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 Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80%461·24 days ago
Good for them if they want to be a couple. There’s no reason to criticize or make fun of that.
cygnus@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•‘War leader’ Trump fixates on trivial matters as Iran death toll mountsEnglish171·25 days agoThis sounds eerily familiar. I’m picturing him in a bunker, yelling at his generals.
cygnus@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Thousands of Chinese boats mass at sea, raising questionsEnglish21·27 days agoFishing boats? Are they going to pull a reverse Dunkirk on Taiwan?
cygnus@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US112·28 days agoOnly if the ingredient is HFCS.
Yes, same energy.
Same. I also find it faster to get set up and operational.
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!
Fun fact: Jesus is a prophet in Islam and appears many times in the Quran.
cygnus@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•China Mysteriously Cuts PLA Flights Into Sensitive Taiwan Areas11·1 month agoYou may want to check that link.
Phew, I’m glad at least one person got it.
Killing for religion is something I don’t understand.
cygnus@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•China Mysteriously Cuts PLA Flights Into Sensitive Taiwan Areas2·1 month 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 Areas3·1 month 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 Areas3·1 month 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)
If anything, it’s a milquetoast and meaningless statement.