[-] Catoblepas 2 points 3 days ago

You’re asking me if it’s better that there are ~14 million less Nazis in the US than you thought?

[-] Catoblepas 3 points 3 days ago

That is also an oversimplification, because you’re assuming that all 36% of the people who didn’t vote had the option to vote. We are the most imprisoned population on earth, with some states (including one of the 2024 swing states) removing voting rights from people convicted of felonies.

That’s not even going into things like people working in jobs that have no problem violating the law and refusing to let them take time off to vote, people being illegitimately denied the vote at the polls over ID issues, long poll lines that mean some people wind up unable to vote for unavoidable reasons (childcare, disability, etc), 14 states don’t allow no-excuse voting by mail, I can keep going on with all the problems people run into while voting in the US if you want.

Obviously that’s not all of that 36%, but you are living in a dream world if you think every American citizen that wanted to vote got to.

[-] Catoblepas 3 points 4 days ago

Social Security is a federal program. It going under will not only affect boomers in Oklahoma, and the 65+ demographic voted for Trump at the same rate as 18-29s (51%).

Age is not a determiner of morality, and gathering to point and laugh while the elderly and disabled die due to eliminating government safety nets sure fits in with the Nazi zeitgeist, but probably not the way y’all want it to.

[-] Catoblepas 8 points 5 days ago

This isn’t feminism, this is an attempt at making gender roles cute and palatable. A feminist would likely tell any woman who feels she’s responsible for her husband like she is for a child to get a divorce, because that’s not an equal partnership.

[-] Catoblepas 22 points 5 days ago

Wait, the hats say 45-47? That would mean 45 through 47, inclusive of 46. Did they think an ampersand looked too feminine or something?

[-] Catoblepas 10 points 5 days ago

My knowledge is more related to the meat side of things than the egg side honestly, but here’s a citation: 70 percent of chicken farmers with no other job live below the poverty line. That’s not people who work on a chicken farm (although they’re certainly not paid well either), that’s the people who own it.

These farms may technically be ‘small scale’ in that they aren’t owned by a giant corporation, but they often contain multiple times as many chickens as their European counterparts, in more crowded conditions, which is part of why disease spreads so fast.

For meat, the reason the farmers are in this mess is because separate companies buy and process the chicken, and they won’t buy from you if you don’t follow their arbitrary and frequently changing guidelines. They also don’t pay a given amount per pound, they pay you depending on the yields other chicken farmers got on their farms. And the farmers don’t have another place to sell their chickens, it’s these companies or nothing, as 20 companies control basically the entire US market.

[-] Catoblepas 4 points 5 days ago

They sell bags of TVP here in the US for not that much if you buy it in the Hispanic section of the grocery store. I’m a little surprised to hear that’s not available in (assuming based on your instance) Germany.

[-] Catoblepas 6 points 5 days ago

Except for the crab, I don’t think any of those are capable of even hurting a person. If a mantis pinches you it’s not that bad, I’d definitely rather have that than a bee sting.

[-] Catoblepas 38 points 5 days ago

For such a long article it’s really disappointing they didn’t at all go into how chicken farmers themselves are ratfucked by contracts with processing plants and live below the poverty line if they don’t have a second job.

[-] Catoblepas 22 points 6 days ago

FCC investigating Disney, ABC

:D

for DEI initiatives

D:

[-] Catoblepas 23 points 6 days ago

The tires are the one thing I’d expect to not become ruined from getting wet, but I previously thought that about vehicles in general.

[-] Catoblepas 18 points 6 days ago

Really burying the lede with that headline, Jesus Christ.

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Trans Rights are under assault all across the United States as the new administration continues a brutal project of oppression, exclusion, and denial of care to people everywhere.

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The checklist with all time high counts for six species is absolutely nuts!

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Link has resources for both online and in person tax prep, depending on your preference.

This was the first year I’d heard of being able to get this done for free at the library! I plan on getting mine done through them this year.

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Credit: @bombsfall.bsky.social

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The whole article is worth reading, but to report rent gouging to the CA attorney general:

Fill out this form at the state attorney general’s website. The form isn’t anonymous; it asks for the information of the person reporting. There’s also a hotline you can call: 1 (800) 952-5225.

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