Serinus

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Progressives on AIPAC’s Defeat of Bowman: “Now We Know How Much It Costs to Buy an Election” (theintercept.com)

The New York Times published the headline “Bowman Falls in House Primary, Overtaken by Flood of Pro-Israel Money” — before swapping it out for “Bowman Falls to Latimer in a Loss for Progressive Democrats.” Other coverage emphasized that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s spending wasn’t the only factor...

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AIPAC is American money.

readsludge.com/…/whos-funding-aipacs-political-sp…

$5 million from WhatsApp, $2m from Home Depot, half a million from Kraft.

Race to unseat New York progressive ‘most expensive House primary ever’ (www.theguardian.com)

The primary for New York’s 16th congressional district, which takes place on Tuesday, has drawn record-breaking spending, with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) and a crypto-currency Super Pac behind the lion’s share of the funding....

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Yes, The DNC famously doesn’t care how maybe Republicans are in Congress.

Remember the name of this commenter, because he constantly posts the same shit.

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Travis Gafford also won’t be covering the event. I do understand some people may not have a choice.

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Maybe they should take it to Russia with them, instead of trying to bring Russia here.

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WaPo got bought out and just ran quite a brave article on how they’re about to be hollowed out.

I saved the authors names for when they get fired. Maybe I can follow them wherever they end up.

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Turns out journalists still need to eat, though.

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There are different types. The “financial duty” of corporations is generally overblown, however that is more or less what happened with Twitter. Elon made such a dumb offer that they had to put it to their shareholders. There’s some mechanism where shareholders can vote as a whole to sell, and if the vote passes then you don’t get a choice.

But generally corporations absolutely aren’t required to do whatever makes the most money. They’re allowed to put other values above pure profit, as long as they can justify it being in the shareholders’ interests. The shareholders may disagree and vote them out because of it, but as long as it was plausible, it’s legal. For instance, I believe the board of an Oil company could decide to shut down their wells and fully pivot to renewables, and I don’t think the courts would hold them accountable. Preventing climate change is easily arguable as in the shareholders’ interest, even at the cost of significant money. However that board would likely quickly be voted out. (And it’s unlikely they would have gotten there if they didn’t love oil money.)

If you own 51% of shares, public or not, you can’t be forced to sell afaik. And if you’re private, you’d have to do some pretty big illegal defamation or something to be forced to sell your property. Or you could die and your descendents could decide to sell.

One issue is that we’ve set up our tax system to encourage cashing out asap. For the most part in the US, you’re going to be taxed at 37% whether you sell now or whether you have the company pay you out for the next twenty years. So why not get out while the gettin’ is good? In the past, with a 90% top marginal rate at a higher income, it was often better to keep your money in the company and in the reputation, and just have it pay you out at a medium tax bracket for the next fifty years. All you really need to do as your job is make sure the company stays stable anyway. You can do that while spending four days on the golf course.

Biden says the next president may get to name two Supreme Court justices (www.npr.org)

LOS ANGELES – President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year’s presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court – a decision he warned would be “one of the scariest parts” if his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is successful in...

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And how do we think that’d work out?

If we really did get to rip up the Constitution and start over, who do you think would get to write it? You think Bernie Sanders is just going to stroll up with a pen and start setting things straight?

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Were you as good in English as you were in math?

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Oh, sorry. In English we have this stuff called punctuation. It goes between your sentences.

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I’d be quite impressed if Macron sacrificed his position to fight the fascists.

I didn’t think he had it in him. (And it seems he doesn’t.)

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J’apprécie votre perspicacité, merci.

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Don’t connect that machine to the internet. (Not that you had plans to.)

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They need more introductory tools/mini games that teach you the basics.

They also need regular events that bring new players in at the same time. They’ll have a better time when they’re matched against each other. You can’t really guarantee this, but giving people maybe 1-3 “new player week” per year would raise the probability.

It’s a shame they don’t have time to do this before Arcane season 2. It’s a shame they didn’t do this years ago.

Any game has churn. If you’re not bringing in new players, then you’re dying.

EVE Online from 2000-2014 is the gold standard of longevity. (After that they fired their economist and ruined the economy.)

Serinus,

Please consider going into poly-sci/law/history, keep your nose relatively clean, and try to run for office.

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Can you not?

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And then you get to be extra sad when you can’t get out of the 1960s fridge.

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What political positions didn’t you like when she was running?

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I also voted for Bernie and then for Hillary. But I think Hillary did just have bad feels built against her for 30 years.

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Unix time starts January 1st, 1970 and counts the number of seconds since then.

Right now it is 1718265480 (approximately).

That’s stored in a 32 bit signed integer. It hits max int in January of 2038.

Unix timestamp gif of rolling over in 2038

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Well, the ability to expense things is nice. Congressmen shouldn’t have to sleep in their office.

npr.org/…/meet-the-lawmakers-who-sleep-shower-wor…

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It’s more than a shot. It changes your appetite.

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Maybe Boomers shouldn’t have fucked the world and every younger generation.

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They make it easy though. They’ll tell him the crime to commit.

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30% is the standard. And it’s absurd. They all do it because they all have their own walled garden territory, and it doesn’t benefit any of them to lower prices.

You’re telling me that Steam does 30% of the effort to create and publish a game?

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Steam would be profitable at 12%.

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Term limits absolutely don’t prevent corruption.

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Because new people can’t be corrupt? For the record, George Santos was one of the newest members of Congress.

Just because you don’t know their names doesn’t mean they’re clean.

…wikipedia.org/…/List_of_new_members_of_the_118th…

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Term limits go both ways. They can introduce or reduce corruption. In general I think they add corruption, even if they wouldn’t right this moment.

I’d rather pack the court or find another solution to fix corruption in the current court.

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All democratic government relies on some amount of good faith. Many of the rules are set up to be guidelines for resolving disputes in a civilized manner, and preventing any single bad actor.

The place where this was most respected was in the transfer of power between presidencies.

That goodwill benefits everyone. If you break it, all hell comes loose. It’s why the Dems have worked so hard to stick to the good faith, even though the other party clearly hasn’t.

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There is a process. They can be impeached just like the President.

It’s more than just the Judicial branch that’s broken.

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This is how dog whistles used to be done. He can send a message to neo-nazis while having plausible deniability with further context. He’s able to both condemn and support D-Day at once.

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I wonder how many employers you’ve just scared the shit out of.

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Upvote doesn’t mean agree. But it’s an interesting point.

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Also the IDF was fired upon when they raided. That makes this just war. Hamas chose the war zone.

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An extremist would say that this can’t end until one side kills the other, so might as well get it over with.

I don’t believe that. I think as humans we have an obligation to try for peace without murdering half a million people. Unlike most people here, I want to believe that someday both sides can find a way to peace.

But if you insist that one side is good and one side is bad, then this can’t end well.

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I would argue that one side is fighting to achieve peace

Hilarious. Which side is that?

(The second part I won’t argue. The inevitable annexation is deplorable.)

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If Hamas hasn’t given up their hostages, they must not be that interested in peace.

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Yes, “lemmy.ml” is how sources work.

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With Gyroscope aiming you use the stick for large, broad movements, but for small adjustments you move the controller itself. It’s new as of about 2016ish.

The explanation and video here is good.

digitec.ch/…/aiming-with-sticks-so-yesterday-gyro…

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Plus, the more the world bends to that threat, the more every other country will pursue nuclear weapons. Giving too wide a berth to Russia is more dangerous for nuclear proliferation than bowing to their threats.

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