politicalmemes Political Memes The existence of another poor person is not why you're poor
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    workerONE
    9 hours ago 100%

    The rich will exploit desperate people and use different groups against each other to keep labor costs low.

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  • politics politics Asked about political executions, Michael Flynn says ‘gates of hell’ will be unleashed under Trump
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    iso8601 ISO8601 Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12
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    politics politics 'Totally illegal': Trump escalates rhetoric on outlawing political dissent and criticism
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    politics politics 'Totally illegal': Trump escalates rhetoric on outlawing political dissent and criticism
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    politics politics Trump Is Running a Disinformation Campaign, Not a Political Campaign
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    lemmyshitpost Lemmy Shitpost Absolutely nothing happened June 1989
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    6 days ago 65%

    Wikipedia indicates there wasn't a massacre in Tiananmen square: "Several people who were situated around the square that night, including former Beijing bureau chief of The Washington Post Jay Mathews[f] and CBS correspondent Richard Roth[g] reported that while they had heard sporadic gunfire, they could not find enough evidence to suggest that a massacre took place on the square"

    "In 2011, three secret cables from the United States embassy in Beijing agreed there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square.[244] Instead, they said Chinese soldiers opened fire on protesters outside the square as they fought their way from the west towards the center.[244] A Chilean diplomat who had been positioned next to a Red Cross station inside the square told his US counterparts that he did not observe any mass firing of weapons into the crowds in the square itself, although sporadic gunfire was heard. He said that most of the troops who entered the square were armed only with anti-riot gear."

    While they do provide sources that say the student death toll was likely high, most sources estimate around 500. (Again, not in the square itself)

    I'm just trying to be factual- the students were funded and supported by Western forces including the United States, probably not to help the students and spread democracy and capitalism, but to create division. The students clashed with China's fucked up communist government and military. There's not too many possibilities when a civilian force clashes with a state military.

    I support you if you oppose China's actions here, I just think saying there was a massacre in Tiananmen square is insincere.

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  • music Music NoFX - the last 2 songs played [Live] (a new song & the Decline) (2024-10-06)
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    privacy Privacy Dark patterns are everywhere
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    workerONE
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    They also (generally) don't like to have their water next to their food because when they drink they put their head down and can't see predators that might be attracted to the food.

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  • pnw Pacific Northwest - OR,WA,BC [UPDATE: Found safe] Daughter of Flaming Lips guitarist missing in Seattle
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    usa United States | News & Politics MSNBC delays documentary over fears it could 'offend Donald Trump': report
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    workerONE
    1 week ago 100%

    Why is WaPo in this list? Trump hates WaPo and even tried to hurt the post office and interfere with Amazon packages to get back at Bezos for owning WaPo

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  • historyartifacts Historical Artifacts Piece of a spear-thrower, copper-gold alloy, Colombia, South America, ~500 BCE
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    That's really some fine craftsmanship.

    I know this is from a different time period but I'm reading a book (The Colombian Reader) with an letter written by someone in the Spanish conquest around 1530. He says about the Colombians "they possess a great number of idols which they worship in the same way that we worship our Saints here in Spain. They pray to these idols asking them to intercede on their behalf before the Sun and the Moon. Each has his own idol. These idols are made from very fine gold. He places as much gold and as many emeralds as he's able to into the hole in the idol's belly. These domestic idols are small in size. The largest ones are roughly the same length as the distance between the hand and the elbow. Their devotion to these idols is so strong that they do not go anywhere, to work their fields or any place, without them. They carry the idols in a small basket which hangs from their arms and what is most alarming is that they even carry them to war as well- with one arm they fight and with the other they hold their idol."

    Also, regarding their craftsmanship, "in spite of the fact that their houses and buildings are made from wood and are covered in the long thatch that is native to that region, they still reflect the most marvelous workmanship and design ever seen. This is especially true of the private residences which are like palaces encircled by many walls. These palaces look similar to the manor in which the labyrinth of Troy is portrayed in paintings here in Spain. The houses boast great patios with very tall relief figurative carvings throughout and they are also filled with paintings."

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  • pnw Pacific Northwest - OR,WA,BC [UPDATE: Found safe] Daughter of Flaming Lips guitarist missing in Seattle
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    lemmyshitpost Lemmy Shitpost Where are they now?
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    I heard he's really into jiu Jitsu and is good at it. What do people want? I know this is just for fun though

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  • android Android Android makes me (almost) hate using a password manager – Google needs to fix it
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    archaeology Archaeology Ancient DNA from South Africa rock shelter reveals the same human population stayed there for 9,000 years
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    explainlikeimfive Explain Like I'm Five ELI5 how can a person in Florida of all places without firing a shot be charged with attempted assassination? I get the sniper in Penn. But was he just holding a gun in bushes whitch is legal in Flori
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    asklemmy Ask Lemmy Are there any animes or TV shows you can't stop recommending?
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    I never watched any anime but then watched one punch man. It's really clever and very approachable for new and casual viewers.

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  • memes memes Insurance fraud
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    workerONE
    1 week ago 100%

    We are? Charlie uses a dollar to buy the chocolate bar with the golden ticket. Also, who mentioned insurance? You are the first person to bring it up, saying it's not insurance... Okay it's not insurance but nobody said it was

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  • memes memes Insurance fraud
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    workerONE
    1 week ago 100%

    A disability caused by work activity would be covered by worker's comp insurance.

    Edit: in California all employees pay into state disability insurance. In the event they become disabled they could receive disability benefits from SDI. If someone were to claim to be disabled it would be disability fraud. Why are we even having this discussion and who cares?

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  • privacy Privacy PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out
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    workerONE
    2 weeks ago 100%

    I have that setting but it's not enabled. It says "starting early summer 2025 we'll be building more personal experiences for you"

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  • political_weirdos Political Weirdos Weirdo presidential candidate just doesn't care anymore.
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    workerONE
    2 weeks ago 87%

    Do you have a source that says he bet against his team? I've read that he bet on his own team but always to win https://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13114874/notebook-obtained-lines-shows-pete-rose-bet-baseball-player-1986 "The documents obtained by Outside the Lines, which reflect betting records from March through July 1986, show no evidence that Rose, who was a player-manager in 1986, bet against his team."

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  • news News Matthew Perry death: Doctor pleads guilty in actor's ketamine overdose
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    2 weeks ago 100%

    I want to see what happens to his personal assistant. Employer employee relationships have a certain power dynamic and when the employer is paying the employee and tells them to get him drugs (I think this is what happened? IDK) how much blame can you put on the person?

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  • thewitcher The Witcher The Witcher's Liam Hemsworth hadn't watched Netflix show or read the books before Geralt casting
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    politics politics Kickapoo school district sees 440% higher cost because of private school voucher funding
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    2 weeks ago 100%

    It's a good article though and provides information about an important topic, I didn't mean to nitpick

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  • politics politics Kickapoo school district sees 440% higher cost because of private school voucher funding
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    workerONE
    2 weeks ago 100%

    Your new title says the school district's costs are 440% higher than private schools.

    It should say "higher cost because of"
    "higher cost over" implies "more, greater than"... It doesn't imply "higher because of"

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  • news News Kyle Rittenhouse texts pledging to ‘murder’ shoplifters disillusion his ex-spokesperson
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    2 weeks ago 100%

    "The texts were in response to seeing shoplifters at a CVS pharmacy on 10 August"

    When he says "I wish they would come into my house", the word they refers to the shoplifters. When he says he will murder them he is still referring to the shoplifters.

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment?
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    workerONE
    2 weeks ago 87%

    The average inflation rate for the last 20 years is under 3%

    Edit: why are people downvoting me, refute my statement with a source instead of downvoting because you wish inflation was higher

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  • news News US Catholic diocese agrees to pay $323m to child sexual abuse survivors
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    3 weeks ago 100%

    Edit: this situation is fucked so it helps me to laugh but I'll remove my comment because kids were victimized and that sucks

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    Do recent explanations solve the mysteries of aerodynamic lift? www.scientificamerican.com

    "leading aerodynamicist Doug McLean has attempted to go beyond sheer mathematical formalism and come to grips with the physical cause-and-effect relations that account for lift in all of its real-life manifestations. ... McLean’s complex explanation of lift starts with the basic assumption of all ordinary aerodynamics: the air around a wing acts as “a continuous material that deforms to follow the contours of the airfoil.” That deformation exists in the form of a deep swath of fluid flow both above and below the wing. “The airfoil affects the pressure over a wide area in what is called a pressure field,” McLean writes. “When lift is produced, a diffuse cloud of low pressure always forms above the airfoil, and a diffuse cloud of high pressure usually forms below. Where these clouds touch the airfoil they constitute the pressure difference that exerts lift on the airfoil.” The wing pushes the air down, resulting in a downward turn of the airflow. The air above the wing is sped up in accordance with Bernoulli’s principle. In addition, there is an area of high pressure below the wing and a region of low pressure above. This means that there are four necessary components in McLean’s explanation of lift: a downward turning of the airflow, an increase in the airflow’s speed, an area of low pressure and an area of high pressure. But it is the interrelation among these four elements that is the most novel and distinctive aspect of McLean’s account. “They support each other in a reciprocal cause-and-effect relationship, and none would exist without the others,” he writes. “The pressure differences exert the lift force on the airfoil, while the downward turning of the flow and the changes in flow speed sustain the pressure differences.” It is this interrelation that constitutes a fifth element of McLean’s explanation: the reciprocity among the other four. It is as if those four components collectively bring themselves into existence, and sustain themselves, by simultaneous acts of mutual creation and causation."

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