Jared 🔶

« Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities. »

The problem is that kind of thing often backfires, because then people who are on the fence wonder “why do they need to pay/force me to take this?”

Well, this is the UK, where the government thinks universities are gold-plated elitist ivory towers while in fact the sector is close to bankruptcy. And they’re actively choking our funding (international students - as domestic fees are capped) for culture war reasons! 🙃

At least games only take up a row in your steam library, books take up space on your shelf 😅

I don’t care if they’re using Jewish scripture to justify any of it, that doesn’t make it right to ascribe their actions to Judaism/Jews as a whole. Millions of non-Israeli Jews worldwide go about their days without committing genocide. Even many Israelis are opposed to the war.

Thanks. I’ve found it now, that’s fucking awful. Hoping the legal challenges succeed…

If you can collect money from 30-50 feral hogs rushing into your yard, you’re in business

What’ve they done today specifically? Since I’m seeing a lot of commentary on bathroom bans so I assume something happened but I haven’t seen it!

I work in a sector (academia) where real wages have dropped something like 20-30% in the past two decades, plugging salaries from 2005 (or even 2019!) into an inflation calculator is seriously depressing lol.

Things feel so fucked right now.

That’s a funny way to spell genocide

What the fuck do you mean, “Jewish” concentration camp? The genocide is being carried out by Israel.

FYI, the link card takes me to a consultation from 2018 while the text one takes me to this year’s one. Confused me a little so you might want to add a note to the end of this thread!

I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

Nope, MAGA are rich as fuck, backed by the world’s richest man. Meanwhile Zohran Mamdani rents and rides the subway. People like him are relying on donations from other ordinary people like you in order to fund their campaigns!

fluorescences

I don’t want to assume anything but there’s no point in giving up before then and it’s the first opportunity to actually trounce them, instead of delaying them.

If the Bezos-owned WaPo can do it, why not the BBC?

Why not donate to those people in Texas or Mamdani? Or even Elizabeth Warren, she’s been going hard and is one of the most left-wing figures in mainstream US politics. Or Governor Pritzker. Or many other figures who’ve stood up and met the needs of the moment.

If I understand that deflation is very, very bad for an economy, then I understand economics better than you!

99% of people will just read the notification and never click on the article. It’s a shame but it’s why the notification is the most important part.

Here’s the push notification, I didn’t get a screenshot. It’s bad.

www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Ok? Fascists will win the last *ever* election if you don’t stand up and defend democracy, and that means standing in solidarity with all anti-fascists. Not just the ones who are the exact same type of communist you are.

Could RFK Jr's move to pull mRNA vaccine funding be a huge miscalculation? The US is withdrawing $500m for vaccines for diseases like flu and Covid. Health correspondent James Gallagher asks if it's the right call.

I’ve sent in a complaint about this having a biased headline (and a worse push notification) that wrongly assumes good faith on the part of RFK Jr, when this is a *well calculated* attack on vaccine science and healthcare.

You should too!

www.bbc.com/news/article...

I see, you’d much rather the fascists win. Got it!

That’s your fucking takeaway from this? They lost the election so they should lose the next one harder? If MAGA isn’t stopped at the midterms it’s curtains for US democracy.

Thank you, as a quantum physicist I know nothing about exponential growth so I’m glad to have it explained to me.

My point being it’s not 5% now and high inflation lasted a year or two, so saying it corresponds to a doubling time of 14 years is meaningless and alarmist. 2-3% inflation is healthy.

I’m acting that out to try and imagine why and I just can’t.

this entire thread is you misunderstanding what Huginn originally said (the only difference is with RCV he obtained an actual majority) and then getting mad at something they didn’t say (that he had a majority to start with)

Stop trying to convince yourself that other democracies are doing worse than the US. Right now there are arrest warrants out for dozens of legislators because they tried to stop someone rigging an election, while people are getting deported to a Venezuelan black site for parking fines.

Yes but that’s your fancy coffee putting up their prices for reasons that might be incredibly coffee-specific (for example, climate change is making it harder to grow beans).

On average, for each $100 you spend, it’ll go up 42¢ per month. (No-one claimed groceries are $100/month, read it again)