Justin (koavf)
I'm tall but not too tall. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Koavf
Joined Mar 2018
@bl4ckat He tested positive to the negative.
That magical 42% finally cracked and the acting president (twice impeached!) rounds out his unsuccessful re-election bid with the lowest first-term approval rating ever: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/16/politics/trump-approval-analysis/index.html
@Cr15ta83ll Just stick to the fediverse and all will be well, Cristabelle. Happy new year.
@Cr15ta83ll A beautiful song. Next time you want to share a YouTube video, consider an Invidious instance so you're putting a firewall between you and the Google surveillance network.
Way to go on all those love letters to a brutal dictator: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/09/kim-jong-un-calls-us-biggest-enemy-and-says-nuclear-submarine-plans-complete
In a turn that is surprising to no one, the acting president is increasingly discussing pardoning himself for leading an insurrectionist mob of Confederates, Nazis, white supremacists, and other miscellaneous fascists: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/politics/trump-self-pardon.html (TOR link: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2021/01/07/us/politics/trump-self-pardon.html)
Is anyone surprised by this lawless self-dealing? Here is hoping Congress impeaches and convicts him, removing him from public office for life.
@vb25 I am registering a PAC to vote out the Seditious Six. https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-pac/ Could be a complete failure but I cannot sit by and do nothing at all.
@JailTheTrumps About half of the rats jumped ship. Six of them were gross enough to stick with it in the Senate.
Remember the Seditious Six: Cruz, Hawley, Hyde-Smith, Kennedy, Marshall, Tuberville https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/politics/congress-electoral-college-count-tracker/
How refreshing to see a Republican representative explicitly admit to being a criminal on day one of her tenure: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55540155
Evidently, the acting president wants to play golf in Scotland instead of attending Joe Biden’s inauguration but he can’t because that’s inessential travel: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/trump-biden-inauguration-scotland-sturgeon-lockdown-b1782602.html
Buying time makes you happier than buying stuff: academic source: http://www.pnas.org/content/114/32/8523.full, popular source: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/28/545839192/need-a-happiness-boost-spend-your-money-to-buy-time-not-more-stuff
#simpleliving #anticapitalism #consumerism #latestagecapitalism #capitalism #happiness
There are many, many articles on this topic but this is a nice, quick overview of the recent slow-moving coup attempt in the United States and how it has been abetted by the Republican Senatorial candidates in Georgia: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/georgia-runoff-perdue-loeffler-trump-coup-attempt.html
#georgia #fascism #coup #kellyloefler #davidperdue #conservatism
@Kitty62862 I have never used any of them and am always surprised when some Millennial builds his life around these. This race to the bottom to make Travis Kalanick rich was never attractive to me.
The article mentions worker-owned alternatives and The New School has a class on this that I took last year.
The gig economy is a pure scam: no matter how much money they make, they never make money. https://newrepublic.com/article/160764/instacart-grubhub-doordash-pandemic-parasites
#scams #latestagecapitalism #capitalism #uber #lyft #instacart #grubhub
The richest 1% own a quarter of British wealth: https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2021/jan/03/richest-1-have-almost-a-quarter-of-uk-wealth-study-claims
Somehow, this was discovered due to an “error” in previous accounting.
#latestagecapitalism #capitalism #unitedkingdom #oligarchy #plutocracy
Hemp is one of the most important industrial materials. I am loathe to post anything that is even approaching an advertisement but this is an exciting development: https://returntonow.net/2019/04/14/americas-first-hemp-wood-factory-is-being-built/
@rpardee At least a portion of your money stays in your local economy then. Enemies of enemies, etc.
I have been boycotting Amazon for several years (minus the occasional Internet Movie Database use in TOR and the fact that many sites are hosted with their Web Services); it is easier than you think: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/style/amazon-abstainers.html (TOR link: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2020/12/29/style/amazon-abstainers.html)
Justin (koavf)
I'm tall but not too tall. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Koavf
Joined Mar 2018