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Adios my fellow wage slave!
edition.cnn.com
> Demand for metals like lithium and cobalt, as well as rare earth elements such as neodymium, is soaring as countries try to switch to electric cars and other clean technologies to slash carbon emissions. > "If Afghanistan has a few years of calm, allowing the development of its mineral resources, it could become one of the richest countries in the area within a decade," Said Mirzad of the US Geological Survey told Science magazine in 2010.
When your knowledge of Communism is as bad as your knowledge of Capitalism!
> While it appears that the rich kids with deep pockets are funding their respective space ventures, the reality is that it is the US taxpayers that are funding these space efforts. > Post-1990, it was the Soviet-designed and Russian produced rocket engines – RD170 and RD180 – that powers the US Atlas rockets, the mainstay of the US heavy launch vehicles. > The space competition is not simply who sent the first man to the moon, but also who built the better rockets. > At the same time that Russian rocket engines were becoming the mainstay of the US space programme, the US imposed sanctions on ISRO and Russia’s Glavkosmos. Glavkosmos was Russia's space marketing arm for selling cryogenic rocket engines and technology. > Behind this hype of a new space age, is the reality of a new space grab. This is what Bezos and Musk represent: a new space age in which the billionaires can leave this world they are destroying in the hope of new lands to conquer and again destroy.
gizmodo.com
> Lobbying groups representing AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and other telecom companies have fiercely pushed back against the legislation, known as the Affordable Broadband Act, and sued New York shortly after it was signed and passed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in April. Initially scheduled to go into effect next week, the bill would require ISPs serving more than 20,000 households to offer two low-cost plans to qualifying customers: one with download speeds of a least 25 Mbps for no more than $15 per month, and another offering download speeds of at least 200 Mbps at no more than $20 monthly. The state’s attorney general would be able to issue penalties to providers of up to $1,000 per violation.
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One of the comment from the original post,
I had a friend when I worked at Wendy’s way back in the day, he would say this shit to the manager whenever they got on his ass about something. They hated him, I thought it was hilarious.
www.theguardian.com
> While we busy ourselves greening our personal lives, fossil fuel corporations are rendering these efforts irrelevant. The breakdown of carbon emissions since 1988? A hundred companies alone are responsible for an astonishing 71%. You tinker with those pens or that panel; they go on torching the planet. > Neoliberalism has taken this internalized self-blame and turbocharged it. It tells you that you should not merely feel guilt and shame if you can’t secure a good job, are deep in debt, and are too stressed or overworked for time with friends. You are now also responsible for bearing the burden of potential ecological collapse.
www.theverge.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/68609 > One thing Amazon doesn’t bring up is that athletes train for an event with a definite end date. Athletes aren’t competing day in and day out, and they have time to rest and recuperate in between. > It’s safe to say that most Amazon warehouse workers don’t have professional nutritionists and / or chefs taking care of their dietary needs.
www.theverge.com
> One thing Amazon doesn’t bring up is that athletes train for an event with a definite end date. Athletes aren’t competing day in and day out, and they have time to rest and recuperate in between. > It’s safe to say that most Amazon warehouse workers don’t have professional nutritionists and / or chefs taking care of their dietary needs.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/68216 Analyst from a **Koch** funded **Commonwealth Foundation** says, > The real minimum wage, let's be honest, is not $7.5, it's $0 an hour. But, it sounded more like this, > There is no minimum wage, we pay you so that you don't starve. Meanwhile, the Chairman kept interrupting the Mr. Kenyetta and had to say this, when he asked the testifier about what she made in a year, > Please be courteous to the testifier, you can ask questions, but please be polite, be courteous. But, it sounded more like this, > Please be grateful to the people that fund us, you cannot ask questions that challenge the ruling class, but you can ask for donations, be grateful.
Analyst from a **Koch** funded **Commonwealth Foundation** says, > The real minimum wage, let's be honest, is not $7.5, it's $0 an hour. But, it sounded more like this, > There is no minimum wage, we pay you so that you don't starve. Meanwhile, the Chairman kept interrupting the Mr. Kenyetta and had to say this, when he asked the testifier about what she made in a year, > Please be courteous to the testifier, you can ask questions, but please be polite, be courteous. But, it sounded more like this, > Please be grateful to the people that fund us, you cannot ask questions that challenge the ruling class, but you can ask for donations, be grateful.
> Further, under this proposed regulation, the regulation also allows for a ‘plan’ which will indicate land or zones that can be identified for parks, industries, residential or commercial use, national highways, arterial roads and so on. Under section 72, it also gives power to the Planning and Development Authority to evict anyone who is found to occupy land under a final scheme formulated under the proposed law. “If the Planning and Development Authority is opposed or impeded in evicting such person or taking possession of the land from such person, the District Magistrate shall, at the request of the Planning and Development Authority, enforce the eviction of such person or secure delivery of possession of the land to the Planning and Development Authority,” the draft says. > Patel has also allegedly given orders to widen the roads and raze houses, despite the fact that Lakshadweep has very few vehicles and mostly only two-wheelers. > "We are happy to have wider roads, but when they propose to widen existing small roads by destroying houses on either side, how can we agree?” questioned National Congress Party (NCP) Lakshadweep President, Bunyamin. “The islands already have space constraints. Many families will just have one house, what if they lose that? Some islands are just 500 meters wide, so if they acquire land to widen, these people will have to live by sea," he told TNM. **The fascists are back at it again, trying to forge the nation in the image of Hindutva!** > The Administrator has also allegedly closed down all dairy farms operated by the Animal Husbandry Department, and the draft law in the name of ‘animal preservation’ intends to ban slaughter, transportation, and selling or buying of beef products. Islanders also say that Patel has also directed to cut the non-vegetarian menu from midday meals. > “It is not that we were self-sufficient, we were dependent on the mainland. But that doesn't mean that we can be taken for granted. Things were all fine until December 2020. Now they say that our children won't get non-veg dishes as their midday meals. Until now, over the years, kids were served with non-veg dishes. Unlike in the mainland, we don't get good vegetables here. Non-vegetarian food and beef are a part of our culture,” Fathima, a resident of Minicoy, told TNM. “Every celebration we gather together in the village houses. We don't have celebrations at home even during Eid. When these amendments are implemented, we will not be able to have a peaceful life.”
``` Competition of commission of India files case on WhatsApp citing changes made to it's Privacy Policy. WhatsApp files case against Union govt. of India citing 'Traceability' provision in IT Rules. WhatsApp's Privacy Policy changes are for business and profit. Union govt. of India's rules are for more control over the right to expression and to suppress dissent and criticism. We, users and citizens, are struck between them. ``` https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-govt-s-new-it-rules-track-originator-messages-can-affect-your-privacy-144179
www.freepressjournal.in
> In a statement, the company said, "Tata Steel's best-in-class social security schemes will ensure an honourable standard of living for their families, whereby the family will get the last drawn salary till 60 years of age of the deceased employee/nominee along with medical benefits and housing facilities." 
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Only if people understood the class interests involved and whose interest the Government cares more about & tries to enforce. Unfortuanely, we don't talk about C-word anymore and pretend they don't exist!
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science.thewire.in
> “Some liability protection is warranted, but certainly not for fraud, gross negligence, mismanagement, failure to follow good manufacturing practices,” said Gostin. “Companies have no right to ask for indemnity for these things.” > (Pfizer’s partner BioNTech was given $445 million by the German government to develop a vaccine and the US government agreed a deal in July to pre-order 100m doses for nearly $2 billion, before the vaccine had even entered phase three trials. Pfizer expects to make sales of $15 billion worth of vaccines in 2021.) > “We offered to pay for millions of doses in advance, we accepted this international insurance, but the last request was unusual: Pfizer demanded that the sovereign assets of Argentina also be part of the legal support,” the official said. “It was an extreme demand that I had only heard when the foreign debt had to be negotiated, but both in that case and in this one, we rejected it immediately.”
science.thewire.in
> “Some liability protection is warranted, but certainly not for fraud, gross negligence, mismanagement, failure to follow good manufacturing practices,” said Gostin. “Companies have no right to ask for indemnity for these things.” > (Pfizer’s partner BioNTech was given $445 million by the German government to develop a vaccine and the US government agreed a deal in July to pre-order 100m doses for nearly $2 billion, before the vaccine had even entered phase three trials. Pfizer expects to make sales of $15 billion worth of vaccines in 2021.) > “We offered to pay for millions of doses in advance, we accepted this international insurance, but the last request was unusual: Pfizer demanded that the sovereign assets of Argentina also be part of the legal support,” the official said. “It was an extreme demand that I had only heard when the foreign debt had to be negotiated, but both in that case and in this one, we rejected it immediately.” These are some instances that clearly show the class interests involved and what kind of economic and political power the ruling class weilds.
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It's not just about the production capacity of India. India currently has two vaccines - Covishield (Oxford & AstraZeneca developed, manufactured by Serum Institute of India) and Covaxin (Indian Council of Medical Research & Bharat BioTech, manufactured by Bharat BioTech). Sputnik V is a new addition from Russia.
While it would be wise to blame the country for the under production of Covaxin, because it's a home grown vaccine and public money was involved in its development. It could've been manufactured by more than one manufacturer in the country.
But, in case of Covishield, only SII has the license to manufacture it. If the IP rules are to be waived, it could be manufactured by others in the country.
The whole point is, countries like India have the capability to mass produce vaccines to satisfy domestic needs and to help other countries that don't have the necessary facilities to do so. The rich countries have secured enough vaccines (How rich countries are making the pandemic last longer) and in the case of UK, they have clause in the vaccine contracts to give it more preference, should the producer face shortages (link).
> The self sacrificing mother is a much glorified image. Often, this restricts women's freedom and self sufficiency. The Left stands for equality that transcends gender. On this mother's day, let us welcome our mothers outside the confines of our homes into a wide world. https://nitter.kavin.rocks/vijayanpinarayi/status/1391353691077185539
www.newsclick.in
The Modi government's approach to vaccines is based on the central pillar of RSS ideology: the task of the state is only to help big capital. Anything else including planning is "socialism". In the case of vaccines, it means no attempt to get the companies—both public and private sector together—to plan what was required for a quick vaccination program; put in the money and the necessary supply chain. Instead, it believed that India's private pharmaceutical industry would do all of this on its own.
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https://www.newsclick.in/Boris-Johnson-Walks-Away-laughing-India-Serum-Institute-Tow
Johnson plays hard ball. He has no time for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. “The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of greed, my friends,” Johnson said in a recent call with British MPs.
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This is like those free market buddies you have in a group chat.
The free market combined with human free will, in all its glorious action. The people have chosen their preferred product, and there's nothing you can do about it.
The thing about capitalism, it has the tendency to use anything to it's advantage. Like the above comment, when people don't understand the gravity of privacy implications and how Big Tech does stuff in the open & behind the scenes (usually it gets diluted by shit ton of distraction from mass media), capitalism is going to use it and say, "That's what people want, it's their choice & freedom!". This kind of strategy will only work as long as masses aren't much concerned or unaware.
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Sad reality is,
- people are still going to watch it no matter what
- Qatar at most gets a slap on the wrist
- FIFA makes even more money
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Every single channel is coming up with its own streaming platform and shitty originals on it. Piracy is here to stay!
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#2 rule: definitely don't host this shit in the US :D
Even if it was outside the US, wouldn't the entertainment industry people or through the US government, try to get the foreign government to do something about it?
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KOReader is pretty good in terms of usability and features. Haven't had any major issues so far.
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The only way to change the situation is to force those social networks to use their powers more responsibly. Europe’s GDPR law with its right to data portability is a step in the right direction, but it’s not enough. I believe we need more to regain our right to choose what services we use.
I wouldn't bet much on these laws, because it's the same EU that's drafting bills for lawful access to encrypted data - https://www.cyberscoop.com/encryption-europe-tutanota-protonmail-threema-tresorit/
The adoption of the encryption resolution in the European Union does not affect the landscape for encrypted services in Europe immediately, as the resolution is non-binding. But its adoption suggests a “shift in tone and puts pressure on the European Commission to propose anti-encryption legislation in the near future,” the encrypted email service provider ProtonMail has argued.
After portability, we need to discuss about interoperability, which in this case is the ability to contact people that are are using different chat applications than the one you are using. The way email and SMS already work.
I don't see a possibility for this in Signal, at least as long as Moxie is there pulling the strings and here are his views on federation - https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
When someone recently asked me about federating an unrelated communication platform into the Signal network, I told them that I thought we’d be unlikely to ever federate with clients and servers we don’t control.
An open source infrastructure for a centralized network now provides almost the same level of control as federated protocols, without giving up the ability to adapt. If a centralized provider with an open source infrastructure ever makes horrible changes, those that disagree have the software they need to run their own alternative instead. It may not be as beautiful as federation, but at this point it seems that it will have to do.
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In terms of functionality, it looks similar. But, trebleshot desktop isn't having any activity for a long time now (https://gi)thub.com/trebleshot/desktop) and pre-built binaries are missing (we could build it ourselves though.
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"But, but, Google gives me free food, PlayStation and a pool table" :D
Jokes apart, from personal anecdotes, I have seen people use statements like these, who think that these are true care from the employers.
Anything that keeps us from looking at the real issues, the employer will do!
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That's nice, will check it. Thanks for the share.
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This is the first time that I've come across this site. That being said, I hoped to see Firefox in mid - high tier, based on the articles I've read about Firefox and it's privacy protection out of the box, like tracking protection.
Is this a legit analysis? Would Firefox move up the ladder if we tweak its config like this?
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Decentralized Social Networks vs The Trolls - https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01f38f966
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Used it for some time in the past with one of my buddies. Getting others to install it, just to try it out was tiring.
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