• pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yep. Instead of a conservative approach to new technology the US uses a Conservative approach to new technology which means no regulation and costs born by the populace. No privacy, health outcomes, safety recalls…all to foster “innovation”. We’re basically just lab rats without rights and the now-being-actively-dismantled veneer of protections.

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      2 days ago

      Pretty much this. Ever wonder how so many people got killed and mangled during the Industrial Revolution? You’re about to find out.

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        1 day ago

        The triangle shirtwaist apparel by Gap. Travel the high seas on the Carnival Cruise Line Titanic. Discover employment opportunities and exciting diseases like pneumoniultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in resurgent US coal industry. Enjoy being fired for not showing up for work because you got food poisoning since companies don’t have FDA oversight anymore–and sick time was nationally forbidden. The future is bright, join now!