[-] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

reminds me of that time that al qaeda operatives were using gmail Drafts to pass messages back and forth (all using the same login) and because they never SENT an email, they never set off any keyword-detector alarms.

[-] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

metacom did nothing wrong

[-] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Overall CEO pay at the Big Three companies rose 40% from 2013 to 2022

Adjusting for inflation, autoworkers have seen their average wages fall 19.3% since 2008

Those hired after 2007 are part of the lower tier and earn up to $17 an hour

[GM CEO] makes 362 times more than the typical GM worker

smuglord (<- source link)

[-] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

i recently attended a training where we were informed that a degraded compound from tires breaks the blood-brain barrier in salmon and causes them to die.

[-] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

did that "losing net neutrality" thing everybody was concerned about circa 2010 eventually happen, and that's why everything's worse?

[-] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

ripping off the twitter and reddit bandaids, in addition to not using ig or tiktok, means i can spend about 15 minutes online before i've seen all the current content. we probably aren't supposed to spend hour after hour surfing the web.

[-] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

i taught 9/11 to history students who weren't old enough to remember it. i put together a reader of pre-attack context, and OBL's letter to the american people. oh and we watched that one video of the cranky new yorker in one of the towers talking to emergency personnel up until the building collapsed, cuz you know, the human element and it makes me sad.

by comparison, on the day bin laden was killed, i had a coworker who cancelled all lessons for the day, dressed in flag apparel, and just did patriotic riffing for every period.

[-] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

it is in poor taste, but for those who came of age post-9/11, that one day was used as a cudgel for years by the worst types of people for the flimsiest appeals to patriotism. the flag humpers and such. also, state sanctioned violence (evictions, unaffordable health care, covid 'rules') have killed millions more than that one attack. it was a matter of america's chickens coming home to roost, as malcolm-checks would say

[-] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

i figured the us vetted communist-country immigrants and picked the most rabid anticommunists

[-] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

BRICS gonna drop the hottest pro csgo lineup of all time

[-] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

been thinking a lot about "WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY" and "Listen, Fat" lately

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