[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 40 points 4 months ago

I'm 100% not okay with stealing and ransoming people's personal information, but this makes me want to be 99% not okay with it.

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 56 points 6 months ago

I thought Tommy was the White Power Ranger?

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 67 points 7 months ago

Trust him, he's an expert on not paying bills.

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 37 points 10 months ago

So is this guy, like, the Devil? Every headline I see with him is like "Emperor Palpatine is buying single family homes" where I just assume it's for some nefarious purpose that's gonna benefit his regime and dick over a looooot of people.

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 29 points 10 months ago

A good start to fixing the poverty is if companies making obscene amounts of money from their labor start fairly paying people in these areas.

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 157 points 11 months ago

Updated headline:
Does violate gag order, justice system to do nothing about it because rules don't apply to the wealthy

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago

Also their game is literally $10 USD on Steam, compared to all the $70 ones that have been coming out lately.

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

The US government were also months late to handling COVID, and the conservative leadership in power was actively demonizing safety protocols such as masks, vaccines, social distancing, etc not to mention their own Center for Disease Control, to the point that a fair percentage of the population is distrustful of medical science and unwilling to consider those safety protocols.

A lot of the news media (left and right) focused on things like getting people back to work in spite of the ongoing pandemic so it really forced the narrative away from collective safety and survival into economic prioritization and the illusion of normalcy.

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago

But that costs money.

It's worth noting that a lot of solutions actually save money.

For example, universal healthcare is a big issue in the US. Around 2/3 of all bankruptcies are from medical debt. People ration lifesaving medication like insulin because of how prohibitively expensive it is. GoFundMe is of the largest healthcare providers in the country, and over 1/3 of all campaigns are for medical expenses.

They've created a system where it's prohibitively expensive to seek necessary medical care, and is built on the foundational acceptance that people need to die and suffer for it to function as intended.

Yet a universal healthcare system is projected to cost the US an estimated ~13% less than they are paying.

Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion as well as savings that would be achieved through the MAA, we calculate that a single-payer, universal healthcare system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national healthcare expenditure, equivalent to over $450 billion annually.

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

It's been invite-only for a long while, so they can manage the userbase easier. I imagine that, plus the lack of support for visual content makes it challenging for engagement.

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago

Now, are these "Experts" in the room with us right now? How long have they been talking to you?

6

I already went into my settings and changed the dropdown to Subscriptions and saved the changes, but when I click the kbin home button it still shows me the /all feed.

Am I misunderstanding something here? Does the button shaped like a house not actually mean home?

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

As I write this, John Oliver's Twitter is posting a bunch of pics of himself telling /r/pics to "have at it"

https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120

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