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pdxfed@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that Tom Cruise's character in Tropic Thunder is based on a real guy; he was the producer of The Matrix and co-invented ultimate frisbeeEnglish
3·il y a 2 joursWhat’s your favorite food?
Yes.
pdxfed@lemmy.worldto
unions@lemmy.ml•Employees who can't afford their own product set to strike at world's largest meatpacker
2·il y a 4 jours“for the most part” - did I stutter?
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unions@lemmy.ml•Employees who can't afford their own product set to strike at world's largest meatpacker
1·il y a 4 joursFor the most part we need the factories, it’s the distribution and allocation of the produce of the work that needs enormous change. Usually this change doesn’t happen voluntarily. Save the factories, put the owner class to the guillotine decision and see if they agree things should change.
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unions@lemmy.ml•Employees who can't afford their own product set to strike at world's largest meatpacker
5·il y a 4 joursRule of thumb? You sound like some radical socialist. Jobs are to provide services and utility to the capital class to help them further their wealth concentration. Allowing serfs to even associate with the product of [our brand] by permitting them to work for often the lowest wage we legally can is privilege enough.
pdxfed@lemmy.worldtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•V.A. Begins Drive to Put Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship | A joint effort with the Justice Department creates new authority to compel veterans into institutional or involuntary care.
1·il y a 4 joursGood to know Republicans are focusing resources on things that matter to vets while cutting doctors and nurses in the VA
pdxfed@lemmy.worldto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•NIH director launches "Scientific Freedom" lectures with non-scientist
2·il y a 4 joursWon’t someone think of the architects and engineers and the burdensome regulations and testing red tape that they suffer under? I’m all for it. How much faster and cheaper could US get bridges to market if we let high schoolers design and test them? Think of the wasted cost in education having to pay and train people who had to become experts in their fields when you could just substitute in snake oil “media personalities” for an MD or LPN? I know I want my care and life to be completely shaped by whoever is willing to cut corners the most.
pdxfed@lemmy.worldto
Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Here’s the Memo Approving Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot for Use in the Senate
2·il y a 4 joursAnd plurals are possessive!
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL you can make butter while running.English
2·il y a 4 joursIt’s min-maxing. They already commit to the time for exercise so if they could be productive with it somehow why not? “Productive” here more of a 2 seconds of Internet fame than “this has general application”, but just like a daily commute being limited mostly to music/podcast/phone calls as far as being “productive”, if someone introduced the ability to prep dinner while commuting many people would take them up on it.
It might not be the traditional or most perfect place or time to make “x” but if it buys you time elsewhere and there aren’t other consequences or side effectd, well everyone is pretty maxed out in the world and doesn’t have time.
pdxfed@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL you can make butter while running.English
2·il y a 4 joursThe average American waistline is now "family sized”
Scintillating is uncommonly used but does appear occasionally in things I’ve read but I didn’t know the latin root or connect it when I saw the noun used by Op, so thanks for the link and chance to learn!
pdxfed@lemmy.worldto
NBA@lemmy.world•Bam Scores 83 to Put Up 2nd Highest Scoring Game in NBA HISTORY!!English
51·il y a 5 joursDurant’s comment is a backhanded compliment if one ever was made. “It takes a lot of stamina” is what his comment boils down to which points to the volume of the shots rather than talent–which seems pretty clearly supported. When your own team decides to go for it, when the other team is The Wizards who care nothing for the sport, when refs decide to play along, when you’re a has-been playoff threat 6th ranked team in the east…it all has to line up. Some "moment”. Big asterix to me.
pdxfed@lemmy.worldto
Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Laptop prices expected to soar by around 40% as AI crunch takes hold — analyst says rising mainstream models priced at $900 could hit more than $1,200 due to rising memory, storage, and CPU costs
3·il y a 6 joursIt’s 100% the end goal. The shortage driving ram prices is to build data centers; it’s not just to hold LLM compute power but to centralize (meaningful) compute power.
Humans are powerful with open information, the ability to communicate, organize…better rip all that down and give consumers what they want; easily clickable funnels into your compute power, your data harvesting, your political and information control…it’s the techno fascist fantasy.
I’m shocked by the number of adults 20-40 who don’t own their own computer at home. Even when computers are dirty cheap in the US compared to their information, record keeping and economic vitality to modern living at ~$400-$1,000, tons of adults simply walked away from computing or never started it as smartphones were already here and were easy to slide into instead of having to learn.
Lemmy worries about windows users but I worry about people who don’t have ANY understanding of how special this moment in history has been when plebs had access to the same technology that oligarchs did (broadly). It’s historically an anomaly that the wealthy and powerful would like to correct. Literally the means of production.
pdxfed@lemmy.worldtoDeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Sociology textbooks made illegal by a board that has no educators on it. Schools will become propaganda machines.English
10·il y a 7 joursSchools already were largely propaganda machines for corporations. Though this bigger brother is of course far worse.
pdxfed@lemmy.worldtoEconomics@lemmy.world•Average Lifetime Credit Card Debt in Every U.S. State (2025)
1·il y a 8 joursBy state not really that useful. Much like US politics, it pretty much comes down to urban or rural? All states have a massive urban/rural earning divide that would probably show a more useful contrast; debt where income is lower has significantly higher impact.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilledEnglish
8·il y a 8 joursThey people who wave away bombing a school and killing 175 because “it’s war”(that we unilaterally started). These are definitely the people who you want to trust on child safety and well-being.
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Technology@lemmy.world•TriZetto confirms 3.4M people's health and personal data was stolen during breach | TechCrunch. ( the company failed to detect for almost a year.)English
3·il y a 9 joursPlausible accountability

























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