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Dead at 100, Henry Kissinger Leaves Behind a Bloody Legacy

Do not speak ill of the dead. That’s an honorable admonition. But what of the truth? When a person dies, should he be remembered accurately? That question is acutely posed by the demise of Henry Kissinger. The veteran diplomat passed away on Wednesday at the age of 100, leaving behind a long legacy that includes […] #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/henry-kissinger-dead-at-100/?utm_source=press.coop

Henry Kissinger is finally dead.
Jimmy Carter is still alive.
This is a good day!

What Florida Textbook is this from?

My kids are either never leaving us, or not living in Vancouver. Those are clearly the only two options now.

From https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/housing-costs-soar-financial-analysts-30-per-cent-rule-1.6894375 #vancouver #HousingCrisis #TheRentIsTooDamnHigh

@anthonyfloyd
And (almost) the only “solution” that gets any coverage by media, or discussion by the politicians, is “encourage developers to build more affordable housing”…! As if handing over managing housing to the real estate industry, and turning it into an uncontrolled profit centre, isn’t how this disaster came about in the first place.

As a group we just don’t seem capable of learning. When you’re in a hole, stop digging…

#HousingCrisis #HousingForPeopleNotProfits #HousingIsARight

BTW I no longer include my Twitter handle in my CNN articles- only my Mastodon handle. I refuse to promote Elon Musk's Ponzi scheme. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/opinions/lindsey-graham-booed-trump-rally-obeidallah

So, weekend tally: The number of active users across Mastodon rose by 294K, and posting activity roughly tripled. Lots of new sign-ups, but also many returning users. Fun times!

#libraries

Hi friends and welcome!! Here's my periodic reminder that our fact-checking site @TruthOrFiction has a presence on the fediverse, if you like that sort of thing

THE SCORPION AND THE FROG

If Meta won't properly moderate Facebook, they are not going to spend money to do it on a new platform.

One last post.

Meta should be concentrating on throwing resources at fixing Facebook before they are allowed to become a part of the Fediverse. If their intentions were good they would do this.

American politics is a theatrical performance of pretending the interests of women, the poor, and marginalized people are incredibly controversial and shockingly beyond the pale while funding the institutions that exploit and abuse them as much as possible so the situation can never change.

I mean the honest to good truth is, I just have so little patience for pretend. And I kinda live in a society that functions on it. So, everyone is like "how do you know all this shit" and yeah I guess it's a lotta reading, but also my stomach keeps lurching because just getting along day to day in capitalist hellworld requires a lot of pretending. Mostly pretending I know folks ain't lying right to my face, and that they don't mean to kill me for a fast buck. But a lotta pretending.

"The internet is the most important knowledge infrastructure in our society and you simply cannot exist without it at this point."

Cool, sounds like a public good to me; nationalize it immediately.

Secondly and this is clutch; if the government nationalized all the hospitals, I suppose it is possible they could do creepy experiments on me when I went in for surgery. That is in fact a risk I may have to take. What I have noticed however about places where governments have nationalized the hospitals, is that despite this risk, the vast majority of people do not die sick and poor because "muh insurance" and don't seem that worried about trusting the ebil gubment; with their lives.

My friend asked me what startup ideas I had.

Sadly all I have are ideas that improve the world, none that make money to live.

Twitter is falling apart. Reddit is falling apart. Facebook fell apart ages ago. Meta is a trashfire. Instagram is baloney. Google can't even search for anything you want anymore.

You know what website still miraculously works?

Wikipedia.

You should donate to keep it that way.

Call me old-fashioned, but if a car kills people at ten times the rate of other cars,
the company covers up the data,
and the CEO lies to the public and says the cars are safer…

I think that CEO should go to jail on fraud charges.
#Musk #fraud #DOJ #WhiteCollarCrimeSpiking
https://prospect.org/justice/06-13-2023-elon-musk-tesla-self-driving-bloodbath/

Translation of this Twitter exec:
“Do you love rich people and believe their speech should dominate others’?
Let’s call that “freedom” to fool the public.

As long as you say things that help rich people, you can be heard.
That’s Twitter 2.0”

Elon Musk confirmed that the new CEO for Twitter will be an executive with ties to the advertising industry.

“I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk tweeted on Friday. He added that Yaccarino “will focus primarily on business operations" while he will continue to put all his effort into product disintegration and being an arse.