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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Fish-Fox and the Fish Hound.

Both are of the "fearsome critters" from lumberjack legends, and both are domesticated critters that can help you to catch ludicrous amounts of fish!

The Fish-Fox is, as the name would imply, a combination of fox and fish. It could imitate "the sound of an angleworm" and thus lure vast quantities of fish ashore for its master.

The Fish Hound, by contrast, was neither fish or hound, but rather was a crossbreed between a mink and a helldiver grebe, and this bird-mustelid hybrid just happened to resemble a doggo by shear coincidence (but with mink fur on half its body, and helldiver feathers on the other). The Fish Hound was an expert fisher, and was extremely intelligent. You could tell it the amount of fish you wanted, the type of fish, and even the size, and within moments it would retrieve exactly what you had asked for.

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#misere #des #riches #fonctionnaire #quebec #etatisme

Pour donner une idée du salaire annuel de base d’Anne Lafond, on s’est référé aux données les plus récentes de la SAAQ, publiées en mai dernier.

À ce moment-là, le poste de PDG de la société d’État venait avec une rémunération annuelle de 310 063 $, à laquelle peuvent s’ajouter des bonis, des primes, des frais de fonction ainsi qu’une indemnité mensuelle pour une voiture.

C’est près de cinq fois le salaire moyen au Québec, établi à 65 214 $ selon Statistique Canada.

À titre de vice-présidente aux services aux assurés et assurées, Mme Lafond touchait 242 500 $. Sa nouvelle rémunération représente donc une augmentation de quelque 67 563 $.

Anne Lafond rejoint maintenant le cercle des PDG les mieux payés à la tête d’une société d’État québécoise.

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#JeanetteJara just won #Chile’s left-wing presidential primary with 60% of the vote, making her the first communist with a real shot at the presidency. If the right splits their vote in November, she could make history.

But the road ahead won’t be easy—she’s up against deep-rooted anti-communist bias and two right-wing candidates with shady family legacies.

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Here's my probably unpopular opinion about a lot of recent US social media activism. If you're not willing to condemn all political parties doing a bad thing, then your complaint about only one group doing a bad thing that others also do, may actually be hollow and performative.

It probably even takes less characters to post condemning the thing itself and the institutions that allow it, then targeting only one subgroup of people doing the overall thing.

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¡Abbie!

without assigning blame to a primary actor it’s hard to mobilize against it.
Ice is bad is less effective in this sense than trump is using ice to do significantly more bad even if the democrats helped along the way.

Ultimately, I’m currently in various intersections of specific people want to murder me, & almost none of them are democrats, and they certainly aren’t leading the charge. It takes way less spoons to say the GOP wants me dead than to explain politics.

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Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD

This is kind of what I'm saying though

You could say: the US systemically engages in fascist policing and using state violence against poor and non-white groups, and it needs to stop

Instead of saying one political party, in this current moment is doing this bad stuff, and other sides are less bad even if they do it too, so we need to stop the thing we're seeing on news right now, but it would harm us to discuss how other groups do this or how the US has done this for centuries

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Ο Βραζιλιάνος ακτιβιστής Τιάγκο Άβιλα στο πλευρό των Παλαιστινίων στο Σύνταγμα thepressproject.gr/o-vrazilian…

Ο Βραζιλιάνος ακτιβιστής Τιάγκο Άβιλα στο πλευρό των Παλαιστινίων στο Σύνταγμα - The Press Project - Ειδήσεις, Αναλύσεις, Ραδιόφωνο, Τηλεόραση

Ο Βραζιλιάνος ακτιβιστής Τιάγκο Άβιλα, που συνελήφθη από το Ισραήλ πάνω στο πλοίο ανθρωπιστικής βοήθειας Madleen με προορισμό τη Γάζα, βρέθηκε στο πλευρό των Παλαιστινίων από τη Γάζα, οι οποίοι…
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I spent too much time thinking being a #kernel #dev for a #bsd project was like paramount or opus for coding in the *nix world.

Glad to be free of that idea in my brain only I planted there as a teen. Sure, I *could* move forward with being a kernel programmer if I pushed for it, but just a source of #joy

I do appreciate the OpenBSD, NetBSD, and even FreeBSD (I say even because I never really used FreeBSD in a serious context like OpenBSD and NetBSD), but I can do that without having an active part in it and still be happy letting that unhealthy bucket-list item expire.

I don't need to prove myself to anyone, I've done enough in my life so far.

At this point in life, I've definitely honed in on what brings me joy and what doesn't with technology. My career is stable and in-demand, I don't need to always be improving it.

#Retrocomputing is where it is at for me now. It's still flexing the same muscles but with greater challenges for near zero functional purpose.

Why would anyone purposefully code 8-bit computers with 64-bit ones exist now with more capabilities with hardware found everywhere for next to nothing?! 😀

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Billg who is on the list said the exact same thing as Trump did here. Effectively "epstein is dead why are we still talking about him?"

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The Truth Behind the Epstein Client List: Body Language Analysis

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Partisan Night Slut

My whole job is constantly reloading five potential responses to everything I have to read to respondents. The whole trick is never missing a beat so people don't begin to develop doubt or begin critical investigation. You don't want a survey respondent to think about anything other than what you're asking them. Popping the bubble is about ten times more work to deal with.

Most people don't have a clue I'm handling them.

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LIVE: Israel kills 82 in Gaza; Rafah ‘concentration camps’ plan slammed | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
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- WATCH: Doctors operate in darkness as Gaza hospitals struggle with power crisis
- Palestinian hospital workers face dire choices as Israel blocks fuel
- UN warns Gaza services will shut down unless fuel allowed in
- Cheap, Chinese drones have become crucial Israeli killing machine: Report

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine


LIVE: Israel kills 82 in Gaza; Rafah ‘concentration camps’ plan slammed

Israeli forces step up attacks across the besieged territory as food crisis worsens.
Maziar Motamedi (Al Jazeera)

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Women who claimed Brigitte Macron was born a man are CLEARED of defamation

Me: The article sucked. You would think the Appeals Court provided some legal justification for their ruling, but all the article had to say was this:

"Judges sitting at the Paris Appeal Court on Thursday ruled that Amandine Roy, a 53-year-old clairvoyant, (pictured) and Natacha Rey had every legal right to make the sulphurous allegations".
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Women who claimed Brigitte Macron was born a man are CLEARED of defamation

Two women convicted of defaming French first lady Brigitte Macron by saying she was 'born a man' were today sensationally cleared on appeal.
Peter Allen (Daily Mail)

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🗨️👩🏽‍💻 And Hitler survived Operation Valkyrie 1944 - in 2025, it's just one lost battle against corruption and fascism inside the #EU - #ursulavonderleyen will be on trial soon, either way. I have confidence in humanity and #civilsociety as such.

Justice will prevail, upcoming elections will expose the people's power.

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"Ursula von der Leyen survives a no-confidence vote in the European Parliament, exposing deep divisions over EU leadership and the Green Deal."

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Von der Leyen survives no-confidence vote in European Comm. leadership

Al Mayadeen English (Von der Leyen survives no-confidence vote in European Comm. leadership)

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Today in Labor History July 10, 1894: The Pullman Rail Car strike was put down by 14,000 federal and state troops. Over the course of the strike, soldiers killed 70 American Railway Union (ARU) members. Eugene Debs and many others were imprisoned during the strike for violating injunctions. Debs founded the ARU in 1893. The strike began, in May, as a wildcat strike, when George Pullman laid off employees and slashed wages, while maintaining the same high rents for his company housing in the town of Pullman, as well as the excessive rates he charged for gas and water. During the strike, Debs called for a massive boycott against all trains that carried Pullman cars. While many adjacent unions opposed the boycott, including the conservative American Federation of Labor, the boycott nonetheless affected virtually all train transport west of Detroit. Debs also called for a General Strike, which Samuel Gompers and the AFL blocked. At its height, over 200,000 railway workers walked off the job, halting dozens of lines, and workers set fire to buildings, boxcars and coal cars, and derailed locomotives. Clarence Darrow successfully defended Debs in court against conspiracy charges, arguing that it was the railways who met in secret and conspired against their opponents. However, they lost in their Supreme Court trial for violating a federal injunction.

By the 1950s, the town of Pullman had been incorporated into the city of Chicago. Debs became a socialist after the strike, running for president of the U.S. five times on the Socialist Party ticket, twice from prison. In 1905, he cofounded the radical IWW, along with Lucy Parsons, Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood and Irish revolutionary James Connolly. In 1894, President Cleveland designated Labor Day a federal holiday, in order to detract from the more radical May 1st, which honored the Haymarket martyrs and the struggle for the 8-hour day. Legislation for the holiday was pushed through Congress six days after the Pullman strike ended, with the enthusiastic support of Gompers and the AFL.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #strike #eugenedebs #IWW #pullman #chicago #haymarket #EightHourDay #socialism #lucyparsons #motherjones #BigBillHaywood #revolutionary #jamesconnolly #generalstrike #boycott

Political cartoon from the Chicago Labor newspaper from July 7, 1894 which shows the condition of the laboring man at the Pullman Company. The employee is being squeezed by Pullman between low wage and high rent. By Chicago Labor Newspaper, July 7, 1894. - http://www.gompers.umd.edu/visual.htmhttp://www.gompers.umd.edu/Pullman%20Cartoon.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72914442

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📢 The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has condemned the Israeli occupation’s killing of #journalist Ahmad Abu Eisha, correspondent for Palestine Today TV, in a drone attack in the #gaza Strip, calling it a deliberate and criminal act by the Israeli occupation aimed at silencing the truth

#palestine #genocide
#warcrimes #icj

📲 Video by WAFA in the comments

📰 Report: WAFA JUL-10 19:00 local-t

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Journalists Syndicate: Killing of journalist Ahmad Abu Eisha a new crime in Israel’s war on truth

WAFA Agency

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Επίθεση του ισραηλινού λόμπι κατά Ελληνοαυστραλής δημοσιογράφου

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Μια από τις πιο αξιόπιστες και ανεξάρτητες φωνές στην Αυστραλία, αυτή της δημοσιογράφου και πολιτικής σχολιάστριας Μαίρης Κωστακίδη, μπήκε στο στόχαστρο του σιωνιστικού μπλοκ. Με εμπειρία δεκαετιών στη διεθνή ειδησεογραφία, η πρώην βασική παρουσιάστρια του SBS World News Australia, Μαίρη Κωστακίδη αξιοποίησε το δημόσιο βήμα της για να καλύψει με εντιμότητα τις εξελίξεις στη Γάζα, ενημέρωση που έλειπε εμφανώς από τα κυρίαρχα αυστραλιανά και διεθνή μέσα.

Η στάση της αυτή δεν θα έμενε απαρατήρητη για πολύ. Η Σιωνιστική Ομοσπονδία της Αυστραλίας ξεκίνησε νομικές διαδικασίες εις βάρος της στο Ομοσπονδιακό Δικαστήριο, καταγγέλλοντάς την για «προσβλητική συμπεριφορά» σύμφωνα με το άρθρο 18C του Νόμου περί Φυλετικών Διακρίσεων του 1975.

Η υπόθεση της Μαίρης Κωστακίδη εξετάζεται σε μια εποχή όπου η εξίσωση αντισιωνισμού με αντισημιτισμό χάνει έδαφος στη συλλογική συνείδηση, ειδικά μετά την πρόσφατη δικαστική νίκη της δημοσιογράφου Αντουανέτ Λατούφ. Η απόλυσή της από τον τηλεοπτικό σταθμό ABC το 2023 αναγνωρίστηκε ως αποτέλεσμα της πίεσης του ισραηλινού λόμπι, όταν εκείνη τοποθετήθηκε επικριτικά κατά του Ισραήλ για την επίθεση στη Γάζα.


Επίθεση του ισραηλινού λόμπι κατά Ελληνοαυστραλής δημοσιογράφου - INFO-WAR

Η Μαίρη Κωστακίδη, μια από τις πιο αξιόπιστες και ανεξάρτητες δημοσιογραφικές φωνές στην Αυστραλία, μπήκε στο στόχαστρο του σιωνιστικού μπλοκ.
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The World is SICK AND TIRED of paying TAXES to ELITE PEDOPHILES that NEVER FACE JUSTICE.

WE’RE NOT LETTING THIS GO.

Yes, we are still talking about Epstein.

We are still talking about 9/11.

We are still talking about Hunter’s laptop.

We are still talking about JFK, RFK, MLK, USS Liberty, Covid Vaccine, the list goes on.

Horrific crimes perpetrated against humanity that have not been resolved or for which no one has been held accountable.

Of course, Texas is a disaster, but that does not lessen the need for accountability.

Does your mortgage stop because a bank financially collapses?

Where is the appointment of a new 9/11 Commission?

I, for one, am never letting this go. I don’t care if Trump himself is on the list…I’m never letting it go until Justice is served.

What we need is a full investigation into the connections between Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, Gislaine and Isabel Maxwell are obviously a part of something bigger. If we have people working for Intel agencies, if it be CIA, MI6, ASIO, or Mossad, they cannot be allowed to break the law within our communities without answering for their crimes. Just because an individual marks something classified should never shield them from scrutiny forever.

We have to look at the why behind the compromise.

Why was it allowed to happen in the U.S. Virgin Islands, under U.S. jurisdiction?

Why did intelligence agencies stand down—or even participate?

Why did so many Hollywood elites and political insiders go back to that island again and again?

What laws were passed, what policies were influenced, and who was paid off as a result?

The list of actors, musicians, politicians, and billionaires connected to Epstein is endless, and most of them are still free, still rich, and still making decisions that affect your life.

This wasn’t just blackmail—it was engineered leverage to reshape the world.

🇺🇸 We’re done paying taxes to elite pedophiles and compromised politicians.

We want names. We want indictments. We want justice.

We’re not letting this go.

NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID.

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#Söder, #CSU lügt beim rechtsextremen #NIUS rum, dass #Österreich aus der #NATO austreten könnte und schürt Angst, dass wenn sie aus der Nato austreten, sie sofort von irgendwem angegriffen würden.

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Österreich war noch nie Nato-Mitglied. Söder macht #Propaganda.

#Kriegspropaganda #Aufrüstung #Bundeswehr #CDU #Rechtsextremismus #FakeNews

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Lobbyists linked to Donald Trump paid millions by world’s poorest countries | Global development | The Guardian
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"Somalia, DR Congo and Yemen among states forced to sign deals and barter their minerals for aid or military support"

#Trump #Fascism #Colonialism


Lobbyists linked to Donald Trump paid millions by world’s poorest countries

Mark Townsend (The Guardian)

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Die Diskussion, die Frau Klöckner mit dem Verbot der Regenbogenfahne ausgelöst hat, nimmt absurde Züge an und wirft die Frage auf: Wann übertriebene Neutralität zur Unterstützung der Rechten wird?


Siehe: taz.de/Hausordnung-des-Bundest…

Also Regenbogen 🌈 im Abgeordnetenbüro ist verboten. Ein Bild von Marx oder Bismarck an der Wand ist ebenfalls ein politisches Statement oder nur ein Bild. Dabei gehen uns aus Unkenntnis einige Symbole durch die Lappen wie die blaue Kornblume: taz.de/Rechte-Vereinnahmung-de…

Ein Strauß mit blauen Kornblumen auf dem Schreibtisch ist also schon ein Symbol. Es wurden auch schon Abgeordnete mit einer Anstecknadel gesehen, die eine blaue Kornblume zeigte.

Aber davon hat Frau Klöckner keine Ahnung. Sie fokussiert sich auf den Regenbogen, der ursprünglich für Frieden steht und gegen Frieden haben nur böse Menschen etwas.

Wie so häufig in der Geschichte werden vermeintlich linke Symbole verboten und auf dem rechten Auge ist man blind.

Neutralität ist was anderes!

#politik #Bundestag #Neutralität #Problem #Klöckner #niewiedercdu #niemehrcdu #union #Demokratie #Verarschung #zukunft #noafd #nonazis #Deutschland #Solidarität #kornblume #symbol


Rechte Vereinnahmung der Kornblume: Lasst uns blaue Blumen pflanzen

Am Revers von so manchem Rechten steckt die blaue Kornblume. Doch das Blümchen ist zu hübsch für diese politische Instrumentalisierung.
Maike Brülls (taz)

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#quebec

Citation de Gabriel Giguère
Analyste senior en politiques publiques à l’Institut économique de Montréal (IEDM)

Alors que le Québec ne représente que 22 % de la population canadienne, ses citoyens et ses citoyennes ont été la cible d’environ 90 % des arrêts de travail au pays au cours des trois dernières années. La quasi-totalité de ces arrêts a été des grèves.

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#quebec #histoire #stat

Citation de Gabriel Giguère
Analyste senior en politiques publiques à l’Institut économique de Montréal (IEDM)

Si vous avez l’impression que les grèves sont de plus en plus courantes ces dernières années, vous n’avez pas la berlue.

En 2023, le Québec a enregistré un record de 691 arrêts de travail⁠, dont la quasi-totalité a pris la forme de grèves, fracassant ainsi le record précédent de 384 arrêts de travail établi en 1974 à l’époque de la commission Cliche.

En 2024, le record a été battu de nouveau, avec 759 arrêts de travail recensés dans la province. Et pour les deux premiers mois de 2025 seulement, les Québécois et les Québécoises en ont déjà subi 378.

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Looking forward to speaking at Defuse – Design for Use in Dublin on November 10th about breaking the rules and doing things differently (and yes, the Small Web).

Mark it on your calendars and come along if you’re free.

defuse.ixd.ie

#design #IxDA #Dublin #Defuse #DefuseDublin #dublin #ireland #event #SmallTech #SmallWeb

Defuse - Design for Use | Monday, 10th November 2025

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TODAY! Join us for a live discussion to celebrate 35 years of EFF and learn what's on the horizon for technology users: eff.org/livestream-35

EFFecting Change: EFF Turns 35!

Since 1990, EFF's lawyers, activists, analysts, and technologists have used everything in their toolkit to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.
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2025-07-10 15:39:36

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Brigitte Macron déboutée en appel dans son procès en diffamation contre Natacha #Rey
Ce jeudi 10 juillet, la cour d’appel de Paris a relaxé Natacha Rey et Amandine #Roy, les deux femmes accusées de diffamation par Brigitte Macron. Une très mauvaise surprise pour l’Elysée.


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#macron #macronie #brigitte #jean-michel #trogneux


Brigitte Macron déboutée en appel dans son procès en diffamation contre Natacha Rey

Ce jeudi 10 juillet, la cour d’appel de Paris a relaxé Natacha Rey et Amandine Roy, les deux femmes accusées de diffamation par Brigitte Macron. Une très mauvaise surprise pour l’Elysée.
Emmanuelle Anizon (Le Nouvel Obs)

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datarama

@kravemir @m It's a glib social media toot, so there's that.

I think the biggest problems currently facing humans (specifically in the general region I call home; there are others elsewhere) are hollowing of democratic society, and the climate disaster. In any society where money can be used to buy influence (which is effectively any society that has money at all - the buying of influence can range from running influence campaigns, to outright trying to buy an election, to buying a major medium like eg. what Musk did with Twitter), billionaires are almost definitionally an anti-democratic force: They have enormously more power than any other individual, but they have no democratic mandate behind that power. They can (and often do) make decisions that have huge impacts on many other people's lives, with the affected people having zero influence - this is *the opposite* of democratic governance, and people subjected to seemingly random whims of billionaires understandably become disillusioned in democratic norms. (This is one, but not the only, cause of the rise of modern fascism.)

Billionaires generally lead disproportionately energy- (and emissions-) intensive lives - by 2024, the emissions caused by a single billionaire in 90 minutes was about equal to the lifetime emissions of an average person (see oxfam.org/en/press-releases/bi…). Many of them have fortunes directly tied up in the fossil fuel economy (or in activities that are powered by fossil fuels) and actively resist legislative action that tries to curb emissions. Furthermore, the enormous fortunes commanded by billionaires will *only* be used to combat said problems if a billionaire chooses to - which they often won't, because both are directly against their current financial interest. If all those resources were directly available for eg. climate change mitigation, decarbonization and economic aid for the global south (rather than eg. funding private jets, recreational space tourism and renting an entire city centre for a wedding), we'd all be in a lot less dire situation than we are, I think.

Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime | Oxfam International

Oxfam International
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Miroslav Kravec

@m thanks for the elaborate reply.

However, basically it boils to two core problems:

- power being in wrong hangs (who doesn't (need to) care),
- wealth and consumption unevenly distributed (to the point of wasteful vanity by very privileged people).

This is present in capitalism. However, I don't think, or at least not persuaded that any (sustainable) political system is immune to these issues.

I maybe reply more later. This is interesting topic, food for though.

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datarama

@kravemir @m Those problems have been present in every political system ever practiced, and I'm not sure they can ever be *eliminated* - this is my main beef with "utopian" schools of left-wing politics, in fact. Even in an anarchist commune, you'd very likely see informal power (and luxury excess) accruing to the most charismatic anarchists. You have to build specific mechanisms to mitigate these problems, and pretending they don't exist is an effective way to make sure they don't get mitigated.

(I think anyone who has spent significant time in an actual anarchist activist community has probably seen a variation of this play out. I certainly have. "We don't have any leader, and we all agree exactly who our leader isn't!", to riff off Terry Pratchett.)

But I do think they can be substantially reduced (and yes, capitalism is an obstacle to that). At present, a lower-hanging fruit for doing this (lower-hanging than The Glorious Revolution That Fixes Everything, at least) would be some form of income or wealth cap that effectively makes it impossible for any individual to become a billionaire.

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Anthony

The level of wealth and income inequality in the United States today surpasses the then-absurd extremes of the Gilded Age of a century ago. Sure, unevan distribution happens, but this particular neoliberal political system effects a wealth pump upwards into the hands of a very few individuals at an unprecedented rate and scale that cannot be sustained. Billionaires are a visible symptom of the pathology. According to Peter Turchin, this wealth pump will almost surely result in a catastrophe of some kind that could end up being bloody; even if you don't believe Turchin's theories, it'll certainly result in unacceptable mass immiseration (and arguably already has). A smarter system would employ government power and resources to distribute wealth more evenly and fairly, something we used to do in the United States but stopped doing from the 1970s onward.

As for power being in the wrong hands, there are no right hands for power to be in. There are no special anointed ones who are immune to the corrupting influence of power. Power too should be distributed, to reduce this risk.

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#statist #vs #plebs

Our woke-lefty politicians, in their grand crusade against overtourism — oh that smells like some eco-friendly suit-and-tie spiel, all neat and tidy — are actually just throwing class contempt right in our faces.

Their dream? That Bob, Ginette, and Roger stay quietly in their living rooms watching slideshows like back in the ’70s, not a hair out of place, no wild adventures.

Planes? They should remain a private club: for those who know how to behave, who know how to spend taxpayers’ money without causing a fuss.

They don’t want to see those yokels in Crocs, those savages clapping like clowns when the plane lands in Tokyo or Mexico.

And above all, absolutely no ugly selfies in front of the Mona Lisa — it degrades art, it embarrasses the Louvre.

In short, the high society of political correctness wants to keep tourism for their well-born friends, while the rest… well, they can watch their slideshows and stay well-behaved.

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#etatiste #vs #gueux

Nos politicailleux woke-gauchistes, dans leur grande croisade contre le surtourisme — oh ça, ça sent le truc écolo en costard, bien propre sur lui — en réalité, ils nous balancent un mépris de classe à la face.

Leur rêve ? Que Bob, Ginette et Roger restent bien sagement dans leur salon à mater des diapos comme dans les années 70, pas un poil qui dépasse, pas une aventure qui dérape.

L’avion, ça doit rester un club privé : pour ceux qui savent se tenir, qui savent claquer le pognon du contribuable sans faire de vagues.

Faut pas voir ces bouseux en Crocs, ces sauvages qui applaudissent comme des clowns quand l’avion se pose à Tokyo ou Mexico.

Et surtout, surtout, pas question de selfies moches devant la Mona Lisa, ça dégrade l’art, ça fout la honte au Louvre.

Bref, la haute société du politiquement correct veut garder le tourisme pour ses copains bien nés, pendant que les autres, ben… qu’ils regardent leurs diapos et qu’ils restent bien sages.

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#trump #humor

Donald Trump, a guy with about as much culture as a pickle stuck in a jar, a dude who would make the president from the movie Idiocracy look good, has struck again.

He complimented Liberian President Joseph Boakai on his "excellent English"... without seeming to realize that English has been the official language of Liberia since its founding in 1847! It’s like me congratulating a goldfish for knowing how to swim.

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Estoy hasta los cojones de mi trabajo.

¿Alguien necesita una técnica informática y/o oficinista estándar en Girona o provincia? Soy experta en hardware y Windows, domino Office; me defiendo en macOS y Linux y smartphones y en general soy lo mejor que le podrá pasar a un PC.

Tengo 12 años de experiencia reparando PCs y 2 como oficinista (recepcionista/logística/atención al cliente/compras).

#empleo #buscotrabajo

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Gesucht: eine Plattform, wo ich eingeben kann, wann ich fertig war, mit Schule, und mir dann – sinnvollerweise sortiert nach Themenbereichen – gezeigt wird, welche Sachen, die ich damals als Stand der Wissenschaft gelernt habe, längst überholt sind. Und mir dann die Gelegenheit gibt zu lernen, was heute der wissenschaftliche Konsens dazu ist
Wie ich darauf komme? Die Große macht nächstes Jahr Abi, und es gibt Fächer wie Bio, wo das, was ich gelernt habe, mittlerweile völlig überholt ist.
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Benjamin Braatz

@rostbot @_tillwe_ @leisefuxx Kann mir auch nicht wirklich vorstellen, dass Wakefield je so etabliert war, dass das auch nur in die Nähe von Schulstoff gekommen wäre (was “since graduation” im Seiten-Titel ja irgendwie nahelegt). Wahrscheinlich einfach nur ein *so* prominentes Beispiel von einer zerstörerischen Widerlegung, dass sie es unbedingt drin haben wollten.
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Bilal Barakat 🍉

@HeptaSean @rostbot @_tillwe_ @leisefuxx

Ich habe damals in UK studiert und schon die unmittelbare Berichterstattung über das 1998 Paper mitbekommen. In Wissenschaftskreisen war das vom Start weg eine Lachnummer und hat praktisch vom nächsten Tag an als Paradebeispiel für statistische Denkfehler gedient. Noch vor 2000 gab es dann schon eine ‘offizielle' Review von Dutzenden von Experten, die eine komplette Abwesenheit irgendeiner Evidenz für die Sache festgehalten hat. Also dass das Wakefield Paper keinerlei wissenschaftliche Qualität hat, war schon klar, lange, lange bevor dann rauskam, dass es sogar ein Fake war.

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