mojo_raisin @ mojo_raisin @lemmy.world

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While C&C Music Factory starts playing on the loudspeaker

I think the message is that South Korean culture and western propaganda is garbage to them. They are saying, "send us garbage, we'll return the favor in kind".

Noooo!!!!

Tldr: instead of disposing of toxic industrial waste products, Dow Chemical thought “our toxic waste kills plants, if we convince farmers and suburbanites they need to kill plants, they’ll dump our toxic waste on their land and pay us for it!” The rest is the history of ecocide.

Isn't this the story for fluoride too? Seems like a pattern, as if they believe "the solution to pollution is dilution".

https://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/17/the_fluoride_deception_how_a_nuclear

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3690253/

This is only a slight exaggeration, all cookies are slowly being replaced by versions of Oreos.

Right!? 30 mins for Age of Sin!? Are they kidding? Is this shrinkflation?

Nate is amazing, he and some of his guests are exactly who I learned this from.

To some degree, fission also, though it has a few other problems like safety and security concerns around nuclear materials, locations of fuels and whether they are in friendly nations, other things the fuels can be used for and all the politics that goes with that, etc.

But we need more than just energy. At some point, regardless of our energy, we are going to destroy Earth's ecosystems using up other resources, using this energy to mine unsustainably, etc. More energy just means we kill ourselves faster. We should not be looking for more or cleaner energy with which to kill ourselves with, we should be looking to continuity of our species and that requires living sustainably within the bounds of our environment.

I did for like two minutes, maybe I didn't find the thing you're talking about. It doesn't matter, the fact that bad shit has happened under or even due to Biden doesn't mean Trump isn't far more dangerous. It's a matter of degree (like would you rather be shot in the head or kicked in the nuts, they're both bad, not equivalent), there is no option for president that is without major concern.

I'm a trans (and Mexican) person, my choice is this:

--> Keep in mind, they both support genocide in Palestine, they both will disappear people at protests, climate change will be fixed under neither of them

Trump: Has made it clear retribution is a major theme of his next presidency should he win. His base hates me with a fiery passion and would put me in an oven without a second of thought needed. If Trump wins, the likelihood that I can retain the right to housing and employment to support myself, and not get disappeared for being who I am is virtually nil.

Biden: Has maintained and even expanded rights for LGBT people. If Biden wins, there is no direct threat to my job, housing, or life. If Biden wins, I can continue taking care of my kitties, be there for my family, work to help others, I can't help anyone or be there for anyone if I'm forced into prostitution to survive, dead, incarcerated.

The word "state" when used this way refers to a group of people that feel entitled to use violence to formally dominate a given region. Unlike a simple gang, they create strict formal hierarchy and have rules that apply to those they dominate but not them. They are allowed to use violence and this is acceptable, me and you are not allowed to defend ourselves, we are to give up virtually all our "rights" to self-defense to the state. A state gaslights it's victims into believing that it is necessary to protect them from themselves and other states, and the only way civilization can exist.

This is not to be confused with "government", which is a management function most states perform to some degree and which does not require a state.

Oh ya, Goya brand lol! Remember his whole family shilling that shiz for a min

State is the mechanism that allows them to exist, it is it's purpose.

I think this is going to be the solution. Holding this information needs to be a significant liability for companies.

That's what I mean, a few people being disappeared in a particularly crazy summer of nationwide protests years ago is way better than it being the norm for anyone that doesn't agree with the Trump admin.

Do you not understand degrees of harm and think that since Biden isn't a perfect communist than he is no different than an full on fascist dictatorship? Do you hate you mom like Hitler if she doesn't give you Cheetos for dinner?

They should just have the candidates endorse products on stage.

Trump could talk about how confident he is on stage wearing the new leak-free Depends

Biden could pull up a bowl of Quaker Oats and talk about his regular bowel movements.

RFK could say he's all good now thanks to HeartGuard+ Brain Dewormer

Didn't Kerry lose in part for looking like a dork in a tank?

https://fortune.com/2016/03/08/michael-dukakis-john-kerry-7-political-gaffes-mitt-romney-the-course-of-u-s-history/

I have a feeling, these events were just things the media could use to manipulate the narrative on the Democratic candidate, otherwise would've been ignored.

True but people need to know to look to the documentation, it's not something we're born with. People learn to ride a bike, to drive a car, use their TV, etc without reading much documentation. We should educate people on how to figure things out rather than shame them for not knowing as much as you.

Don't assume everyone can learn as easily as you can or has a background that would facilitate their grasping of the topic. Here you are casually saying "just read the man page" and referencing gcc, it would take my mom a week of education to get to the point where she'd be able to understand what gcc even is and why it has a man page.

And if you don't want to help them, ignore the noobs, don't push them away.

At this point I’m really starting to believe the only choice is to back up, and protest how we elect presidents in the first place. It doesn’t seem to produce a representative of the people.

Again, you're right, how we elect presidents is fucked up and needs to change. Is making that change going to be easier under Trump? Because that's who's going to be president if Biden loses. Is changing how we elect presidents going to be easier when anyone willing to be an activist to accomplish it gets arrested? You think protest arrests are bad now, just wait until an actual fascist is in charge and your friends start disappearing.

I never understand this line of thought. The amounts of energy we use is never ever going to go down. It just isn’t.

If we don't develop practical nuclear fusion before our fossil inheritance effectively runs out we sure will. It will also go down following ecological collapse caused by using all that energy. Infinite energy doesn't make up for a collapsed ecosystem.

Le Barque!!