Russia is a hell of a lot more likely to be a democracy 10 years from now than the US is, because Americans think they already live in a democracy.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 04:10:18 JST Charles U. Farley -
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 06:13:25 JST Charles U. Farley @InternetEh May all Teslas be used for this kind of art.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 06:13:23 JST Charles U. Farley @jramskov Because Teslas are no solution to climate change. We can't save the world by continuing to dump at least as much energy into carting individual humans around in heavy metal boxes.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 06:13:22 JST Charles U. Farley @jramskov I say at least as much but because of the Jevons paradox we'll almost certainly end up consuming more energy because of EVs, since people think "Oh my car doesn't pollute anymore so I can just drive as much as I want."
This whole idea that we can somehow deal with climate change without changing our lifestyles, in fact by consuming even more, is a pretty brilliant piece of propaganda that's quite a bit more powerful than any of the various "climate change is a hoax" conspiracy claims.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 00:22:20 JST Charles U. Farley @eniko The ones based on contemporary conspiracy theories didn't age very well, not that that one was any good even in its day. Not sure if you remember the "Mars Face"/Cydonia conspiracy theory, but the release of photos of the same hill from a different angle pretty much killed that one. It was one of Richard C. Hoagland's many conspiracy theories involving NASA.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 22:22:28 JST Charles U. Farley @jimgon Less wild when you realize that they represent the amount of money the VCs think they can fleece future investors, particularly the public, for.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 22:22:25 JST Charles U. Farley Do you ever stop to think about how market caps represent nothing at all? Just because some tiny fraction of something is trading at some price doesn't mean you can liquidate the whole thing at that price. Or even something remotely approaching that price.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 00:51:11 JST Charles U. Farley Security favoring the attacker is a mathematical law, not something that can be wished away: the attacker need find only one way through, while the defender must guard against all of them.
This is why the defender needs to become good at detection and response. Walls by themselves can never be enough.
But perhaps a better strategy is to be the attacker.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 13:48:51 JST Charles U. Farley Millennials misusing the GenZ slang "out of pocket" to mean "unavailable" might well be the most hilarious thing ever.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:46:53 JST Charles U. Farley 'Denying water to Gaza has been a key tactic of the war from the very beginning, with Israel shutting off the pipes supplying the enclave on October 7. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced that Israel was “imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.”'
How can there be any doubt that Israel's intent is genocide?
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:46:34 JST Charles U. Farley All of capitalism wants anyone it can't exploit to just disappear, and it's willing to expend resources making that happen: prisons, foster "care", keeping homeless people on the streets until they die.
This serves a dual purpose: not only does it keep those people "out of the way", but fear of ending up in that situation is THE thing that capitalism uses to keep everyone else in line.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:46:34 JST Charles U. Farley Of course it's cheaper to help a family improve their housing situation than to take the kids away and put them into foster care. The reason Georgia chooses the latter is that tearing poor and especially Black families apart is their goal.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:46:12 JST Charles U. Farley It's not like we haven't warned projects over and over again not to use proprietary platforms. When this shit happens to communities at this point it just goes to show their leadership is incompetent.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:45:22 JST Charles U. Farley Wow. A smaller fraction of the electorate identify as Democrats today than at any time since at least 1988 (as far back as the graph on the page goes), the same fraction as identify as Republicans today, 27%.
While independent identification is tied with its 2014 peak, back then it came more from the Republicans than the Democrats. This time it's people who used to identify as Democrats identifying as independents.
Conditions are ripe for one of the parties to split. My money's on it being the Democrats. If a party even can split anymore.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:44:56 JST Charles U. Farley I'm only surprised by the insult replies on this because I haven't been getting them on posts that are far more directly critical of Biden and the US. Could just be that I got boosted by someone with a lot of "blue team" followers, or it could be that saying the US isn't really a democracy runs directly counter to the Biden campaign's messaging that democracy is at stake in this election.
There is a lot at stake in this election. Whether or not we're a democracy is not one of those things. We'll still have the Electoral College if Biden wins. Most House seats will still be uncompetitive if Biden wins. We'll have the same illegitimate, corrupt Supreme Court if Biden wins.
But I guess it's far more comfortable to believe that the reason your guy is unpopular is because of some Russian conspiracy than because he's aiding and abetting a genocide and completely out of touch with the working class.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:44:31 JST Charles U. Farley Requiring that Hamas go away in order for there to be peace in Gaza is like requiring the IRA to go away to have peace in Northern Ireland. It shows that you either have no understanding of the situation and need to shut the fuck up, or you don't want peace at all and need to shut the fuck up.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:44:30 JST Charles U. Farley You might think Fatah is the real equivalent of the IRA (or more appropriately Sinn Féin), but they are extremely corrupt and have been fully coopted by the Israeli government. The Palestinians elected Hamas because their lives weren't getting better under Fatah. If you think they did it because they're extremists who want the Israelis destroyed, first of all you're a racist, and second of all you need to read the exit polls from the 2006 election and Hamas's new charter.
The US and Israel deliberately sabotaged attempts by Fatah and Hamas to form a government and actually govern. Just like the US always does when an election in an unstable country with lots of oil doesn't go how it wants.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:44:17 JST Charles U. Farley Dear #MstdnCA users:
I am unfollowing you in preparation for blocking your whole instance. Your admin CALLED THE COPS on someone for political posts. This is flatly unacceptable. You are welcome to follow me from another instance.
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:42:48 JST Charles U. Farley How did we ever get bamboozled into thinking that choosing between the lesser of two evils both appointed by the aristocracy was "democracy"?
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Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 02:16:01 JST Charles U. Farley Anyone know a #solar installer in the #Pittsburgh area who won't fuck me over if I actually want to own the panels? Please only answer if you know for sure that they're good with not roping customers into some exploitative financial scheme.