Amid war and natural disasters, capitalism is at root of crisis, says socialist candidate for president
Amid war and natural disasters, capitalism is at root of crisis, says socialist candidate for president : Peoples Dispatch
“A third party option takes away that consent from the ruling class and gives power to working class people,” says Claudia De la Cruz, socialist candidate for presidentNatalia Marques (Peoples Dispatch)
More than 300 Spanish artists and academics, including Oscar-winning filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, have urged the government to completely suspend all kinds of trade in arms and military equipment with Israel.
"As long as Spain maintains military relations with Israel, it will continue to be complicit in this massacre," the letter read, calling for "urgent measures to impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel."
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I think that it is a super often shared #mastodon pro tip, but in light of @pluralistic recent plea for #rss i post this again:
You can get an RSS feed for any mastodon account by appending ".rss" to the URL.
My local public transit - @hochbahn - runs a mastodon account and also provides info about service disruptions there. So i just subscribe to that account, instead using apps like Telegram or Notify for it. No ads, no tracking.
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i know there are products that do that, in fact I wrote one myself. 
i'm talking about support in Mastodon itself.
Great tips, I'd like to add:
rss-parrot.net/ is a neat tool to get RSS feeds in the fedi.
If you want to get stuff in your feed reader by people you follow here, @paulcuth 's rss-is-dead.lol/ is an amazing tool that can also grab profile links' feeds too.
RSS Parrot
Home of RSS Parrot, a free Fediverse service that lets you turn Mastodon into an RSS or Atom feed reader.rss-parrot.net
Time for somewhere new.
Two separate areas: Benderloch beach, with its golden sand and craggy ends, and Sutherland's Grove, a beautiful glen forest with a dramatic mind-bending gorge in the middle.
More images from this day are on my website, and you can plant your eyeballs on them here -> iancylkowski.com/blog/2024/10/… 👍
#landscape #nature #travel #autumn #fall #photography #photo #photographie #scotland #highlands
PragerU openly admits to being run by an Israeli intelligence officer.
prageru.com/presenters/marissa…
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"Loneliness is not just the absence of people. It is the absence of purpose, the absence of meaning. When you find yourself in a world where everything seems alien and distant, where every connection is superficial, and every attempt at understanding is met with indifference, you realize that true loneliness is not being alone, but feeling alone in a world that no longer makes sense."
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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404 Media's @jasonkoebler and ProPublica's @ben are discussing how the #fediverse helps #publishers in the latest episode of @mike's #DotSocial podcast. Highly recommended.
This struck me particularly:
Ben is making the case that the Fediverse is the means by which publishers can re-take the initiative with technology instead of simply having to live with whatever the platforms decide. That is powerful stuff!
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Good on the German authorities who set up the Sovereign Tech Fund. To help fund the maintenance of core software that most people have never heard, but depend on every day. I want to see every government in the world setting up a similar fund, and having them coordinate their efforts.
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Insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield agrees to $2.8bn antitrust settlement
US insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield has agreed to pay $2.8bn
to resolve antitrust class-action claims by hospital systems, physicians and other health providers
alleging they were underpaid for reimbursements, the plaintiffs said in an Alabama federal court filing recently.
The settlement is the largest ever for a healthcare antitrust case, they added.
Blue Cross Blue Shield denied the allegations in a statement but said it agreed to the settlement and to make operational changes to “put years of litigation behind us”.
The agreement is subject to approval from US district judge R David Proctor.
rape was a crime of violence, but people love the fudge the line here to they can lie without lying
McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.90
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.66
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • •These ideas only seem "radical" since capitalism has brought us to such an unbelievable, ridiculous point that the population has become numb to it.
It is the most inefficient system that any society could imagine
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