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i wish every engineer a “try going around your building in a wheelchair”

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Prosecutors argued that Mangione was carrying about $10,000 in cash and that his bag was a Faraday bag that blocks cellphone signals—all proof that he was a sophisticated criminal who should be held without bail. “‘I’d like to correct two things,’” Mangione said after the prosecutor finished speaking, according to CNN’s Danny Freeman, “‘I don’t know where any of that money came from—I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication.’”

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I didn't think it was possible to shorten words verbally without removing syllables but sailors managed.

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invented a game called “I throw dice at the cat”

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Yeah. Not bourgeois.

Bourgeois are the professional class that directly serve the capitalists. That's doctors, lawyers, accountants, administrative assistants, engineers, managers, and similar licensed professionals and generally fiduciaries. They are people that directly benefit from capitalist patronage.

Most people have more diffuse patronage which comes from employment under the bourgeois or which are crowdsourced from communities. Those people are working class.

Working class people that work from home are sometimes referred to as being part of the cottage industries or as we'd call them now hobby industries. Demily is a working class entertainer in the hobby industry that is supported by diffuse patronage of members of the international community and indirect and diffuse patronage under a few billionaires including at least Bezo.

I remember when I had arguments with entire classrooms of people who thought that Bill Gates wasn't a capitalist. People are really bad at correctly identifying the economic class of people including themselves.

A lot of people that are in the lower working class think they're in the middle class because they get paid more than middle wage. If you work pay-check-to-pay-check or you are supported by patronage month to month that depends on an elaborate form of busking then you're not middle class and you're not bourgeois.

Lawyers get paid something like 100 to 2000 $/hr. If you're working to get paid less than about 60 $/hr in the US then you're almost certainly working class, and this is particularly true if ALL your income is earned income instead of passive income.

The thing that makes a capitalist a capitalist is the fact that almost all of their income is passive income such that they could quit doing anything today and they'd never have to worry about paying bills, starving, going bankrupt from a medical emergency, and so on. Middle class people can retire, and the sooner you can retire comfortably the closer to middle class you are.

A lot of the bourgeois don't even need their jobs. They're trust fund kids that are working because of a number of reasons, but basically their job is extra spending money to give them luxuries rather than to meet basic needs.

Just saw someone call me bourgeois because I work from home.

I make minimum wage, and I have no other career opportunities whatsoever because I have a bunch of health issues which means society has deemed me unemployable.

But okay. Sure.

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Someone please estimate how much money each frame of this captures being spent on prosecuting that one person.

Like this one picture has four cops and a police helicopter. One of the cops is a helicopter pilot in tactical gear.

The helicopter pilot is like 126 thousand dollars per year. Which is like more than 60 $/hr. That cop alone--not including the helicopter or insurance--probably cost around more than 30$ for this photo-op.

The helicopter is around 4.5 million dollars and costs like 1.1 million dollars to operate per year that translates to about 3,700 dollars an hour. https://www.aircraftcostcalculator.com/AircraftOperatingCosts/396/Bell+429

So the helicopter and helicopter pilot used in this photo-op represents around 3,700 to 3,800 dollars worth of value for the hour that it probably took to fly people around.

I count like 13 or more people in uniforms in the other pictures. This perp walk--which is illegal in other more sensible countries especially the ones where they genuinely have some kind of respect for the principle of "innocent until proven guilty" --cost the public more than five thousand dollars easily.

Why do they keep accidentally making him look like the coolest person alive don’t they want us to hate him

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"We live in a country where people think vigilante justice is okay." No. We live in a country where vigilante justice is the only form of justice being served. We live in a country where vigilante justice is necessary. People's reactions aren't indicative of a moral decline amongst average citizens, they're indicative of a moral decline amongst the government.

Don't be surprised that the working class is taking things into their own hands until you understand how much they've suffered at the hands of those who are supposed to protect them.

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The problem with “senseless violence” narrative around the UnitedHealthcare CEO is that it ignores the inherent violence of the insurance industry. Denying someone lifesaving care is violence. Subjecting someone to drawn out periods of pain before treatment is violent. The industry is made up of millions of acts of violence everyday, with the CEO at the helm guiding it all. This is not unprovoked and it’s not an overreaction; it is just harder to ignore

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Referred to as “the Dusseldorf patient” to protect his privacy, researchers said he is the fifth confirmed case of an HIV cure. Although the details of his successful treatment were first announced at a conference in 2019, researchers could not confirm he had been officially cured at that time.

Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.

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mushroom chat just dropped

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We live under a dictatorship of billionaires with daddy issues and colonizer fever dreams x

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okay okay I know the point of this is “White people need to put as much effort into learning how to pronounce Black people’s names as they do foreign European names” and 100% I totally agree, absolutely good point

but this tweet becomes hilarious in the context of this clip:

anyways, absolutely put effort into learning how people pronounce their names. just don’t feel bad if it takes you some time to get it right 😅

(also in case you didn’t watch the video it’s “N-SHOO-tee” not “SHOO-tee”)

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Don Vito Trump

LET'S CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE: BRIBES.