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BakerBagel

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  • 'Trump demanded screaming and swearing that Zelensky give up territory'

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  • It literally would not matter. Trump could go to each of his followers' homes, fuck their wife and shoot their dog and they would thank Trump for the privilege

  • Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

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  • Except it didn't matter if Blockbuster's headquarters had a power outage since tour physical VHS from them worked fine where ever you were. Pretty much every major web service uses AWS, so if AWS goes down, so does the Internet.

  • I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider

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  • The author works for business inside. He's 100 % on board with all the heinous shit tech companies are doing

  • ICE, Border Patrol agents to receive pay during government shutdown

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  • Didn't Belgium go for almost 3 years without a government a while back? Meanwhile France is on their 5th prime minister in 2 years. I think the issue is that Democracy is entirely incompatible with capitalism.

  • Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says ‘millions of people’ will be living in space by 2045—and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon

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  • He's so detached from reality that he thinks he can do it all by himself.

  • A third of Americans believe Trump’s presidency is part of God’s plan

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  • The point is that America has managed to make a lot of guys richer than God by allowing them to exploit millions of people

  • A third of Americans believe Trump’s presidency is part of God’s plan

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  • The point is that America has managed to make a lot of guys richer than God by allowing them to exploit millions of people

  • People who have permanently moved to another country, what gave you the opportunity and was it worth it?

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  • Wait until you hear about the ruling party in the Netherlands

  • Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

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  • People have been making web crawlers for the past 30 years. Why do you need to torch an acre of forest to do the same?

  • Florida sees 81% increase in whooping cough infections amid vaccine rollback

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  • originally, Wakefield put out his bogus study because he had a patent for a rubella vaccine, and wanted to discredit only the MMR vaccine, so people would buy his vaccine. Once that takes hold people run with it

  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes

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  • It all needs to be burned down. This isn't a uniquely American issue, as the cracks are becoming impossible to ignore across the entire western world, but the right wing here and abroad are the only ones advocating the the dissolution of our broken systems. The problem is that they want to build everything back up to benefit exclusively the wealthiest in society, while the liberal centerists who are the main opposition want to continue to slap bandaids on what is clearly a lost cause. The far right will continue to gain ground and pulverize everything in their path if the mainstream "left" (Democrats/Labour/Liberal/Rennasisance/SDP/Civic Platform etc) continues to operate as is. Radical change is coming, but the liberal parties are too busy trying to ensure that change doesn't come from the left.

    America is probably the most difficult to change since the Democrats have lost just about all credibility nationwide, but France is a perfect example of what i am trying to explain. Macron's centrist Rennasisance party has clearly lost public support, since every prime minister he appoints gets bullied out of power by both the leftist alliance and National Rally. He has to chose one to make concessions to, but refuses to enter talks with the Left Block, and any agreement with National Rally would put Len Pen in charge. Until these centrist parties start to actually address the issues their citizens are facing, said citizens will continue to flock to parties that are promoting radical change, regardless of what that change entails.

  • Trump administration mulling $10 billion aid package for U.S. farmers, sources say

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  • That is the irony. They can push for Americans to eat more soy products, but people can't come close to consuming as much soy as the livestock we feed it to. And with beef prices continuing to skyrocket, people can't afford to eat beef either. We should have been cutting subsidies for corn and soy and using that money to invest in farmers growing actual food for actual people. But that's harder to profit from so big daddy corporate ag made sure the gravy train kept rolling.

  • Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

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  • The US jas deployed a lot of troops for avtive combat across the world on the past 80 years despite Congress not declaring a single war since Pearl Harbor. This sort of naked power grab was inevitable.

  • Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet

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  • It hasn't been able to thus far, same as every other "free" social media site other than Facebook. The problem is the sheer scale of the data that these sites have to main makes their overhead costs insane. To make profit from those ad spaces would require those ads to be too expensive to justify to the companies. It would be like trying to operate the New Orleans Superdome purely on ad space. The rate would be way too high to for companies advertising to ever get a return on their investment. Reddit can run ads to subsidize their costs, but it will never be viable as a primary revenue stream for them.

  • Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet

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  • I am looking at it froma purely financial standpoint. The inky thing Reddit really produces is semi-anonymous data that is tied to an email address. The quality of that data is iffy at best, while they have massive expenses just to keep the site operating. They can charge for their API calls, but they will never be able to use that to generate actual profit since no one will ever pay for it at that price point.

    Something like Reddit or twitter are useful if they are owned by powerful individuals or corporations that wish to influence the public. It is worthless as a strictly financial vehicle because it produces no profit and has assets that are not not equal to the cost of maintain them. You would only buy stock in reddit in the hopes that some billionaire thinks they can do a better job running it than Elon Musk did with twitter. Otherwise reddit stock is just a volatile place to park your cash in the hope that you can sell it for more later.

    Which takes me back to my original comment about the kitten stomping factory. It gives value to a select group of people with a specific aim, but it is worthless as an investment vehicle because it owns little, produces nothing, and has massive liabilities. If you want to exert power and influence, it's useful. If you only care about making money, it's useless. People who buy and sell stock are mostly only interested in making money.

  • Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet

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  • I agree. But propaganda tools typically aren't publicly traded because they are a venture that requires a lot of expenses but being it little cash value, which is the entire point of the stock market.

  • Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet

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  • How is that any different than what i initially said?

  • Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet

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  • Which will only actually ever benefit anyone that owns massive amounts of the stock. Reddit has few tangible assets other than their data, which is of questionable value at best. It's basically like owning stock in a piblic library

  • Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet

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  • I didn't ask about their other shares. I asked how Reddit's soft power is able to actually benefit shareholders. I understand how it benefits Spez and those who make the actual decisions at reddit, but if I own 400 shares of Reddit, how do i actually benefit since Reddit will never pay a dividend since it will never actually be profitable