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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldtoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slavesEnglish5·17 hours agoDid whomever started this project not understand that Harvard was founded in 1636, and the average birth rate was greater than 5 until the 20th century, so they were looking at many thousands of descendants at a bare minimum?
Perhaps they should have gone to Stanford?
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•A big Nato summit kicks off today - what can we expect as leaders try to keep Trump happy?English3·17 hours agoIt’s a great analogy for capitalism in general. The USA is the wealthiest country in the world, and the fascist sociopath party has the ability to wield that wealth and military against entire economies, so everyone sucks the fash dick.
It’s really no different to politicians and oligarchs domestically, and is why extreme wealth inequality is the most corrosive force in society.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamolEnglish41·17 hours agoYa this sounds like a solution that could solve plastic waste by polluting the planet with extreme amounts of some other compound, and ultimately be far worse.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Denmark raises retirement age to 70 — the highest in EuropeEnglish4·17 hours agoWhoever owns the most effective killbots at year 0 inherits the earth. Everyone else gets murdered or starves to death.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First DayEnglish6·1 day agoI understood that reference
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto Australia@aussie.zone•Australia risks losing ‘war on nicotine’ in same way as war on drugs as illegal tobacco sales explodeEnglish2·2 days agoThe tax on cigarettes is basically just racketeering; the government extracting a cut from drug addicts. The tax went well beyond the burden on the healthcare system a long time ago, and they don’t even use it on the healthcare system, so fuck 'em.
They were stupid to think they could increase it forever without a black market filling the gap. Neolibs have learned nothing.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the most self sufficient island on the planet?English11·2 days agoThe secret to being a successful island is a greater landmass than most countries on Earth.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto World News@quokk.au•Trump floats Iran ‘regime change’ even as the true impact of US strikes is far from clearEnglish41·2 days agoBe the Luigi you want to see in the world
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Florida congresswoman blames left-wing fearmongering for the reluctance of hospital staff to give her the drugs she needed to end an ectopic pregnancyEnglish75·2 days ago“My abortion was different”
— every religious fundamentalist ever
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OwnTracks]English142·2 days agoLol. The only thing this setting does is hide the information from the user. Google, or a thousand other data brokers (many probably created by Google for this purpose) still retain that data indefinitely.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump's Iran Strike Shows the Urgent Need for Congress to Claw Back its War PowersEnglish11·2 days ago100% of the R’s, and 90+% of the D’s, are too busy cashing their corporate/oligarch bribes to govern.
They were positioned to enact the will of the highest bidder — shadow written by corporate/lobbyist legal teams — so why would they care if 99.99% of voters want anything, when their 00.01% employers want the opposite?
Every day for the last few decades, I’d bet.
Actually probably since 1776. There’s always some KKK-adjacent southerner elect screaming mentally ill shit, whom that locale considered the best option, because they are no better.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•Keir Starmer backs US strike on Iran and calls for Tehran to return to talksEnglish13·3 days agoEveryone sucking fash cock is how diplomacy works in 2025?
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•AOC says Trump's Iran strikes "clearly grounds for impeachment"English412·3 days agoThere is. You gotta be brain damaged to be conservative.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•German car companies lobby to oppose the EU's 2035 ban on the sale of combustion engines cars.English21·3 days agoThey know they can’t compete with China at this point, so they’d prefer to flip the table.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump lists reasons he deserves Nobel Prize in epic meltdownEnglish11·3 days ago*Cashing bribes
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•US has struck 3 Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says, joining Israeli air campaignEnglish78·3 days agoHave you ever once thought “maybe I/we didn’t do enough to stop the genocide”? Blaming the D politicians for supporting genocide? The D voters/financiers for not condemning the genocide?
Maybe try that if you ever get another chance to vote, lol. Good luck!
Or you can just continue blaming the people you failed to motivate against a fascist sociopath, twice. I’m sure things will turn out differently next time!
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•US has struck 3 Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says, joining Israeli air campaignEnglish13·3 days agoIf the president can do it without consequences, then he is allowed. Turns out words on paper mean nothing.
Also, captured and financed by the oligarchs.