The Shrinking Middle Class: How Rising Costs Are Pushing Americans to the Brink
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ziq-jOZS-Ss
Nearly 1 out of 2 Americans now fall below the middle-class threshold, pushed there by rising costs and shrinking wages...
#Normalized #Collapse #USA #Homeless #Impoverishment #MiddleClass #OpulentClass #Risk #Profit #Humanism
File under "we can't have nice things."
CoCreateGuid(), aka UuidCreate(), creates a unique value "with a high degree of certainty." It never returns the NULL GUID, and returns an error if it cannot create a UUID. This is guaranteed.
But this was not always so. If your software needs to run on any older version of Windows, it can happily return S_OK and a NULL GUID.
Microsoft does shit like this, just changes contracts and doesn't tell you when it happened. Or that it happened. #normalized
@drakonic guess why I haven’t felt like being on the fandom since transitioning
turns out, the effect compounds once you’re somewhere where trans people aren’t #normalized :blobcatderpy:
The deployment of 2,200+ armed #NationalGuard troops patrolling #DC neighborhoods represents the most significant# militarization of the #American capital since the #CivilWar. Even #Russia doesn't deploy #military forces for daily civilian interaction - they reserve it for# protests. #Trump has #normalized permanent military occupation of civilian spaces, w #Chicago #NewYork reportedly next. This breaks the fundamental #democratic principle of separating #military from #domestic #lawenforcement.
#Israel's #Ominous Future
"Surveys indicate substantial worldwide deterioration of support for Israel. #Public #outrage is translating into diminished political support fr #governments. Votes against Israel in #UN r increasingly lopsided.. Annual interest on #USdebt now exceeds te size of #defense #budget.. Defense projects r often poorly conceived, exceed budgets, & miss schedules.. #normalized #corruption of #procurement officials is seriously weakening #USmilitary" 1/2
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/coffee-break-armed-madhouse-long-term-prospects-for-israel.html
@GottaLaff #hatespeech is not protected by our #constitution but ahjs been #normalized by #trump #maga #jan6 #gop #republicans
@matthewbischoff because they'd otherwise have to admit that they #platformed and #normalized said #lies!
America’s elites are running interference for Donald Trump
The collapse of #civilcourage in the Trump era is a historical parallel to #Nazi Germany
…the reactions of our own #elites to the behavior of the Republican Party in general, and the Trump phenomenon in particular, have increasingly given the lie to such complacency. We have seen over the last eight years how #journalists for prestige publications have assiduously #normalized Donald #trump.
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/01/americas-elites-are-running-interference-for-donald/
"The fish never discovers that it lives in the water. In fact, since he lives immersed in it, his life goes by without noticing its existence. Similarly, behavior that is normalized in a dominant cultural setting becomes invisible." — Michel Foucault — — — #MichelFoucault #quote #quotes #environment #culture #habit #normalized #invisible #mores #society #rules
#Homecoming #Cancelled After #White #Students At #Oklahoma #HighSchool #Spew #Racist #Vitriol.
According to #KarlosHill, a #professor of #African and #AfricanAmerican #Studies at the #UniversityofOklahoma, “#racism is #normalized by #political #leaders inside and outside #Oklahoma.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Oklahoma #Education #HigherEducation #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.blackenterprise.com/homecoming-cancelled-white-students-oklahoma-n-word/
#Trump’s #Army of #Online #Losers Keep Making Everything #Weird.
Trump has been #normalized for so long, many #Americans had #forgotten just how #weird this guy is.
https://gizmodo.com/trumps-army-of-online-losers-keep-making-everything-weird-2000481732
Most people don't know but that's rather an exception from the norm, abeit #Enshittification being #normalized...
The only winning move is to refuse to buy, because #WhatYouAllowIsWhatWillContinue!
#RepublicansAreTerrorists: #DeSantis’ #white #supremacist actions and #policies helped to create an #environment where #whitesupremacy is #normalized because it’s #sanctioned by the state’s highest office.
#DomesticTerroristMovement #RacistChurchIdentity #GQP #ToxicMasculinity #VietnamWarSyndrom #MassShootings #GunCulture #ItsTheGuns #StateSanctionedViolence #2ndAmendmentPatrols
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-desantis-helped-make-the-jacksonville-massacre-possible/
Input Normalized Stochastic Gradient Descent Training for Deep Neural Networks
13 #Cartoon #Characters Who #Defied #Gender #Stereotypes.
Here's a look at 13 characters who defied #normalized #gender #stereotypes, as well as where they came from.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Cartoons #Animation #Representation #Culture
https://www.pride.com/gay-tv/cartoon-character-broke-gender-stereotypes
Kernel Normalized Convolutional Networks
@jwildeboer EXACTLY!
Their #moneymaker is #screentime and thus they - like #CableTV #news - depend on #tragedy and #suffering as #clickbait.
You can see this with the way #violence is being #normalized and #rewarded in the #USA's #media landscape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VQULyT390
I hate, hate, HATE the #term “affordable #housing.” I hate that we’ve #normalized it. I hate that we just accept that the #majority of housing, a basic #human right, is #unaffordable to much of the #population. Housing should be affordable as a baseline. If rich people want to add arcades and gold-plated hot tubs on top so be it, but #everyone, everyone, regardless of income level, should have access to a clean, comfortable #home with enough light and space to make #life worth #living.
