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Dana Fash and Snake Tapper should be fired for lying about this shit. It’s easily verifiable and they certainly knew it was a lie given that they never bothered to contact Tlaib for response (what real journalists do).

But CNN is a right-wing rag and racism is encouraged as long as it’s toward Palestinians.

Nobody look at how much water (and exploitation) that animal agriculture requires 🫣

That has nothing to do with what’s happening. Twitter can’t be fucked to appoint a legal team to comply with Brazilian law, so they don’t get to operate there. Simple as.

Too bad Biden put forward a far-right border bill that laundered the right-wing narrative that there’s a “border crisis” and that people are flooding in. Fast-forward a few months, and here we are.

The politicians that attached their names to that bill are in-part to blame for legitimizing the racist, anti-immigrant lies we’re hearing today.

Dems need to grow a spine and meaningfully protect minority groups instead of naively aiding the right in demonizing them.

The Democrats laundered the reich-wing narrative that immigration is bad and that there’s a “border crisis” when they put forward the far-right border bill that Trump thankfully tanked (for his own selfish reasons, but still good that it didn’t pass).

Now, months later, after the anti-immigrant narrative has been laundered and normalized, we get to hear about how immigrants are “eating your pets” and how Venezuelan gangs “are taking over apartment complexes”.

The ratchet effect is real. We need to stop demonizing people that were born on the other side of a border and Democrats need to grow a fucking spine and push back on these racist lies instead of enabling them.

It’s also worth noting that even Sony can’t be bothered to properly emulate the PS3, which has resulted in many PS3-era games being remade into either native PC versions, or PS4/5 titles.

While it’s true that there are still some PS3-exclusive games that aren’t available in other formats, many of them are, so most people can get pretty far without needing PS3 emulation.

I only bring that up for anyone that may think they need PS3 emulation, but maybe haven’t been made aware of newer remakes or native PC ports of the games they’re actually looking for.

Article text because I was getting an “access denied” when trying to read it initially:

Some regions of Texas have already run out of water — and the rest face a looming crisis, the state’s agriculture commissioner said on Sunday.

“We lose about a farm a week in Texas, but it’s 700 years before we run out of land,” Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller told WFAA’s Inside Texas Politics show on Sunday.

“The limiting factor is water.”                                   

The front lines of the crisis is the Rio Grande Valley, where international disputes, declining groundwater, over-pumping from big agricultural growers and — above all — a deteriorating climate has eroded the ability of Texas’ Winter Garden to produce fruits and vegetables amid broader fears of cities in the state running out of water.

“We’re out of water, especially in the Rio Grande Valley,” Miller told WFAA “Our tomato production in the Valley is just about gone.”

“They usually grow five crops of vegetables in that area,” he added. Now “they have enough water to grow one. So, our production’s down 80 percent And it’s all about water.”

Meanwhile, in the West Texas town of Pecos, once known for its melons, “you can’t get a Pecos cantaloupe anymore,” Miller said. “The wells are dry out there. You can’t find one anymore because the farmers are gone. There’s no water. They had to leave.”

Miller spoke to WFAA weeks after state lawmakers, policymaker and water experts from the state’s constellation of water conservations districts found massive shortfalls between state water spending and the scale of the onrushing crisis, as KAMR reported.

While the state passed $1 billion for the Texas Water Fund in 2023, the amount needed to overhaul the state’s water infrastructure sufficient to head off shortages is estimated to be more like $80 billion, per KAMR.

Even if the state were sufficiently funding its water plans, it would be running a 2.4 million acre-foot-per-year deficit, Sen. Charles Perry (R) said at the Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts meeting last month.

That’s more than the entire 2 million acre-foot volume of the Highland Lakes system that the city of Austin depends on.

With state spending “a drop in the bucket, no pun intended,” Perry said last month, the true shortfall was more like 10 – 12 million acre-feet per year.

In his interview on Sunday, Miller called on Texas legislators to act to ensure the state water supply holds. He called on the oil and gas industry to stop using potable water for fracking and on city and state officials to embrace reuse and desalination.

But as reporting from KAMR noted, the ability of the state legislature to pass anything next session will be handicapped by the vicious inter- and intra-partisan fights — starting with the hyper-contentious proxy war for the House speakership.

With the state’s legislature increasingly acrimonious, and longtime moderate Republican House leaders on complex water issues retiring amid the infighting that followed the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton, passing serious legislation will be a challenge, Sarah Kirkle of the Texas Water Conservation Association said last month, KAMR reported.

“The vibe,” Kirkle added, “is not great.”

The boss makes a dollar,

I make a dime,

That’s why I poo on company time

I’d love to see him sporting an orange beanie to match his jumpsuit.

Good point. I edited my original comment. Thanks for providing a more positive perspective on this :)

You can’t open a restaurant that doesn’t comply with food safety law. This is a “skill issue” on Musk’s part. Not censorship.

Typically, I would agree. However, what is happening with Twitter and Brazil isn’t censorship; it’s Twitter refusing to appoint legal council to respond to any legal complaints within Brazil’s jurisdiction. Musk has made the conscious decision to have Twitter not be legally-compliant with Brazil’s laws, therefore Brazil doesn’t allow them to operate there.

Sorry. To clarify what I meant: the “bummer” is that I want the situation with Starlink, Twitter, and Brazil to result in the permanent downfall of that dogshit site, and severe fines for Starlink so that other countries can look toward Brazil as an example of how to deal with the kinds of social media sites that allow disinformation to propagate.

The fact that Starlink has agreed to comply takes off some of the heat, and therefore leaves some of the territory of fully exploring the legal ramifications of holding reich-wing billionaire freaks somewhat accountable for the shit that their companies do unexplored. Yeah, it’s good that Twitter is still forbidden from operating in Brazil, but I would have liked for Musk to face more repercussions through Starlink as well.

I hope that the EU still takes action against Twitter though, with or without any additional escalation involving Starlink.

That’s a bummer. I was hoping EU countries would be inspired by Brazil to actually enforce some of their laws and ban Twitter as well.

Edit: as vxx pointed out, there is a positive way to interpret this outcome, and I was probably being needlessly pessimistic.

All US presidential race polls are fake, even the ones that agree with your preferred outcome. Never let them determine your actions.

This you?

so, you’re assuming that because of their race and economic status (which you are also assuming, btw), that makes them forced labor. how is that not classist?

You must have very short-term memory. Sorry if that’s the case. I’m sure it was a totally genuine, good-faith question.

as i said from the start, i oppose child labor (in fact, any forced labor)-- and i find it pretty disgusting that some here are so blinded by their hatred of meat that they would overlook it in order to push their own agenda. and since you, too, would conflate the two - as if veganism would somehow magically eliminate child labor/exploitation - and are attacking me for pointing that out is preposterous.

If you opposed child labor, you should want the animal ag industry abolished. Veganism has not once been brought up by me. However, since you invoked it: yeah, actually, taking a holistic approach to addressing exploitation, including animal exploitation, would, in fact, lead to a reduction in child exploitation. The underlying thinking that enables one to think of other sentient beings as resources to be exploited, for their labor, for their bodies, their lactations, etc., is all the same. The fact is that if you banned animal ag, you would significantly reduce total child labor violations.

Any yeah, whinging about people correctly pointing out the reality that animal exploitation begets more child exploitation is an implicit defense of animal exploitation. Sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But seeing your other comments about how people in lower socio-economic strata choose some of the most grueling and exploitative labor conditions because they can just quit lul makes it pretty apparent that you aren’t really equipped to have any discussion about addressing exploitation in any form.

Actually, you seem to have a problem pivoting from calling people classist to, when called out for being wrong about that fact, complaining about people being on a “soap box” defending animal exploitation.

The underlying problem here is exploitation. The animal ag industry is known to be one of the most exploitative industries, and it is no surprise that they have a more significant problem with child exploitation, given what they are willing to do to animals. Child labor exploitation and animal exploitation are inextricably linked. My proposal would be to address both problems, instead of whatever band-aid solutions your cognitive dissonance may lead you to.

If you have a problem with basic socio-economic analysis, I suggest you go back to school. It is a fact that racialized people are more likely to be in lower socio-economic classes than their non-racialized counterparts, and therefore have to “”“choose”“” more grueling and exploitative labor to survive.

Some of the worst work out there involves exploiting and killing sentient beings and it tends to leave any person, adult or child, with permanent trauma as a result.

Lula is so fucking great. He’s literally just backing up the courts that are applying the law fairly and as-written, which is more than I can say for most leaders.

You probably shouldn’t dual-boot Windows at all. They’ve demonstrated that they will break other OSes that you have installed, time and time again.

However, if you absolutely have to dual boot Windows (instead of running it in a VM or something), I’ve been wondering if it might be a good idea to install your bootloader on one of those SD cards that have write-protection switches, and just leave write-protection enabled except when you update the bootloader. That might be the only way I’d feel safe with a non-VM installation of Windows living anywhere near my real OS.