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Logged in to say this. They’re one of the biggest boots in the world, countries included.

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United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•The American World Cup Introduced Ad Breaks—and Everyone Absolutely Hates It
12·3 months agoThese mid-half money breaks are truly terrible. But they are so very American.
I honestly don’t personally know any real-life person who acts like that - they’re either just not scared of cool infrastructure, or they’re the occasional ‘patriot’ freak who’s nationalist/racist enough to consider Japan a threat too.
Leave the straw-man circlejerking to the rightoids, comrade.
Reminder, for those who aren’t familiar with Butler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL one of the Unabomber's victims had a six-year correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.English
1·3 months agoOff-topic but related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Epstein (born 1915)
Stopped reading at “Do you want to work”
(well, at least not for money)
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•I find this shocking. 60% of Canadians say they feel forced to own a carEnglish
3·4 months agoWhere I previously lived, I would have said ‘agree’, or at least it would be a serious quality-of-life determent to not drive, due to spending over an hour to make a trip that a car could in 20 minutes. It also helps that I don’t want to hire drive-share or taxis constantly, but this also wasn’t a reliable option.
Excessive for my threat model, one more thing which could break something (even if by no fault of its own).
I like it as a concept, but many of my devices don’t use it.
Linking to a reply I posted in this thread because it talks about a relevant aspect, which other (correct) comments haven’t named: hypodescent.
Blackness/Whiteness is an interesting concept - it’s remarkably fluid, especially with changes in time and place. Race isn’t the same as ethnicity or genetics, or a direct result of it, although racists often try to claim it is - a stark example of this in Western societies like the US and Australia would be how they categorize Italian and Greek peoples, Slavic peoples, or ethnically-Jewish peoples - the idea of whether or not each of these is White has largely shifted over time, often as a group stops being the current biggest immigration demographic. The USA even had a concept of “Black Irish”, which originally meant a post-Famine Irish refugee. Human races are ultimately just social classes, not a biological concept.
Another aspect, related to this thread, is hypodescent. In some societies (it’s not a universal thing!), if a child has a Black parent and a White parent, is the child Black or White, or another label entirely? As mentioned in that article, some US states used to legally define someone as Black even if only 1 of their 16 great-great-grandparents were Black.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Just got this popup whilst trying to open a website using archive.is
37·4 months agoSend an email to their webmaster if you haven’t already. The more of us, the better.
Yep. I honestly think Christian nationalists and neo-Nazis are more likely perps than Zionists in the West right now. And any socialist should be concerned about neo-Nazi terrorism, because we’re just as high on their menu.
I understand that the media direction is terrible and that other post of the rabbi being interviewed was ridiculous, but independently of that, I was thinking that locking down synagogues was a sane thing to do in the context of Christian/White supremacy.
And, lo and behold: already a post suggesting the shooter is a neo-Nazi https://lemmy.ml/post/47552728/25766524 (for those who don’t know, that’s a Sonnenrad)
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some fun liquids I can put in jars/bottles for decoration?
2·4 months agoTempted to try the Traffic Light Reactuon, but I don’t know how safe it is to store something that alkaline in a regular glass bottle long-term
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some fun liquids I can put in jars/bottles for decoration?
4·4 months agoThe proper stuff is expensive (~$1USD/ml), NileRed’s recipe is 2chem4me, but the cheaper ferrous suspension methods might be workable…
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think people misunderstand what socialist democracies look like?
2·4 months agoAnything in the ballpark of “working class control of the means of production”.















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