@GergelyOrosz Can you blame Microsoft for them downloading malware?
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Retired poster. Hope you enjoyed the posts.
Katılım Aralık 2022
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Having been so used to using a Mac or Linux, it’s wild how messed up my winder family members’ Windows 10 systems are.
Malware everywhere to the point of unable to use the internet, McAffee screaming in their face and doing nothing depute paying for it. Absolute horror…
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@SeahawksJoJo Can you explain why an innocent man would enthusiastically lie and participate in the cover-up of the murder if he supposedly had nothing to do with it?
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@ScottGreenfield I’ve been following this case for years. It’s unbelievable what was allowed to happen, in this case.
innocenceproject.org/news/richard-g…
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This is why the death penalty is wrong. It's not that some defendants don't "deserve" it, whatever that means, but that the system is too untrustworthy, too subject to error, to take the life of a human being.
Kelsey Reichmann@KelseyReichmann
WOW an Oklahoma judge grants Richard Glossip's bond request He has been incarcerated for 29 years, faced 9 execution dates and ate 3 last meals. Last year, SCOTUS said he deserved a new hearing after prosecutorial misconduct was uncovered. courthousenews.com/supreme-court-…
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@zhil_arf Subsidizing agricultural production is the most bog-standard policy anywhere. Calling it a Chinese innovation is lol.
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Another fantastic concept coming out of China is supply side socialism.
When the worker is unable to afford food with his wages, should the government increase minimum wage? No. The government must instead increase the amount of food in the market until the worker becomes fat.
To do this, the government will need the power of taxation, and the rich must be taxed to fund the program. Mountains are blown up to make way for dams to irrigate the production of food.
This is a vastly more positive vision that the zero sum rent-seeking of labor unionism that only increases the number of costs and bottlenecks in industrial production instead of reducing it.
zhil@zhil_arf
"True Capitalism is impossible without a totalitarian vanguardist government with a complete monopoly on political power and violence able to crack down wannabe oligarchs and rent-seekers trying to stifle competition through crony protectionism"
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Ah yes, German culture is statues of Lenin
chimera@chimeraxmachina
What’s it called when two countries merge but only one of the two has its culture and institutions smashed, its people thrown into poverty, and a decades long crusade is waged to convince everyone it was evil in all regards because “unification” doesn’t seem quite accurate
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Wonder if the third world is still MAGA in 2026
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Just In: Great news for #RichardGlossip who was just granted bond after 29 years in prison — including nearly being executed three times — for a crime he did not commit.
Laura Burstein@LauraBurstein1
ATTY STMT: Judge grants #RichardGlossip bond:“For the first time in 29 years of being incarcerated for a crime he did not commit…Mr. Glossip now has the chance to taste freedom while his defense team continues to pursue justice on his behalf…” More here: tinyurl.com/3hv8zbb6
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@AlexGodofsky The Scrooge McDuck vault but it's full of bread.
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Guy who thinks having bread on the store shelves is "hoarding"
𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉@OrevaZSN
Why are ethical questions always like, ‘Is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?’ and not, ‘Is it ethical to hoard bread while families are starving?
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@SaraElisabeth02 He was convicted because everything he did following the murder can only be explained by being a knowing accomplice.
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@dmaninseattle @ScottGreenfield From what I know about the case Richard Glossip was convicted entirely based on the word of the actual murdered who cut a plea deal. He never should have been convicted let alone in prison for 29 years and facing death.
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@ScottGreenfield I'm sorry, I dare you to read this entire article and tell me that this man is innocent lol. readfrontier.org/stories/two-tr…
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@dysanthropian1 Do you think the list of "rights" is extremely obvious and objective and there's no reason to contest them?
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@sgodofsk Society is no longer democratic when society has too many rights? Typical conservative bullshit. We need to protect society from having the right to privacy and bodily autonomy for … reasons. Can’t let people buttfuck or society falls apart! Can’t let people marry other races!
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What I find so obnoxious about all of the whinging from democrats about the courts is that for DECADES they advanced their agenda through patently absurd decisions with no basis in legal text and republicans never once ran on blowing up constitutional governance over it.
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@LinkofSunshine Rwanda has the smaller population but its mineral exports alone dwarf Malawi's entire export portfolio, which is dominated by tobacco, a globally declining industry.
The dirty secret is that tiny Rwanda exports the plunder from its Congolese conquests.
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Why is Malawi poorer than Rwanda despite the calmer history: state capacity?
The constant ethnic conflict in Rwanda led to a urgent need for a functional gov. (largely for evil)
But that can also be used for productive projects, and Malawi's peace meant this was never necessary
Deena Mousa@deenamousa
New post: We don't know why Malawi is poor
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@mattyglesias Ironically, the only right-wing businessman to criticize Trump has been… Elon Musk.
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Not just a hypocrisy point — hypocrisy points are lame — I think that the actual behavior of center-right elites toward Donald Trump illustrates that resistance lib warnings of an autocratic personality cult are in fact pretty accurate.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I feel like if a Democratic president was trying to ban new built-to-rent housing projects we would be hearing a lot from right of center businessmen about how that's a dumb idea.
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@Birdyword I'm not going to apologize to boomers when we have a boomer ruling class that's repeating the exact same mistakes they did then.
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@rohitshinde121 >He (correctly) predicted that the flexible exchange rate world (that we're living in now) is much more stable.
This is not even slightly obvious at all. The immediate result was the chaos of the 1970s.
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Woah! This is blasphemy. Milton Friedman is correct about the following:
1. He proved that the Great Depression was due to Fed contracting money supply. Ben Bernanke conceded this on Friedman's 90th birthday!
2. He was the first (and correct) to critique the Phillips curve relationship between inflation and unemployment. Past governments had tried to exploit the relationship. But he demonstrated that doing so simply shifts expectations.
3. He was instrumental in arguing against the Bretton-Woods regime. He (correctly) predicted that the flexible exchange rate world (that we're living in now) is much more stable.
4. The EITC is simply an implementation of the negative income tax he proposed as a replacement to bureaucratic welfare.
5. He was also correct about corporate tax being a regressive tax. Decades later, virtually no economists disagree.
I could go on and on and on. Milton Friedman was one of the greatest geniuses. Saying he wasn't right says more about your understanding of economics than his.
Andrés Bernal 🇨🇴🇺🇸@andresintheory
@rohitshinde121 Economics is not a natural science and Milton Friedman hasn’t been correct about anything meaningful to policy or the actual world
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@scottlincicome Hit translate. x.com/ZanEngineer/st…
お侍さん@ZanEngineer
ポテチの袋がモノクロになると、想像以上に葬儀チップスやな。
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"Japanese snack packages turning black-and-white as Iran war depletes ink supply" npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-…
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@mattyglesias Thanks for circling the entire screenshot, almost missed that.
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I think the president should probably think about Americans’ financial situation — it’s a pretty important part of the job
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@TrueSlazac He was one of the central Atari Democrats back in the day, had a very sunny attitude towards the tech industry.
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How in the world was this man Secretary of Labor
Robert Reich@RBReich
There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.
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@escapefrommelos I'm afraid it's an all-American invention. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiggle_te…
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japan’s biggest cultural impact on the United States is the anime-popularized concept of “Fan Service”
siren crave@sirencrave
sydney sweeney, i'm looking respectfully
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