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@ eightpix @lemmy.world

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Been a student. Been a clerk. Been a salesperson. Been a manager. Been a teacher. Been an expatriate. Am a husband, father, and chronicle.

  • What TV show traumatized you as a kid?

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  • I think there was a POW scene in Magnum P.I. that was a lot for little me. Not sure episode/season.

    Honestly, though, coming to the realization at abput 13 that the "General Lee" and the prominent placement for Confederate flags the Dukes of Hazzard represent an American South that promotes white supremacy, Jim Crow laws, and segregation — all antithetical to my BIPOC existence.

    The cognitive dissonance involved in the song, pre-programming me to lend them the excuse that they're "just a good ol' boys..." — yeah, my parents should've known better.

    The thoughts I had for Daisy Duke would've had me lynched, like Emmitt Till, under that flag. Still might.

  • Would you ever walk up to a total stranger and strike up a conversation?

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  • As an introvert, it's actually easier for me to talk to strangers. Fewer attachments, lower risk thresholds, can bail when I need to. Mostly it's jokes or insights, comisseration and comedy are easy roads in.

  • Proportion of primary care physicians reporting burnout in 10 high-income countries, 2022

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  • Ooh! OOH! Now do teachers!

  • What are the top habits that lower life expectancy?

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  • Expecting, or pursuing the establishment of, human rights as a subjugate group or "subordinate" class.

  • What are the top habits that lower life expectancy?

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  • Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A “Historic Opportunity”

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  • Um... has this series jumped the shark yet?

  • foods/meals that feel like a hug?

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  • 호박죽 (ho bak juk, pumpkin porridge). Many a cold morning in the ROK, this was my breakfast.

    Actually, a lot of my comfort foods are porridge based: cream of wheat, corn meal porridge, steel-cut oats, rolled oat oatmeal, oatmeal and raisin cookies.

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    What is the end game for all the incarcerated immigrants?

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  • If it's America... Again, the following:

    • target practice

    • cheap / unpaid labor

    • scapegoating

    • entertainment

    • political wedge issue

    • cannon fodder

    • general purpose exploitation

    • status symbols

    • enemy images

  • US embassy in Oslo hit by explosion

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  • That explosion may have caused hundreds of dollars worth of damage.

    The damage to the reputation, the prestige, and the gold-plated hubris of "the greatest nation on Earth ever and for all time" is what's at stake.

    Fortunately, disaster capitalism will generate at least fourteen jobs, resulting in the fortification of this embassy — and all other embassies — at exorbitant cost. The US defense budget will far exceed the $1.5T requested for 2027.

    Screw diplomacy, forget peace, pursue power.

    At all costs. Until Empire falls.

  • Phoenix-based company's LUCAS drone changes war in Iran

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  • Phoenix-based company's LUCAS drone changes war in Iran

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  • Riiight.

    Attritable, armed aircraft. Add AI autonomy, an authoritarian asshole, and an aggressive alignment — all, appropriately, approaches an ashen Apocalypse.

  • Gas prices in Seoul top 1,900 won per liter as gov't mulls crackdown on gouging

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  • See, in Seoul, to my eyes, drivers aren't day-labourers, office workers, company people, or students. They are business developers, cab and bus drivers, delivery agents and the most affluent.

    In a city of 45 million, car ownership is very, very low. Parking is very difficult to find — or own as city units must separately rent, lease, buy, or borrow a parking spot for a car.

    If any large East Asian city could successfully ration gasoline, its Seoul. Public transportation is efficient and inexpensive. People remember the war and hardship. People respect tradition, unity in struggle, and are willing to fight together.

    That's the Seoul I remember anyway.

    They imprisoned their Insurrectionist former President.

    For life.

  • So, this, now, needed saying.

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  • Six-hundred twenty-three days later.

    "We cannot afford for Lebanon to become another Gaza," António Guterres Secretary-General, United Nations, June 2024.

  • What is something you dont care to understand or "get"?

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  • Greed. Ignorance. Intolerance.

    Your workout, food, or personal hygiene regimen.

    Exploitation, expropriation, or extortion.

    Your subjective experience of opening a box, playing a video game, or viewing media.

  • ELI5 Can someone explain the nuke US and Israel problem with having Iran have them? Its their country so they got uranium who are we to tell how they can use it?

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  • Oh boy. Ill make this as short as I can because I really ought to be off to bed.

    Nuclear weapons, since the beginning, foment distrust. Neocolonialism, the Red Scare, and Fuckiteering breeds enemies and blowback. And, Iran, having oil and a spotty history relating to the superpower/hegemon that is America, has denied and actively worked against the "Manifest Destiny" of American supremacy in the world and — regionally — Israeli supremacy in Palestine.

    Since 1945, the United States has:

    • developed nuclear weapons

    • used nuclear weapons at war

    • tested nuclear weapons at "peace"

    • conducted a Cold War against "non-aligned" states — including Iran for a time — and communists and people who America regards as "other"

    • supported Israel as an independent state despite the questionable (read: ethnic cleansing) methods employed to declare the state

    • overthrown Iran's democratically elected government and installed a Shah, "friendly" to US interests and brutal to Iranian people

    • developed the Hydrogen bomb

    • overthrown several other democratically elected governments, prosecuted wars and police actions across 4 continents...

    And that barely gets us to the mid 1950s.

    By 1979, Iran got fed up. JFK's words, "those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" apply here. There was a revolution, they booted the Shah and took some Americans hostage for 444 days. Somehow, an Islamist faction rose from the confusion and seized power. Marjane Sartapi's graphic novel, Persepolis, helped me with this part.

    In the cocaine-addled '80s, the States said, "fuckit," and started paying Saddam Hussein to go to war with Iran. Iran held the line for 8 years. After that, Hussein became the enemy instead of a friend, Iran sat back and watched the States undertake Gulf Wars I and II under the Bush family's rule. Meanwhile, the Israeli people have lived in fear of Iran's support for Hezbollah and Palestinians. Harsh words, and a few thousand rocket attacks, against the State of Israel and America's support by AIPAC are part of the puzzle. And of course, Aljazeera conuterspinning the American narrative from its HQ in Qatar is also a threat.

    In the end, Iran DID develop the capacity yo make nuclear energy which they claim is for electricity. US doesn't trust anyone they don't control, and haven't since they achieved schoolyard bully status back in '45. Israel also has, but refuses to talk about, its nuclear weapons, which are a threat to all of the countries Israel has attacked (some of whom attacked Israel in the '50s abd '60s). Again, a paucity of trust.

    Since about Y2K, Iran's leadership has declared a Fatwa against nuclear weapons and swears they will never possess them.

    There have been at least two Palestinian uprisings against Israel (2000-2005 and the Al-Aqsa Flood of 2023). There was a period of secular society-led protest that is often overlooked. Hamas changed the charter. All actions have been met with tacit or overt Iranian support for Palestinian resistance. That said, the heavy-handed actions of this Israeli government, and several governments back to 2000, have only made the prospect of peace in the region more distant from reality. Certainly, decimating the population of Gaza in 2 years under the Dahiya doctrine fits the phrase "the cruelty is the point."

    So, amid negotiations to not go to war, the children in the room decided to sneak attack and assassinate the Supreme Leader of Iran. This undermines resistance the Iranian people themselves were mounting against their government. It undermines International law and U.S. own laws about Presidency. It destabilizes the region and will impact the global economy.

    Anyway. This took an hour and Im going to bed.

  • What should be done and over with by now?

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  • It's in because, well, I was surprised that Grey's Anatomy is in its 22nd season.

    Its interesting that interactions here center on the one pop-culture element of my comment and none on the others. Yes, it's a non-sequitur. It stands out.

    Is it because the others are all self-evident? Flogged to death? Too controversial? Not controversial enough? Insurmountable?

  • What should be done and over with by now?

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    • Expensive education

    • Cities planned for cars

    • 5-day work weeks

    • Grey's Anatomy

    • Nuclear weapons

    • Racism

    And I agree with the others who've said:

    • Fossil fuels, particularly coal

    • Private health insurance

  • AI opted to use nuclear weapons 95% of the time during war games: researcher

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  • AI can read the Doomsday Clock.

  • What do you think about the doc Zeitgeist (2007)

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  • Were you there when it happened to me?

    I swear, that one Donald Sutherland scene in JFK had me going for such a long time on the conspiracy bent. I thought it was real.

    Who knew, it was Kevin Bacon we needed to pay attention to all along.

  • What do you think about the doc Zeitgeist (2007)

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  • Worse, it was produced by Alex Jones.