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boydster

@ boydster @sh.itjust.works

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  • Pirates of Lemmy, how many torrents are in your queue that are just stuck?

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  • Supreme fight

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  • RATM... Killing in the Name Of

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  • Inheritees are probably going to feel disincentivized to hold on to anywhere close to a billion dollars for themselves, I'd imagine, so there's that at least

  • A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

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  • Propublica just continues to put out great journalism. It seems crazy, but there is a part of this article that is basically a side note and simultaneously is also illuminating about another issue on the public mind recently:

    But there was also an Ohio OB-GYN on the national board of directors — he used to work for the Cleveland Clinic, I discovered, and now led a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. The doctor was joined at board meetings by a city prosecutor in Utah, an ex-city council member and, Williams was later told, a sergeant with an Illinois sheriff’s department. (The doctor did not respond to requests for comment. He has since left his post with the UnitedHealth subsidiary, a spokesperson for the company said.)

    This is the calibre of doctors that UHC apparently relies on to inform them how to best "enhance profits" by denying "unnecessary care", and it's not remotely surprising at this point.

  • Trump insider admits a 'strong probability' Mike Johnson 'doesn't survive the night'

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  • As is tradition...

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  • I thought these folks were frothing at the mouth over the opportunity of having "one violent day." What happened? Are they not entertained?

  • Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund | The move follows a visit that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, made last month to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump.

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  • Personal income is paid from corporate gross profits (unless your company is failing, in which case your profits go negative, but that is still a profit impact), just like other fees like legal fees or whatever else. The money that is spent will necessarily reduce your profit, but it does not reduce your revenue. This is explicitly a business expense for Meta though, not personal income. This impacts profitability, not revenue. It would be an expense just the same if it was paid to zuck as income, so not much changes, but the point is you were right in spirit, just not in scale, and that's all I meant

  • Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero

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  • As soon as you're born, they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

    A working class hero is something to be

    They hurt you at home, and they hit you at school They hate you if you're clever, and they despise a fool Till you're so fucking crazy, you can't follow their rules

    A working class hero is something to be

    When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years Then they expect you to pick a career When you can't really function, you're so full of fear

    A working class hero is something to be

    Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

    A working class hero is something to be

    There's room at the top they are telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill

    A working class hero is something to be

    If you want to be a hero well just follow me

  • Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund | The move follows a visit that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, made last month to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump.

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  • The money would come out of profit rather than rev, so it would be more like $2.00, but your point still stands gloriously as far as I'm concerned

    Edit: there are undoubtedly tax implications that I ignored, I'm not an accountant, I just stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night

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  • Well Texas already volunteered to donate land for Trump to build his first concentration camp so I mean, yeah, he's been open to the idea of using camps pretty openly for a while. Stephen Miller discussed it as an eventual necessity even earlier.

  • What is something considered impossible when you were a kid but is now known to be completely possible or even inevitable?

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  • In my pocket I carry a library of Alexandria, an infinite Walk-man, a camera and a camcorder with effectively infinite film, a personal navigator... You get the idea, the list goes on. 80s me would have thought this was impossible, even if I am a bit disappointed about the flying car and hoverboard situation.

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    List of the 16 Democrats "not voting" on vote to release Matt Gatez Report. Democrats needed 7 more votes.

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  • Good on your representatives. For those whose missed the vote, I'd think the ask would be more along the lines of "Explain why you let us down," rather than "Was it because (insert excuse the politician didn't even have to think of here) that you missed this vote?" When someone you are depending on lets you down, that's how you start a meaningful conversation about fixing things.

    Edit: and this is extra important when the vote is about ferreting out corruption

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  • Why assume they had your best interests at heart but just oops'd or double-booked or whatever else, instead of demanding they answer for letting you down? This is what the people are supposed to expect of their representatives. 7 votes would have made the difference and 16 dems failed America when people obviously thought at least some of them would have fallen on the right side of this vote.

    Demand better from these people, and let you disappointment be heard when they fail you. It's ok to do that, and important if we want to make progress. Making preemptive excuses for people who failed to do their job on our behalf is self-defeating.

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  • Doubt. They can step forward and say otherwise, but it's incumbent on the people they represent to hold them accountable unless and until they do so.

    Edit: go read about it. Seriously. I am not sure why anyone would give a Congresscritter the benefit of the doubt. We don't owe them that. They owe us representation and we need to demand accountability. That's how democracy works. People understand the whole power of government backwards, I swear.

    Reference, nothing to hint of nefarious "other shenanigans" or whatever, so it's a choice to leap to that justification: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-vote-gaetz-ethics-investigation-report-released/story?id=116495144

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  • It seems more than reasonable to me to assume those on the list are either corrupt in some way, or sympathetic to corruption. What else are we to make of such a dereliction of duty to the people they represent?

    This should have been easy to vote to release for anyone that isn't afraid of a little sunshine being shone on things.

    Eta: fuck fascists, and fuck their enablers.

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  • Indeed. Their constituents should all take notice, but I won't hold my breath.

  • Putin’s Pals Say Tucker Carlson Is Acting as a Secret Back-Channel to Trump

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  • Before the inauguration, I'm pretty sure it's basically on Biden via some sort of official act (I could be wrong about this, I am not a constitutional scholar). After the inauguration, it's on Congress and boy do I have bad news for ya there.

  • House rejects Democratic efforts to force release of Matt Gaetz ethics report

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  • OK then it's time for someone to leak it

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  • It's got what plants crave!