I spent hours with my mother explaining a scientific paper that was paraded around YouTube with the usual half-assed reading they do, and that fucker even ended with “don’t trust me, read for yourself!” Which naturally no one does as “well he told me to look so he can’t be lying.”

Yeah well he was at best just dense and didn’t understand, but more than likely capitalizing on sensational bullshit…

No, the Chinese are not trying to create a super deadly COVID variant Mr.Campbell…

Believe it or not, jail!

Not in that term, but as a concept. I do know it now though so thanks!

I have absofuckinglutley no faith whatsoever in our society to do the right thing in this respect. We value ownership waytoofuckingmuch when it comes to businesses, were never going to get past the argument of “I put forward the capital for this business, I am entitled to all of the profits. Who cares that there is no work for you? No work no pay.”

I forsee a gigantic increase in homelessness and politicians will use that as an excuse to further cut any social spending as they’ll pin all our issues on “communist policies.” :(

I saw a post “Lemmy seems to have way more leftists than xyz.” So I wouldn’t be surprised to find it’s political nonsense, people attacking a site they see as “the left.”

I love that I have the option to vote for people on specific platforms in NY. I can show support for the Working Families Party while still voting for Democrats as the politicians can run under multiple parties so I’m not just tossing away a vote just to send a message

Duckduckgo is a wrapper for bing? No wonder it sucks… I want to like it, but the results are usually pretty bad in comparison to Google. Takes me much longer to find what I’m looking for with DDG. :/

I’m “technically/mechanically inclined” as they say, but formally, “professionally,” I’m just a worthless factory worker schmuck lol

I believe it’s also largest in dollar amount by a long shot.

https://tcworkerscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Wage-Theft-vs-Other-Theft-1024x730.jpg

Just a quick search found something from 2018 so don’t crucify me if it’s not accurate anymore lol

I always just say “I’d be better if you were checking my prostate” but I always get kicked out right after! I can never quite put my finger in why though…

:P

I’ve never seen the word tankie more in my life than I have since joining Lemmy and I had been on reddit for over 11 years lol

Not so fun fact: the constitution allows for slavery as long as it’s a punishment for a crime.

Hmmm… Nah, those dots don’t connect at all.

While true, my theory is that they might also want something else. I use a plate and sometimes she’ll just beg for more anyway even if half of what I gave her is still in the bowl, I’ll give her a tiny bit of something else and she’ll go eat that instead lol

They say conscious beings are how the universe gets to know itself, so I AM the cosmos!

Take the upvote! :P

I knew it was that douchenozzle… I couldn’t tell for sure, but of course he would say “Take the picture from the floor to make me look like a Real Man™.” Lol

The problem is that you basically need to have those conversations about wages in an email otherwise the company will still fire you for it, but claim it was just about “poor performance” or “insubordination” so they can’t get in trouble for it… Hell I could even see a corporation arguing that your email conversation about wages wasn’t “professional use of email directly related to their work” so there’s pretty much always a way for them to skirt that law :(

It’s the Vegeta hairline! I got mine at fucking 26… So now I just buzz my hair super short. I definitely miss being able to grow long hair and not look like I’m completely in denial lol

Some Americans worship cops as a part of their political identity. They’re the “Free-thinkers” that all seem to act identically and get their opinions handed down to them from US Reich wing media and internet personalities.

One thing about this post though is that the police DO protect and serve, it’s just who they’re protecting and serving (hint: it’s the wealthy and their businesses)

I think he would have had to be convicted of that. Even though it’s exactly what he did, he hasn’t been convicted of anything really. The only shit that ever sticks with him are low stakes civil cases he can just throw money at…

But isn’t reddit still a private company? They don’t have shareholders in that case right? They WANT shareholders which is why they’re pulling this b.s to appear profitable when they go public. I think this is just plain old greed.