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UnderpantsWeevil

@ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago
wait until you find out 🏳️‍⚧️ on 🏳️‍⚧️🥾
Hasn't been my experience. The LGBTQ community is incredibly tight-knit and politically engaged. One reason why liberal politicos are constantly hitting them up for volunteering and money.
As I got older and got to know friends and family coming out of the closet, I was genuinely amazed at how so many people were interconnected with one another, how often they socialized, how much culture came out of their community, and how the mutual-aid networks allowed the community to persist. Multi-generational trans communities primarily composed of run-aways and abuse survivors all helping one another to get work and housing and medical care gave me a glimpse into Actual Existing Socialism in my own backyard.

1w ago

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

What else would you describe childbirth as?

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

The reason poor men voted for trump

"Poor men" didn't vote for Trump. People without college degrees voted disproportionately for Trump (men and women alike). Even then, the state you're in and your ethnic/religious persuasion was a stronger casual factor. Trump lost in a landslide with poor black and east-asian men, for instance. And he lost on the margin among poor men in the northeast and west coast.

Trump actually won with a majority of white women, against Hillary, Biden, and Kamala. This comic neatly illustrates why.

1w ago

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

No idea why this is being downvoted. Statistically, women have less wealth and more debt than men.

1w ago

Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

If nobody does anything, it shows the constitution is worthless.

What if some people do some things, but they're mostly perfunctory or performative and done more as a means of fund raising off gullible rubes than obstructing a tyrannical state government?

What if other people do things, but are immediately categorized as lawless radicals and foreign-sponsored insurgents who want the country to fail?

What if still other people do things, but they are in support of the tyrannical administration - either explicitly through armed support or implicitly through financing and propagandizing in defense of the state?

What if a large body of people don't know what to do or who to align with, because so many different high profile people with different motivations and ideologies all claim they are Constitutional supporters acting in opposition to anti-Constitutional tyrants?

1w ago

Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”

― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

1w ago

Water cuts are coming for Arizona. Is your salad on the chopping block?

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

It's only suicidal when the funds are chronically mismanaged.

Also, steadily rising property values have been a de facto tax increase for decades.

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Trump calls for NBC’s Kristen Welker to face ‘rebuke or punishment’ from the FCC

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

Al Green lost his primary, so no.

1w ago

Water cuts are coming for Arizona. Is your salad on the chopping block?

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

No cuts to alfalfa.

No regulation of golf course water use.

No limit to how much State Farm Stadium can use on it's chronically over watered turf.

No effort to fix municipal pipe leaks.

No conservation requirements for high rises or new builds

But you can guarantee the cost of a toilet's worth of pee will be 3x by the end of next year.

1w ago

Non stop bangers…. [Worry__lines]

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

My DJ just played "Back Dat Ass Up" up on a loop for most of my twenties.

1w ago

Flawless logic

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

It's not really a loophole, because we haven't issued fines at less than triple digits in decades.

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Some even crave the spice

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

Plants: evolves to produce chemical that causes pain from consumption

Humans: evolves to become masochistic

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‘If it’s made in the US, I don’t buy it’: Canadians on boycotting Trump’s America

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

What we saw with Israel was a bunch of Israeli firms rebranding as American companies.

I suspect any attempt to de-couple from Big Tech in Europe will go the same way. You'll have Øræcle in Sweden and µSoft in Greece and Paulintir in the UK. But the financies will all tie back to the Usual Suspects - Marc Andressen and Gary Tan and Masayoshi Son.

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‘If it’s made in the US, I don’t buy it’: Canadians on boycotting Trump’s America

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

I wouldn't buy it either, if it had a 50% tariff slapped on it

1w ago

It's all a sham

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

a country’s gdp is a lot more diversified than nvidias

Glances at Taiwan and South Korea

The party goes on for now, but there is no way these companies will keep being allowed to borrow money, and it will be clawed back due to how unprofitable these businesses are.

I'm having a hard time imagining a world where Nvidia isn't considered credit worthy. A lot would have to change.

OpenAI’s models are worthless and they will go bankrupt. Oracle’s hardware will become worthless and they will go bankrupt.

Even assuming these two firms won't be at the front of the line for the next government bailout, we're a far cry from "worthless".

Both firms are heavily embedded in the government contract space, which is a blank check on your worst day. Both are heavily integrated into the financial and O&G sectors, which aren't going anywhere.

We're talking tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars in guaranteed future revenue going out to the next decade easy.

Possible they get drowned in interest payments and end up becoming glorified debt servicing companies. But we're a far cry from either being zero'd out.

1w ago

It's all a sham

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

I mean, you can joke about circular financing, but it's revenue until someone's check bounces.

What we're looking at is effectively how governments operate with currency. The state extends credit to financial institutions and spends money into the private sector, then demands the money back as taxation. This milling effect incentivizes employment, capital expansion, and improvements to land, as residents attempt to leverage the state incomes/credits to produce more material value than they'll pay in taxes.

NVIDIA / OpenAI / Oracle are in the same relationship. And the cycle will continue to accumulate value virtuously until the output of the system is no longer recognized as yielding value. While OpenAI is definitely the weak leg in the stool, Oracle's physical infrastructures and NVIDIA's consumable chipsets are going to have value even outside of this relationship. The only question is whether OpenAI tokens can justify the liquidity the firm has received.

1w ago

roger roger

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1w ago

Sure? But now you're just arguing with the doctors at the NICU

2w ago

roger roger

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 2w ago

The Hallmark of the Maoist Revolution was guaranting every citizen owned the land they lived on.

Also what kicked off the Tianamen Square riots. Deng's privatization reforms went against the Maoist principles of public ownership, in pursuit of a modern urban industrial model. And the public backlash erupted into street fighting in the capital that killed tens of thousands of people.

Likewise, the fall of the American empire started with Reagan

A bit early to close the book on American Empire. It took over a century for the UK to come off it's Victorian Era peak. Along the way, they created modern computers and jet engines, which they used to commit multiple genocides.