[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

The American Prospect has some really good recent articles about this. We've entered a new age of personal pricing. Companies have so much data on us that the price that I see when I visit a website is no longer necessarily the price that you see.

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-04-one-person-one-price/

[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

Democracy Now is my main source

I also listen to NPR to hear what narratives the state department is pushing

[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

lol this comment is a great example of a lib grasping for a weak explanation instead of criticizing Hillary Clinton.

[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

Democracy Now

[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Myth of Sisyphus helped me through a lotta shit in my early 20's

[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Remember what it was like before you were born? It's like that

[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Easy. Threaten them. Remove them from committees. Cut their funding from DNC. Many many things could have been done.

You would learn more if instead of asking "what could they have done" but instead asking "why didn't they do anything".

They didn't do anything.

[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

Did Biden fight tooth and nail to push through his agenda? Nope.

So it's completely reasonable to say that Biden allowed childhood poverty to double under his watch.

[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Similar theory to that put forth by De Selby

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Selby

[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Kia and Hyundai skipped installing industry standard immobilizers in order to save money. The cars are incredibly easy to steal. Kia and Hyundai should be held responsible.

[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Ah yes someone selling a few dollars of milk is definitely the same as a corporation stealing millions. Ah yes. These two are the same.

[-] chauncey@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

In my early twenties it was nearly constant. It's subsided greatly since then. At a certain point I think I just accepted that "there is no meaning, so it's ok".

So once you get there, and you start understanding capitalism, then that takes over as the most all consuming topic.

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