Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I agree that the word 'winner' is misleading in this context. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff #billionaires #bunkers

Google, Microsoft can get your passwords via web browser's spellcheck https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-microsoft-can-get-your-passwords-via-web-browsers-spellcheck/

Virginia seeks to strip transgender school students of protections - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/sep/19/virginia-transgender-students-schools-glenn-youngkin the cruelty of republicans is astonishing; I don't know how they live with themselves...

Liberal hypocrisy is really a thing to behold.

https://theintercept.com/2022/09/18/biden-trump-border-wall/

And in case you're wondering, yes, the Biden admin is still keeping immigrant kids in cages, but they did do a remodel job on the cages, so all good!

At least Trump was upfront about his sociopathy and/or too dumb to hide it. Personally, I think that may be preferable to Biden who does the same terrible shit, just while claiming to care about the environment and the people that get stepped on.

Those of us born in the ‘60s have witnessed this Tory broken record repeat itself with devastating regularity over the years.

Trickle down just doesn’t work. Never has, never will — all it does is devastate industry and wreck communities:

https://socialeurope.eu/fresh-start-truss-faces-a-sudden-stop

GPS Jammers are being used to hijack trucks and down drones

https://www.zdnet.com/article/criminals-are-using-gps-jammers-to-hijack-trucks-and-down-drones/

Realization: the main utility of blockchain tech is that it presents an irrefutable argument for a wealth tax. If there’s enough bored money rattling around out there to fund obviously negative-sum nonsense like this, we can as a society choose to spend that money on public education, health care and clean running water instead.

A part of a new blog article I am writing about open source and the cooperative movement.

Let me know if you have some thoughts or links relevant about the topic!

Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims | #ClimateCrisis | The Guardian

This has been know for decades.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/17/oil-companies-exxonmobil-chevron-shell-bp-climate-crisis

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Politics #US #FossilFuel

The Democratic Party has got to be one of the most ironically named political organizations in history.

https://theintercept.com/2022/09/14/dnc-overrule-convention-bylaws/

Decolonization begins at home.

https://www.blackagendareport.com/decolonizing-mind

In case it wasn’t clear Conservatives don’t give a flying fuck about ordinary people (see energy bill scam) Kwasi Kwarteng decides now is the perfect time to rub all our noses in their shit:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/15/kwasi-kwarteng-planning-to-scrap-caps-on-bankers-bonuses

This makes me very angry: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/474816/potentially-a-billion-dollars-to-clean-up-tiwai-point another example foreign corporations running roughshod over foreign lands and regulation and not taking responsibility for the horrible mess they've created.

I will be livid if either a single cent of taxpayer money is spent to clean this up completely - it's on Rio Tinto, as majority owner and majority profiteer, or if they get away with anything less than a complete clean up.

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