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[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Funny! I played it last year on mine lol

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I didn't actually see it myself, but I heard a lot of people thought it looked AI at first and that it was genuine (alternate angles and stuff like you said). It's good to check up on it (sounds like you actually put the effort in) so we can try to keep our facts straight, as hard as that is these days.

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Epstein has always had close ties to MIT and there was a big scandal about them accepting donations.

It's also been own for several years that Chomsky stayed at Epstein's Paris home at least once, and publicly apologized for his association with Epstein iirc.

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do we know anything about why there was an announcement and then a reversal and everything?

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

I sort of agree with you but if liberals acknowledged and understood class alignment, they wouldn't be liberals. I do think that the "opportunity for education" approach is more effective than outright hostility.

I find that online interactions about complicated topics can be quite frustrating, since snark and "dunking" trend to prevail. This is driven by corporate social media and spills over into other online interactions.

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just FYI to people that you can get remanufactured ink cartridges for a fraction of the price (around half) of OEM. They are sometimes modified to contain more ink in the same body. The company I purchased from included a prepaid bag to send used cartridges back for reuse.

Also while I'm in PSA mode "REDUCE, REUSE, and then recycle". Sometimes we skip over the first two steps since reducing is not marketable and reusing rarely is (although reusing printer cartridges appears to be a sustainable business).

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think that video was confirmed

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Just giving the app the CBS news treatment

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
  • Haiti
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  • Bolivia
  • Fiji

"Acknowledge and move on" is an extremely bad take if you know the facts about the genocide of American Indians (and Canadian First Nations) and how it is essentially ongoing in 2026. "Dark past" is not an accurate view of the situation. It is also unique to being a settler-colonial project, not something that is common to all countries.

It leads to an extremely unstable state as we can see from the three most recent presidential elections. The state wants to colonize itself because it ran out of other countries to exploit. That's what fascism is (ice raids and shit being a prominent symptom).

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

The entire concept of "for-profit news" is a conflict of interest.

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The founding ideal of the United States is unlimited "westward expansion" (complete exploitation of the land and the genocide of indigenous people). The United States has been incredibly effective at achieving this. This is not a fringe interpretation of history, it is relayed in the first episode of the PBS Revolutionary War documentary that came out last year.

"Freedom, equality, and liberty" or whatever may be your values, but in practice they never were intended for people who weren't part of the white, christian, landowning male class who founded the United States.

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

One of the main purposes (arguably the primary purpose?) of the "well regulated militia" was to ensure that settlers could attack and exterminate American Indian tribes during westward expansion.

 

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