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  • Gotta make the plebs think they’re really sticking it to the billionaires. Look at any story about them and it’s always desperate to paint billionaires as secretly miserable or like they spend even a single second worrying about what “the poors” think. Any, even mild, resistance is blown up and treated like a massive unified movement of the common man against the wealthy class.

    Look at Bezos’ wedding. If you believed the BS here, you would think the entire city of Venice was taking a stand and making it hostile for him and that certainly his wedding would be a miserable experience full of protestors and anti-Bezos street art. In reality, barely 100 people ever protested. All the floats and signs you saw posted were performance pieces, quietly removed by officials minutes after they went up. In reality, Bezos and all his rich guests had a great time and didn’t see a single protestor because security wouldn’t let anyone unvetted come anywhere near the wedding party.


  • But… They’re right? The NWS did send out a warning shortly after 1AM. It was local emergency officials who dropped the ball and didn’t pass on the warning until 7AM.

    Is everyone just too far in their bubbles now that they reject whatever actually happened in favor of whatever narrative their side of the internet made up?

    I hate it here.









  • At its peak, there were 8.5 million members of the Nazi party. Less than 7000 Nazis ever faced convictions for their actions.

    Just in case you thought we lived in some fairy tale world where evil people always see consequences for their actions, rather than the real world we live in where the overwhelming majority of them don’t.

    The most likely outcome is that ICE agents are going to live long lives, with upper-middle, or even lower-upper, class incomes and pensions, and will never lose a moment of sleep over what they do.








  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzVirgin Physicists
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    Never, in any engineering field, have I EVER seen anyone simplify pi to 5. For that matter, I have never seen anyone simplify to 3. It is always 3.14. I feel like pi simplification is a weird meme that people think engineers do but is never practiced anywhere.

    It’s like if there was a meme about chefs saying they always replace eggs with grapefruit. No they don’t, and it’s nonsense to think they do.


  • 18-25 has always, and will always be, the demographic with the lowest voter turnout. By a significant margin. Nearly every election, people seem to get this idea that “This time it will be different! The youth are really fired up this time! It’s important, so I’m sure they’ll turn out!” And then the election happens and they never even break 50%.

    It’s not a messaging problem, or an outreach problem. There is essentially nothing that can change it. The issue is, and say it with me; 18-25 has always, and will always be, the demographic with the lowest voter turnout.