sinski @aosinski@qoto.org
Software engineer. Sound system aficionado. Traveling the world. Student of random topics
Joined Jul 2020
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Newsflash: Americans not really understanding what fascism is, IS part of why Americans have spent the past 70+ years increasingly embracing fascism. The vast majority of people in this society think "fascism is when funny little moustache, Hugo Boss uniforms, and The Holocaust."
And that idea has PURPOSELY been cultivated in them by a hyper-reactionary ruling class order that ABSORBED fascism after WWII to fight the Cold War and installed fascism in puppet states to maintain global power.
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Trump has pledged to fire Gary Gensler, the head of the SEC, on his first day in office.
Andreessen Horowitz and other crypto industry players are about to see their investment in the Trump campaign pay off big time.
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Ever since Citizens United, outside spending on elections by groups like super PACs has skyrocketed.
The biggest individual donor to outside spending groups in 2024 was Timothy Mellon — heir to the Mellon banking fortune.
This is how dynastic wealth corrupts our politics.
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Like a lot of people I'm really concerned about what the incoming regime is going to do, so here's one small way I'm trying to help: https://jacobian.org/2024/nov/11/digital-security-checkup/
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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged 422 ppm in October 2024
10 years ago October averaged about 396 ppm
Preliminary data: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”
This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.
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Software engineer. Sound system aficionado. Traveling the world. Student of random topics
Joined Jul 2020
