lmao get back to me when the mods on lemmy.world stop deleting every comment that is critical of Biden. STFU. There is no recourse for mods on Lemmy and they can use their powers to delete any comments they want. The only recourse you have is to find a fediverse that caters to your weakass centrist views.

Most of my jobs have been 9-5. I work as an ecologist. I’ve also always been hourly, so that’s why my hours are not so broad.

Your ideas are overly aggressive, even just leaving. Just change the topic or say “I’d rather not discuss this at work.”

lmao I thought for a second this was just your comment about the situation, not your advice on what to say

No … I was also around that age and remember all the monkey jokes about Obama. This guy just isn’t paying attention idk lol

An alternative would be pop culture recaps on YouTube lol, I’ve done that during busy months sometimes. I’ve never heard of kick so maybe I’m not as caught up as I thought

Honestly just keeping up with whatever social media is popular with young people is the best way to stay in touch with new music and pop culture.

there are definitely cringey liberal boomer memes, they’re all on Facebook.

So you feel alone because you want to make cringey boomer memes and send threatening emails to Churches? I’m confused.

There are militant left movements, but there are just fewer people who align themselves with those movements because Communism and Socialism were basically illegal to talk about for decades, and the conservative fascism is basically just our mainstream government ideology (D or R).

I have read that this is largely a myth based on a book from the 70s, and that while there are varying proportions of amino acids in different vegan protein sources, there is still enough of each so that you could easily get everything you need.

I read this in a book years ago that I don’t remember the name of, but found a source instantly

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6893534/

i absolutely hate chatgpt’s writing style

There may not be stupid questions but there are stupid comments.

This thread is about rich people using philanthropy to seem more palatable.

Your question doesn’t even make sense because it’s not at all true that Bill Gates gets extra hate, I think people rightly hate on all the Billionaires. I very rarely even hear about Bill Gates, more often it’s Elon Musk or Bezos … or Taylor Swift lately.

My point is that we can and should criticize any billionaire no matter their philanthropy, noone becomes a billionaire by accident and it is shameful to be one.

I don’t want to help spread pro-billionaire sentiment by just being “oh yay Bill Gates” for donating the money he got from intellectual thievery and violating anti-trust laws.

🤷🏻‍♂️ Pay attention, look for it and you will see this argument come up a lot. Trickle-down economics is a similar idea, and that was a national talking point for years.

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People absolutely say that, “philanthrocapitalism” is a nerdy word for it it, but that basic argument comes up in a lot of contexts … pay attention.

So you just want to turn your brain off and ignore valid criticisms to avoid “negativity”, got it.

Edit: all your examples are about Biden 💀😂 newsflash, criticizing politicians is how we keep them accountable

It’s not pessimism, it’s criticism. The fact that you think hope/pessimism has anything to do with these issues would be extremely telling if you hadn’t already described yourself as a liberal.

Because we shouldn’t be, and don’t need to be, relying on the goodwill of Billionaires to solve social problems. Instead of giving tax breaks for billionaires to pick and choose which issues to fund, we should tax the billionaires out of existence and democratically decide what to do with our money.

Philanthropy rhetoric is used to justify the existence of billionaires. We don’t need them.

I think the point is that it’s just a guess, not an educated guess.