He is a lovely man and deserves all the good things.
Quexotic
joined 2 years ago
Maybe it's all the staff they fired. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe it's the student debt, or the career punishment, or the existential dread of bringing a child onto this dying planet, or maybe because of the fact that being pregnant has never been more dangerous because of the overturn of roe, or maybe its because its literally impossible for most people to buy a home, or the complete loss of financial freedom, or the absolutely dysfunctional dating environment where you can't even get people to text you back, or it could be the absolute financial impossibility of it with pay being unable (gotta have them record profits) to keep pace with inflation, or maybe the shitshow of the healthcare situation in this country, perhaps the complete and systematic undermining of the education system in this country, or maybe the complete absence of social support, or maybe it's the fact that so many people have 2 jobs and a side-hustle and don't have time to date let alone procreate, or that people can't even save to retire, or maybe that peoples' mental health is on a slow decline from the world falling apart, or maybe because children are already talking care of their declining parents.
And now the slow motion trainwreck that is the collapse of the American government and society...
...Naaaw, we just need to pick ourselves up by our bootstraps and quit buying avocado toast.
No. We have South Korea's fate to look forward to.
Full disclosure, I have kids but can't imagine having another or being 10y back in my career and considering having kids.
Even as it is, I don't know how my kids will get educated. I feel guilty for bringing them into the shitshow.
/rant
I hope and doubt.
And it's that way due to things like (but not limited to) gerrymandering.
This is not a democracy any longer. It hasn't been for a while.
I'm not even convinced the last election wasn't compromised.
Reminds me of the patriot act.
That is if it doesn't kill us by engineering a bio weapon first.
But can it really be a breach if it was never secure in the first place? They put it a bucket with absolutely no security. Anyone, literally anyone could have downloaded all of that data.
Also the app looks like some sort of awful vibe-coded meme garbage. I noticed it on the app store a while back and kind of wondered who would actually use it. I guess we know now that we have all of their driver's licenses available.
Oh well.
Yeah that. Scarcity of care needs fixed too, then we can shitcan the bigots with rekless abandon! 💛
"there aren't enough doctors, so we should accept bigotry" is not a convincing argument. Too "whataboutism" for me.
You're not wrong that medical care scarcity is a real issue, but what if we just work to solve BOTH problems?
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Trump’s neofascism is here now. Here are 10 things you can do to resist | Robert Reich
(www.theguardian.com)
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RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms"
(www.motherjones.com)
I feel like this is probably pretty effective. I feel like it should be a thing.
E: see also https://beehaw.org/post/16953380 E2: https://19thnews.org/2024/11/4b-movement-south-korea-social-media-trump-presidency/
China accused the US of infiltrating Huawei Technologies Co. servers beginning in 2009, part of a broad-based effort to steal data that culminated in tens of thousands of cyber-attacks against Chinese targets last year.
The Tailored Access Operations unit of the National Security Agency carried out the attacks in 2009, which then continuously monitored the servers, China’s Ministry of State Security said in a post on its official WeChat account on Wednesday. It didn’t provide details of attacks since 2009.
Cyberattacks are a point of tension between Washington and Beijing, which has accused its political rival of orchestrating attacks against Chinese targets ever since Edward Snowden made explosive allegations about US spying. Washington and cybersecurity researchers have said the Asian country has sponsored attacks against the West.
The ministry’s accusations emerged as the two countries battle for technological supremacy. Huawei in particular has spurred alarm in Washington since the telecom leader unveiled a smartphone powered by an advanced chip it designed, which was made by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. That’s in spite of years-long US sanctions intended to cut Huawei off from the American technology it needs to design sophisticated chips and phones.
Read more: US Probes Made-in-China Chip as Tensions Flare Over Technology
The US has been “over-stretching” the concept of national security with its clampdown on Chinese enterprises, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters at a regular press briefing in Beijing on Wednesday.
“What we want to tell the US is that suppression and containing of China will not stop China’s development. It will only make us more resolved in our development,” Mao said.
On Tuesday, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said she was “upset” when Huawei released the Mate 60 Pro during her visit to China last month, but noted the US has no evidence the Asian nation can make the advanced semiconductors powering the handset “at scale.”
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You're not wrong, I just believe it's going to be an uphill struggle to get there. And to be honest, I am a little bit afraid of what it's actually going to take to turn this around.
For my part, I'm doing my best to prepare them. They're too young too understand all of the above, but they get that what's going on right now is simply not okay.