Absaroka

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[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Nothing burps better than bacon.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How many times has he used this 'caravan of migrants' baseless claim?

For those scoring at home, Canada, Mexico and China account for 1/3rd of our imports. Such a tariff would have some pretty significant inflationary implications.

The impact this will have on oil and gas alone. 62% of our petroleum imports come from Canada and Mexico. And 70% of our crude oil imports.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Back during the Napster days, Howard Stern had the Foo Fighters on. He asked them what their thought of the whole Napster vs. Metallica legal debate.

Dave Grohl told him he was 100 percent for Napster, explaining that they barely made a dime from record sales, and instead made the bulk of their money from touring and t-shirt sales. And that very few musicians were in the same boat as Metallica, actually making money from their album sales.

So from that point of view, the more people who were exposed to their music meant the more folks who might want to go see them in concert.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Western world really needs to start doing something about Russian propaganda and money in our politics. Or it is going to eat us from the inside out.

I think you start by arresting anybody who takes Russian money to influence elections for treason. Grab a few high profile folks like that, and the house of cards starts to crumble.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Financial corruption is the entire point.

You have to assume at this point everything is able to be bought, from cabinet positions to getting your nephew a job in whatever agency you'd like.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago

Good. Democrats need to start playing hardball to combat the GOP's anti-democratic antics.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Maybe letting oil producing countries into the fold and allowing them to sabotage negotiations wasn't a smart idea

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I enjoy that they're focusing on 'promoting pirated software and game cheats' before talking about malware first.

Cybersecurity ethusiast Karol Paciorek who spotted the playlist said, "cybercriminals exploit Spotify for malware distribution. Why? Spotify has a strong reputation and its pages are easily indexed by search engines, making it an effective platform to promote malicious links."

That's a very different, more helpful story. "Watch out, Spotify links are being used to distribute malware to your computer."

When abusing platforms, spammers and scammers leave no stone unturned to promote their agenda.

Money. They aren't doing this as part of a 'peons of the world unite to steal software' scheme. They're doing it to generate traffic so they make more ad revenue.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

“Frankly I was a little bit disappointed in 1986 when we moved from a six-day week to a five-day week,” he added.

“I was not very happy with that. I think in this country, we have to work very hard because there is no substitute for hard work even if you're the most intelligent guy."

Funny how the out of touch billionaires keep pushing this line of thinking. The guy is on record saying he doesn't believe in work / life balance and is currently pushing for a 70 hour work week in India.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not for nothing, but waiting until the waning days and weeks of your presidency to take a trip to the Amazon and say this feels a little ... lackluster.

And exactly the kind of thing people are grilling the Democrats for after the election. Biden should have been saying this in his first year, not the 11th hour.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As somebody who tends to be a 'glass half full' kind of guy, I really do hope that Trump goes too far and does something like the above causing people to snap out of whatever trance led them to follow him in the first place.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Aside from democracy and society as a whole, the biggest loser in this last campaign was traditional media. I don't think any outlets came out ahead and confidence for many in publications like the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, CNN, MSNBC, and others is at rock bottom.

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