and now he's a "philanthropist"

emphasis on the quotes since he's put his wealth into a charity; like most of the utlra wealth do; to avoid taxes so now he's legally required to spent 5% of it in philanthropy.

Through a series of seven experiments, the team measured how toddlers demonstrated preferences for people with differing amounts of particular kinds of resources they desired—toys and snacks. Besides a bias toward the more "wealthy" person who had more resources, the children showed dislike and avoidance of those whom researchers labeled in the experiments as the "poorer" individuals.

i think that explains why people like the kardashians are a thing.

Over and over, the children showed that they tracked wealth, preferred to help those who were richer and were more likely to play with those who had more resources.

and i wonder if this explains the appeal of people like musk or bezos

they were trying to make a windows alternative since microsoft was using their leverage w windows to make corel lose money and courts were doing little more than slapping microsoft on the wrist for doing it.

i could understand it when biden was running; that guy was responsible for whipping up so much anti-gay hate that people back in the day thought that he was too rabidly conservative to be president when he tried running for president in the past; but now the overton window has shifted so far to the right the people call him progressive and the gays he's fucked over will never vote for him; it's only the young or the gays lucky enough to never experience his anti-gay fervor that wanted to vote for him.

i used to wonder why anyone cared if there were any women in the chat rooms; it should have been the first clue that i wasn't straight. lol

why do scooters have to be name brand?

they'll not only shoot you; but each other as well. lol

i doubt it since every single monied interest has come out against this change and people like that don't sit around and hope things change in their favor; they use their money to force it and money is the perfect thing to force a government to require a small, manipulable group to decide on who gets to judge.

what happens january 2nd?

bigotry exists in all forms; but it's only the kind expressed by the uneducated & poor that gets rebuke and this one has been committed in plain sight since the 1980's by the wealthy and educated.

i bet that the people who made this decision were dealing with the AIDS epidemic

tests have been available since the 1980's; they just don't want gays there.

I'm not allowed to give blood since I'm gay and have an active sex life

-- maybe true in soviet russia; but in capitalist america it's merely native american reservation relocation. lol

isreal is culling the native population down to a small, manageable, non-threatening population where they can throw token sorry-for-the-genocide money at their generationally impoverished reservation from now on.

linux, vegans, leftists, etc.; doesn't matter if they're right, just fuck 'em. lol

If anything, at least more people see the blatant hypocrisy, now more than ever.

the lemmyverse is one of the most progressive social media platform that has ever existed; but messages like this are banned if they come from some instances and brigaded away from existence with dog whistled moderator & admin support on the largest lemmyverse instance, lemmy.world, and yet no one on lemmy.world sees the blatant hypocrisy

the voter id thing is over simplified, easy sound bite, misdirection selected because having an id to vote has a broad consensus with everybody so long as you don't look beyond the surface of what it actually means:

voters in this country already have id's and have to show id to vote so they're not referring to the act of voting; they're referring to the act of registering to vote because the federal government doesn't define it well so the states insert their own version of it and most of the state governments in this country are republican which use "voter id" as a means to suppress democrat voters within their jurisdictions.

in other words: if you cannot register to vote, then you are not allowed to vote; it doesn't matter that the federal government could recognize your id as legitimate for voting, it only matters than your state does and your state is not legally required to match the federal government's definition of acceptable voting id if it existed. conservative states know this; are a solid majority in this country and are using their majority position to pressure the federal government into adopting it to suppress the other party's voters.

for decades, the conservative state and city governments have been receiving financial and advisory support from dark monied astro-turfed conservative movements that have spent millions of dollars and decades worth of experiments on cherry picked court cases and using their relationship with the governments to test out policies that could have the effect that conservatives desire to see in our society. using "voter id" is something that they spent a lot of time and money and effort reviewing over and over again and it was money will spent because now people think they know what it means based on it's name; but that understanding is shallow.

But I bet they won’t.

they literally didn't the last time around like they didn't every single time before then; why would they next time?

how she contrasts with cheney has little impact on the genocide; future the cia induced coups; nor the continuing widening wealth gap; etc.

cheney is an accelerant and aoc is an inhibitor to the same child bombing, rich guy party we're calling a country since people like cheney hold all of he cards and the best people like aoc can hope for is play along and act surprised each time they re-discover that the game is rigged toward's cheney's side each time people like aoc fail and cling on increasingly rarer watered down victories to justify the relatively tiny distinctions between the two.

<SARCASM> and even when they fail it's simply because you didn't vote hard enough and ABSOLUTELY NOT because your vote is diminished or suppressed because only lazy non-voting americans are simply too lazy to overcome studied, coordinated, and court-busting-proven astro-turfed national conservative movements financed by unknown multi-milion/bilion dollar interests in coordination with most states and the federal governments since 1980, all intent on keeping them from voting..</SARCASM>

Whatever your opinion about this situation, you will be better served by presenting it alongside a more complete and accurate respresentation of facts than this screenshot of a tweet contains.

is it possible to fit this level of nuance in a headline?

They want a device that “just works” and has their ecosystem.

i have friends that struggle to pay rent and they're forced to pay apple's extortion-esque prices when something goes wrong or when purchasing their phones and equipment.

witnessing them suffer like this hits close to home for me because i grew up poor enough to ration out the government cheese & powdered milk along with asking extended family and begging neighbors for food so that we could stay alive until next payday and also because i'm tech savvy enough to understand how unscrupulously apple has behaved at creating this well designed trap of an ecosystem that's actively easy to fall into and passively difficult to leave; locking my friends into a seeming perpetually repeating cycle of new iphones and government cheese.

i think that the icing on this shit-cake is that they're all atleast vaguely aware that apple is screwing them over; but they still accept it because it either "just works" or it's "all they know" and that blows my mind because 5-year-old-me HATED government powdered milk in my cereal enough to switch to oatmeal for breakfast if it were an option.

"compromise with the rich" would have been very on-the-nose

the other guys gonna do it anyway so you have to give me consent because I rape less

in a capitalist system; you can can use the spirit of a free market to shop around and find someone who will rape you the least.

it's a requirement not to be homeless in our late stage situation.

if you're referring to climate change and i would expect that it would cause the 4th near human extinction event at a minimum; so there's a chance humanity will survive and there will be some sort of a society if it does.

perhaps since we've exhausted most of the easily accessible sources of energy; maybe the next society won't be able to advance past the next stone age on-wards to develop the industrial or technological capabilities that enable such absurd disparities in wealth they can afford to bend the entire world to their will for a genocide; rending 99% of the world helpless as they can do nothing but witness palestinians culled into numbers small enough that isreal no longer considers them a threat.

Harris is Palestines best bet at continued existence. Sorry if that hurts your feelings or something…

continued existence is going to happen one way or the other. isreal is going for an american style genocide which means kill enough of the natives so that they're a small, manageable enough number and then your country can spend the rest of its existence throwing enough $$$ at their reservations to ostensibly show you're "super sorry" that you genocided so many of them; but not enough to for them to ever escape this newly imposed generational poverty and also without any promise that your country won't ever fuck them over again in the future when another pipeline needs to be built.

Weird timeline we’re in.

neoliberals and conservatives are flip sides of the same coin to be spent in the same vending machine of american hegemony; whether or not they select the same flavor makes little difference compared to the very real choices available in some other vending machines rich enough to effectively defend itself from the american machine.

a toddler throws a tantrum when it thinks it can get something it wants from the adult and democrats have a history of giving these toddlers what they wanted when they tantrum-ed hard enough; their current party leader literally used to brag about doing so in his 2020 campaign.

It’s a matter of time.

i wish that timescale wasn't in the centuries.

you're right; my diagnosis is recent and i haven spent enough time learning about it.

you'd think that getting public support from a facist like cheney would engender some rebuke from kamala; afterall if 10 people are sitting at a table; a nazis joins and no one says anything; then there are 11 nazis sitting at a table.

likewise an endorsement also suggests similarly aligned political views between cheney and kamala; but moderates are only choosing to see it a rebuke of trump somehow.

You’re getting down voted but this is what it feels like watching our gargantuan government help eradicate an entire people...

-- again.

sometimes the sense of helplessness that comes from watching us repeat the history that everyone abhors and ignores makes me wish that i was a moderate so that i can fool myself into believing that voting for one genocider was better than voter for another genocider.

i also wonder if my existence at the intersection of several vulnerable communities would eventually dispel that world view anyways if i were a moderate since there are so many brown, immigrant, gay, autistic conservatives.

these 2 countries were so intertwined in the past thanks to their penchants for apartheid governments that they literally shared nuclear secrets with each other to build their own nuclear bombs; one dropped apartheid and now they're adversaries.

i'm too autistic to care about other people's feelings when i share my political opinions and my post history is littered with it especially since my life has also been heavily impacted by clinton enacting don't ask don't tell; biden extolling executive order 10450; clinton, bush jr, obama, trump and biden's immigration policies; the country's student loan debt situation created by biden's student loan act; biden using the inflation reduction action to block truly affordable EV's; and biden banning tiktok.

i'll save you the trouble of going through my post history and give you a tldr: both clintons & biden are shit stains in this country's political history and have fucked me over much more than trump could ever fantasize about; even with project 2025. i also wish kamala was better so that i could vote for her, but she's seems hellbent on make sure that i don't; so i'm 99% sure i'll end up voting for the green party again as i have done in the past 12 years, but this time around i'm deeply touched that nearly all of the people who know and care about me will be doing something similar thanks to my proselytizing.

i think you just described the majority of the republican and democratic parties

a doma enabled deportation of my life partner 12 years ago.

it was a life altering event that turned me from a liberal into a leftist.

biden busted the rail road strike and also likely to bust the upcoming port worker strike; but he's not bothering with this one and i wonder why.

if that were all they touched, it would be fine; but i've lost track of the number of times i setup a linux system for newbies and got emergency phone calls that the install was broken only to discover that they clicked on some kde setting somewhere that they both forgot about and didn't understand.

it's sort of like people deleting the windows folder on a windows system because they don't think that they use it.

i keep regretting donating to this guy's campaigns more and more every year.

Were you at atheist at the time if circumcision? If so; why did you go along w it when they asked you if you wanted to circumcise your son? Did the fact that insurance didn't cover since they deem it medically unnecessary ring any alarm bells at all?

If it's you're first install go with gnome since it's intentionally simplified.

You WILL get lost in all of the customization options that are available in KDE and most xwindows environments if you have no experience w anything besides Windows or Mac