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the tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

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The latest numbers show inflation cooling.

But rent prices are still high and are the main driver of inflation now.

Just so happens that recent investigations have found evidence of algorithmic price-fixing by major corporate landlords.

High interest rates won't fix this.

benroyce ,
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@rbreich why can't they just pass a law against corporations owning real estate

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34 felony convictions
54 pending criminal charges
2 impeachments
2 popular vote losses
$88M owed to E Jean Carroll
$450M owed for civil fraud
$8T added to nat'l debt
2.9M net loss of jobs

Is this what Trump meant when he promised "numbers like we've never seen"?

benroyce ,
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@rbreich

yeah but trump said racist things, so he's a hero to a certain subset of the USA

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Say it isn't so. https://www.comicsands.com/dennis-quaid-trump-supporter-interview-2668407799.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

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@georgetakei

i don't even care what this quaid yahoo thinks

the only hollywood celebrity i care about is george takei

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Trump's Mar-a-Lago trial should've started today, but the judge (whom he appointed) delayed it.

The Jan 6 trial should've been in March, but the Supreme Court's MAGA justices delayed that too.

If Trump was innocent, you'd think he'd want to clear his name before the election.

benroyce ,
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@rbreich

No.

An honorable man wants to clear his name.

Nobody thinks Trump is an honorable man, not even Trump.

The real problem is nobody cares.

His name is mud and vast swaths of the country are fine with that.

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Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal

Anti-AI users who change or delete answers in protest are being punished.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/stack-overflow-users-sabotage-their-posts-after-openai-deal/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

benroyce ,
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@arstechnica

your social output will be fodder for enshittified plastic content generator

submission is compulsory

uggh

all these poor stack overflow users joined in when it was the sheer pleasure of exchanging knowledge

and now they are grist to feed a machine

what a world

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Always too fast or too slow...

benroyce ,
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@georgetakei

the secret is to not fight the windshield wiper

accept the windshield wiper

make peace with the arbitrary mechanical algorithm and accept it into your soul

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I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us...

But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?

benroyce ,
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@rbreich

"worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps"

🤦

is co-owned by Jeff Yass

the biggest donor

robert: he's the vice chair of the f***ing Cato Institute

tiktok users are funding the GOP and conservative desolation of the

i've typed this comment 5-10 times in

why do people not know this?

why the f*** do people have this ignorant belief tiktok is magically different from ? it's the same plutocrat sh**

https://www.influencewatch.org/person/jeffrey-yass/

georgetakei , to Random
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For the Trumps, facts are inconvenient things. https://secondnexus.com/eric-trump-father-busy-stormy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

benroyce ,
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@georgetakei

ah yes, the issue is just "bookkeeping"

so a simple manipulation: change the topic

simply because the malice involves a cash payout, the con men will say it's just about "bookkeeping"

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Is there a grade higher than A+??

benroyce ,
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@georgetakei

What?

Who?

How?

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Exactly.

benroyce ,
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@georgetakei

oh i enjoy the weekly emails from the website i purchased from 9 years ago once (/s)

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Rare bubonic plague case in Oregon spread from very sick pet cat

The person's cat was reportedly extremely ill and had a draining abscess.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/rare-bubonic-plague-case-in-oregon-spread-from-very-sick-pet-cat/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica i think the cat pictured is unrelated to the story, but whoever chose that cat pic did a good job of communicating the right emotion from the cat's perspective

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