Oh you don’t like either candidate? What a special person you are! I can’t believe that a nation of 340 million people winnowed down their possible leaders to two people without producing one that you absolutely love!
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politics @lemmy.world•Minutes before Trump's announcement, $800 million in trades made on oil pricesEnglish
10·3 days agoI would say it’s an extremely blurred line, not a clear difference.
From the perspective of citizens entrusting elected leaders with massive powers they should be considered identical.
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Privacy@programming.dev•Stop Using These "Private" MessengersEnglish
3·5 days agoIf I really had to rank big tech companies in terms of trustworthiness I would be really hard pressed to find one to rank below Meta.
I went to a beach on the Jersey Shore and saw this sign

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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.English
21·7 days agoAssuming for the moment that all these criticisms are completely correct and valid, “Provides no new information” or “documentation is methodologically unacceptable” or “selective bias” or “took license” do not mean that a book should therefore be characterized as fictional.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.English
14·8 days ago
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation is a three-volume nonfiction series . . .<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago?wprov=sfti1
The Gulag Archipelago (Russian: Arkhipelag GULag; literally, “The Gulag Archipelago”) is a three-volume nonfictional literary investigation. . .<
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.English
55·8 days agoThat’s a very large conclusion to reach from one person’s completely undetailed single statement.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.English
163·9 days agoI had probably 10 times as many educational hours dedicated to Hitler and the Holocaust as I did learning about Stalin.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.English
124·9 days agoAs older generations with direct knowledge die off, the younger generations are forgetting.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.English
2012·9 days agoNot too long ago I started listening to the audiobook of The Gulag Archipelago, and I had to stop a few chapters in because it was negatively affecting my mental health.
You may have heard about the Soviet Union being bad in the 70s and 80s, but that was an absolute cakewalk compared to the Stalin era.
The UN budget for 2025 was $3.7 billion
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/12/1158531
For comparison, global chewing gum sales in 2025 were $48.68 billion
Posts on it are mostly garbage, but it still seems the best place to find jobs, at least in my own engineering experience.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US basesEnglish
81·18 days agoI find it very unlikely the US could keep a lid on 200 deaths and saying it’s six. Not for more than a week or so. People’s families are going to wonder where their loved ones are. Hospital workers, morgue workers, life insurance companies, flight crews, people are going to talk, and share pictures.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Reduction and renewables could make much of this traffic obsoleteEnglish
2·19 days ago“Traffic” definitely implies number of ships.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•whos your favorite borg? mine is localhostEnglish
25·20 days ago
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I was told it would be a cultural experienceEnglish
18·20 days agoThey have German-style stall doors where even your feet are not visible from outside
VinegarChunks@lemmus.orgtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•smart people can admit mistakes and apologizeEnglish
52·20 days agoFacts do not support your doubts. Get your head out of the sand. Half of voting Americans want all this.
Half of Americans actively vote for the more evil candidate. That’s the problem you need to fix first.
I really wish I was exaggerating but it’s hard to describe it any other way.

In my experience Microsoft Copilot is wildly inaccurate about facts describing aspects of Microsoft software products like Teams, or even Microsoft Copilot itself.