Our system is not set up for anything other than to make the richest people richer, by exploiting the labour of the rest of the people.
Our real system, the closed system known as planet Earth is not set up for endless growth of a human economy. All populations go through growth and crash cycles. The longer we push off the decline, the harder the crash will be.
People need to give up on the idea that the replacement rate needs to be met all the time, everywhere.
It is ok, and natural for populations to decrease intermittently.
We have too many people. We can’t find affordable homes for the people we do have. We can’t meet the energy demands of the people today, without borrowing from the well-being of our planet’s future.
People are correctly looking around at the world and deciding they don’t need to be bringing more people into this world as it currently stands.
Time lost during goal celebrations, injuries or flopping, and VAR reviews. There was a fair amount of wasted time during the 10 minutes of original stoppage time, so not surprised it went longer, but this game seemed excessive. Im guessing a polymarket bet on the refs behalf.
Half kidding.
I think the education is a symptom of a deeper problem still, and that is corporate entities owning significant parts of the governing process, through lobbying, campaign financing and a rotating door of government positions and coproate advisers.
They want an uneducated population, because that is how they get a greater and greater share of the say in what the government does each election cycle. Getting Citizens United through was one of the worst they accomplished in recent years, but it won’t end there.
I don’t see how releasing frozen assets counts as any sort of reparations or rebuilding.
If those claims are true, that will 100% be tax payer money.
The administration and most of the media they have bought or bullied into submission will be doing everything in their power to keep the public confused about what money is is what, so they can keep saying ‘this is not your money’ and be misleading but technically correct about certain portions of it.
Was it capitulation? Seems like they intentionally bought out the organization, and replaced the leadership to align with MAGA interests. The bloodbath was the consequences of not capitulating to the changes coming from that new leadership.
Its just one more piece of the owner class buying up and snuffing out free press.
‘You know our Department of Defence? Yeah, its the Department of War now.’
‘What are we doing in Iran? We promise; It’s not a war, it’s self-defence.’
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How many times do I have to read ‘notnottheonion’ to see the double negative.
It’s more descriptive than “Woman died after living made her delusional”.
It’s less descriptive than “Woman died after a vitamin B12 deficiency made her delusional”
I’m pretty sure it’s intentionally vague and misleading to trigger engagement around a divisive topic.
I wonder if there is a term for that.
People were struggling while Biden was in office, sure. But Americans need to learn to wake up, examine the rest of the world, and realize that post COVID economies were struggling everywhere, and Biden had actually done a pretty good job mitigating the damage.
Just because it wasn't great, doesn't mean he didn't do a decent job at making it much less worse that it might have been under the policies, and damage set up by Trumps first term.
Things like tax breaks, legislated to make things harder for the working class after Dems retook office, not because of what the Dems did, but close enough for them to blame the Dems.
And it worked. It always works.
They should at least replace the fields producing corn ethanol. Saves the recurring cost of producing the energy, and reduces the emissions of both harvesting and burning.
Huge swathes of land are used just to burn the output.
Publishing the post sure.
But propagating notification alerts to followers isn’t reliably that fast.
Having a paid queue to be alerted first makes sense technically.
Huge ethical issues though. This is clearly just corruption. Pay me money and you’ll get insider trading information that won’t actually be called that.