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@Allfortime0503 @wisepaddington @barbarismcrit You are a deeply sick person

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I don’t think any of us need a phd in psychology for this one

@luca04548 @fieality @Insane_Econ Yeah, I think it has little to do with orientation, more to do with demonstrating a willingness to violate taboos and abuse the vulnerable (showing one holds power as the highest virtue), & to enmesh one’s interests with those of the inner circle via ties of mutual blackmail

@fieality @Insane_Econ In fairness, the heteros promoted to power have shown identical depravity. Epstein files are primarily not-gay...

"I'm leaving for Egypt … I shall get as far as Luxor; and have just heard that 'bed and boy' is prepared. I'm travelling luxe and feel very magnificent." -John Maynard Keynes, letter to his gay lover Giles Lytton Strachey (6 May 1913).

Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.

@CorkyBottle @pawelwargan @TheAgentNDN I think ‘Wild west’ is in quotes for that reason: to mark the OP’s bitterly sardonic use of the term. ‘The inhabited lands west of the already occupied colonial territories of the early United States’ would be more correct, but is too unwieldy to fit in the flow of the writing

@pawelwargan @TheAgentNDN The only part I disagree with you on is where you state what the US had done to the Wild West. It was not wild before the genocidal European invaders killed the people, their food and stole their land. Sounds familiar?

Hitler aimed to do to the east what the US had done to the ‘wild west’: Exterminate its people and seize their land for settlement. 27 million Soviet citizens were killed in this crusade — some in the very same camps in which the Germans massacred Jews. The war of extermination against ‘Bolshevism’ was repeatedly and explicitly named as the principal driver of German imperial foreign policy under Hitler. The denial of this genocide and the Red Army’s singular role in defeating Nazism has been a central instrument of historical revisionism in the hands of the West for over half a century. It has allowed imperialism to wash its hands of its colonial crimes, while preserving its core white supremacist foundation.

@o7laurence @usetraceix It’s because they’re trying to sell their own product by denigrating yours. Did you not notice the buy dot stripe (lol) link in the follow up tweet to their main post?

@usetraceix so you'd rather throw ad hominem insults at me rather than try to intellectually engage on your clearly wrong understanding of how the world works. i see who i'm dealing with now. no point trying to engage with you since you are here in bad faith. oh and you dropped this

Das crazy.

This wasn't even 2 years ago lol

@XiWellWisher lmao AZ back again

You will never guess who wrote this article.

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

@pukeuprainbows Only have to look at cointelpro to know they don’t need the internet to crush or corrupt any opposition to their goals. If you did destroy the internet, they’d still maintain ubiquitous communications & surveillance networks; only the public would be trapped in information silos

Guys, to live free from these monsters, we might just have to kill the internet.

@Smithelinski @WuzzyScuzzy @ColonelAngus17 there’ve been a few studies about the inflation of average required number of applications recently. Partially b/c some places post fake jobs which’re only used to scrape info from the pool of potential applicants. also internal hires that are legally required to be put to tender

@WuzzyScuzzy @ColonelAngus17 Either you're lying, you're doing it wrong, or there is something about you that makes you undesirable. There's something about your story you're not saying.

Young kids can't find work because adults need to work until the minute they expire to survive a mediocre existence.

@TheMikeMorton @nattyover That’s true. My view is that the evolutionary approach is the best we have for understanding the functional purpose of biological systems & making predictions regarding relations between organisms. Hermeneutics for the tree (bushel, really, with horizontal gene transfer) of life

@Mosghos @nattyover I actually believe we are on the same page for the most part. The bottom line is these are all various theories, with several facets of tested proof. Regardless, these are opinions. It never hurts to talk about things in a constructive manner.

Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️

@smelltouchfeel @duneposter @joedgallagher Hell, even the concept of past viral infections (via means of dormancy & reactivation, or reservoirs causing immune issues, or mitochondrial damage, & so on) being a significant contributor to the emergence of later, seemingly unconnected disease, is very new, past ~15yrs i think

@smelltouchfeel @duneposter @joedgallagher Okay, I agree it should be widely known that many, even most, viruses remain in dormancy or reservoirs after initial infection. But when I learned HS biology, & even did a module in infectious diseases in Uni, it was not emphasised that it was significant in many cases, or common

the true horror is the idea of 2nd year med students thinking we clear other viruses from the body

@unmundig @VeryBadLlama @MinModulation Many websites simply have a file containing all their client emails + passwords in plaintext lol. Common report in leak stories. You overestimate both the dumbest security professional and corporate IT management (who presumably have final say in password security implementation)

@VeryBadLlama @MinModulation I was about to point out that it's technically impossible to have your password leaked because even the dumbest security professional knows to use a salted hash, then I rememberd how dumb the average vibe coder is.

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

@TheMikeMorton @nattyover Though I studied neuroscience in Uni, not evolutionary biology or microbiology with a focus on biochemistry, though the first two years of study (of 5 total) did cover them extensively. Meaning I’m no expert. But this is how I tend to think of it

@TheMikeMorton @nattyover Sorry this isn’t a good format to communicate what I’m trying to get across. Though my just having woken up doesnt help either. Please let me know if I pointed toward the outline of my meaning well enough. You seem like someone arguing in good faith so I’d like to engage properly

As the Metropolitan Police rolls out facial recognition nationwide, remember that the software is from Israeli firm Corsight AI and was used as part of the Gaza genocide first.

@TheMikeMorton @nattyover Most of the complexity on the biochemical level was developed during the boring billions when eukaryoticism & primitive multicellularity evolved. Physiological complexity in plants&animals is easier than biochemical complexity because you can just tweak developmental processes