Alto

Alto , 11 months ago to worldnews in 1 in 10 flights taking off from UK are private jets

I was being incredibly conservative and generous to the billionaires, considering [the carbon footprint of just 125 of them is bigger than the entire nation of France](urlhttps://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135446721/billionaires-carbon-dioxide-emissions

Alto , 11 months ago to news in Morgan Stanley Credits ‘Bidenomics’ for Economic Surge

<citation needed>

Alto , 11 months ago to worldnews in 1 in 10 flights taking off from UK are private jets

Perhaps the greatest scam the rich ever pulled off was convincing the common people that climate change is somehow our fault instead of theirs. A single billionaire harms the earth an order of magnitude more in a single year than most small towns will in a decade

Alto , 11 months ago to world in Unilever will let Russia employees be conscripted

What part of the last year and a half makes you think the Russian government is capable of taking over and smoothly running a business that pulls out.

Alto , 11 months ago to memes in Woodie Guthrie had an Anti-trump song in 1954 (Old Man Trump about Donald's Dad)

Got a friend that works at AmBev. Was telling me their profits went up because most the people outraged over the whole Bud Light thing just switched to other, more expensive AmBev brands. Yknow, because they're fucking idiots too angry to even check who owns the brand they drink.

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Alto , 11 months ago to RedditMigration in Still yet another article listing Reddit alternatives, but surprisingly this one mentions both Lemmy & Kbin

The Kbin API isn't public yet (though that's coming very soon), so as far as I'm aware there's no native Kbin apps as of yet. I know many Lemmy app developers have already said they're going to add Kbin compatibility once it's out, including the developer of Sync.

Alto , 11 months ago to showerthoughts in I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)

In the grand scheme of things, both major US partys still primary subscribe to some version of liberalism at their core, although that's changing on both fronts.

Alto , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in What's the proper way to get rid of books?

Yeah when I burned Ethan Frome it was specifically to be disrespectful

Alto , 11 months ago to fediverse in So why is .ml TLD going back to Mali taking everyone by surprise?

.ga earlier this year I believe

Alto , 11 months ago to world in Ecuador confirms oil spill of 1,200 barrels on northwest coast

I believe they were referring to the spills they had personally seen/heard about.

Alto , 11 months ago to world in Portuguese tourist assaulted by Turkish police, jailed for 20 days for "looking gay"

Considering all 3 are NATO members, that's not happening soon

Alto , 11 months ago to fediverse in The Fediverse is Not The Future of The Internet.

I'm about as far left as they come, but yeah it's definitely a fairly strong left wing echo chamber, and thay absolutely can very quickly become a problem.

I'm not even talking about "silencing the right" or whatever those chucklefucks want to complain about. We're not there yet (nor are we particularly close at the moment), but I've seen plenty of communities turn into a hivemind because they're not careful about that sort of stuff.

Alto , 11 months ago to world in Portuguese tourist assaulted by Turkish police, jailed for 20 days for "looking gay"

That's what happens when you control a very important location

Alto , 11 months ago to reddit in Reddit Tries to Get Users to Pay by Making App Icon Ugly

At least you can freely change the icon on android

Alto , 11 months ago to news in Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say

Men Against Fire. My favorite episode behind San Junipero