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[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 176 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Donald Trump is not only running for president again, he might actually win.

[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 71 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If 2016 taught me anything it’s to not trust polls. Doesn’t matter how hard ahead Kamala is polling until your ballot is actually cast.

It also doesn’t help that you have the “Lemmy.ml” crowd calling you a fascist if you vote for Kamala, because in their twisted world having trump win is better eomehow

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 124 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Stupid doctors. Starting in the medical field, I had this notion that a doctor is this kind of universally intelligent, best-of-humanity kind of person.

Some of them are.

But some of them are absolute dumbasses who happen to have a photographic memory that carried them through med school... Like, full blown trumpanzee, falls for conspiracy theory bullshit, superstitious nutjob, knuckle-dragging, slack-jawed idiot.

It shouldn't be possible. No one who makes it through med school should be mentally capable of instantly plummeting to the rock-bottom of stupid as soon as they step foot outside of their field of study (which fortunately most of those types deliver at least passable quality of care).

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[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 110 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I work in a manufacturing facility where the assemblers, mechanics, machinists, and technicians, are unionized. My white collar, not unionized colleagues simultaneously express jealousy about the benefits the union members get while also saying they shouldn't exist while also complaining their own salaries are too low and not keeping up with inflation.

My dudes, this is what unions are for. If I worked one of the covered jobs, I would join the union in a heartbeat.

Join them, don't try to tear them down.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Crazy how union participation peaked in the 50s with 1/3 of the workforce in one, at a time where a man without advanced education could provide for a wife, multiple kids and own a house.

Crazy that people aren't rioting in the streets.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The Parasite Class. That’s what happened. These are people for whom any amount of wealth will never be enough. So they extract it out of the working class by cramming down wages, making all aspects of life precarious, and raising prices.

We all suffer and the 0.1% accumulare more wealth than they could possibly spend in a thousand lifetimes.

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 98 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The expectation that people in office jobs can be productive for 8 hours per day.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I am productive for less than an hour a day. I don't do anything. I have nothing to do. I drive for an hour each way to sit and do absolutely nothing so I can feed and house my family.

Some days I have to convince myself not to drive my truck into something at 85 mph. No person is meant to live like this.

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

The alienation of labor is real. Hang in there, we'll need you when things get better.

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[–] Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago (49 children)

Religion, nothing but group psychosis

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Executives from non-IT companies joining internal IT planning meetings.

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[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People. "This is fine, the world is fine, our societies inverse robin hood economy is fine, climate change is no big deal, ecosystem collapse is no big deal, wars? Those are overseas and we're not in them. Yeah, we'll be fine."

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 40 points 1 week ago

Housing prices and incomes.... Absolute insanity

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago (8 children)

People being terrified of cities and public transit.

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Speed humps. On my daily 5km drive, there are about a dozen of them each way.

I have a 900kg car with sports suspension, and I need to slow almost to a stop for many of them.

Meanwhile people in 2500kg road-blimps are blasting through without slowing.

Most are bumps in the road that taper on the sides. Vehicles with a wide enough wheelbase miss them amlost entirely, whereas my 1.6m wide car gets launched into the air.

The greater the kill capacity of your vehicle, the less you are affected by these "safety" devices.

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

News and people giving a shit about sports ball.

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[–] Fleur_@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago (27 children)

The hexbear instance. I have a fascination where everytime I see a post I can't help but try to understand the thought process logically. I can only ever come up with deliberate misinformation or genuine dillusion.

I realised the rest of this comment is just me stream of consciousness trying to understand something so feel free to stop reading here.

One thing I personally can't understand is their defending to the death of every socialist government. But by that I mean every government that has called itself socialist or been called socialist by the US as some sort of justification for undermining them, not if they've actually done anything socialist. Like do we have to simp for North Korea. They are probably the furthest country in the world from what I'd consider socialist. Every government does bad things you don't have to defend them because they ideologically allign with you on paper. And the same logic goes for any country that doesn't allign with you having only bad ideas and obviously they then must be fascist/ follow nazi ideology. Like what?? Is there no nuance here. Please if there are any actual genuine humans on hexbear can you talk to me about that instance. I what's going on over there?

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Reality itself: “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” —Niels Bohr

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[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 28 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Lemmy and the users of Lemmy.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The actual reality of humanity. Everything we do is fucking weird if you overthink it, and I constanly have a feeling of surrealness when focused on the real world around me instead of lost in my own thoughts. Reality is too real to be real.

I dissociate a lot so that's probably why.

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

So where I live (US) we have carpool lanes - not on the highway, but on regular commuter roads, city blocks, mostly commercial but also some residential areas. These appear on the right-hand lane. You know, the turning lane, where other vehicles are turning onto the road, or turning off of it, where there are intersections and entries for parking lots and driveways and such.

These lanes make no sense whatsoever. I can't even imagine the logic behind how they were designed. There's no benefit to being a carpool driving in this lane, because you will always be slowed down by other vehicles turning onto the road or off of it, so there's no incentive to carpool. There's no way to enforce these carpool lanes because anyone stopped by a police officer could just claim that they were going to turn at the next intersection, so ticketing non-carpool drivers is impractical.

I can only assume that this was an idea that sounded good on paper to somebody, but was never reviewed by anyone who had actually driven on a road in their life. I understand the logic behind carpool lanes on the highway (in theory, though they're not particularly effective in practice), but I can't understand these, or why they've continued to exist for more than a year.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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