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Cake day: November 11th, 2024

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  • I totally agree. There needs to be some financial mechanisms for keeping people from becoming insanely wealthy coupled with financial mechanisms preventing people from becoming impoverished. The obvious solutions are taxes that increase with income and wealth along with UBI that someone can reasonably live off of. All of this requires regulation and strict enforcement of tax laws, especially for the most wealthy. The rich know this and actively work against it. Probably the most effective method has been for them to buy up all the mass media and pump out capitalist and anti-intelectualist propaganda. We can’t change anything if half the people drank the coolaid and actively fight against their own interests and for the interests of the rich. I don’t know how bad things will have to get for those people to wake up. Hopefully not much worse but at this point I’m afraid it might take a real civil war for things to change, at least in the USA. Possibly even a world war with how things are going. We’re already barreling towards that cliff with the federal governments foot on the gas… I just hope I live through it.







  • Can they run 24 hours too? I can’t tell you how fucking annoying it is doing something fun with friends that goes late and have to leave at god damn 11pm or some shit so I can catch the last fucking train for the night or have to sleep over. Also cars specifically for people who need to move large objects or all their worldly possessions or something.








  • Giant cat, the size of a grizzly bear, but somehow with the proportions of a chubby house cat. It’s primary prey is mega rich humans. Continuous exposure to greed in such humans lends their flesh an exquisite and deeply savory scent and flavor that the cat can smell from hundreds of km away. Like all cats they take pleasure in toying with their prey, refining their technique and cunning by repeatedly capturing billionaires, then letting them just barely escape, only to hunt and catch them again, until the thrill of the hunt or hunger overcomes them, or their toy succumbs to the chase. Friend to the destitute, the homeless, the impoverished, and all the proletariat. The cat is gentle and loving to all who respect it and want not for the fruits of others labor.





  • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAutism@lemmy.worldAh heck
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    Which is wild because he hung out with engineers all the time and his best friend was an engineer. I’m an engineer with audhd and no joke I’m pretty sure like 90% of the engineers I work with are some form of neurodivergent. I know for a fact for like half of them because they told me.


  • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlGenocide is an American Tradition
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    Thr USA killed way way way more than 10 million native americans. We will never know the true scale of the genecide because the majority of it was done through disease. Early settlers would deliberately trade goods contaminated with several european diseases that the natives had little or no resistance to, including small pox and several others I can’t remember off the top of my head. Explorers moving west described “virgin” country untouched by man, beautiful and bountiful, but they were wrong. What they saw was an environment shaped over thousands of years by humans for humans that once supported hundreds of millions of native americans, who were mostly dead by the time european explorers got there. The genecide everyone knows about was really just the end, picking off the stragglers. That was bad enough that it’s whitewashed in public schooling, but they don’t even teach the history of the biological warfare that did the vast majority of the work. In many ways the americas still bear the gaping wounds of european contact today. This place is built on a foundation genocide.