The fresh water crisis is dire. Is any candidate or political figure, past or present, addressing the issue or suggesting solutions?
If not, they are all insufficient and unqualified to lead.
We can’t wait until 2028 and there may no election to vote in. We need this administration to go ASAP.
Unfortunately, we can’t afford to mess around. The fresh water crisis is something America has to deal with - sooner, rather than later. There are many other crises than water and health care, and they are all very urgent.
If being a progressive has been reduced to: “I’m slightly to the left of Republicans, but just as pro-capitalist as them”, then the term has been co-opted or watered-down to meaninglessness.
It’s like the term “Libertarian” being co-opted by capitalists. The original meaning of libertarianism had nothing to do with capitalism, free markets, deregulation, and privatization.
And how is Buttigieg qualified to lead the country? He did fuck all as the Secretary of Transportation. He’s a pro-corporate hack.
I’m gay and he has never given me a reason to like him. Him acting like Medicare for All would be a bad thing was what initially turned me off from him.
It’s ALMOST like factory farming isn’t a profitable or a sane practice. /s
Unsurprising that he uses slave labor, too.
Why would Islamic countries not condemn China? They certainly seem to condemn the genocide of the Palestinian people. Somebody please enlighten me.
Edit: According to Business Insider, they might fear China’s retaliation (e.g. economic vengeance). How reliant are these Islamic countries on exports from China and how reliant are these countries on China importing their resources (e.g. oil)?
Why would any of that matter when people of their religion are being genocided? Fear of retaliation from a nuclear-powered state and facing consequences in regards to western trade doesn’t seem to deter them from taking a stance on Palestine.
The agitators on lemmy definitely push the idea that centrism is bad.
Centrism gets absolutely nothing done.
falling for the trap of “I only support candidates 100% aligned with pure progressive values” results in Trump winning.
Kamala lost because she did not run on any progressive policies and shifted center-right. Supporting fracking got her zero brownie points in PA, for example. She really didn’t run on anything impactful - she was continuing a lot of Biden’s policies, refused to list her policies until very late in the race, and was mainly running on not being Trump. What she was proposing was entirely insufficient to attract voters.
Did you forget about Obama’s successes? He arguably ran on a progressive platform and his success was explosive.
But in reality, the progressive candidates get <1% of the vote.
Gee, I wonder why that is. Progressives generally being anti-corporatist and against funding Іsrаеl unsurprisingly makes Super PACs and foreign agents like АІPАϹ spend lots of money to beat them. All funding should be from small donors to even the playing field - campaign finance reform is needed for fair and democratic elections.
People vote based on name recognition and what benefits they get by voting for a particular candidate - they aren’t repulsed by progressive policies, they usually just don’t know about progressive candidates or about their policies. Or they are told by mainstream media that the progressive candidate has no chance of winning and to vote for the establishment to beat Republicans.
The far-leftists who don’t do so well will never be happy
There are no “far-leftists” in the Democratic party, it’s a right party. All capitalists are firmly on the right and socialists are on the left. There’s very few people who classify themselves as democratic socialists or who are left-leaning. Being a progressive does not make you left-leaning or a democratic socialist - see Elizabeth Warren as an example (she is a progressive capitalist).
So according to the “comeback retreat” hosted by the “center-left” group Third Way; the Democrats are too “beholden” to their “far-left members”, they are dismissive of people without progressive views, and the Democrats also need to “embrace patriotism”.
I’m pretty sure people don’t like Democrats because they keep moving right, they seem to be too focused on maintaining the status quo and alienating progressives, and now they’re essentially complicit with a fascist regime.
Sounds like a winning strategy to continue the move to the right and push progressive and “far-left” voices out. No wonder Bernie essentially threw Democrats under the bus in a podcast recently.
And how much slower is it to launch and use?
If we got our head out of our ass and invested into battery tech - e.g. sodium-ion batteries or proton batteries, we could very quickly build sustainable energy storage and instead of relying on technology that is potentially dangerous or continuing to rely on fossil fuels.
We don’t have a hate boner. We see “decentralized” being thrown around like a buzzword and we know that it really doesn’t apply to their platform.
It’s like the Libertarian Party taking the word “libertarian” and flipping the meaning to describe their ideology.
It’s a distortion of the spirit of the word and actual libertarians obviously want to clear up the misunderstandings that result from being introduced to the concept of libertarianism through such a group.
Northern Illinois leaders consider reinstating grocery sales tax at local level
Seems like it’s going to affect more than DeKalb, see the article title.
Regardless, I lived in a rural university town myself in the past - much more rural than DeKalb. There were plenty of rich people tucked away in their massive homes. At least enough to raise their taxes just a bit to generate 800k of revenue.
Tax literally anything instead of food, I say - groceries are high enough and not everybody struggling qualifies for food stamps.
How about taxing the wealthy instead of food? Taxing cars is nice too.
Let’s not kid ourselves. Publicly available information is invasive and a violation of privacy.
We have corporations who have effectively set up mass surveillance networks and they call it “adtech”.
There is an entire economy surrounding “publicly available information”. There are corporations that act as as data brokers and people search websites that compile way too much sensitive information about private individuals. Newspapers systematically report on events that aren’t really of public interest concerning private individuals; e.g. arrest records and these articles hang around forever even if the arrest doesn’t result in a conviction or the crime is expunged.
If this was employed by the government or law enforcement, it would absolutely include data that extends far beyond the reaches of publicly available information — and it’s worth pointing out that the US has a mass surveillance network in the form of the NSA/PRISM.
There is zero way you could convince me that AI, prone to hallucination, would be well served to predict crime or criminals. Even if it didn’t hallucinate, it still wouldn’t be possible to predict crime — only potentially anticipate a crime. We aren’t 2D characters following a script — anything can happen.
Law enforcement is already very unhinged. Let’s not cheerlead the addition of any tools that aid in psychosis to their arsenal.
This is about as psychotic as governments using AI to predict crimes.
We didn’t have internet or the means to properly educate ourselves (at least to today’s standards) for much of the 20th century. And now, we’re finally at the point where laypeople anywhere can simply look this stuff up with relative ease. Though, few do or are aware that common corporations are responsible for atrocities.
Thanks for doing your part in spreading that awareness, even if that’s not the point you were trying to make.
The company did not answer whether it or the outside firm it hired communicated or consulted with the Israeli military as part of its internal probe.
In its statement, the company also conceded that it “does not have visibility into how customers use our software on their own servers or other devices.” The company added that it could not know how its products might be used through other commercial cloud providers.
Microsoft said the Israeli military, like any other customer, was bound to follow the company’s Acceptable Use Policy and AI Code of Conduct, which prohibit the use of products to inflict harm in any way prohibited by law. In its statement, the company said it had found “no evidence” the Israeli military had violated those terms.
Those three quotes stick out to me as proof that they are pleading ignorance.
A military is not “like any other customer”. Forbid access and fact-find some more or stop pretending that you aren’t complicit in AI being used for harm.
Nobody wants to live in an age of unregulated AI use besides the power-hungry and the short-sighted — and even those people probably won’t like the consequences once the boomerang comes back.
Let’s not throw the boomerang, please. Do better.
Apologies, I was half-asleep when I wrote that.
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Just because protests aren’t being covered by the mainstream media doesn’t mean they don’t exist. And a significant portion of liberal spaces are becoming radical in sentiment, even if some are still constrained to hoping Bernie and AOC will save them in 2028. You aren’t going to hear me praise anything going on as being sufficient, though.
Hillary won the popular vote in 2016 by 2.9 million votes against Trump and she was insanely unpopular for reasons most people can agree on (that don’t relate to gender).
I don’t think misogyny played a major factor in Kamala’s loss.