Quill7513

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

For sure. In that moment Gore was wrong, powerful, and inflexible. He wound up being more flexible than his Republican counterparts, but I think you're well within your rights to say they've never properly repented for those actions. They've mostly just kinda been like "its in the past, just let it be in the past" when it's like... Man, you were an arms dealer in the culture war. You got the power and the platform to combat climate change by harming queer, black, and queer and black kids.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

i view it as everyone is wrong about shit sometimes. the real problems arise when you're wrong, powerful, and unwilling to be flexible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Oh for sure. The solution isn't to raise the price of unfairly priced products, its to introduce the concept of accountability to the world

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My thing is that there's a minimum price for fairness, and then there's products that present themselves as being marked up for fairness that don't actually benefit the people a fair price should benefit. Your best bet is to do some research into what the minimum fair price something is, and then look for something that price from a local economy.

Unfortunately, this is next to impossible. The systems in place favor us never knowing where anything comes from, and the research tools we used to be able to use to find fair prices (internet search) have been broken for this purpose for nearly 10 years (not just AI bullshit, but all those SEO pay to play bullshit listicles that even infect real human driven testing processes like The Wirecutter and Gear Lab). I think there's even an argument to be made that AI is an intentional device to steer us into a digital dark age where finding real trustworthy information is nearly impossible.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

One phone call and a literal act of congress...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Fair enough. I wasn't including the unionization efforts because I thought that was after Andre's time, but it was a couple years before his retirement

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hulk Hogan was close personal friends with someone that raped Andre the Giant's best friend. Also keyfabe got Andre needing to say the thing because that's how the business works. But also its easier to make your keyfabe hatred of someone believable when you actually factually hate that person. Which in this case Andre the Giant did

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Academia needs to be restructured, just like everything else

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Jab-cross-hook

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which is why I don't get when tankies stick up for him. He's not on your side bro. He doesn't want to decolonize the world. He wants to plunge it deeper into colonialism

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Funny, that's what I hate about Nano. The key binds seem completely random to me and the programs solution to this is to display a cheatsheet on the screen

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Some of those that work forces...

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