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  • Brauchli has publicly encouraged people not to cancel their Post subscriptions in protest.

    “It is a way to send a message to ownership but it shoots you in the foot if you care about the kind of in-depth, quality journalism like the Post produces,”

    The two sentences that made me lol. Of course the consumer is shooting itself in the foot not subscribing to a journal whose integrity is in question after one of the oligarchy decided it needed to suppress an endorsement. If the consumers weren’t shooting themselves, who else could it be? Certainly not the great Bezos!




  • For reference here are inflation rates YOY since 2017:

    2017 2.10%

    2018 1.90%

    2019 2.30%

    2020 1.40%

    2021 7.00%

    2022 6.50%

    2023 3.40%

    Just to make up for the last three years of inflation they would need +16.9% instantly. Assuming +2% inflation over those 4 years (which is the average but not right now) that means from 2020 to 2028 inflation rose 26.3% so if they started a +25% increase over 4 years this year, the workers would have the same spending power they had in 2020.

    Data is from the bureau of labor statistics


  • Most of his reform so far has focused more on making the current paths that existed more obtainable, ex: public service loan forgiveness. So he has made student loan forgiveness where you meet specific qualifications much better, which is very helpful, but not everyone qualifies.

    Blanket student loan forgiveness hasn’t happened, because it was successfully blocked by the Republicans (after like 4 attempts). I assume this is referring to blanket forgiveness.

    Could be wrong on all this, if anyone spots something incorrect just say it.


  • Kroxx@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.mlIs Linux As Good As We Think It Is?
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    We’ve been having this discussion in the group I game/ play TTRPGs with. Like 7 of us total all windows, me and another switched to Linux, a third is a computational scientist who is forced to work with redhat frequently, and a fourth member was thinking of switching. After me and member 2 switched, member 4 saw that we had problems (entirely discord for me, all games have honestly worked so far) and changed his mind about switching because he doesn’t want to deal with stuff not working OOTB.

    I can’t fault people who want that, hell I do, Linux is well worth it to me but I will begrudgingly admit there are draw backs to Linux.



  • but you’re probably living in a bit of a bubble.

    That’s pretty fair and probably pretty accurate, what I will say is I live in a deeeeeep red state but most of my interactions are with post college gen Z so that almost certainly skewes it toward the left.

    A lot of men, across all age ranges, tend to lean fascist. There’s a lot of reasons for this, but the core problem is that progressive neoliberalism does a terrible job speaking to cis-het male anxieties, while fascism welcomes them with open arms

    Yeah I try to explain this to people who aren’t white males, it’s definitely a big issue. I didn’t mean to downplay this particular issue, and make no mistake I do view it as a major issue, but I do view this as a pretty fringe group % wise. Now that can definitely change very very rapidly but I personally haven’t seen it trend towards that yet, I would say the white male -> fascist pipeline started in the mid 2010’s and while it’s grown gen Z seems to ,as a whole, still be very very progress.

    Obviously this is all biased in my opinion and experiences which isn’t a good indicator of reality but I do hold this opinion until I see/read something which can change that.








  • As an organizer in my free time it’s hardly unrealistic to suggest other people do the same.

    Im sure as someone who does it everyday you do think that

    God forbid political power take work and time. Better to be ineffectual and rhetorically entrench the sociopathic status quo, eh

    This is the largest point I’m trying to make the time and effort it will take cannot be completed before the election. I mean you even agreed:

    Do you think this can be organized 1 before the election, 2 before the election with enough time to actually change things in it

    Your response was No.

    Yes. This is how it has been for hundreds of years. People with less time and means did far more than this

    Do you think every American agrees and will just jump on board?

    And to defend the status quo.

    No defending it I hate it but stop acting like it can change before the election, it is not enough time which is my point, not a defense.

    How much time do you spend on social media, for example? Why not spend that time organizing meetings?

    Couple hours after work, 10 mins before work, and while shitting. Drive times alone wouldn’t be meet with this time.

    How on earty could you ever take credit for anything?

    Don’t know what I took credit for but sure

    Do you even live in a swing state?

    Do you even live in America?