I don’t think we need to topple the system to make progress. But they can’t keep that wealth and power if we intend to live in a better world. Letting rich people write policy is a bit like letting the fox guard the henhouse. I’m not saying off with their heads, but we should set a practical cap on how much one person can own and at a minimum overturn Citizens United.
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You say that like we’re not trying to push politicians for walkable cities and healthcare and stock market reforms. Guess who hates all that stuff?
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Bitwarden's new CEO has a Private Equity background, removed 'Inclusion' and 'Always Free' from their website -- because of course he didEnglish
18·2 days agoFor once ADHD preventing me from completing a migration is a boon, I guess I’ll move back to keepass
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What can you say about Cormac McCarthy's book - The Road?
1·4 days agodeleted by creator
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Your next glasses should have a very thin frame so that people don't need to wonder if you're filming
5·4 days agoMicrowave em for 2 seconds. It won’t heat up the metal bits in plastic frames enough to cause damage but it’ll fry an IC.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump Says He Doesn’t Care “Even a Little Bit” About People’s Finances
2·5 days agoWell you can’t use pneumatic acid, I can tell you that.
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World News@lemmy.world•Consuming fruit and a cup of coffee a day can halve risk of unhealthy cell ageing, study suggestsEnglish
14·5 days agoAlright but apart from the sugar and the fiber and the antioxidants and the vitamins and the minerals and the enzymes, what has fruit ever done for us?
Bloodborne has a deep story but good luck figuring out what it is
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News@lemmy.world•US inflation rose to 3.8% in April, eroding Americans’ paychecks
1·5 days agoThey are employee owned, though, and having worked at one of their competitors who is union the UFCW is ass. Winco might also be terrible to work at, idk, I just gotta say that union did not help me at all.
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politics @lemmy.world•‘My life is not affordable. No one cares’: 76% of Americans call the cost of living their biggest financial problem | CNN Politics
2·6 days agoWell the voters aren’t going to do anything about it anyway so this is a moot point.
It’s a unique number assigned to every cellular device.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’English
2·6 days agoWithout the industrial revolution I wouldn’t even exist; setting aside the butterfly effect of my parents never having met because they’re from different parts of the country for a moment I owe my existence to modern medicine, which would not exist without industrialization.
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World News@lemmy.world•“Exact Same Sh*t”: Zohran Mamdani’s Charm HIDES The TruthEnglish
3·6 days agoMamdani is not the mayor of Gaza or the mayor of Jerusalem and New York has a pretty full plate rn. His position on the matter is known, if you want someone to fix foreign policy look to people whose job it is to shape foreign policy.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your thoughts on internet trolling
6·6 days agoTrolling is a art. Trolling should be done softly, and should leave plausible deniability until and unless you get to a point where blowing your cover maximizes lulz. Trolling should split the room into roughly the following groups: 85% bewildered bystanders, 10% angry, and 5% who see what you’re doing and either leave you alone or join in. Those numbers are fluid but the point holds that in an ideal situation the majority of people are either too confused to say anything or are on your side.
As I’ve grown up (read: I am not a thirteen year old boy anymore) I’ve started to realize that beyond being mean-spirited bigotry is just not very lulzy. In general good trolling shines a light on how someone who is being loud about their very strong and very wrong opinions online is a complete moron. Annoying the fuck out of hate groups is also acceptable.
Edit: there’s also just being weird and fucking with people by way of a harmless prank
In conclusion trolling is a land of contrasts.
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politics @lemmy.world•Poll: 72 percent say there’s too much money in American politics
3·6 days agoAll I can come up with is a sufficiently powerful populist executive who can get people to the primaries in unheard of numbers and has the conviction to not only turn down infinite bribes but also to bully congress into voting themselves poorer. They also will need the courage and cunning to avoid being assassinated by the wealthy powers that be. Shouldn’t be hard to find.
You kidding? This person used to be a good customer and now they dont buy anything! This is very contextual
Stop parking your car in the river then sheesh
I gotta say I do miss having a president that could come out and give like an 8th grade level of explanation for shit. Not just “oh uhhh damn thats… no its fine probably”



Unless you generally make it difficult to keep a fortune at some largest possible size fortunes will continue growing. Maybe we tax $1T at 100%, I don’t know, but we are going to have to inconvenience some rich people if we want to stop living in hell.