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#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
@LeoSammallahti The bottom line is that Gates needs a profit motive to take action. He isn't a philanthropist, like the media claims, just a disaster capitalist. His pandemic warnings were driven by a desire to increase his wealth, otherwise he would've undertaken the funding he was asking for.
Maybe the reason no other "leaders" spoke out was they couldn't come up with a way to profit from it.
@LeoSammallahti At Gates wealth level, he can make governments listen. (At least in the USA, our politicians are buyable and not that expensive. Gates knows that from the Microsoft antitrust trial.) He could start manufacturing of PPE and respirators. He could fund more research into the viruses.
@LeoSammallahti On Gates...if he knew, given his financial resources, why didn't he take action?
We're at war with our government now.
Bill Barr reportedly suggested bringing sedition charges against protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/16/bill-barr-sedition-charges-protests
The EPA Responded to a Respiratory Virus by Relaxing Pollution Controls - Major polluters were deemed 'essential.' Under EPA policy, environmental and safety inspectors were not. https://inthesetimes.com/article/epa-pandemic-environmental-pollution-regulation-enforcement-rollback
Healthcare Workers Are Leading the Largest Strike Ever at the University of Illinois-Chicago https://inthesetimes.com/article/healthcare-workers-strike-university-illinois-chicago
OTOH, they do target a lot of self-proclaimed Democrats...
Progressive solicitations really need to lose the practice of using clickbait headlines. The only message those convey is that you think your donors are a bunch of rubes.
@lightweight it's okay...your pain is helping out the wealthy. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
A Progressive Prosecutor Faces Off With Portland’s Aggressive Police https://theintercept.com/2020/09/16/portland-protests-prosecutor-police/
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Climate Change Is Now Killing Birds in Midair
https://earther.gizmodo.com/dead-birds-are-falling-out-of-the-sky-in-the-southwest-1845076744 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate
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Burying the lede: "AT&T engineers are creating 'unified customer identifiers,' [AT&T CEO] Stankey said. Such technology would allow marketers to identify users across multiple devices and serve them relevant advertising." #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/att-wants-to-put-ads-on-your-smartphone-in-exchange-for-5-discount/
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Protests Against Police Brutality Spread in Colombia: Across the country, youth set fire to at least 60 police facilities, vehicles, and motorcycles belonging to the National Police.
#Colombia #Cali #medellín #Bogotá #bogotá #Resistence #BlackLivesMatter #anonymous #GeorgeFloydProtests #protests
Whistleblower Reports High Number of Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Facility https://theintercept.com/2020/09/15/hysterectomies-ice-irwin-whistleblower/
Indigenous Activists Arrested and Held Incommunicado Following Border Wall Protest https://theintercept.com/2020/09/16/indigenous-activists-border-wall-protest/
US corporations file for bankruptcy and lay off workers. Why do execs still get bonuses? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/16/us-corporations-file-for-bankruptcy-and-lay-off-workers-why-do-execs-still-get-bonuses
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Tonight the president is coming to speak in #Philly and people are going to protest against him.
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@fribbledom report but continue: partial backup is still better than no backup.
BUT the "report" must be very clear and prominent (even annoying) so ppl know some file was NOT backed up.
This is the default behaviour of DejaDup, btw.
We need to remember that this isn't just Trump. The whole of the GOP and much of the Democratic Party isn't behind taking the science seriously.
'Trump Scoffs at Plea to Take Climate Change Seriously Amid Fires, Mocks Science Instead' https://theintercept.com/2020/09/14/trump-scoffs-plea-take-climate-change-seriously-amid-wildfires-mocks-science/
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
