"bottled water often isn't subject to the same rigorous quality and safety standards as tap water, and it can carry the risk of harmful chemicals leaching from the plastic bottles used for it, especially if it's stored for a long time, and/or exposed to sunlight and high temperatures"
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-bottled-huge-toll-human-planetary.html
[#]environment #health
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[#]Democracy isn't about occasionally voting.
It is something you do every day — or it is something corporations do.
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English Translation is in the ALT text.
https://activersity.org/fascism/my-honor/
[#]fascism #musk #satire
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Truth is actually irrelevant. Trump may even brag about making false claims. What's important is that the US is great again. The US can bully its neighbors and trading partners. Insecure voters, may find that being on the winner's team can make them feel much better. Trump supporters therefore don't care about whether he tells the truth, or even whether he is pursuing policies that make sense. He is a bully, and he is their bully.
Why Truth is Irrelevant: https://73.nu/c9d from our blog.
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Another US innovation:
The problem of war crimes in Gaza can be solved with ethnic cleansing.
“You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say: ‘You know, it’s over.’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-resumes-sending-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel-undoing-biden-pause
[#]warcrimes #gaza #fascism #Trump #Israel
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"The FTC ... charged that Avast deceived users by claiming that the software would protect consumers’ privacy by blocking third party tracking, but it failed to adequately inform consumers that it would sell their detailed, re-identifiable browsing data."
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/06/ftc-finalizes-order-avast-banning-it-selling-or-licensing-web-browsing-data-advertising-requiring-it
Tech bros promised to protect us from baddies, but they were the baddies.
Huh.
[#]billionaires #privacy #FTC #Avast
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U.S. President Donald #Trump says Canadians would have “much better” health coverage if #Canada became the 51st state.
https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2025/01/24/trump-says-canada-would-have-much-better-health-coverage-as-a-state
Apparently, no one told Trump that the assassin of a US health insurance executive has literally become a folk hero.
[#]luigimangione #unitedhealth #healthcare
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US news station fires meteorologist for criticizing Musk's nazi salute on instagram
https://www.distractify.com/p/what-happened-to-sam-kuffel-cbs-58
[#]fascism #elonmusk #1933 #cbs58
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Just for the record. Germans know it was a nazi salute - apparently people elsewhere have doubts.
Credits and thanks to an uknown and untraceable person on the internet <3
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The shame of the US is not that it has so many nazis and nazi supporters, but that it has controversy about them.
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German reactions to Musk's #nazi salute
https://imgur.com/gallery/german-reactions-MHw8p4v
Musk's family, on his mother's side, were nazis. #Musk himself is a supporter of a German political party with nazi ties, the AfD. Musk is a supporter of an American politician who has declared that parts of the constitution may be terminated, and that the military may be used to deal with his political enemies.
Musk's salute, in this context, would have gotten him arrested in Germany.
[#]fascism
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[#]Meta says its working urgently to fix a problem with #Instagram which results in a "results hidden" message when users search for the terms "Democrat" or "Democrats".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o
It's probably a genuine mistake, but it makes you wonder what changes they have made to their algorithm that made this mistake possible.
They are making changes.
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"You might think of #Meta as a social media company, but its primary business is surveillance advertising."
Social media is the Trojan horse.
"Meta tracks your activity across millions of websites and apps, regardless of whether you use its platforms"
"Meta’s tracking pixel, found on 30% of the world’s most popular websites, monitors people’s behavior across the web"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data
[#]surveillancecapitalism #futurism #fediverse
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2025:
Google tells EU it won't comply with planned #disinformation law
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/17/24345747/google-eu-dsa-fact-checks-disinformation-code-search-youtube
Top pharmaceutical and IT companies threaten to quit Ireland if ban on ‘forever chemicals’ is introduced
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/top-pharmaceutical-and-it-companies-threaten-to-quit-ireland-if-ban-on-forever-chemicals-is-introduced/a490981537.html
[#]corporations #oligarchy #google #Pfizer #Intel #bigpharma
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Luigi Mangione Prosecutors Have a Jury Problem: 'So Much Sympathy'
https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-jury-sympathy-former-prosecutor-alvin-bragg-terrorism-new-york-brian-thompson-2002626
The state must find rare citizens to ensure the outcome it wants.
[#]NewYork #LuigiMangione #UnitedHealth #justice
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"In the United States, we have a whopping 1.4 million people employed with the job of DENYING HEALTH CARE, vs only 1 million doctors in the entire country! That’s all you need to know about America.
"But I have a solution. No one has to kill anyone. And it doesn’t cost anything.
"The solution is simple. Throw this entire system in the trash, ... and instead, in its place, give us all the same health care that every other civilized country on Earth has."
https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health
[#]healthcare
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Do #billionaires believe in right and wrong? There is no evidence of it.
Are they getting what they want? Yes.
Are they financing #media that tells us what is right and wrong? Yes.
Are we getting what we want?
The most secure prison is the one that inmates do not notice.
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The problem with US-grade racism is that very bad economic conditions are tolerable as long as other-looking people are doing worse, and no amount of prosperity is satisfactory, if it means everyone is doing equally well.
[#]racism #maga
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An example of technological solutions to problems created by #capitalism :
"[San Jose] has been training artificial intelligence to recognize
tents and cars with people living inside …"
"San Jose is one of the least affordable housing markets in the
country. In order to afford the average effective monthly rent for a
one-bedroom apartment …, a renter would have to earn $96,000
a year…"
‘We’re not detecting folks. We’re detecting encampments’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/san-jose-homelessness-ai-detection
[#]housingcrisis #AI
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The Sacrifice of Vernon Dahmer
https://imgur.com/gallery/sacrifice-of-vernon-dahmer-9KhQYFW
[#]civilrights #activism #maga #blacklivesmatter
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