I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
genuine question, why does a train line or a new park have to go thru years of votes and environmental impact studies but something like this can just? happen?
My theory is the goal is to keep Americans as dumb as possible so they are easier to manipulate and keep the poor, poor. Because simple things like literacy would greatly enhance people’s ability to see through BS.
“How did we go from paper straws to data centres?”
Because no one listened to the environmentalists who said unchecked corporate pollution was the bigger issue.
Mamdani is proving that everything Bernie Sanders wanted to do for the country as president really was possible. He wiped out a $12 Billion deficit, and no rich person died. Crazy how having a great politician can be good for the ppl
Merging the US military with the IDF would give Israel permanent control of the US military and by extension US foreign policy. This is clearly illegal and unconstitutional, not to mention the act of traitors loyal to a foreign country.