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A quotation from Steinbeck, John

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: โ€œAfter the revolution even we will have more, wonโ€™t we, dear?โ€ Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picnickers on her property.

I guess the trouble was that we didnโ€™t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew โ€” at least they claimed to be Communists โ€” couldnโ€™t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
Essay (1960-06-01), โ€œA Primer on the Thirties,โ€ Esquire

#quote #quotes #quotation #America #communism #capitalism #classwarfare #perspective #proletariat #revolution #socialism
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#Humanity ushered in the end of mammalian dominance.

They do not use the planet's resources to sustainably expand their dominance, but only in the short term and only for their species and to allow their livestock to grow disproportionately.

In doing so, they destroy the necessary diversity and foundations of resilience that are able to cope with natural and self-induced changes.

They destroy both the basic biomass and the diversity on which it was based. All species are being decimated or have already been wiped out.

Instead, they use the resources for consumption, vanity, comfort and even worse for senseless wars.

We are leaving young people a completely destroyed, heated planet that will become a dance on a volcano for them.

The image above was created with the help of #AI. I didn't want to endanger a real teenager for a photo. Why am I using an image at all for my #warnings to humanity? You are the reason because you only like and share what has a picture and ignore text.

#future #earth #Problem #youth #society #mankind #climate #change #crisis #emissions #co2 #heat #politics #war #capitalism #economy #resources #warning #danger

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#Microsoft is being investigated by the #FTC over #antitrust concerns

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/27/24307790/microsoft-is-being-investigated-by-the-ftc-over-antitrust-concerns

But in recent years Microsoft has mostly escaped the kind of antitrust scrutiny applied to #Amazon, #Apple, #Meta, and #Google, each of which is fighting its own #monopoly charges from the #government.

If you call it Meta instead of #Facebook then Google is #Alphabet. Good journalism is so hard to find... ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

#economy #politics #justice #siliconvalley #technology #Software #Problem #future #capitalism #internet #news #usa

Microsoft is being investigated by the FTC over antitrust concerns

The last monopoly suit against Microsoft was filed over 25 years ago.

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anonymiss@despora.de
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At #Christmas time, the shopping spree begins
Consumerism and #capitalism, the true sin
Spending our money on things we don't need
Forgetting the true spirit, consumed by #greed

The ads and commercials lure us in
Promising happiness with every shiny new spin
But material possessions can't fill the void
Of love and connection, too often destroyed

So this holiday season, let's stop and reflect
On what really matters, what we should inject
Into our lives and the world around
Less stuff, more love, on solid ground.

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#Musk Says He Wants to Save the Planet. #Teslaโ€™s Factories Are Making It Dirtier.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-tesla-environment-1263cd60

The door to the plantโ€™s giant casting furnace, which melts metal to be molded into the Model Yโ€™s parts, wouldnโ€™t shut, spewing toxins into the air and raising temperatures for workers on the floor to as high as 100 degrees.

#toxic #Problem #environment #nature #economy #fail #news #earth #emissions #capitalism #Whistleblower

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The #President of #ElSalvador, Nayib #Bukele, the first country to accept #Bitcoin as a legal #payment method, announced that they have made a #profit of 305 #million #dollars (approximately 11 billion TL) from their #cryptocurrency investments totaling 268 million dollars to date.

Source: https://en.haberler.com/el-salvador-has-made-a-profit-of-over-10-billion-18073476/

El Presidente, please allow me to briefly explain #capitalism to you. As long as you do not sell bitcoins, the profit and the previous loss are only theoretical. El Salvador is a poor country and has no #money for #speculation. This means you have to take out expensive loans to pay #salaries in the state apparatus and so you make a loss and not a profit.

#news #technology #Software #Problem #economy #politics #fail #btc #future #trump #investment #dollar

El Salvador has made a profit of over 10 billion Turkish lira from Bitcoin.

The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, the first country to accept Bitcoin as a legal payment method, announced that they have made a profit of 305 million dollars (approximately 11 billion TL) from their cryptocurrency investments totaling...

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scriptkiddie@anonsys.net
Script Kiddie

Hawaii should belong to its people!

#usa #protest #problem #capitalism #finance #humanrights #politics #news

โ™ฒ Silver Spook Games - 2024-11-22 19:05:30 GMT

Hawaii is a Disneyland-like resort built over our indigenous communities & ancestor's graves, made to do bastardizations of sacred dances, in 'sexy feather headresses' & entertain the rich tourists for starvation wages, 12 hrs a day 7 days a week, drinking jet fuel poisoned water

Silver Spook Games (@silverspookgames@wandering.shop)

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Why is proprietary #software so bad and full of #vulnerabilities?

The sales department probably doesn't know any better and only has its commission in mind and just sells the software, that's their job. I'm not so sure about the management, whether they are clueless or just think that no matter how bad the software is, we can earn even more money with support contracts. There are certainly a few clueless developers who are kept so busy that they barely manage to complete their tasks but have no time for quality assurance. However, a large part of the developers will realize what is being played and then either change jobs after 2 years if it becomes unbearable or try to justify the quality of the software according to the motto it is a feature and not a bug. Ultimately, the only option left to cybersecurity is to secure vulnerable software with supposedly better security software. Bugs are not fixed unless public pressure is so strong that it is unavoidable and with one fixed bug, three new ones are installed. The supposedly secure security software all too often turns out to be snake oil, which only brings further security risks, which then have to be secured by further security software and you find yourself in a never-ending cascade, which becomes ever more dangerous and expensive but brings no security gain. There is even a technical term for this, called security theater. At the end of the day, all the management wants to say in its press release is that the hackers were diabolical criminals and probably had state support, but that the company had done everything it could to defend itself with the latest security software. The starting position is therefore clear. There is money to be made from security vulnerabilities and proper security means a lot of work. Economic considerations are therefore made here, according to which quality assurance can be saved because the customer can find and report the errors after all.

I'm pretty sure I'm not the smartest or the best developer, but I've figured it out and I'm always surprised that I often meet colleagues who are very confident about cybersecurity in the company because there is security training every year. I don't see any possibility of developing secure software at all under capitalism because profit is always valued higher than security.

#developer #management #economy #capitalism #profit #finance #security #cybersecurity #bug #fail #system #problem #hack #hacker #malware

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