Manufactured consent is a helluva drug

Both USA and Israel

Hope you get the help you need 🙏

Well that’s definitely your own experience on federated platforms, but I wasn’t speaking to that circumstance. I made a mastodon account and criticized our government’s massive funding of Israel in spite of our lack of critical infrastructure and healthcare and got spammed with “Israel has a right to defend itself, and you 're a trumper if you think otherwise” type comments by people that post one response and then immediately block you. Which is laughable and couldn’t be further from the truth. That is the perpetual echo chamber I was referring to from my personal experience.

How?

At least you acknowledge it’s dumb

“I must preserve my echo chamber!”

Well, Mephisto is not on the ballot so that would just be throwing away your vote

Not a fun story but new CEO comes in, pricing structure heavily modified to be more aggressive towards bringing clients into our ecosystem of products, we lose a whale of a client, 7 percent of the company is laid off including the newest guy on my team,and then magically acquire new responsibilities for the same pay. Capitalism baby.

The only moral reason to tariff EVs would be for the devastatingly exploitive working and living conditions for children mining lithium in the Congo. But it’s Biden so obviously, apartheid regimes aren’t really on his radar and this is purely an attempt to stir up drama with China while we continue to invest in oil fracking.

No thanks. I’ll just stay in my own time and keep all my stuff.

She went full Winnie the Pooh

Unfortunately discord is the main app used for a lot of communities I follow for specific games, streamer communities, local organizations, etc. But for my friend group we use a self hosted matrix server. It lacks all the nifty bots for music streaming, I’m pretty sure I can’t screen share for movie nights or to share gaming, but it had the bare bones chatting experience

Not for takeout. I only tip for eating-in, which I still find dumb. We should ban tips and force restaurants to pay a livable wage

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