#profit — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Maria Popova

Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

A quotation from Maria Popova

Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

A quotation from Maria Popova

Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

A quotation from Maria Popova

Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

A quotation from Maria Popova

Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@lexfri/117242969978016296

As a reminder, Apple has made $110 Billion in profit so far this year. #money #profit #iphone #apple

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@lexfri/117242969978016296

As a reminder, Apple has made $110 Billion in profit so far this year. #money #profit #iphone #apple

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@lexfri/117242969978016296

As a reminder, Apple has made $110 Billion in profit so far this year. #money #profit #iphone #apple

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@lexfri/117242969978016296

As a reminder, Apple has made $110 Billion in profit so far this year. #money #profit #iphone #apple

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@lexfri/117242969978016296

As a reminder, Apple has made $110 Billion in profit so far this year. #money #profit #iphone #apple

@IndyMediaAus
Private Healthcare Providers are simply #Leeches and #Unethical ones at that.

That is not to say that the health workers they employ share the same social guilt. I’d wager most workers do in fact care for patients unlike their #Grifting corporate employers and the #Usurious #Insurance companies.

Making a #Living from providing healthcare services is socially responsible.

Making a #Profit from healthcare is #Inhuman.

#StateTheft #StateCapture #AusPol

Ban #ForProfit Health Insurance
Beef up #NotForProfit Health Insurance regulations
Boost #Medicare (also include #Dental cover) for a comprehensive public healthcare system.

/end-of-rant/
#AusPol

It's well known by both sides of the spectrum in #politics, that the #US has a de-facto ruling #oligarchy in its tech and financial sectors despite all the democratic claims. An oligarchy able to control the political system, its legislation and the application of justice through their sheer possession of #money. It's control over public #institutions is undisputed... to the extent that, in daily practice, it is bound by no legislation, no intellectual #property. It embodies the very definition and practice of #anarchocapitalism, just not so formally stated as to explicitly reject the rule of #law. Appearances must be kept, but only to a certain extent.

#LatinAmerica has its own, endemic, oligarchy problem too; not coming out of its local tech sector, but from the #drugs dealing, human #trafficking, #smuggling, #prostitution, and murder-by-contract businesses instead. Because that is what they truly are: #businesses... organizations conducting particular forms of #trade, for the sake of personal #profit. Those oligarchs, just like its american counterparts, share the exact same anarchocapitalist view that the law shouldn't restrict the freedom to do business of any sort. Even if that business ends up with a couple of bullets inside the cranium of some 18 year old kid. Accidents can always happen at the job.

The enterprise in itself always had a direct link to organized #crime, not the least because of the identical nature of their entrepreneurial activity. And that, by necessity, means that very similar practices must take place in each. It's truly not surprising that every "fully legally compliant" #enterprise is, behind closed doors, hiding plenty of illegal practices within... from #taxevasion thanks to carefully selected international banks and falsified accounting records, to financial #fraud designed to deceive investors and shareholders.

In certain moments, when this symmetry becomes specially obvious, one side and the other can truly and visibly overlap. This is how a sizable group of american business men made their initial fortunes trafficking alcohol during times of #prohibition, in the 20s and 30s, only to become the established entrepreneurial class of later years. Now, the direct successors of that group of oligarchs are in Silicon Valley at the moment, busy at the task of physically destroying the local and global environment, along with millions of old and out of print books for AI training purposes. The law, as we can imagine, has nothing to say about that.

#ClimateGenn #NickBreeze #government #industry #lobby #insurance #realestate #economy #business #profit #politics #science #climaterisk #infrastructure
#SSP5

MANDATORY VIEWING! 👇👇👇

#GenevieveWalker on why the governments do not take #climateaction

https://youtu.be/Fb2ZT1h2CBo

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

Rheinmetall im Roten Wedding – Nachbarn wehren sich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HzD1LMdVE8

#GabyWeber, #video, #dokumentation, #blackrock, #rheinmetall, #berlin, #wedding, #fabrik, #waffen, #zeitenwende, #militarisierung, #aufrüstung, #kriegswirtschaft, #kriegsgewinner, #kriegsverbrechen, #profit, #bundeswehr, #jugend, #perspektivlosigkeit, #kritiklos, #medien, #protest, #repressionen, #haftbefehl, #kooperationspflicht, #schulen, #offiziere, #uniformen, #propaganda, #bedrohungslage, #israel, #russland, usw.

We need powerful social systems as alternative to those non-supportive to #humanity and #asocial..

Without #caring / looking after us (even some #love?) they are just sucking our #blood and #sweat for #profit.

Are you ready for #change?
(without sounding like changing your religion - do you believe in investing in banks and not people?).

Asocial = avoiding association with others

Asocial #system = Hostile to social behaviour or trying to standardise just 1 way for different types of people.

Paix intérieure et paix sociale

Pour illustrer notre possible résistance commune au culte de l’argent, je voudrais citer un célèbre dominicain, Bartholomé de Las Casas, auteur de la Controverse de Valladolid. Quand il défend le point de vue que les Indiens ont une âme et qu’il faut cesser de les tenir en esclavage, il écrit: « Depuis les tout premiers contacts, les Espagnols n’ont paru animés et poussés que par la soif de l’or. C’est tout ce qu’ils réclament: « De l’or, de l’or, de l’or. Au point qu’en certains endroits, les habitants des terres nouvelles disaient : « Mais qu’est-ce qu’ils en font de tout cet or? Ils doivent le manger. » Tout est soumis à l’or, tout. » Je crains que l’on vive dans un monde où, de plus en plus, tout soit soumis au profit.

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Je ne pense pas être un homme de paix, mais un homme de combat. Mon discours est relativement belliciste. Quand on parle de paix, j’ai souvent l’impression que c’est d’une fausse paix qu’il s’agit : belliciste le silence qu’on voudrait nous imposer.

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Le choix d’Arnaud Beltrame, dont on sait par ailleurs qu’il avait la foi, de se substituer à un otage dans le supermarché de Trèbes, ne relève pas non plus de motivations personnelles mais de quelque chose d’autre qui le dépassait : est-ce le devoir ? La patrie ? L’honneur ? Je ne sais pas. Mais il nous a démontré qu’il existe des valeurs qui dépassent le cadre personnel. Je pense que l’on a tous en nous quelque chose de cet ordre-là, même si ce n’est peut-être pas poussé à ce point d’héroïsme. Or la société nous invite en permanence non pas à stimuler cette part de nous-même, mais à l’éteindre. Comme si c’était quelque chose de honteux.

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Je n’ai jamais eu de fonction séparée de mes désirs, de mes convictions. Quand je croise les autres élus à la buvette de l’Assemblée nationale, on discute les uns avec les autres, malgré nos désaccords, nos différentes appartenances, et dès que l’on rentre dans l’hémicycle, je les vois tous changer de discours, revêtir la rigidité de la fonction. Ça me déprime, cette idée de fonction qui peut vous déshumaniser.

François Ruffin et Monseigneur Olivier Leborgne dans Paix intérieure et paix sociale

Une pièce musicale de  Ennio Morricone & André Rieu – Gabriel’s oboe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy-zRZQo79Q

https://www.europesays.com/ch/99878/ Alibaba shares spike 12% in Hong Kong as T-Head chips, AI revenue fuel earnings optimism #AI #Alibaba #AliCloud #Aliyun #china #Earnings #FoodDelivery #HEEX #HongKong #InstantCommerce #JDCom #Jefferies #JuneQuarter #Meituan #Morningstar #profit #revenue #SouthChinaMorningPost #StockMarket #THead #Taobao #TaobaoShangou #Tencent #TencentHoldings #Tmall #UBS #US #Wednesday #yuan

Dit maakt me blij 😀
Rechtvaardigheid ⚖️
Niet voor niks afscheid van G. genomen [bijna klaar] ✅

#machtsmisbruik #google #EU #nieuws #boete #privacy #kapitalisme #winstbejag #service
#usa #news #fine #justice #profit #dominance #agressive #bigtech

Ganz genau so, @ElisabethK 🙏👍🇩🇪🇪🇺

Es dürfte doch inzwischen Konsens sein, dass es ein Fehler war, erst die Sowjetunion und dann das Putin-Regime über Jahrzehnte hinweg fossil zu finanzieren.

Und jetzt verscherbeln „wir“ nach der Solar- und Auto- auch noch die Chemieindustrie für kurzfristige Profite nach China? Was soll das, BASF?

#Fossilismus #Tyrannophilie #Sowjetunion #Putin #China #Solarindustrie #Autoindustrie #Chemieindustrie #BASF #Profit #Deutschland #EU https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/erklaert-die-rentierstaatstheorie-nicht-nur-die-krise-des-islams-sondern-auch-den-langen-bestand-der-sowjetunion/

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📢 Costco Quarterly Profit Beats Expectations as Membership Grows and E-Commerce Gains Momentum - TMGM

🔗 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilAFBVV95cUxOMlJGZDdpN1l0NTVoYnhzd2FNbENDOEZGUV9nQW4xdkxhVmljTTJqS3E0Q1pqeXVheGRhSmpyTGdrbHdlUEhKRXBGX0FHckRmcHZKd19fMDU5T3BqdjlpY0hoVHRwRjMwbzI2eTZwLURvanZ6Qnh2WnV3cklZSHFCNXVBRGZaX1BxUmdaRmdzU0Y1anNB?oc=5

#Ai #Costco #Quarterly #Profit #GlobalFeed #News #ARABIC

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The [1940] World [Map] According To Standard [Oil]
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https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:q524n1565 <-- shared technical article
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https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/mr-five-percent-the-complex-story-of-oil-in-middle-east/news <-- shared history/technical/article, “The complex story of oil in Middle East”
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[with the current ‘reworking’ of conflicts related to fossil fuel extraction and supplies, I thought this historic map was somewhat topical, and indicates the ongoing/continued huge reach of the massive oil companies/corporations]
#spatial #mapping #cartography #geopolitics #RichardHarrison #StandardOil #oil #fuel #fossilfuel #naturalresources #global #oilcompanies #supplychain #logistics #conflict #war #mapdesign #distortion #mapprojection #custom #projection #oildropprojection #symbology #perspective #propaganda #international #industry #corporate #influence #tankers #risk #hazard #crudeoil #profit #money
#LeventhalMaps | @Fortune

#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #energy / #fuel / #price / #oilcompanies / #profit

„The U.S. produces more oil than it needs; it is a net exporter of oil and petroleum products. Problems in the Strait need not change the amount of oil produced in the U.S., nor the cost of pumping oil in the U.S., nor the amount of gasoline produced and used in the U.S.

But when prices recently increased for oil internationally, U.S. oil companies also raised prices stateside.“

https://www.newsweek.com/why-the-iran-war-should-not-cause-higher-gas-prices-in-the-us-opinion-11712954

Dr. #MuhammadIttefaq #short with #NickBreeze on #fossil zombie industries

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r7QgWl4lilM

#climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #fossilfuels #BigOil #profit

Uber quitte la Tanzanie
▶️ "Ce retrait illustre les limites du modèle mondial du VTC dans un marché où l’État privilégie la régulation des prix et la protection des chauffeurs."
https://www.agenceecofin.com/actualites-finance/0302-135435-tanzanie-uber-se-retire-apres-des-differends-avec-l-etat-sur-les-regles-de-tarification
#Afrique #Tanzanie #Uber #chauffeurs #État #USA #Québec #politique #société #multinationale #affaires #profit #travailleurs #solidarité

“ICE: The Filthy Racket of Kidnapping For Corporate Slavery”

by KairosTimeNow, Kathy and Nouri in Manufacturing Dissent on Substack

“Washington’s Blood-Soaked Pipeline of Profit end Cruelty – Follow the Money and Prepare to Explode with Rage”

https://open.substack.com/pub/mandissent/p/ice-the-filthy-racket-of-kidnapping

#Press #US #ICE #Deportation #Slavery #Profit #CorporateGreed #CorporateSlavery #Racketeering #Trump #FakePatriotism #Theft #Quotas #Bribes #Kidnapping #EVerifyScam #Obama #Biden #GEO #CoreCivic

A quotation from John Adams

The Spirit of Commerce, Madam, which even insinuates itself into Families, and influences holy Matrimony, and thereby corrupts the Morals of Families as well as destroys their Happiness, it is much to be feared is incompatible with that purity of Heart, and Greatness of soul which is necessary for an happy Republic.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-04-16) to Mercy Otis Warren

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/81328/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #business #civicvirtue #commerce #democracy #gain #interest #profit #transaction #commongood #publicgood #republic #corruption

Der Verband reicher #Erben - die sich gerne #Familienunternehmer nennen & deren Familien nicht selten vom #Nationalsozialismus profitierten - rudert nun nach scharfer #Kritik von geplanten Einladungen der #AfD zurück.

Da ich bis 2015 Rechtslibertäre in der #Hayek - Gesellschaft erlebte & wegen deren Verrat am #Liberalismus austrat, habe ich einen Rat: Traut solchen nicht. Für ihren #Profit würden sie #Demokratie & #Menschenwürde dem fossilen #Faschismus opfern. Erneut. https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_101024206/nach-kritik-familienunternehmer-stoppen-oeffnungskurs-zur-afd.html

@dirk_wagner_

🎩 #Konzerne, die großen, verdienen bei #Olympia eben besser, oder nicht?

#Profit #Profitmaximierung #Kapitalismus #Lobbyismus #Korruption #oligarch​ien #meudalismus
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Hype for the Future 25I: Request for Comments from “Against Capitalism”

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/hype-for-the-future-25i-request-for-comments-from-against-capitalism/

#EndeGelende #ExtinctionRebellion #widerstand #neuewelt #umwelt #klimakatastrophe #FossileLobby #profit #DakotaPipeline #RWE #Garzweiler #HambacherForst #SeaShepherd #Amazonas #muvuka #DrawDown

Aufgeben ist keine Option!

#Arte #Doku "Widerstand - Eine neue Welt" (1/3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_e7MG7GcA

#klima #klimawandel #klimakollaps #klimaumbruch #wetter #extremwetter #unwetter #Extremniederschlag #hochwasser #hitze #dürre #überschwemmung #klimaschutz #umweltschutz #umwelt #artensterben

The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit

https://unherd.com/2025/09/the-sordid-truth-about-retriement-villages/

#HackerNews #retirementvillages #profit #exploitation #elderlycare #housingissues #socialjustice

#internet #hatespeech #hassrede #hetze #kommentare #shitstorm #drohungen #socialmedia #twitter #x #instagram #tiktok #youtube #facebook #plattformen #geschäftsmodell #reichtum #profit #gewinn #umsatz #emotionen #algorithmen #algorithmus #feed #wut #empörung #meinungsfreiheit #spaltung #einschüchterung #posts #aggressionen #impulskontrolle #kommunikation #user #werbeeinnahmen #follower #klicks #sprechblasen #cartoon #karikatur
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Prosecutors detailed how Luigi Mangione saved many lives from corporate death policy terrorism.

#LuigiMangione #SavingLives #CorporateMassMurders #CorporateTerrorism #StateTerrorism #GovernmentComplicity #Profit #DeathPanels

Warum so halbherzig, Herr #Merz?!
So wird das nix mit Billionär|en aus armen Milliardär|en!

● ALLE #Feiertag|e streichen!
● 72h-Woche, 6x12h schaffen andere Länder auch
● #Ferien? Na gut, werden aber nicht genommen, so wie in #Japan
● #VOLKSLOHN - gleicher #Mindestlohn für ALLE Arbeitnehmenden! Tschüss #Neiddebatte, #Lohnunterschiede, #Anreize. Wir arbeiten doch gerne!
● #Gewerkschaft/en verbieten!
● #Rente ganz abschaffen! Keine Arbeit, kein Erspartes, kein Leben, fertig!
● #Sozialhilfe, #Bürgergeld, #Kindergeld, gesetzliche #Krankenversicherung? weg! #Eigenverantwortung!
● Gewürzt mit noch mehr #Rassismus, #Hass und #Abschottung... voilà!

● Beamt*innen bleiben außen vor, weil die würden auf die #Barrikaden gehen...

... was da an #Profit für #Wirtschaft und #Börse drin wäre, ohne so nervige soziale #Verantwortung, die offene #Sklaverei und #Leibeigenschaft mit sich brächten ;)

Vielleicht springt die rückratlose #SPD noch ein und hilft wieder?

Bild von r/LateStageCapitalism

#cdU #csU #afd #capitalism

Blog: Voices of #Decolonization

#FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘#nuclear-is-green' deception

by William Eric Altvater, February 6, 2025

"Some First Nation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #Indigenous peoples to expand nuclear power generation capacity in #Canada.

"For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.

"Newcomers, armed with the #Colonizing tool, 'The #DoctrineOfDiscovery' and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called 'Savages,' almost totally exterminating #Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.

"Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for #capitalism, a system to make a #profit, that morphed into #greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.

"Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, #deforestation is rampant, #biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.

"As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the 'bigger, better, faster, more is never enough' mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that #FossilFuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.

"So-called '#GreenEnergy' is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.

"#NuclearPower is now being touted as being 'Green.' It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as #uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.

"When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.

"After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous #Grandmothers have labelled it 'Forever Dangerous.'

"The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the #RadioactiveWaste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.

"What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.

"Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.

"Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the 'Nuclear is Green' mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."

Eric lives in #PeskotomuhkatiNation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.

https://www.wabanakireach.org/first_nations_chiefs_shouldn_t_be_duped_by_the_nuclear_is_green_deception_by_william_altvater
#NoNukes #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #UraniumMining #UraniumMilling #LeaveItInTheGround #Greenwashing #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #NuclearIsNotGreen #CanadaPol #NuclearWaste #NuclearIndustry #TEPCOLies #HoltecLies #NuclearColonialism

I'm not an "organizer" and I have spent 50 years avoiding "leadership," but I do think about it sometimes. I often think about the pitfalls and hurdles of #organizing for any positive social change. On my mind lately is how personal motivations and incentives can interact with systemic/structural things to make change difficult.

Because I'm in #higherEd, I'm thinking about two things rn:

1. #University administrators (deans, provosts, presidents, directors, etc.) consistently act like Republican Senators or corporate CEOs when they make policy decisions and interact with "underlings". They can be seen as filling spots that might otherwise have been filled by people who would act in the public interest; they frequently prevent public-interest actions. The #profit-driven US system has installed them there, blocking change from the #faculty and #students from going "higher," and blocking information, resources and also possibly change from coming "down" to the students and faculty. Administrators, I think, have crippling career expectations, often unwritten, that lead them to act almost according to a script, while also clinging to their positions with a deathgrip and often developing a bad case of chip-on-the-shoulder #authoritarianism while doing it.

2. The #facebook group "the professor is out" (TPIO) is for faculty in toxic situations wanting advice and support in #leavingAcademia. Great. However, within a year or two of the group's formation, it was very popular so the creators (apparently) quit or lost their day jobs and seem to have made TPIO their entire income stream. They started selling #merch, coaching, workshops, etc. And they started blocking messages threatening their income, like offers of help from "competing" entities and posts questioning the wisdom of guiding all fleeing academics into doing #dataScience or #UX for the companies that fund the politicians defunding higher ed. The mods gotta pay rent, and now the only way they do this (not to mention staying alive if they get sick) is to generate income from this group.

That's all. It's just a tangled, not always helpful #system. It has evolved to protect itself, in interesting (and frustrating) ways.

#perverseincentives #thoughts

#Imbalance only leads to more and more imbalance. It is a self-perpetuating and reinforcing spiral. Man has all the qualities to put a stop to evil. But because it is his creation, he refuses to make the necessary correction.

#Neocapitalism #Profit #Greed #Exploitation #Asocial

Filing: #Kroger paid #CEO $19M in 2022, typical worker almost $29K

by Alexander Coolidge Cincinnati Enquirer
May 12, 2023

"Kroger CEO #RodneyMcMullen got a 5.7% pay raise in 2022 as his compensation package climbed $1 million to $19 million, according to a corporate filing Friday morning with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

"The head of the nation's largest supermarket retailer was paid $18 million in the previous year, according to the Associated Press' methodology for executive compensation that excludes pension value changes.

"The typical worker got an $1,800 pay raise, climbing 7% in 2022 to $28,644. The ratio of McMullen's pay to the median Kroger worker – as required to be reported by the government – was 671 to 1, a decline from the ratio of 679 to 1 in the previous year.

"Kroger earned a $2.2 billion #profit on sales of $148 billion last year. In 2022, Kroger contended with higher costs as inflation soared. Overall inflation eased in 2022, climbing 6.4% - slower than 7.2% a year earlier. But the cost of food purchased at #supermarkets and #supercenters rose at a faster rate: 11.8% - the worst calendar year increase since 1978, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"Also last year, the grocer proposed acquiring rival #Albertsons in a $25 billion takeover bid that regulators at the Federal Trade Commission are mulling whether to approve or fight.

"In addition to Kroger stores, the Cincinnati-based grocer operates several regional supermarket chains in 35 states, including #FredMeyer, #HarrisTeeter, #Ralphs, #Marianos, #Frys, Smith's, #KingSoopers, #QFC and others. The company has nearly 2,800 stores and employs 430,000 workers."

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2023/05/12/kroger-ceo-paid-19m-in-2022-while-median-worker-earned-28-6k/70211231007/

#CorporatePriceGouging #Inflation #CEOPay #ObsceneProfits #FoodInsecurity #PeopleAndPlanetOverProfits #PriceGouging

So kam ich unter die #Deutschen. Ich #foderte nicht viel und war #gefasst noch #weniger zu #finden #demutig kam ich, wie der #heimatlose blinde #Oedipus zum #Tore von #athen wo ihn der #Götterhain empfing; und schöne #Seelen ihm begegneten –

further reading

https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/hoelderl/hyperion/hyper411.html

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#profit

imagine that… obesity tracked to processed food, specifically chemicals added to increase appetite and therefore increase sales and profit.

Scientists find two big contributors to obesity

https://knowridge.com/2023/08/scientists-find-two-big-contributors-to-obesity/

Since 1975, the number of obese individuals worldwide has almost tripled. This alarming statistic from the World Health Organization (WHO) raises questions about the causes. Over the years, people have pointed fingers at different culprits: our love for fatty foods, our increasing carb consumption, over-processed foods, and even our sedentary lifestyles. The answer is far more sinister.
#capitalism #healthcrisis #chemicals #added #food #healthrisk #earlydeath #profit

#Politik #Politiker #Union #CDUCSU #CDU #CSU #Maskenaffäre #Maske #Korruption #Bestechung #Rücktritt #Partei #Parteien #Abgeordnete #Parlamentarier #Demokratie #Lobby #Lobbyismus #Nebenverdienst #provision #Nüsslein #Löbel #Corona #Pandemie #Coronakrise #Gier #Profit

#Karikatur #cartoon

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