The American Prospect has some really good recent articles about this. We’ve entered a new age of personal pricing. Companies have so much data on us that the price that I see when I visit a website is no longer necessarily the price that you see.

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-04-one-person-one-price/

My Asus zenbook, purchased in 2015, is still going strong. They’re pretty affordable and at least from my experience have held up well. I’m pretty sure you can run Linux on them too.

Fun fact - this is why Mr. Burns always answers the phone with “ahoy”

Democracy Now is my main source

I also listen to NPR to hear what narratives the state department is pushing

lol this comment is a great example of a lib grasping for a weak explanation instead of criticizing Hillary Clinton.

Fun fact: Congressional representatives can’t be recalled.

The movie surprised me, I thought it was really well done.

Never stop reminding them that abortion rights were lost while Democrats controlled the presidency and Congress.

Biden is bending over backwards to funnel weapons to Israel. I don’t remember him going the extra mile to protect abortion rights at all.

There’s also a slow but building effort to bring back brick and mortar video rental stores using a non-profit model. I know at least Seattle and Baltimore have this.

I think it’s referring to a string of recent NYT articles basically admitting Ukraine is losing

Innocent soul

The question is in reference to a public statement Austin made a few weeks ago, where he said that indiscriminately killing civilians may lead to a “tactical victory” but in the long term it results in a “strategic defeat”.

Basically admitting that asides from it being awful on moral grounds it’s a bad idea strategically too.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/3604755/a-time-for-american-leadership-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-i/

Lots of folks in here debating what he wrote as correct or not.

When I first took the time to actually read Bin Ladens reasoning I remember being caught really off guard as we were blasted with messaging via the news and through political speeches that 9/11 happened because “terrorists hate our freedom” etc.

So just taking the time to actually read what the guy said - regardless of whether he was correct or not - and realizing the disconnect with what I had been told to be his reasoning, had an impact on me. This was over a decade ago.

I think that alone is important.

Democracy Now

Just follow the Bogle strategy. Low fee index funds.

I don’t have Twitter but someone tell him cretinous means stupid you dummy

Myth of Sisyphus helped me through a lotta shit in my early 20’s

Got any links to help me learn about building media boxes?

Remember what it was like before you were born? It’s like that

Easy. Threaten them. Remove them from committees. Cut their funding from DNC. Many many things could have been done.

You would learn more if instead of asking “what could they have done” but instead asking “why didn’t they do anything”.

They didn’t do anything.