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Cake day: May 7th, 2024

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  • The issue I see here is that this isn’t the first domino that triggers a people’s revolution. If this inspires more violence against the rich, the system is designed to protect those people. It won’t buckle under that pressure, it will retaliate a thousandfold. With Trump taking office next month, don’t expect the conditions for a revolution to materialize. Expect to be crushed by the police and military for even speaking out.


  • the guy had a yearly salary in the hundreds of millions.

    He’s the CEO of a publicly traded company. His salary is publicly available. It was $9.86M. His net worth was estimated at $40M.

    I keep hearing a lot of pretty extreme exaggerations about this guy’s wealth, including that he was a billionaire. He was a 1%er for sure, but literally nowhere near the wealth of an oligarch. I guess being deliberately dishonest is helping people justify their full-throated endorsement of vigilantism and murder this week.



  • Man, this is an incredibly low bar for “cyberpunk”.

    The electric bike has been around 128 years, and being electric isn’t even important. Guns have been around roughly a thousand years. This could have happened literally anytime in American history. The most high-tech part of this story is that it was caught on CCTV.

    Wake me when someone gets poisoned by fentanyl delivered by a drone something actually cyberpunk. Like, the gun should be 3D printed, and the getaway vehicle needs to be an eVTOL for this story to be considered cyberpunk.


  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHow embarrassing
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    23 days ago

    The small number of comments like yours with extreme downvote counts against the absolute deluge of celebratory posts has me feeling pretty fucked about the entire Lemmy community. I understand people’s poor opinions of the health insurance industry, but this mass endorsement of murdering their executives is not a good turn for this community.

    It doesn’t even serve our causes. It doesn’t get us any closer to universal healthcare, or price caps on lifesaving care, or healthcare ethics reforms, or any of the other things that actually need to happen.

    With a second Trump term starting next month, if the accelerationist lunatics begging for more dead CEOs gets their way, you’re going to see some of the most horrific state violence imaginable as our new fascist kakistocracy zeros in on their “enemy within” boogyman.

    On the note of actually giving a shit about healthcare outcomes, nobody on Lemmy seems to be organizing against the status quo. There are no communities here about unfair health insurance decisions, and medical bankruptcy. Generally speaking, Lemmy has a progressive view on healthcare, but very little interest in organizing about it materially.

    But when a CEO gets murdered, the Tankies come out en masse to tell us that shooting and killing a father of 2 is actually heroism or something.

    It’s just pure violent hatred, and while I understand where people’s anger comes from, I don’t think I’m going to stick around this place much longer if this kind of rhetoric is going to be treated as normal. If this is how the general userbase of Lemmy actually thinks, I’ll show myself the door and find people who aren’t pieces of shit.

    Just wanted you to know, despite the downvotes you’re getting, you are completely fucking right and everyone else who has decided that this is the time to cause a scene can hopefully get banned.



  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.mlIMG_0001
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    23 days ago

    How is this an example of failed privacy?

    YouTube is a video sharing site. People pushed a button to share their videos. They wanted people to see these.

    These videos aren’t much different than what you find on Facebook or Instagram today, it’s just that over the past decade people have gotten better at naming and categorizing what they post.

    The real quirk here is that the app made it way too easy to upload the default filenames, so we can now search for them specifically like a little time capsule.





  • No joke, having a big dick has always seemed bad. Women really only seem to like it as a novelty, but otherwise report strong dissatisfaction with an oversized partner.

    Something like 7-8 inches is what most women consider ideal, with way more acceptance for smaller penises than large ones.

    I guess if you want to be a fuckboy or work in porn, a monster cock might be advantageous, but my understanding is that it’s awful if you want to provide long-term sexual satisfaction to a partner.