pudcollar

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[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Nothing But Trouble, so they don't come back

[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

4 year old article

[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 90 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)

If a billionaire is in actual trouble, he's in China. US would have bailed out Evergrande.

[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

The existing auto industry would squash this as quickly and effectively as possible, we'd absolutely need a command economy to put something like this through.

[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

We made an automaton clerk. It has neither arms nor body, but it works all day translating physician's documents, so they may be stored with uniformity in a library that has neither shelves nor paper.

[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fantastic to hear she's pro-Palestine, that makes her Flower Duet sound even better

[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The animal industries have their own lobbying and disinformation campaigns. The pro-corporate media environment is an inextricable part of capitalist society. Their CEOs and those of Exxon et al are all basically saying "we're doing what we're permitted to do, it's your job to reign us in for any social good whatsoever". Any rational actor in a society that permits this will do this if given the opportunity. They're products of their environment. Sometimes they'll get ratioed on X, and agree to some small concession, a mere unconscious twitch of the power of the people causing multibillion $ companies to yelp in terror.

[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

In a way, he's right. You can't expect a trillion dollar private company to do anything but maximize profits any way they can get away with. It's in the interest of the public to overthrow capitalism and the responsibility falls on us to understand this and do this. ExxonMobil exists with the consent of the masses.

[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I skimmed it. I don't need convincing that NYT are lying hacks. It's pretty small potatoes imo compared to their usual shenanigans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_controversies

I thought by the headline they were talking about this https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/

Usually NYT can be found with their lips on the metaphorical ring of the neoliberal western order, so if they're not full-throated in support of one of its champions, that's a little interesting but not very.

 
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