We really do.

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I’m in Virginia. I’ll go for the water one. Get all that Atlantic up in me. Between the microplastics and bioluminescent life- I think that’s the right choice for me.

I think my comment, and the person I responded to, were being a bit … light hearted (not sure if that’s the right term) about it.

Speaking for myself, don’t let use dissuade you in any way at all. More Americans need to be:

1. aware of how shitty the for profit medical system is. It’s the most expensive healthcare in the world and not even close to the top in healthcare outcomes.
2. Aware that countries much poorer that it dignify all of their citizenry with healthcare. (And zero countries that have done so have ever gone back on that choice)
3. Much more vocal, including in deciding who to vote for, about ending the predatory, immoral profit imperative in healthcare.

Personally I don’t think America can vote its way out of a damn thing, but the corporate propaganda seems to be so terrifically good at getting people I know and care for who I believe have fully functioning brains to believe that somehow this shitty healthcare system is the best in the world.

Thank you for posting the video.

I’ve had a certain person accused of a certain thing as my lock screen for about a year because of how much I hate it. Maybe we’re already maxed out and not the target audience for this.

Hail you!

If they were real Christian’s they’d know about Proverbs 26:11.

Leaves from the Vine

I’m sure it is. My point is - what do Lemmy users expect out of a for-profit company operating inside of a capitalistic economic system? Saying “no” to China’s LGBT hating demands is impossible in this situation.

Please please please be a good phone. I feel like that’ll be great. I’d like a Linux phone, but I can’t see that shaping up as a Linux reliable daily driver in the next couple of years.

I’d love to give this a simple upvote. What is Tim Cook’s choice here? Operate illegally in China until the government shuts down their entire source of revenue in an entire market which, also, is the one that produces nearly all of its hardware?

If he doesn’t do it - shareholders will remove him in the blink of an eye and replace him with someone who will.

Where I’m agreeing though is - my current phone is my last Apple phone. I’ll be going with Graphene after this. I don’t want corporations telling me what software I can and can’t run on my decides while surveilling me.

Late to the party, Jacobin. Who doesn’t already know this?

The same people ago told me as a child that television would “rot my brain”, turns out, has no information literacy or critical thinking abilities when it comes to what the Facebook told them.

Disclosing things is too hard for ultra profitable economic parasites. :(

https://www.investors.com/news/trump-earnings-reports-six-months/

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about the possibility of a pardon for Maxwell at an Oval Office event on Monday.
“I haven’t heard the name in so long,” the president responded. “I can say this, that I’d have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look.”

Who is that? I barely even remember who that is.

jfc how has this horror show of a human being courted votes?

Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

• Ursula le Guin

Not by a long shot. It’s mainly just Walmart. There are others, but they’re the exception, not the rule.

I worked in retail for about ten years. The company I was at did make a big deal about making a customer feel welcome, which might incidentally involve greeting a customer at the door, but we certainly were too busy to have someone perpetually posted up at the door like Walmart. Any sort of “greeting” we might have done would be the same as I what I experienced in Ireland or Italian retail where if I was approaching an employee, I’d get the local version of “hello”. Didn’t strike me as being very different.

So, no, the American retail space that has a dedicated greeter is fairly uncommon.

Public funds spent on anything that generates something that could be considered “intellectual property” should be public domain. Beyond software my first thought is pharmaceutical and general medical research.

Fair point! I’d’ve liked something about the whole “market place of ideas” illusion that the ruling class says exists, but I guess your perspective gets right to the quick of things.

More of the same.

because it presents a slippery slope that could end with conservatives facing government censorship down the road

Silencing speech in “the Land of the Free” isn’t really the problem to him. The problem is that the sword swings both ways.

Turd continues to be turd.