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Avid Amoeba
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Don’t they have enough right wing influencers doing the job?
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato World News•Iran launches attack against US Air Force base in QatarEnglish2·9 hours agoYeah, I don’t know why people think Israel would tolerate a democratic country that threatens their military dominance. An unsanctioned, democratic Iran with 90M people would undoubtedly develop more weapons and be able to sustain a much more significant armed conflict than the Islamic Republic. Such a country becoming a serious threat to Israel would be only a matter of electing the “wrong” government. Why wouldn’t they preemptively hit just like they did now?
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato World News•Iran's Parliament Votes to Close Strait of Hormuz After US AttacksEnglish13·21 hours agoThe market seems to be betting that it’s not happening.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato News•Trump says US forces bombed Iran nuclear sites; says 'Fordow is gone'41·2 days agoIs that on the cards? I guess they could load whatever material they have onto missiles and shoot. Even if they’re intercepted, the fallout would still occur. But I thought their nuclear option is actually destroying Saudi oil facilities. That would plunge the world into another inflationary cycle and accompanying economic instability, likely political instability too. Wouldn’t get rid of the Israeli threat though. I guess irradiating Israel would achieve that.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology•Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weaponEnglish2·2 days agoI understand completely what you’re saying and I have considered it. I just don’t believe we’ll ever get to the point where a fully automated system produces all necessary goods for high standard of living without human labour required. Worse, even if we get to the point where significantly less labour is required, history informs us that the unemployed would very likely revolt and take power through violence. Especially because we won’t be able to go from the status quo to a state where we neutralize revolting people automatically in a short enough time frame for people to be caught by surprise and unable to revolt. Not to mention that a part of such a revolt would likely include the stoppage of work by people who work on, maintain and operate the automation. I think the most likely scenario as we go down this path would be the formation of militant labour unions that take power back from the rich and steer automation into producing for the majority. Whether we go away from capitalism through this change or reshape it, I don’t have a guess.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato News•Trump says US forces bombed Iran nuclear sites; says 'Fordow is gone'11·2 days agoYeah. If they didn’t manage to really destroy the material base of the program, Iran wil get nukes and the world’s opinion could also shift in Iran’s favour. Especially if they now act with restraint and hit all the legal avenues to say how they got harmed without justification.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology•Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weaponEnglish12·3 days agoThe rich are only rich because the money they possess can be exchanged directly or indirectly for people’s labour. Without it, the money is valueless and the rich cease to be. It’s also one reason why labour strikes are so effective and the rich have had to create militias to prevent them.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Not The Onion•Panama declares emergency over banana region unrestEnglish5·3 days agoTroubles in the region began a month ago, when the local banana workers union joined a nationwide protest against proposed pension cuts and declared a strike.
In Bocas del Toro, the unrest has been largely led by workers at a Chiquita Brands banana plantation.
Banana workers get pensions these days? Wow Chiquita has really let itself go hasn’t it.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato World News•Telegram CEO to leave fortune to over 100 children he fatheredEnglish2·3 days agoIt begs questions that have only bad answers.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.ml•Canadians are ‘leading’ in LGBTQ2 support amid global declines: Ipsos - National3·3 days agoYeah. Will march for the first time this year. Gotta show visible support.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology•AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace YouEnglish13·4 days agoPlot twist: board replaces the whole exec layer with CEO AI, keeps the difference, gives nothing to the employees, line goes up, employees now threatened both at the top and the bottom of the ladder, work-work!
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato News•Iran's internet blackout leaves public in dark and creates an uneven picture of the war with Israel21·4 days agoAnyone seen these ads? Have they managed to not peddle islamophobia?
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato News•Iran's internet blackout leaves public in dark and creates an uneven picture of the war with Israel3·4 days agoI guess ham radio, Meshtastic, neighbours. In all likelihood, when it happens to us, unless we’re participating in some resistance already, we’ll just be getting the announcement of the result and then figure out how to react to it.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato News•Iran's internet blackout leaves public in dark and creates an uneven picture of the war with Israel5·4 days agoI have a feeling that the internet and other comms would be shutdown or heavily censored in any country undergoing a coup attempt. Most countries have emergency powers for stuff like this and coups aren’t reserved just for autocratic regime’s like Iran’s.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Poilievre eyes a comeback, Carney counterpunches Trump and Bill C-5 gets a makeover6·4 days agoAn improvement to C-5?
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Rogers, Telus, Bell Warn They’ll Cut Investment If Forced to Share4·5 days agoBeen on Freedom since 2010. Fuck ROBeLUS.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato unions@lemmy.ml•Ubisoft Halifax: majority of 60-person team signs union cards, files to unionize producers, programmers, designers, artists, researchers, and testers2·5 days agoImagine being the ones that didn’t. 😄
Putin really shat the bed with the special military operation, didn’t he. By expending so many people and resources in Ukraine, he lost the ability to plausibly support his allies in the Middle East against attacks from Israel and the US. Had he not entered Ukraine, I don’t think Israel would have struck Iran like they did.