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Was on 💩🐦site to help drive one set of billionaires (#Glazersout) out of my beloved football club when another man child billionaire decided it was his turn to play space karen on earth...

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Apple “deliberately” pays women less than men, lawsuit says

Apple could owe thousands in back pay to 12,000 female employees.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/apple-deliberately-pays-women-less-than-men-lawsuit-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica ha another trillion dollar corporation is super woke. Yeah right. Keep worshipping your ifruit and dream up a lame excuse how this corporation is somehow better than every other one and keep enriching its shareholders.

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Starlink cuts satellite dish price from $600 to $300 in excess-capacity areas

The $600 standard price was replaced with regional pricing of $500 or $300.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/starlink-cuts-satellite-dish-price-from-600-to-300-in-excess-capacity-areas/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

htpcnz ,
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@arstechnica weird nerds rooting for SpaceX when privately owned by Musk is very weird, just look at the comments thread on the original article. They want SpaceX to be the only company left (i.e. become the monopoly) for space exploration and satellite internet etc. Unsure if these people are just blind or utterly stupid or secretly wish Musk was their daddy or something else.

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China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says

Critical code-execution flaw was under exploitation 2 months before company disclosed it.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/06/china-state-hackers-infected-20000-fortinet-vpns-dutch-spy-service-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

htpcnz ,
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@arstechnica guess this what happens when CIA, MI6 and five eyes what not sit on known exploits so that their friends at likes of NSO group can weaponize them for paying customers - to basically curb democracy, other undemocratic nations actually just go ahead and exploit it, thus getting discovered and making it get fixed... Don't think there are any 'good' actors in this scenario at all.

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Amazon squeezed sellers and jacked up prices.

Apple used its power to kill off challengers.

Ticketmaster/Live Nation leveraged its dominance to jack up ticket costs and tack on massive fees.

Each company is facing an antitrust lawsuit from the Biden admin.

This is a big deal.

htpcnz ,
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@rbreich another reason why the rich and corporations will do everything ensure a Trump win regardless of their outward posturing to the contrary... They'd rather give ordinary people fascism than loose couple of billions here and there or their monopolistic powers.

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When Trump openly and repeatedly exclaims that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” or shares a video calling for a “unified Reich,” he is literally echoing the language of Hitler.

Trump is not a “populist.” He’s not a “strongman.” He is a fascist.

Use the word.

htpcnz ,
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@rbreich "strongman" is exactly why the super rich donating to Biden don't care at all if he wins or not, end of the day Trump win means they also win "bigly", Trump ain't going after super rich regardless what their "public" political affiliation is. End of the day, any sadness resulting from their "good guy" loosing will be easily drowned by flood of cash from Trump tax cuts. For ordinary people, regardless how toothless Biden is with Palestine etc, they have far more to loose.

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Trump continues to vow to his billionaire supporters that he'd extend their tax cuts if reelected.

These cuts have already helped billionaires' grow their fortunes by $2 trillion.

It's crystal clear who Trump works for — and it sure as hell isn't the working class.

htpcnz ,
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@rbreich if Trump is giving tax cuts to the rich, would the rich donors of Biden really care who wins the election? Other than fake posturing to make themselves part of the "good" guy team, they don't loose and likely to gain more in next 4 years...

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Trump asked Big Oil execs to give him $1 billion for his campaign.

He promised lower taxes and a rollback of Biden's climate regulations and clean energy programs in return.

Trump is literally willing to take bribes in exchange for the destruction of the planet.

Be warned.

htpcnz ,
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@rbreich this one simple trick will guarantee Biden a landslide victory... But he chooses to keep on simping for genocidal maniac. It is not that hard to read the room, but for whatever reason they want to make this election a very close contest, really don't understand a reason for other than his donors actually wanting a Trump victory.

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Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

htpcnz ,
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@rbreich all good except healthcare, that should never be dependent on employment... But that ain't unions fault.

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44 million Americans — including 13 million children — are food insecure.

Meanwhile, America's 813 billionaires are now worth a combined $5.7 trillion.

Our problem isn’t an issue of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.

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@rbreich this is the same everywhere now, sad thing is people in the middle think somehow they will go up to the 1% rather than ending at the bottom even though they know 1% have shut the gates long ago and are still using their labor begrudgingly until it can be fully eliminated to fill up any cracks that might allow any trickle down...

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Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year

While Musk says superintelligence is coming soon, one critic says prediction is "batsh*t crazy."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/elon-musk-ai-will-be-smarter-than-any-human-around-the-end-of-next-year/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

htpcnz ,
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@arstechnica Musk, Trump et al says dumb batcrap crazy stuff and they have a fine track record of that. Don't report it as news, put in the rich loon of the day section. That goes to what Ars reported yesterday about SpaceX and Mars - it was an obvious PR attempt to deflect any reporting about his deposition that he couldn't get sealed and hopefully get few more sucker VCs to bail his company out.

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Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible

"These are unthinkable numbers, but we’re not breaking any physics to achieve this."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/elon-musk-just-gave-another-mars-speech-this-time-the-vision-seems-tangible/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

htpcnz ,
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@arstechnica ah the weird nerds falling for the same Conman's BS for the upteenth time... And for all those wishing it will be the billionaires going to mars, more like it will be a one way free ride to anyone who disagrees with them or considered undesirable by them, involuntarily.

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Alaska Airlines says it found many loose bolts on its Boeing 737 Max 9s

Inspections after a near-disaster reveal widespread problems with Boeing fleet.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/01/alaska-airlines-says-it-found-many-loose-bolts-on-its-boeing-737-max-9s/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

htpcnz ,
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@arstechnica where were these Maxs assembled? Due to lack of coverage of that aspect, presume these were not assembled in Seattle but elsewhere with non unionized workforce?

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How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity

Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.

https://arstechnica.com/features/2024/01/how-a-27-year-old-busted-the-myth-of-bitcoins-anonymity/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

htpcnz ,
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@arstechnica imagine if crypto bros/weird nerds Daddy Elon had discovered this... The comment threads would be like look what a genius he is, but some young lady did so like meh, we knew all along how to do it but didn't to make it look like it was untraceable... Is it that hard for an avg nerd to understand & accept that there are women much smarter than them? Because working in tech industry must mean you have few more brain cells than an avg misogynist and actually met ones for yourself.

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