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Linda Yaccarino was set up to fail
  • She's even sighted in the wikipedia article "In 2023, Linda Yaccarino was appointed as the CEO of Twitter while the company was facing an uncertain future and a number of challenges, including outages, user discontent and advertiser skepticism. The company lost more than half of its value since its acquisition by Elon Musk six months prior."

  • How San Francisco Punk Reacted to Dianne Feinstein in the 1970s
  • Great article, what a historic time for SF. I used to love The Dead Kennedys. They were such a great band and I used to love visiting SF in the 90s but I doubt it's anything like what it was back then. I had a good friend who's parents were part of the Jim Jones Church that decided to not go to Guyana. It's interesting how much what Jim Jones would say sounds just like Trump. I don't know much about Feinstein but it almost seems like she ran as a Dem purely to get elected, maybe? Jello has always been pretty hilarious watching him run for mayor is almost as funny as his Nardware interviews.

  • jesse we need to cook
  • It would probably be cheaper for me to drive up to White Rock or Abbotsford BC then go see a doctor in Seattle even with my insurance. But when you get sick it's kind of hard to shop around.

  • jesse we need to cook
  • I have a friend with cancer that just lost his insurance since he's not old enough for Medicare and makes too much money from his retirement benefits (it's barely enough to pays his mortgage and eat here in Seattle). He's going try to wait 6 months until he can get Medicare but I don't think he will make it and he's only worried about losing his house. I think it will cost around 60K to get back on his meds and keep going to his weekly medical appointment (probably way more) for the next 6 months. He was so sick before he started going to the doctor and seemed to be responding really well to treatment. Was going to try do a Gofundme.com me page for him. It's so derepressing. damn just thought about if he's going to even afford his pain meds...I think he has that covered but yeah it really sucks. Medicare will even take your home if you spend past a certain life time maximum while your dying. Most people don't really know just how bad it is until you have to deal with it and it's purposely super confusing and the the Insurance company's make insane amounts of money and so they spend a lot of money to keep it this way. Personally, I'm looking at trying to move to an other country that has even a basic medical system that is affordable just so I'm not so discouraged from even going to the doctor because it's so expense even with insurance.

  • Japan, just Japan
  • It's likely a side-effect of it being translated as Gairaigo then back to English. It's so common there are lots of interesting and funny examples all over the Japan and is referred to as "jinglish".

  • Japan, just Japan
  • Unfortunately, the past war crimes, were horrific and the lack of accountability for them remains an issue. I can not speak for the average Japanese citizen but I have a feeling most of the Japanese people are ashamed of the cult of personality of their past leaders and wish the current government would handle things like the controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine differently. Much like most American's don't support Trumpism.

  • Japan, just Japan
  • Who knows about the source but I was looking to see any indication of where this was. I actually got a chance to see a baseball game at the Tokyo Dome or maybe it was a sumo event - it was so long ago. From my own experience and shallow understanding of the culture it's probably true. One of the huge motivations is the fear of bringing shame to your family which can be good and bad...it's just such a different culture and an outsider like me really can't fully appreciate or really understand because even if you spend your life there you will probably always be considered a bit of an outsider. And the Tom Selleck movie Mr. Baseball is actually pretty good.

  • Japan, just Japan
  • One of the highlights of my life was having a chance to live with a family in the Tokyo suburbs - in Akitsu Higashimurayama. Miss them so much. お母さん に 会いたい な~

  • A 57-year-old UPS driver in Texas died after collapsing in the heat while making deliveries
  • A lot of the pay and benefit increases come with an expectation that the worker will increase their productivity. US workers have been conditioned to blame themselves if they don't meet these expectations and it has become baked into the work culture. We can not maintain the current imbalance in pay disparity and 1% wealth without structural changes but it's culturally forbidden to even talk about this without being accused of being a communist. This paradigm has been created after decades of messaging from the system that supports the existing oligarchy - IMO.

  • Lemmy v0.18.4 Release
  • It's not as refined as reddit but the content is better and the community can improve the UI/UX over time... At first it was a little awkward for me coming from reddit but it didn't take long for me to adjust and the diversity of people and ideas I've found on here is well worth it.

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    I Pity the Country · Willie Dunn

    Native North America (Vol. 1) : Aboriginal Folk, Rock, And Country 1966-1985

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    Rodriguez, Detroit Singer Behind “Sugar Man,” Dies at 81
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    Sixto Rodriguez made an unlikely late-career resurgence through bootlegs, reissues, and an Oscar-winning documentary

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