Russia gearing up to prosecute internet users for searching ‘extremist’ content
Russia gearing up to prosecute internet users for searching ‘extremist’ content - Committee to Protect Journalists
Berlin, July 18, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a bill under consideration in the Russian State Duma that would introduce fines for accessing or searching for “extremist” online content, threatening to further restrict press …CPJ Staff (Committee to Protect Journalists)
Kremlin Says NATO Instrument of Confrontation, Bloc Hostile Towards Russia
Kremlin Says NATO Instrument of Confrontation, Bloc Hostile Towards Russia
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that NATO was an instrument of confrontation, adding that the bloc is hostile towards Russia.Sputnik International
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Strikes Overview: Russian Attacks Strangling Ukraine’s War Effort
Strikes Overview: Russian Attacks Strangling Ukraine’s War Effort
Russian forces continue their campaign of precision strikes on key Ukrainian military and logistical targets, further straining Kyiv’s ability to...Anonymous103 (South Front)
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Sotto il cielo di Trevi (PG) accende l’estate di teatro e musica, la stagione in scena dal 19 luglio al 30 agosto 2025
Dal 19 luglio al 30 agosto torna a Trevi la magia della rassegna “Sotto il cielo di Trevi – Musica e teatro nel paesaggio”, promossa dal Teatro Belli di Antonio Salines con il patrocinio del Comune. Un cartellone che trasforma borghi, piazze e parchi in palcoscenici a cielo aperto, con spettacoli, emozioni e incontri.
Villa Fabri, la Chiesa di San Lorenzo, il Parco Agricolo, Piazza Mazzini, Matigge e Cannaiola ospiteranno artisti e compagnie in serate dedicate alla cultura, alla riflessione e al divertimento.
Ad aprire la rassegna, il 19 luglio, “L’impresario delle Smirne” di Goldoni con Gigi Savoia, per poi proseguire il 20 luglio a Matigge con “Contaminazioni poetiche” tra poesie e canzoni popolari. Il 26 luglio, Edoardo Siravo interpreta Achab in “Moby Dick”, mentre il 28 luglio va in scena “I Menecmi” di Plauto.
Il 1° agosto, “Voci di donne – Lettere a Mascagni” esplora il ruolo femminile nelle opere del compositore; il 3 agosto, tra musica e gastronomia, “Rossini e i sapori della musica”. Il 4 agosto omaggio a Pasolini con “Tutto il mio folle amore lo soffia il cielo”; il 5 agosto “Per futili motivi”, satira distopica su una società fondata sull’odio.
Il 22 agosto il “Sognatore” di Dostoevskij prende vita al Parco Agricolo; il 23, visita teatrale itinerante gratuita “Trevi, ovvero vissi d’amore e di merangole”. Il 24, alla Chiesa di San Francesco, “Domenico, un uomo buono”, su San Domenico da Foligno.
Il 29 agosto, concerto spettacolo dei Baraonna in Piazza Mazzini. Chiusura il 30 agosto a Cannaiola con “Canzoni sulla Luna” del gruppo The Eldar.
Biglietti: €10 a Villa Fabri, €3 altrove. Info: 327 818 4788 – compagnia@teatrobelli.it – Prevendite su VivaTicket.
Sotto il cielo di Trevi (PG) accende l'estate di teatro e musica, la stagione in scena dal 19 luglio al 30 agosto 2025 - ViaggieMiraggi
“Sotto il cielo di Trevi“ accende l’estate di teatro e musica Dal 19 luglio al 30 agosto 2025 torna la magia della stagione estiva firmata Teatro Belli di Antonio Salines con spettacoli, emozioni e incontri tra le vie, i parchi...Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)
i think the key is to have a certain balance. Stay positive in certain aspects of your life activities, have principles and interests. Be true to them. Cherish those that mean a lot to you and appreciate them everyday.
But to quote a rage against the machine lyric "if ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face"
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Festa del Vino, a Pergola (PU) dal 25 al 27 luglio 2025 si celebrano i 20 anni del Pergola Doc
Da venerdì 25 a domenica 27 luglio, il centro storico di Pergola, uno dei Borghi più Belli d’Italia, ospita la 53esima edizione della Festa del Vino, organizzata dalla Pro loco con il patrocinio del Comune. Un’edizione speciale che celebra i 20 anni del Pergola Doc, eccellenza locale sempre più apprezzata.
Tre giorni di iniziative dedicate all’“Oro Rosso” pergolese, tra degustazioni, riflessioni e festa. Venerdì alle 19.30, sotto i portici di Piazza Garibaldi, l’evento “A cena con Aleatico & Lacrima”: degustazione guidata di 9 vini (tra Pergola Doc, Uva Nera Rada e Lacrima di Morro d’Alba DOC), condotta dal sommelier Raffaele Papi, vicepresidente AIS Marche, con racconti e curiosità dei produttori. In abbinamento, menù speciale dello chef Filippo Petrolati. Prenotazione obbligatoria (tel. 388.0732931).
Sabato alle 17.30 in sala consiliare si terrà la tavola rotonda “20 anni di Pergola Doc”, con produttori ed esperti come Alberto Mazzoni (IMT), Luca Gambucci (AIS Marche Fabriano) e il produttore Stefano Tonelli, per ripercorrere la storia e il valore culturale del Pergola Doc. Modera Ubaldo Alimenti. A seguire degustazione sotto i portici.
Nel weekend, le cantine del centro storico proporranno degustazioni di Pergola Doc e specialità tipiche, accompagnate da musica, animazione, laboratori, arte, area bimbi e tanta ospitalità.
Info: social Pro loco Pergola.
Festa del Vino, a Pergola (PU) dal 25 al 27 luglio 2025 si celebrano i 20 anni del Pergola Doc - ViaggieMiraggi
Festa del Vino, a Pergola si celebrano i 20 anni del Pergola Doc Dal 25 al 27 luglio 2025: 3 giornate ricche di iniziative Un viaggio sensoriale tra tradizione, gusto e convivialità decollerà venerdì 25 luglio, quando a Pergola si...Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)
I've read that MAX (typical horse taste of modern Russian official names, similar to Rosgvardia, Gosuslugi, Rostech and so on ; Soviet-time many-many-many caps abbreviations are boring, but somehow better) in its current early versions is a piece of spyware looking like Telegram, literally saving passwords and banking data and browsing history. Well, I'm almost certain Telegram itself is not much better.
Installed Briar on my phone and persuaded my sister, and to my grandma's today.
I like the idea of these meshes but until Linux phones become a practical option it doesn’t matter. Apple will restrict the hardware, Google will let Gemini spy on anything that passes through the phone, the phone situation is a mess.
I don’t really blame governments for that either. I blame fucking business majors.
A little background info:
Russia's been sponsoring one of its oligarchs' business by eliminating their competition.
First, they restricted YouTube's speed to an unusable state to force people to switch to RuTube (they didn't)
Now they're trying to force people to switch from WhatsApp (and potentially Telegram) to MAX, which they want to be Russia's version of WeChat.
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Add the fact that our politicians are obsessed with controlling all of the media and you'll get the gist of it.
I'm building a Tux-based Game Studio
I know other devs interested in making Tux games but before I begin with them I figured I would ask the community what they would like to see
A Conker/Golden Eye type game? DOOM-like? Farming Sim? Fighting Game similar to Smash? Open World RPG similar to older Bethesda games? RTS like StarCraft? Turn-Based like Final Fantasy or Expedition 33? Going mad for power in a 4X? Another genre entirely?
What genre would you all prefer to see have a game made first? I will basing it off of likes
I plan to make a game in each genre but for now figuring out which to do first is the goal. Have concepts, tools, experience, devs, etc ready to make anything the community wants
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DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch
The creator of DOGE gets a taste of what he created.
That's called poetic justice.
DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch
The researcher who found the exposed key said it “raises questions” about how DOGE handles sensitive data.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
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The CEO seemingly having an affair with the head of HR at his company at the Coldplay concert is a viral video for the ages, but it is also, unfortunately, emblematic of our current private surveillance and social media hellscape.
The video, which is now viral on every platform that we can possibly think of, has been covered by various news outlets, and is Pop Crave official, shows Andy Byron, the CEO of a company called Astronomer, with his arms around Astronomer’s head of HR, Kristen Cabot. The jumbotron cuts from one fan to this seemingly happy couple. They both simultaneously die inside; “Oh look at this happy couple,” Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin says. The woman covers her face and spins away. The man ducks out of frame. “Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy,” Martin said. The camera pans to another company executive standing next to them, who is seemingly shaking out of discomfort.
It is hard to describe how viral this is at the moment, in a world in which so many awful things are occurring and in which nothing holds anyone’s attention for any length of time and in a world in which we are all living in our own siloed realities. “Andy Byron” is currently the most popular trending Google term in the United States, with more than double the searches of the next closest term.
There are so many levels to this embarrassment—the Coldplay of it all, the HR violation occurring on jumbotron, etc—that one could likely write a doctoral dissertation on this 15 second video.
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Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49276678
Coming about three weeks after DXVK 2.6.2, the DXVK 2.7 release adds support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Vulkan extension by default on newer AMD and NVIDIA GPUs to significantly reduce CPU overhead in games like Final Fantasy XIV, God of War, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Watch Dogs 2, and others.
DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV
Coming about three weeks after DXVK 2.6.2, the DXVK 2.7 release adds support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Vulkan extension by default on newer AMD and NVIDIA GPUs to significantly reduce CPU overhead in games like Final Fantasy XIV, God of War, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Watch Dogs 2, and others.DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV - 9to5Linux
DXVK 2.7 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with various new features.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV
Coming about three weeks after DXVK 2.6.2, the DXVK 2.7 release adds support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Vulkan extension by default on newer AMD and NVIDIA GPUs to significantly reduce CPU overhead in games like Final Fantasy XIV, God of War, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Watch Dogs 2, and others.
DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV - 9to5Linux
DXVK 2.7 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with various new features.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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In my non scientific test, this version did increase my FFXIV fps in a CPU bound scenario, in limsa lominsa.
Scoop: Israel seeks U.S. help on deals to move Palestinians out of Gaza
The director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency visited Washington this week seeking U.S. help in convincing countries to take hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, two sources with knowledge of issue tell Axios.The spy chief, David Barnea, told White House envoy Steve Witkoff that Israel has been speaking in particular with Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya.
The Israeli government’s goal of removing much of Gaza’s population is hugely controversial. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government claims such a “relocation” would be “voluntary,” U.S. and Israeli legal experts have labeled it a war crime.
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‘AI is not intelligent at all’: Why our dignity is at risk
‘AI is not intelligent at all’: Why our dignity is at risk | Charles Darwin University
The age of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed our interactions, but threatens human dignity on a worldwide scale, according to a study led by Charles Darwin University (CDU).Charles Darwin University
Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign
According to the filing, Lipnik has been fired from Apple “for failing to follow Apple’s policies designed to protect its confidential information, including development devices and unreleased software and features.” The filing also accuses Lipnik of failing to report “multiple prior breaches” to Apple.
When you sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement), you’d best protect the secrets. Then again, the guy who left an iPhone 4 in a bar didn’t lose his job. Wonder what the differences are between them.
Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign
YouTuber claims to “have receipts” disproving Apple’s allegations.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
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China issues safety warning for its nationals studying in the Philippines
China’s Education Ministry has issued a safety warning for Chinese students in the Philippines, following what it describes as a series of criminal incidents targeting Chinese nationals.
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"Storia di un Guerriero Lakota. Sotto il blu di Skan" – Un Esordio Epico che Ha Già Conquistato i Lettori
Tim Walz says Trump ‘brings out the worst in people – and the worst in me’
Kamala Harris running mate strikes regretful tone after calling for Democrats to ‘bully the shit out of’ US president
Brazil passes controversial 'devastation bill' that weakens environmental regulations
Critics have called it "by far the worst piece of legislation” ever from an environmental standpoint.
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Taiwan will 'not provoke confrontation' with China, vice president says
Taiwan's vice president says the self-ruled democracy will not provoke a confrontation with China and seeks to communicate with Beijing on the basis of parity and respect.
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Arab Strap in tour a Roma, dopo 30 anni di carriera sempre riconoscibili anche se con uno stile diverso
Il duo indie-rock scozzese, in composto da Aidan Moffat e Malcolm Middleton, con trent’anni di attività sulle spalle, torna in Italia dopo l’uscita di I'm Totally Fine with It Don't Give a Fuck Anymore, uscito lo scorso 10 maggio. Tre le date italiane del tour: 23 luglio a Galzignano Terme all'Anfiteatro del Venda, il 24 luglio al Monk di Roma e il 25 luglio al Giardino Scotto di Pisa.
Con l'ultimo album gli Arab Strap non sembrano affatto preoccuparsi di rimanere fedeli all’identità sonora che, seppur evolvendo di volta in volta, li ha resi unici e distinguibili nel tempo. Già Bliss e ****Allatoncenes****, i singoli che avevano preceduto il lancio dell'ottava fatica in studio, sono due brani profondamente diversi tra loro che fungono da fiera testimonianza del loro focus sul futuro, sul cambiamento e sull’evoluzione.
I'm Totally Fine with It Don't Give a Fuck Anymore è un disco carico di tracce potenti e incisive, sia nella natura upbeat di alcuni dei momenti musicali più propulsivi, sia nel morso dei testi di Moffat. "Rispetto al nostro album precedente, c'è più rabbia e aggressività nelle parole", dice. "Non è apertamente politico ma è di sicuro un disco un po' arrabbiato con il mondo".
Il titolo (letteralmente traducibile come "per me va benissimo, non me ne frega più un...") potrebbe dare l'idea di una band che si stia arrendendo a qualcosa, in realtà fa riferimento a un messaggio del batterista live della band che Moffat ha trovato molto divertente e finisce per riflettere l'inaugurazione di un nuovo periodo di libertà creativa per gli Arab Strap.
i've been testing debian trixie with plasma wayland on nouveau and it looks promising
trixie (aka debian 13) is about to get released with plasma 6.3. it seems that finally x11 is being left behind, which is good, but it worried me a little bit because
- my nvidia graphics card is old: the 470 driver is the latest version that supports it (so no wayland support from nvidia proprietary drivers ever)
- on bookworm (debian 12, the current stable version), nouveau works pretty well, but it crashed more or less daily when i tried to daily drive it at work
x11 is still very well supported by plasma 6, but the near future has no place to it and i worry i would eventually get stuck without updates to my system as the newer versions lose x11 support. i decided to try wayland+nouveau again on trixie to see if i had better luck this time
it all worked way better than i expected. performance is seemingly on par with the proprietary driver, i've had no crashes so far and i've been using it for a week and even screensharing, one of the most problematic aspects of the experience last time i tried, worked well. the one problem i had was with the slack flatpak, which didn't support wayland for some reason, so it had to run on xwayland. screen sharing wayland applications from x11 apps is possible through the xwaylandvideobridge, which kinda works, but it crashed xwayland entirely at one point, killing both x11 applications i had running. i won't blame that on the system itself and installing the slack deb package fixed the problem anyway
all in all, it seems like i can safely switch to plasma 6+wayland+nouveau at work
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A huge problem with Debian Trixie is that it is shipping with NVIDIA drivers from before explicit sync was added (over a year ago). This is crazy to me.
But if you want to stay on X11, Debian Stable will support it for quite a few years yet even after KDE drops support.
If you are going to use Wayland (I do), it is worth using back ports to get newer NVIDIA drivers.
Debian Stable should really be called Debian Static (unchanging). Because they can ship unstable (crashy) software for years after other distros have moved on.
Inbox doesn't work on Voyager with Quokk.au
Can’t tell why. Inbox works great on all the other lemmy and piefed servers i’ve tried. But not quokk.au (piefed).
The inbox on quokk.au piefed web ui works good.
Distro advice for a specific case.
Back again haha, I asked a little while ago about making the switch from Windows to Linux and general consensus was maybe don't, as I use my PC for work doing voice acting, music production, and digital art.
Anyway, my PC has been crashing lately so I may be at the point soon of re-installing my OS, so I may as well bite the bullet if/when that happens. Right now I'm making some backups, making a list of Linux programs I'll need, and just trying to get my ducks in a row so I'm not scrambling if I wake up one morning and have to do the thing. Which brings me to Distros.
I've done some research into it but already but there are a bunch of options (thinking maybe Bazzite or Fedora?), and I'd rather know what I'm going with if my PC dies so I don't have to waste time trying to figure it out then. My PC specs are:
Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400F @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Obviously the priority is to get up and running but I'd really like to use a distro that I can learn some as well. I've installed Mint on an old laptop (recommended for being similar to Windows) but ideally I'd like a distro that's a bit more Linux-y. I'm ok taking some extra time getting up and running, though I'm not at a point for something like Arch yet haha.
EDIT: Wow, lots of comments, thanks! I think I've been overthinking it overall based on these responses. I have Mint on my old laptop and it works well, but had issues on my main laptop (Samsung Book3 Ultra) which I've read has to do with Samsung in general. I also had some issues with Nvidia on it but that may have been a Samsung issue more than anything else. My main PC uses Nvidia so I was under the impression that some distros just don't play well with it and wanted to make sure I used one that worked well with that graphics card.
Bottom line, I've been looking into Linux over the past few weeks and there's still distros mentioned here that I've never heard of haha. It seems really intimidating (hence why I asked) but I'm getting the impression that, at least for now, I'll just go Fedora to start when I bite the bullet. Arch looks really interesting but again, seems intimidating coming from Windows.
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rottanza sprecanza e la mattina nel gran cesso
Ancora non comprendo quale sia la logica universale che ogni tanto (anzi, ogni molto) porta la stabilità della mia anima a sfaldarsi pesantemente, ma, comunque sia, stamattina è successo un’altra volta… E continua tutt’ora nel pomeriggio, anche se, vabbè, ora ci sono le varie cose da fare, e quindi la marciscenza non attecchisce più di […]
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Microsoft extends updates for old Exchange and Skype servers
Microsoft offers vintage Exchange and Skype server users six more months of security updates
: It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothingSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Microsoft extends updates for old Exchange and Skype servers
Microsoft offers vintage Exchange and Skype server users six more months of security updates
: It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothingSimon Sharwood (The Register)
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Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap
Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI’s Next Big Leap
The artificial intelligence gold rush has companies burning through billions in pursuit of superintelligence.Eli Grid (GazeOn)
Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap
Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI’s Next Big Leap
The artificial intelligence gold rush has companies burning through billions in pursuit of superintelligence.Eli Grid (GazeOn)
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Building A Stirling Engine Bike
Building A Stirling Engine Bike
Over on his YouTube channel [Tom Stanton] shows us how to build a Stirling Engine for a bike. A Stirling Engine is a heat engine, powered by the expansion and contraction of a working fluid (such a…Hackaday
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the evil dprk and its lessons
when the indoctrination is just right
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Western Freedom vs. DPRK Unity: What If Everything You’ve Been Told Is Backwards? | Explore DPRK
In a world obsessed with self-expression, instant gratification, and personal gain, there is one country that dares to say: you are not alone—you are part of something greater. That country...Editorial (Explore DPRK)
Hacker o supereroi: rivalutiamo Superman III
Il terzo episodio di Superman è uno dei meno amati della serie, al netto della presenza di Richard Pryor che dovrebbe vivacizzare la storia e che invece si perde nel meta-umorismo e in gag un po’ fini a se stesse.
Nel 1983 Richard Lester dirige un film iconico degli anni Ottanta, antesignano della moda dei cinecomics ed interpretato, oltre che dal solito Christopher Reeve nel ruolo del protagonista, dal comico e stand up comedian Richard Pryor. Il regista era reduce dall'esperienza del precedente episodio della saga, da quando la produzione aveva licenziato Richard Donner in corso d'opera, lasciando circa un quinto di Superman II sotto la sua esclusiva direzione.
La saga dei tre Richard (Lester, l'attuale regista, Pryor l'attore, Donner considerato il "vero" regista) si esplica giusto in questo terzo episodio, il quale racconta della lotta di Superman contro un cattivo duplice: da un lato, una psicosi indotta nella sua stessa personalità da un effetto collaterale della kryptonite, dall'altro un supercomputer pronto a dominare il mondo.
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in reply to crankyrebel • • •*and actively destroys/dismantles anything one could remotely be proud of having their tax money go to.
I'd gladly fund NASA and scientific research any day of the week, but nooooo gotta feed the poor poor billionaires.
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in reply to Asafum • • •My republican coworkers are complaining about NASA because they always flake when buying our products (we sell electronic stuff to defense related military contractors) because they don't have enough budget.
Fucking idiots don't realize that their political party doesn't even want a NASA
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in reply to stray • • •Being a victim doesn't mean you are not also an abuser. Not all victims become abusers. We all live with the same fucked up system, but we don't all fall down. We don't all turn to violence and self-righteousness. Douglas was the fucking bad guy. Try watching it from his wife's point of view.
If you see something to be emulated or respected, you might just be fucked in the head.
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in reply to Jerkface (any/all) • • •I didn't say that victims can't be abusers, nor did I say that he was a hero.
People who've done harm need to be prevented from causing further harm, but it's important to acknowledge the root cause of their behavior if you want to stop future iterations.
I think that the OP is entirely a joke, but that it comes from the very real villain of systemic injustice that pressures us all to lash out. I think one could see the film as inspirational insofar as being inspired to take violent action, but I would hope they direct their aggression towards worthy targets.
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in reply to crankyrebel • • •I am guessing that not too many pay over 30% then? Also that this is in brackets, so that only the amount over certain point is taxed higher?
I am still surprised that taxes can be so high, and people require so little for it!
Randomocity
in reply to cosmicrookie • • •crusa187
in reply to cosmicrookie • • •crankyrebel
in reply to cosmicrookie • • •tacosanonymous
in reply to cosmicrookie • • •Federal income tax rates for individuals are categorized into seven brackets: 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35%, and 37%
10%: Applies to the lowest income bracket.
12%: Applicable just above the 10% bracket, capturing more of the median incomes.
22%, 24%: These middle brackets cover a broad range, reflecting moderate to higher-income levels.
32%, 35%: Affect those with substantially higher earnings before hitting the peak rate.
37%: The top rate, reserved for the highest earners.
It’s important to note that these rates apply to different portions of your income rather than the entire amount. This means that if you fall into the 24% bracket, only income within that range is taxed at 24%.
tburkhol
in reply to cosmicrookie • • •jjagaimo
in reply to cosmicrookie • • •Then after retirement and benefits it's anywhere from 20% to 50%. I'm at about 25% just with tax, 36% with benefits and retirement.
Depending on if your deductions are calculated correctly (you have to negotiate that with your job) you might end up getting a refund layer or have to pay, so in reality my rate is more like 30% overall. People with more expensive insurance or less tax credits and or other things on top of that are going to have it worse off.
I make half what I would need to be able to afford buying a home in my area and be able to make mortgage payments and still have money left
CaptDust
in reply to cosmicrookie • • •dan1101
in reply to cosmicrookie • • •Ohmmy
Unknown parent • • •kibiz0r
in reply to crankyrebel • • •One of these things is so outrageously unlike the others that it makes me kinda sus of whoever decided to put them all in the same list
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ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
in reply to kibiz0r • • •corvidenjoyer [she/her]
in reply to kibiz0r • • •*Corrupt Government
*Has the ability to print money out of thin air with no downside.
*Forces you pay taxes anyway making you technically complicit in its crimes.
*Uses Its infinite wealth and power to openly protect child predators instead of something good because it is a corrupt government. (The most recent thing in the news cycle)
Interesting how all these things line up together when you don't abstract these things into nothingness. It makes me very sus of the person who decide to reword these so they don't fit on the same list.
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sp3ctr4l
in reply to corvidenjoyer [she/her] • • •I mean, generally yes, but Pooh Bear makes you pay taxes too.
... And printing money out of thin air does in fact have downsides, no matter whose face is on the bills.
..... And corruption obviously also exists in China, the CCP is basically constantly crusading against it.
But!
They do not seem to have an elite ruling class comprised largely of pedophiles.
So that's good!
Grapho
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •Nakoichi [they/them]
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •Please fuck off with this racist "pooh bear" shit. People like you are why people call most white western anarchists social fascists/chauvinists.
You really need to do better.
Why are you fucking people so obsessed with a country you have no way of influencing, you do not live there, and all you are doing is adding to the chorus of racist and fascist propaganda espoused by western intelligence and corporate news?
Work on fighting your government and let the people of China decide what to do about theirs (spoiler alert the vast majority quite like it there).
Also taxes in China are fundamentally different than taxes in the US in both use and because again printing infinite money. China does not do that.
Edit: I didn't see the emoji load when I wrote this but my point stands. I would not be chuffed about my taxes going to build massive amounts of public housing and high speed rail in a country that has not fought an offensive war since Mao's revolution. I'd rather be an anarchist in China running a rural collective farming outfit or some shit than trying to do the same thing in China than I would in the US who will murder me just for being a communist if it looked like we are getting too popular.
corvidenjoyer [she/her]
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •sp3ctr4l
in reply to corvidenjoyer [she/her] • • •No I think slurs are awful, but its just laughably easy to annoy a lot of tankies by pointing out fairly well-evidenced, uncontroversial facts, so its a bit of a hobby of mine.
Speaking of which, here's another well-evidenced, uncontroversial fact:
The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.
Oh, shit, fuck, I guess that makes me uh, a cultural appropriator, yeah, fuck, damn, I'm such a bad loser person, that attack angle will work!
corvidenjoyer [she/her]
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •shanghaidisneyresort.com/en/at…
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | Attractions | Shanghai Disney Resort
www.shanghaidisneyresort.comglimmer_twin [he/him]
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •“It’s a bit of a hobby of mine”
God I hope you huff so many of your own farts you literally choke to death. And I don’t even gaf about China tbh, you just seem like an insufferable waste of oxygen
Dirt_Possum [she/her, undecided]
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •But racist caricatures are just fine and dandy for you. So you're not just a racist, you're a hypocrite who likes to pretend you're not racist. Good to know.
What annoys "tankies" is typical white western chauvinist losers who mistake the western "culture" they've been brought up in and force-fed propaganda as "uncontroversial facts" that just happen to parrot US state department talking points. Yes, it gets very annoying to have to counter the same cringe bullshit that liberals who fancy themselves as radical say over and over, after being absolutely refuted over and over. You can only explain the basics to a smug 5-year-old so many times before it starts to wear on a person no matter how patient they are. Also, you should know that the people you're calling "tankies" aren't just ML's but also anarchists who have taken the time to educate themselves (rather than "anarchists" who just adopt the term while still adhering to liberalism and carrying water for the systems of oppression they say they're opposed to).
Jesus, it never ceases to amaze me when some fool literally announces how cringe they are yet think they're being clever or cool for making the announcement.
A racist meme appeared in an evil and authoritarian country that doesn't tolerate the spread of open racism (so evil and authoritarian!) so they removed and blocked that meme on their web. This meme and the rumors about it being blocked were then picked up by racists in the freedomland country where racism reigns supreme (because people are so free there) and twisted into an absurd lie about a cartoon character being banned in the evil country (which never happened), and used as propaganda (based on a lie) to reinforce the common knowledge that everybody knows: the mean authoritarian country that addresses racism is so evil and authoritarian it bans cartoon characters! So now all the good freedom-enjoyers in freedomland like yourself get to use that racist meme and the lie it's tied to to make oh so very cogent points about freedom and how bad it is to be authoritarian. You really owned the tankies here, wowzers!
Wow, it must suck to live in an evil authoritarian country that actively works to stamp out corruption instead of endlessly rewarding it like in freedomland USA.
Fidel_Cashflow
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •here's the first meme that went viral on Weibo referencing Xi as Pooh
I'm sure I don't have to explain to you why Obama is compared to Tigger.
FunkyStuff [he/him]
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •I think you should get a better argument becase racists take things that minorities were doing and ruin them all the time. E.g. how "woke" lost its meaning when white people started using it. Even if the first time Xi and Obama were compared to Winnie the Pooh and Tiger it was done by Chinese internet users (which, by the way, doesn't even mean it wasn't racist, there's a lot of racist crap on the Chinese internet too) doesn't mean that when Western internet users do the same thing they mean it the same way.
Another example is how the Dave Chappelle Show used to have an audience who appreciated the way Dave Chappelle made fun of racists by embodying caricatures, then it slowly started to build up an audience of racists that didn't know the joke was on them. It got to the point that Chappelle stopped doing the show because the audience had gotten so white and so racist that when he talked about anything going on in the Black community, he felt the show's fans were just weaponizing it against Black people (see his famous "there's n words, and there's n words" joke). Just because something starts out within a minority community and isn't necessarily racist in origin, doesn't mean that when white people pick it up and decontextualize it it'll remain benign.
Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •kibiz0r
in reply to corvidenjoyer [she/her] • • •No disagreement on the corruption, coercion, or economic exploitation.
Nor that there’s a straight line from their ability to manipulate the economic and legal systems… directly to their ability to evade justice for the worst crimes imaginable.
My concern is:
Tech libertarians using a (nearly-) universally-acknowledged and reviled scourge as a pretense to post in progressive spaces and sneak in neo-metallist sentiments like “taxation is theft” and “money-printing is fraud”.
I’m not saying OP or even OOP is one, for sure. But the meme does advance their narrative.
explodicle
in reply to kibiz0r • • •papalonian
in reply to kibiz0r • • •kibiz0r
in reply to papalonian • • •All USD is printed. Taxes are the only thing that gives USD its value.
I have a problem with the meme playing footsie with the ideas that taxes are theft and money-printing is fraud.
These are common neo-metallist arguments. And in techie spaces like the fediverse, libertarians like to sneak them into the conversation while going “How do you do, fellow progressives?” before they start pitching NFTs.
Pluralistic: Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar (21 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
in reply to crankyrebel • • •VibeCoder [they/them]
in reply to crankyrebel • • •D-FENS is so aspirational especially the part where he stands up to the brown people and foreigners and then
::: spoiler spoiler
tries to murder suicide his daughter on her birthday
:::
obsolete
in reply to crankyrebel • • •sp3ctr4l
in reply to Ohmmy • • •Hi, disabled under 50 yo person here, my only income is SSDI, Social Security Disability Insurance.
Don't worry, us disabled folks are entirely used to our existence being entirely forgotten about.
Ohmmy
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
in reply to crankyrebel • • •like this
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sp3ctr4l
in reply to Ohmmy • • •You said you doubt people under 50 collect on Social Security.
... Disabled people do.
Hey I mean yeah, sure, unless its your only source of income!
Not like I'll become homeless and die within 3 to 6 months if taxes going toward SSDI suddenly get reclassified or rerouted or totally removed!
Not like that's the case for about 6.3 million Americans under the age of 65 whose only income is SSDI!
ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts…
sigh
At least we agree on that.
Ohmmy
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •I'm still not sure what you're trying to say here. I have agreed with everything you have said, you're just really annoying about having to self insert yourself into a comment thread like you have to be the center of attention. Tell me, what happens if people under 50 now can never pull from social security for retirement? They will also face 3-6 months before homelessness and death. You immediately made it about how it's not a tax because you're one of those who gets to use it as opposed to pay in and never claim.
I never once argued for the removal of SSDI, I only ever brought up how tens or hundreds of millions could face very harsh retirements. For the average American worker, social security is deducted from their pay and they might never see what you now rely on.
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lousyd
in reply to crankyrebel • • •tricerotops [they/them]
in reply to lousyd • • •YiddishMcSquidish
in reply to tricerotops [they/them] • • •tricerotops [they/them]
in reply to YiddishMcSquidish • • •lousyd
in reply to tricerotops [they/them] • • •tricerotops [they/them]
in reply to lousyd • • •Yes I know how taxes work. Do you know how much money some people make?
And what are we even arguing about? I said the top tax bracket is in the 50% neighborhood and youve been trying to pedantically incorrect me.
Oh actually i guess youre a different redditor
lousyd
in reply to tricerotops [they/them] • • •BussyCat
in reply to lousyd • • •Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
in reply to lousyd • • •Apeman42
Unknown parent • • •Hot take: I think any involuntary expense forced on you by your government is, essentially, a tax regardless of whether it goes into government or corporate coffers, and should be included in the discussion.
Health insurance being the major example, given that's paid for by taxes in civilized countries. Arguably, the insurance, gas, and maintenance on a car that many of us would happily trade for a functional public transportation system.
DornerStan
in reply to crankyrebel • • •I'd be happy paying taxes if they went to social works and infrastructure and whatnot, but yeah.
Now let's talk about spending 60-80% of my remaining income on rent
But_my_mom_says_im_cool
in reply to crankyrebel • • •BeNotAfraid
in reply to But_my_mom_says_im_cool • • •CalipherJones
in reply to But_my_mom_says_im_cool • • •is composed of Live Nation, an events promoter and venue operator, and Ticketmaster, a ticket sales giant. The two companies merged in 2010 and now control an estimated 70% of the ticketing and live event venues market."
Scrollone
in reply to crankyrebel • • •neuroneiro
in reply to crankyrebel • • •Asswardbackaddict
in reply to crankyrebel • • •farngis_mcgiles
in reply to Ohmmy • • •gandalf_der_12te
in reply to crankyrebel • • •Trump can basically print infinite amounts of dollars through the federal reserve.
As we all know, conflicts are hella expensive and often decided by who can stay solvent longer. The fact that trump can just print dollars is extremely problematic here.
I guess the necessary course of action would be to bring the dollar's value to zero, and use an alternative currency instead (such as euro, canadian dollar, mexican pesos).