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It is telling that you took, “stop blaming women for everything” personally to the point that you decided to insult them.

Do some self-criticism.

Smartest liberal strategy: just lie a bunch.

It is a decoupling plan and imperialists turn to war to solve capitalist crisis, so in a sense yes but the context is important. It’s also important to understand that the Trump admin is being so open and stupid about it that it is undermining their own plan. Liberal administrations know that decoupling from China would best be done by peeling off other imperialized countries to do the manufacturing while slowly subsidizing (largely automated) industrialization in the USA. That is essentially what Obama and Biden sought, though they were also incompetent at this domestically because finance ate up all of their stimuluses.

Trump gives China amazing propaganda victories at home and abroad. Propaganda victories that allow it to protect itself against that decoupling when they would otherwise have needed to fight liberals at home and abroad much harder to achieve needed defensive policies.

I think those are thunder calves

Log scales are great but cannot be understood by the vast majority of people. They simply aren’t taught to a level of comprehension.

War has been merged with PR for quite a long time, particularly in the empire. An omnipresent example is relabeling the war department and war itself as “defense”, or in this case “deterrence”, even though it is used exclusively for wars of aggression.

That also happens in the US of course. Big companies are very patent-happy because they can harass smaller companies with bogus patent lawsuits using them.

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Costco is the latter but it’s a grocery store so their mechanisms are limited. Here’s a Costco union busting just a few days ago: https://dailyiowan.com/2025/03/30/workers-accuse-coralville-costco-of-union-busting/

Also you should accept that every company with a union wants it gone and is trying to find ways to kill it. Hire more staff to non-union positions, shrink union positions, delay contract negotiations, close unionized shops preferentially, buy off union leadership with perks/collaborationism. Many a petite bourgeoisie has shuttered their union shop citing financial problems only to reopen a few months later, suddenly union-free. And of course, slowly whittling away union sentiment and pushing a decert.

“AI” is just pattern recognition and reproduction models. They routinely fail at basic tasks. It is like having an incompetent junior dev that you have to watch like a hawk because not only do they write bad code, they routinely steal it from copyrighted sources. It helps bad coders pretend to be good ones because their code follows a popular pattern but it is often the wrong pattern for solving the problem - a problem they didn’t actually think about because they thought “AI” would solve it.

The real business case for LLMs in tech is as a propaganda tool for disciplining labor. Tech labor is in demand and therefore expensive. Executives and managers would like to decrease those wages and “AI” provides a rhetorical means by which to do so, including justifying rounds of firings. Productivity will crash because they are literally just layoffs to make higher profits, not because tasks have been automated.

This aligns with the general expectation of a market crash, which has been brewing for years and is now being more or less intentionally created. The big companies are building up “war chests” so that they can scoop up companies that fail and increase their monopolies during the later bailout period.

All lizards want to be a snake. But only a select few are chosen for greatness.

The EU doesn’t know how to do anything else.

internal discussions

This shows up on my main feed. Lemmy has had the ability to designate local-only communities for over a year. This is a public, federated post.

Show the posts and comments and all will be revealed.

It achieved false catharsis, the main scam product Democrats are always selling. Performative nonsense immediately contradicted by their actual (lack of) actions. Immediately afterwards they helped confirm a Trump judicial appointment with help from Booker. His long speech wasn’t even to delay any legislation. It has no so-called momentum, which you can note has no stated descriptors in the other comment. Momentum for what? Sitting on your hands and then voting for them again in 4 years? This is not a real political party, it is just the controlled opposition of the US political duopoly trying its usual parlor tricks to make its potential voters stop recognizing how they aren’t cleaning house or really doing anything at all.

Real parties do exist. It is a struggle due to the aforementioned duopoly and general level of political education in the USA, but it is a struggle worth joining because this is the only “opposition” you will ever see being forwarded by the Democratic Party by its own volition. Every bit of progress has been hard fought and its vanguard has always been left organizing outside of the major parties. Join that vsnguard!

Save money, learn to live cheaply, and become a socialist organizing your community.

That’s correct. SEIU is wed to the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party supports most of what Trump does but knows it would be bad optics to outright say so. And they have no functional means of resistance - their constant goal is to get elected by simply not being Republicans so that they don’t have to actually implement publicly beneficial policy. And because of this, they guarantee a Republican victory the next time around. So SEIU has a worse than useless political arm, it actually works against itself due to myopia, liberal cooption, and corruption.

But the nice thing about organized labor is that you can struggle within it. You can help make your local better, help tie it to practical action, help get socialists into positions of power within it. It will sometimes be a fight but this is also infinitely more impact than you would ever have via electoral politics.

It is self-hosting. But use your own servers for anything critical for privacy. Any VPS provider could snoop if they wanted to.

Security and privacy benefits from building threat models. It is good to understand how trackable you are on the internet and walking around with your phone.

Do you need to think about how trackable your phone is if you are driving to and from the grocery store? At most you are providing information that the interested parties already have (where you live, where you shop, and when you shop). If you ran into some trouble it could be useful to have not had a tracking device in your pocket, but otherwise little to worry about.

On the other hand if you are taking part in a sensitive action, then yes you need to leave your phone at home or turned off and in a Faraday bag. If it is particularly sensitive then you need to make sure everyone involved does that. Having a tracking device that shows you were at the location at that time is very bad for you and your compatriots. If you need to communicate on-site, use walkie talkies and speak in code. And plan your action around not having comms. This will make your action better planned out in the first place, which is also important for security.

A threat model makes all the difference.

You need to buy more storage to archive Blu-Rays