The way they behave I think they meant to use "and" instead of "or".
Staccato
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I get that you're trying to do a reductio ad absurdum but your post really falls flat on its face.
The Roman Empire no longer exists in any shape or form.
The United States of America is a surviving institution that has continuity to its darker history as it pertains to slavery.
The problem is not simply that slavery is causing some sort of moral taint; it's that there are still institutions today that continue to have advantages that stem from the unjust practice of slavery in the US.
Ugh, gig workers need to be brought into some semblance of a minimum wage. Uber and Doordash are just techstortion.
23andme requires you to agree to what they ask, which is far more than what Johns Hopkins did for Henrietta Lacks.
Nah I think it was when Nixon won the Presidency. You can draw a straight line from that corrupt fuck to so many of our current problems.
Because they only get famous enough to get votes by being outrageous enough to score headlines.
They're very similar to the Taliban in that regards.
Oh cool, is there anything similar for lemmy?
Nah, the remaining employees aren't the "dead wood" necessarily. They're all the ones on H1 visas who can't legally work in the US anywhere else (without taking a massive risk).
I love the fediverse, but it hasn't fully solved the migration need problem. If I open an account on an instance which I later discover I don't like, I have to migrate for that as well.
The point as I see it is just limited to who do I want to follow, and what platforms can I use to do so? If bluesky turns to shit in a decade, but I get value out of it for that decade, maybe that's enough for my needs.
(FWIW, I am not on bluesky)
I don't have a great perspective on Israel and Hamas but all reports seem to be converging on the point that Bibi failed Israel and may have also deliberately fucked over Gaza.
I can't get past the awful animated guy
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Excuse me wut