This is crazy, but i read the news on paper. I have a couple of subscriptions to magazines with good reporting, but you could also hit up your library to read for free. For one thing, print journalism is a lot more in-depth and balanced than the outrage-mill crap i find online.

On Lemmy i read headlines only in case something happens that i stay current, but i rarely read a whole article. This contains my news consumption to a small portion of my day.

Plus, Trump says 64 stupid lthings a week. I read all 64 in 1 hour each week and get it over with, instead of poisoning myself with it several times a day.

Canada, too. For the last two years, Canada has entrusted sensitive statistical information to Microsoft. We should be treating MS with the same skepticism we currently reserve for Huawei.

Agreed. The position of the conservatives who espouse such beliefs is incoherent. They have a whole mythology surrounding the importance of entrepreneurs that doesn’t take markets into account. For many of them, the most advanced economic text they have ever read was an Ayn Rand novel.

Donald Trump, probably: “Hey, who planted my dick in all these underage girls?”

Oh, Vladimir V. Putin. I thought you were referring to the other Putin.

Yeah, I think this is what they mean. It is a form of poor bashing: poor people don’t invest their money to create jobs, grow the economy, etc. I have a friend who is very susceptible to this type of right-wing propaganda, and i had to point out that rich people can only invest a large portion of their income because their basic needs are (abundantly) met.

Trump who?

Yes. My son has a genetic disorder and receives care from my country’s socialized medical system. Donald Trump has threatened to annex my country. I would not be able to afford the treatments that keep my son alive under Trump. I boycott American goods like my child’s life depends on it. People need to understand that Trump’s threats towards the USA’s former allies imply deadly consequences. Fuck Trump, fuck maga, and fuck anyone who supports them by buying their shitty goods. Unless you have absolutely no choice, don’t buy American.

Yep. My country just had an election and our far-right party promised to destroy our public broadcaster if elected. It would have left us with nothing but American bullshit and billionaire-owned media. Thankfully, they lost. But just by a hair.

There is a hole in the heart of every rich person. They try to fill that hole with money, but the hole is never full.

When Elon Musk and every person like him says, “I have enough money”: that is when the people who actually produce value will have reached enough productivity. Not before.

It’s going to hurt these companies. There is a special vibe when your workplace is entirely staffed by people who hate their lives. It is not an environment conducive to creativity or dedication. Long hours don’t make you more productive.

When I think my employer is mistreating me, I drag my feet, I engage in malicious compliance, I always decline to make the extra effort. If I see a problem somewhere that needs to be reported, actually no I didn’t. I’m the opposite when I feel rested, respected, and autonomous.

I don’t believe this will be sufficient. How can we be sure that the officer (no way we can entrust this to a grunt) that inspects your genitals is doing his job (and not enjoying it)? I want someone watching that soldier!

My experience is pretty limited and I might just be lucky in that everything worked for me, but installing linux was exactly as hard as installing windows. If anything, I found it less annoying because with Windows I tend to decline a lot of their services (no cloud, no office, etc) and I profoundly resent being nagged by MS to use services that don’t interest me.

If I bought my laptop with linux preinstalled, I wouldn’t say that it has been less usable than a windows machine. there is some missing support, but I had similar issues with switching from mac to windows and back.

My poor tv is like, “connect to the internet? I need to call home! Help, i’ve been abducted by a luddite!”

Tv, you are never getting my wifi password.

I threw a party like this in about 1995. I got lucky because a lot of people showed up but they were respectful and didn’t trash my house. I cleaned up in about 2 hours.

I think that one of the things that killed this were the examples on the news of people having their houses destroyed as the party got out of hand.

Another thing that killed these parties was litigious parents. Underage drinking was the norm at these things. Kids would sometimes drive drunk and get in accidents, drown in the pool, etc. Parents of the drunk drivers would sue the parents of the party host for allowing kids to get drunk on their premises. Saying you were out of town and didn’t know did not save the sued parents - they would just be blamed for leaving their kids unsupervised.

Bush parties were also really common in the 90s, but fewer and fewer people live near a large woodlot. In the 90s, even medium cities would have vacant lots scattered throughout the city and many were large enough to (temporarily) conceal a small bonfire and 2 dozen drunk kids. When the cops showed up, we would scatter. Stumbling around the woods in the dark while intoxicated is a cherished memory, but I would probably never do it again, haha.

Wow. You are fully revealed. Scratch a bigot, find a nazi.

I know that the war has high support in Israel, but even 80% is still not all Israelis, let alone all jewish people. I think a lot of Israeli people have dual citizenship. Personally, I wouldn’t want to live in a country that is committing a genocide - I would leave. At least some people who choose to live in Israel are ok with illegal settlements, bombing children, etc. They self-selected and that is why they are there - some even left the countries where they were born to become settlers. Jewish people are not all the same.

75M Americans voted for a fascist piece of shit in their last election. Would it be weird if I held a grudge against white Christians in Norway because of that fact?

May I never stoop so low that Trump praises me.

Haha you almost tricked me into googling « volume of an average coffin in m^3 » on my work computer

Which jews do you mean? Are jewish people a monolith? Do they all agree on the fate of palestinian children?

The poster you are responding to specifically said zionist. You brought all jews into the conversation.