so, as it's positioning itself as a possible mediator, one that also does a lot of business with Israel. And remember, the thing that led to the …

that's a tired old talking point that the US always throws in. The fact is that, as part of their agreements to operate in the Chinese market, Western companies cooperated with Chi…

I'm German, but in Bogota. Famously, Germany has a strong affinity to cash, credit cards have seen a slow adoption, and the cultural aversion to debt makes them still a bit "off", …

You actually understood "safe" to mean "safe for you" as in, making it actually safer for the user and systemically protecting structures that safeguard the data, privacy, and well…

unrealted to this thread, I know, but yes, thank you. I despise when the top results and the casual links to support something turn out to be videos. I don't want to stop everythin…