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LePoisson @lemmy.world
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Everything is so expensive
  • No ... I think they mean obviously the bourgeoisie 1% making all the real money while the rest of us fight over the scraps.

    You're being weird calling this Nazi shit. It just isn't.

  • In Capitalist America
  • Dude ... Yeah the customer is the school and the decision is to go with a lower bidder, usually. It depends on the factors the customer, in this case a school system, wants to prioritize and any rules and regulations around it.

    You're just playing at semantics at this point.

    Like it or not this is a private market we're talking about. Also, I'd challenge the notion that private schools automatically have better cafeterias than public ones. It very much depends on school funding and what they can budget for.

    Most educators would prefer better school lunches but the money has to come from somewhere and the way we find schools in the USA by using mostly property taxes, in most states, really causes a lot of inequality. So there is a give and take, like everything else.

    At the end of the day a lot of the guidelines boil down to x calories consisting of something that has XYZ nutrients (vitamins/minerals). Whether that's a slice of nutra-loaf or an actual meal is up to who is implementing the guidelines and the money they have.

  • In Capitalist America
  • Oh yes I forgot bidding out contracts to multiple suppliers that are private companies is ... Communism?

    It's literally a failing of capitalism (cheapest bidder usually wins the contract) that the lunches aren't better. Be mad about it if you want to, we all should be, there are absolutely problems with school lunches in many districts.

    Now you could talk about how there isn't a lot of competition and there are monopolies like Sysco in the food service industry, but still the suppliers for school lunches are privately owned companies in the USA.

  • I pay $600/month for my "employer provided" health insurance
  • Well, at least here in the USA, we already are spending the money. Getting worse results than the rest of the world and spending more money on it. Because private health insurance is a joke and we're all the punchline.

  • Starlink v2 satelites will ruin science.
  • But they rolled out electricity, and they rolled out PSTN, so the justification was found in those cases.

    Yeah, the justification was the federal government basically forcing providers to do that. Remember back in 2008 when we handed a bunch of money to telecom companies to expand their networks? Then they laughed at us and just kept the money and basically said fuck you? That also was a part of this act, or at least related to it, since broadband was added to it as an amendment in 2008.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act

    Anyways, point being the companies didn't roll our electricity and pstn to rural areas out of the goodness of their heart or even a strict profit motive. It took a literal act of congress for it to happen.

  • Conservative editor backtracks after seeming to use n word regarding Haitian migrants
  • Okay I didn't watch the video until looking at your link and saw the whole "he started saying migrant wrong" bullshit and was like, "okay maybe that is what happened.". No, this dude straight throws a hard r n word out casually, unmistakable as anything else.

  • JD Vance
  • Like I said you're either a troll or a bot, but either way you definitely aren't making any sense. When I read an article about something completely unrelated it doesn't make something else more real. Because that's madness.

  • JD Vance
  • Yeah ... No that's not true at all. It's crazy that you even believe that. I mean, I don't think you do, I think you're a troll with an agenda because believing that is insane.

    The only gaslighting going on is by the MAGA folks and QAnon conspiracy crowd. The reasonable people understand this is made up bullshit. Fuck even JD Vance just said it's made up.

  • Trump refuses to say if he wants Ukraine to win the war
  • I'm educated enough to know you're either deep in a hole of disinformation / misinformation or on Russia's side. We learned that appeasement doesn't work with Nazi Germany and other examples, Russia being the latest.

    If you know of the history and issues of Russia and Ukraine then you'd know they're intrinsically linked to the USA and "Western" interests going pretty far back. Plus lots of trade flows through Ukraine and they export a ton of food - it's important to lots of innocent people who are also impacted by the war even if it's not by blood loss. The costs in lives is too high but also the costs in material, in trust, in future cooperation between nations has been eroded by Putin's actions.

    I can believe that because I think Putin doesn't necessarily want to start WW3. But he has indicated that it wouldn't have stopped him as well

    You can't have it both ways. It's either he would or would not have. I think recent history has shown the exact opposite of what you claim Putin indicated. Nobody has invaded a NATO country because it works. That's why the reaction from Finland and Sweden to this Russian invasion was to join NATO after so many years of not being a part of it even bordering the USSR. They know Putin won't dare attack a member of that alliance. Clearly neutrality did not work when it came to Ukraine. Nor did appeasement, we're paying for not being tougher in 2016 but the time between then and 2022 was spent strengthening Ukraine's military precisely to stop the next occurrence of a Russian attack.

  • Trump refuses to say if he wants Ukraine to win the war
  • I'm not saying I have better insight about that war, but from my understanding, Ukraine shouldn't join NATO

    Well it's a good thing that from the understanding of the people who make the choices you're in the wrong.

    I think it should be readily obvious why the USA should defend a country against an act of aggression. For one thing, violating international boundaries and seizing land through war ought to be punished. The precedent should be set that doing so brings about international rebuke and strong consequences. For another, the USA made a security guarantee to Ukraine when they gave up their nuclear weapons. We should make good on it.

    Ukraine joining NATO would have prevented this war. Russia isn't going to war with a country in NATO - just look at the Baltic states. They joined NATO to protect against a possible Russian aggression just like what's happening now in Ukraine. That worked. It would have worked for Ukraine and it's part of why I believe Putin pulled the trigger on this before Ukraine was in NATO.

  • X caught blocking links to NPR, claiming the news site may be 'unsafe'
  • Fascism and Marxism are very clearly defined and I assure you the government / USA establishment is about as far from Marxist as you can get.

    Unless I missed the part where we all own the means of production and aren't wage slave proletarians.

  • Google protecting Tesla Gigafactory popularity
  • Good a one star review with no comment or proof of anything is pointless. I'm glad they're trying to clean up the google reviews some.

    Just to be clear on my stance: Fuck Tesla and Musk. I'm not a fan in general but getting rid of unhelpful reviews is good in my opinion, no offense intended.

  • Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of all Americans. Here's what to know.
  • The social security agency is the same thing here. SSN is the same as your rijksregisternummer but don't take my word for it.

    https://www.ssa.gov/history/orghist.html

    It's literally an identification number assigned at by the federal government to identify you - usually you get them at birth but not always. Depends on your parents I suppose.

    https://www.ssa.gov/agency/pillars/support.html