Matthew Graybosch @starbreaker@octodon.social

Why am I not surprised that that AT&T is in bed with the NSA? What tech/telecom corporation isn't nowadays?

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/

Nice to see that even though the USA isn't in the World Cup, the Russians still got their asses kicked by Americans.

Uruguay 3 - Russia 0

Conservatives are fine with bakers refusing to cater to queer couples getting married, but $DEITY forbid a restaurant owner refuse to serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders because she works for 45.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/06/23/why-a-small-town-restaurant-owner-asked-sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-leave-and-would-do-it-again/?utm_term=.81652d1eccb9

Bunch of hypocritical Pharisees...

I wouldn't be surprised if a significant percentage of fat men in the US are eating their emotions and don't even realize it because of toxic masculinity.

That's not to say that women aren't eating their emotions, too, but I suspect more female emotional eaters at least get to experience their emotions before trying to eat them.

You'd think getting paid mostly in tips would be bad enough.

It's time to burn it all down.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/ziosk-presto-tabletop-tablet-restaurant-rating-servers

This is the Southern Strategy, in Republican strategist Lee Atwater:

By 1968 you can’t say “n----r”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.…

https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

By Terence Eden...

They are hijacking your emotions. Nothing new here - the half-naked woman on a billboard trying to get you to buy car insurance, the catchy pop-song designed to make you pick one brand of cola over another, the ruggedly handsome man telling you how white your shirts can be...

But in the airline example, there is a sinister asymmetry. They know everything about you - and you know nothing about them.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/personalisation-is-asymmetric-psychological-warfare/

Most of the real Americans live on reservations.