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Originally, tankie was a derogatory term for people who defended the deployment of tanks against civilians but the term has lost its meaning over time. Now, you'll get called a tankie for merely saying that China isn't the evil boogieman that fascists want us to believe it is. And the irony is that the libs calling us tankies are the ones who support Israel's genocide of Palestine.

but cyclists can be nearly as entitled and dangerous as a motorist to people on foot

I walked in front of a cyclist once (on accident) and we both fell to the ground. I had a bruise where the bike hit me, but the embarrassment hurt far more than the bike. My friend was hit by an SUV and his parents buried him at 19.

Please don't lie about bikes being as dangerous as cars. Yes, some cyclists are assholes (same as some pedestrians), but lying about how dangerous they are helps no one.

Only a hexbear could connect spider sex organs back to political theory. I'm honestly impressed.

True, but SpaceX's entire premise of colonizing mars during our lifetime is potentially the most damaging lie that Elon pushes. Mars will not save us. No tech innovation is going to save us and Mars is never going to happen if we can't even take care of the planet that we have.

I am pissed for all the millions of kids (globally) who got into tech dreaming of changing the world only to find out that everything big tech promised was either a lie or is actually making the world worse off. Or worse still, that they wasted the very best years of their lives and took on crippling levels of debt for a computer science degree that is now worthless because capitalists have decided that training juniors doesn't maximize short term profits. Fuck capitalism.

Not to defend the US, god knows we love to lick corporate boots, but if Meta were an Irish company then Ireland would probably lick their boots as well. Or if Meta were a German company then the US would gladly sue them. Just look at how Volkswagen was singled out by the US despite all US automakers falsifying emissions and crash safety data for decades.

Europe's as well. America and Europe both moved most of their manufacturing to China

Yeah, and we can't even keep our own planet alive. We are slowly making our own air and soil toxic with all the plastics and industrial wastes we keep creating.

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US northern midwest. That was the first time we had a drone just silently recording us so I am not sure what to make of it.

Just last week, my partner and I were on a long hike. No one was around us so to loosen our muscles we started dancing like goofballs on the trail only to look up and find a drone hovering in the shadows recording us. I was embarrassed, but my partner is a very private person and was really upset. Surveillance is seriously getting out of hand. If things continue in this direction then I wouldn't be surprised if people find a way to use powerful Lazer pointers to burn out cameras.

Sign me up. Sounds better than only living for 80 years and only remembering half of it.

The entire point of marketing is to manipulate us into buying shit we don't need and didn't want. If it didn't work then companies wouldn't throw billions at it.

Jesus, sounds like Texas is corrupt af.

How do we stop it? Maybe an app that alerts us anytime the video or mic gets turned on?

They also often have strong ties to developers who are making a killing from urban sprawl

They wont allow trees within 100ft of (most of) the roads where I lived because drunk drivers kept driving into them and getting hurt... And i hate is so fucking much.

Simple. 1. They have to show up to keep up the illusion that the company needs them. 2. They get off to bossing people around. How are they supposed to feel big and powerful if they can't see us grovel and jump up to please their every whim?

A friend of mine just got a secretary job for a smallish company and I was surprised to learn that they fly the entire office around on a private jet sometimes just for shits and giggles.

It is kind of infuriating knowing that people are giving up meat and riding their bike in the rain to reduce their carbon foot print while the capitalist class gives zero fucks about our planet because they think their bunkers will save them.

But the rich forgot who built their bunkers. When the shit hits the fan, those workers who built the bunkers won't have any trouble pouring concrete over the air vents. We're all in this together and either we all work together to beat climate change or no one will survive climate change.