Is that because conservatives are the only ones have kids these days?

5 years in jail is protecting him?

Sounds super democratic. Why not copy the German system where the majority party in the majority coalition becomes PM / Chancellor?

Trump absolutely will be worse, but yeah, that doesn’t absolve Genocide-Joe of funding genocide

Is there a path to adopt Palestinian children who need homes?

Israel is also bribing our politicians. Our two-party political system is so corrupt it makes me sick to my stomach even thinking about it.

Climate change is threatening to potentially be an extinction level event and yet Americans keep buying bigger and bigger tank sized vehicles… If we can’t even be bothered to save ourselves by addressing climate change now then I think there is virtually zero chance that we will ever colonize space or other planets.

Some historians think we only got FDR’s New Deal because socialism was on the rise and liberals were scared there would be a socialist revolution. It wouldn’t surprise me if liberals only get their shit together when they are scared that people are considering alternatives to our broken 2 party system.

I solve that by sometimes saying “upvoted” so it is clear that I am not downvoting them even if we disagree

If capitalists valued the public good instead of profit min-maxing then they wouldn’t be capitalists. They’d be some kind of socialist, probably market socialist (co-ops owned by workers or the public.)

Since you are arguing from a perspective of what benefits society, I can only assume you must be a socialist. One of the foundational principals of capitalism is that capitalists have every moral and legal right to extract as much value from society as they can and the market will regulate itself. As long as we have a capitalist system this will always be the default position of the general public and our politicians.

Slim profit margins my ass. Walmarts gross profit for the twelve months ending July 31, 2024 was $163.786B,

Walmart has 10.5k locations. 163B divided by 10.5K is about $15.6M per location.

Jesus, in what world is $15M profits per store location considered a “slim margin”?

I think this will be potentially be a good thing (at first) as you won’t have people wasting their life away just endlessly walking around the store updating the price of every individual item for 40 hours a week.

Things will get messy when they start price gouging based on current inventory, weather, holidays or emergency situations.

Things will get deeply dystopian if they start scanning customers as they enter and change the price based on their skin color, gender, clothing, or estimated net worth.

If John Oliver’s segment on Amazon was correct, then Amazon is much worse than Microsoft. Microsoft didn’t force their employees to pee in bottles and work them ragged until they had severe burnout or became physically disabled.

Same. Here. I have a s21, but it is frustrating how little control I have over the device. Garbage apps like chrome are taking up a huge chunk of my storage space, but my phone won’t let me uninstall them.

Disagree with your second point. Punitive measures are better served as a temporary stopgap. So a better approach would be: the government should either nationalize twitter or force twitter to be open to federalization (like lemmy) and then build their own publically owned instance.

Musk himself keeps calling it Twitter. He did it multiple times in his interview with Trump.

I lowkey love that Musk refuses to change it back because it highlights the fact that the richest man in the world is a huge idiot and that capitalism is not a meritocracy.

I think they do that to obfuscate how many bots they use.

They also hold more heat so they can get hotter which is great for searing steaks.

My dad would get mad at me for sitting too close to the tv or for not recognizing people. They never thought to have my eyes checked until my Kindergarten teacher had the school test my eye sight