The middle class is like the personal carbon footprint - it’s a fabrication created by the ultra-wealthy to divert responsibility from themselves. There is only the owner class and the working class.
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cygnus@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.world•‘War leader’ Trump fixates on trivial matters as Iran death toll mountsEnglish
3·9 days agoThis sounds eerily familiar. I’m picturing him in a bunker, yelling at his generals.
cygnus@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US
112·11 days agoOnly if the ingredient is HFCS.
Yes, same energy.
Arch is pourover coffee; Gentoo is those ridiculous Rube Goldberg setups that take 45 minutes to make a single cup. Both are for hipsters.
I love PopOS ARCH Linux
Wow and the cartoon actually shows F-15s instead of Su-35 or some other random fighter - nice!
cygnus@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•China Mysteriously Cuts PLA Flights Into Sensitive Taiwan Areas
11·17 days agoYou may want to check that link.
cygnus@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•China Mysteriously Cuts PLA Flights Into Sensitive Taiwan Areas
2·17 days agoContaining China is the primary military objective of the US at the moment (other than defending domestic territory): https://www.csis.org/analysis/2026-national-defense-strategy-numbers-radical-changes-moderate-changes-and-some#h2-priorities-homeland-defense-then-deterring-china
Their forces currently deployed to the ME are nowhere near half of what they have in total.
cygnus@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•China Mysteriously Cuts PLA Flights Into Sensitive Taiwan Areas
3·18 days agoThanks. Would they take advantage of US distraction to move against TW? I doubt it - the US can easily fight another war on another front.
cygnus@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•China Mysteriously Cuts PLA Flights Into Sensitive Taiwan Areas
3·18 days agoPaywalled - I can only see the first sentence.
I would call a reduction of $191M in annual funding a cut.
It was a one-off bonus. If you win the lottery one year and not the next, it would be absurd to complain that you’ve lost income. https://www.thewirereport.ca/2026/03/02/liberals-discontinue-temporary-funding-supports-for-cbc/
I’m not sure it’s fair to call this a cut - they just didn’t repeat last year’s temporary funding boost, which was explicitly framed as being temporary. CBC’s funding is almost exactly what it was 2 years ago.
Edit to add numbers for the 90% of people who won’t read the article:
- 2026-27: $1,383,252,311
- 2025-26: $1,425,237,411 (later rose to $1,575,237,411)
- 2024-25: $1,383,237,411 (later rose to $1,425,237,411)
- 2023-24: $1,287,169,435 (no subsequent expenditures)
- 2022-23: $1,266,123,241 (later rose to $1,287,123,241)
- 2021-22: $1,229,423,241 (later rose to $1,250,423,241)
- 2020-21: $1,210,797,846 (later rose to $1,247,497,846)
cygnus@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now.English
35·18 days agoTBH Grok would probably tell them to avoid “femoids” and work on semen retention to activate their redpill powers.
cygnus@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•U.S. Automakers Risk Being Reduced to Niche Producers of Gas Vehicles
251·21 days agoThat’s fine, they can survive on the large domestic market thanks to protectionist tariffs, and Americans can enjoy their very own Trabant equivalents
cygnus@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada’s New Defence Strategy Is Bold and Unprecedented. Will It Work?
2·22 days agoAn industrial base generates a future yield too.
cygnus@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada’s New Defence Strategy Is Bold and Unprecedented. Will It Work?
11·22 days agoNeither does any other government subsidy. That’s an odd argument against.
cygnus@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada’s New Defence Strategy Is Bold and Unprecedented. Will It Work?
22·22 days agoBorrowing huge sums of money to fund military expenditures sure seems silly,
TBH it’s no worse than any other government jobs program, or the civil service in general. It’s all just a vehicle to redistribute government funds as salaries.
I use Arch BTW full-time for work and personal for about 3 years now and haven’t had any issues at all.



If anything, it’s a milquetoast and meaningless statement.