I thought it was bc they used blue ink. So kinda like “Back the Blue” lol

“Multiple women have said that the men they know might have done a “bêtise” but didn’t commit rape. In French, a “bêtise” roughly translates to “something stupid.” It’s a word that parents use to scold children for doing silly things, or that a couple might invoke while bickering.”

Honestly, I think Biden supports this unwaveringly because it aligns with US policy to keep the region destabilized.

I mean they helped overthrow the Shah, aided the Taliban in fighting the soviets, invaded Iraq and Kuwait (which led directly to the creation of jihadist state – ISIS), aided a US-aligned faction in the Syrian civil war, helped put down the 2011 democratic revolutions… there is so much more.

And for what? To keep them from realizing they are all arabs and are sitting on the largest collective reserves of oil in the world…

Evil Empire.

Love that song

In what way does capitalism “dampen” selfishness?

But it’s also hard to know what contemporary economists are arguing without reading those foundational writers

Or giant megacorporations each hire 200,000+ of them to create products for the non-magic folk to consume.

After a few decades, the idea of being a wizard is synonymous with working 8+ hours a day on magic that no wizard really wants and there is so little new spells and magic being created in the world that everyone wishes there wasn’t any.

Then leaks come out that the products these megacorporations create have been slowly killing the planet and they’ve known for decades. But since they have so much power and money, nothing can stop them until the world dies.

Finding a good MusicBee alternative on linux. I just dual boot into windows whenever I need to convert FLACs and organize it. Otherwise I’m on Linux 99% of the time now.

Parents had one of these and we all collectively hated it. But it stood the test of time for 20+ years. This post brings back memories lol

I’m on the fence between Harris or to abstain. My opinion is that the Democrats are not listening to the people, and by holding hands with the international criminals in Israel, they are alienating progressives massively (no doubt her VP pick is an attempt to win them over). 76 years of pro-Israel policy, and what has it done?

When it comes to economy, Harris is a neoliberal, and rather conservative economically, which I disagree with.

Why is the US concerned? Oil companies pleaded for the US to intervene when Venezuela nationalized their economy. Then Venezuela nationalized many other sectors, and the US got morw angry.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/factbox-venezuelas-nationalizations-under-chavez-idUSBRE89701X/

If communism was so good, why didn’t they win the Cold War 🤐🤐

/s lol

Take a community college introduction course.

It’s only partially good to read the big texts, but it is useless if you don’t know how to understand them in broader connections.

“Forestry Tasmania says that it doesn’t log giant trees, yet every other week Tasmanians see giant single-log loads on the back of trucks, and concerned citizens find giant stumps in public state forests,” Hardinge said. “Citizens should not have to do the government’s surveying work for them.”

Cutting down centuries old growth forests for profit… that’s radical. Not the people trying to save them.

Hate it. Had it every friday until I was 22.

No, then there is no point to Lemmy being federated at all.

Better to just have each community develop their own flavor on the same topic imo

Religions would have to wreckon with a lot of their foundations…

Giorgia Meloni is a fascist

There, she can try to sue me too.

Italians are so free!

Genuine question, what are the upsides to population decline?

My week has been pretty good, I work in a library so I spend my lunch digitizing any book I want or at least feel that it should be saved digitally.