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  • She’s even sighted in the wikipedia article “In 2023, Linda Yaccarino was appointed as the CEO of Twitter while the company was facing an uncertain future and a number of challenges, including outages, user discontent and advertiser skepticism. The company lost more than half of its value since its acquisition by Elon Musk six months prior.”


  • Great article, what a historic time for SF. I used to love The Dead Kennedys. They were such a great band and I used to love visiting SF in the 90s but I doubt it’s anything like what it was back then. I had a good friend who’s parents were part of the Jim Jones Church that decided to not go to Guyana. It’s interesting how much what Jim Jones would say sounds just like Trump. I don’t know much about Feinstein but it almost seems like she ran as a Dem purely to get elected, maybe? Jello has always been pretty hilarious watching him run for mayor is almost as funny as his Nardware interviews.





  • a_seattle_iantoMemesjesse we need to cook
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    I have a friend with cancer that just lost his insurance since he’s not old enough for Medicare and makes too much money from his retirement benefits (it’s barely enough to pays his mortgage and eat here in Seattle). He’s going try to wait 6 months until he can get Medicare but I don’t think he will make it and he’s only worried about losing his house. I think it will cost around 60K to get back on his meds and keep going to his weekly medical appointment (probably way more) for the next 6 months. He was so sick before he started going to the doctor and seemed to be responding really well to treatment. Was going to try do a Gofundme.com me page for him. It’s so derepressing. damn just thought about if he’s going to even afford his pain meds…I think he has that covered but yeah it really sucks. Medicare will even take your home if you spend past a certain life time maximum while your dying. Most people don’t really know just how bad it is until you have to deal with it and it’s purposely super confusing and the the Insurance company’s make insane amounts of money and so they spend a lot of money to keep it this way. Personally, I’m looking at trying to move to an other country that has even a basic medical system that is affordable just so I’m not so discouraged from even going to the doctor because it’s so expense even with insurance.






  • a_seattle_iantoWholeSomeMemesJapan, just Japan
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    Unfortunately, the past war crimes, were horrific and the lack of accountability for them remains an issue. I can not speak for the average Japanese citizen but I have a feeling most of the Japanese people are ashamed of the cult of personality of their past leaders and wish the current government would handle things like the controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine differently. Much like most American’s don’t support Trumpism.


  • a_seattle_iantoWholeSomeMemesJapan, just Japan
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    Who knows about the source but I was looking to see any indication of where this was. I actually got a chance to see a baseball game at the Tokyo Dome or maybe it was a sumo event - it was so long ago. From my own experience and shallow understanding of the culture it’s probably true. One of the huge motivations is the fear of bringing shame to your family which can be good and bad…it’s just such a different culture and an outsider like me really can’t fully appreciate or really understand because even if you spend your life there you will probably always be considered a bit of an outsider. And the Tom Selleck movie Mr. Baseball is actually pretty good.




  • A lot of the pay and benefit increases come with an expectation that the worker will increase their productivity. US workers have been conditioned to blame themselves if they don’t meet these expectations and it has become baked into the work culture. We can not maintain the current imbalance in pay disparity and 1% wealth without structural changes but it’s culturally forbidden to even talk about this without being accused of being a communist. This paradigm has been created after decades of messaging from the system that supports the existing oligarchy - IMO.


  • a_seattle_iantoAnnouncementsLemmy v0.18.4 Release
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    It’s not as refined as reddit but the content is better and the community can improve the UI/UX over time… At first it was a little awkward for me coming from reddit but it didn’t take long for me to adjust and the diversity of people and ideas I’ve found on here is well worth it.