Lots of social-cultural issues make for great distractions from actual economic measures while also ensuring infighting among the population! so they get nothing done.

nope. boomers still behave the same way on the internet when they’re using their real name. it’s really more the screen/lack of physicality that seems to do it.

it actually made sense back in the medieval day when contraception wasn’t a thing and “marriage” was a legal contract that guaranteed that the kids would get fed. nowadays it’s just a habit out-of-time.

Reading the article, that dude just sounds like a sad person with no true hope in life.

Nevertheless, she said, Leto kept calling her, “always at one, two, three AM”. “And the conversations turned sexual. He’d ask things like: ‘Have you ever had a boyfriend? Have you ever sucked a dick?’” she told Air Mail.

Sounds like a drunk alcoholic.

physical distance might not stop you from sending an email, but it can stop an attacker from coercing you into sending that data.

"time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle.”

surprisingly based idea? i mean i would have included the lower 10% as well, but apart from that, how are you’all gonna talk this one bad?

There’s no scenario where we can’t pay debt denominated in our own currency, unless the government chooses not to pay.

Well, yeah, but having an exponentially inflating debt leads to hyperinflation which makes the dollar worthless, and that has real-world consequences.

I think if the dollar loses its value, society will jump to another alternative payment method, maybe crypto or sth else entirely, and that would be worse because it means you end up without state control. I.e., it is like having no state regulations anymore, and then who protects the citizens from corpo’s overreach? A lot of regulations are tied to things-being-measured-in-dollars. Like corporate taxes, or social security.

oh you are so mistaken. propaganda, which is essentially advertisement for political stances, takes a toll on us all. you just don’t notice it because modern propaganda is targeted towards the subconscious more than towards the conscious, as many people have poorer defenses around their subconsciousness than around their consciousness.

On top of that, you’re vastly underestimating how very pliable the human mind mostly is. When presented with one credible idea, an infestation takes place similar to a virus infestation which can make that idea grow exponentially, up to a target size.

Yet you are right that we must not give up confronting ourselves with these kind of messages, in order to find truth. Dialogue is the essential foundation of democracy. Only dialogue can reveal the truth.

First of all it doesn’t matter whether you think that AI can replace human workers. It only matter whether company think that AI can replace human workers.

Secondly, you’re assuming that humans typically understand the question at stake. You’ve clearly never met, or been, an under-paid, over-worked employee who doesn’t give a flying fuck about the daily bullshit.

Ok, so let me try to make sense of this:

Around the year 2010-2020, i and many other vehemently warned against the issue of rising national debt. Yet “experts” said “it’s fine, we can make as much debt as we want to, nothing bad is going to happen because of it lol”.

Starting in the last 5 years or so, lots of experts say “oh no, the national debt is way to high, that’s a disaster, that’s a catastrophe, we can’t let that happen, who put us into this situation?” Just let me appreciate the irony for a bit. I fucking called it. I said this was going to happen. I was called insane. This feels really validating to me.

Anyways, since now lots of people, including economists, are angry that the debt is too high, people want it lowered. The obvious and straightforward solution would of course be to introduce a wealth tax (i.e. a tax on millionaires and billionaires).

In the beginning of 2025, Musk and Trump both agreed (at least in public) that the debt has to be lowered. Musk’s attempt was to cut the federal government. Well, the federal government spends money for two things, mostly: subsidies (social security, medical bill assistance, …) and data-processing (i.e., enforcing regulations, tax collection agency, …). The first one costs most of the money, but reducing it gets the public angry (understandably) and is therefore a political suicide. The second one doesn’t really cost that much, yet that is the one that Musk attempted to reduce to the point of dysfunctionality. Since it didn’t cost much to begin with, reducing it didn’t save a lot of money. In May 2025, Trump says “was Musk’s DOGE all a hoax?” and the feud begins. Musk realizes that Trump is against increasing taxes for the rich and publicly accuses Trump of having no actual intention of lowering the national debt. This is where we are now.

Now i have an image of Trump in a peach dress in my head. Thanks for that :/

Is this real?

Since when has “left” politics started to care about seemingly everything except economic factors? As a medium-interested person in US politics, it easily seems that lots of issues were brought up, but the one central issue, which is to tax the rich and give handouts to the people, fell short. That’s the one thing that i actually care for, goddamnit.

Low birth rates are only a crisis for the capitalists (and actually not even that, see below). They increase wages and improve living standards for the population.

We’re gonna hit an unemployment crisis in 10-15 years, partially due to AI replacing white-collar workers. If we have a lot of unemployed people, capitalists are gonna complain about how much unemployment money costs. It’s actually better to have lower birthrates for capitalists as well, they only didn’t realize it yet.

Also, it increases wages because wages are determined through supply and demand of human labor. If there’s less supply, prices for labor (wages) are higher.

It’s good that people are complaining what Israel is doing. I don’t think that it will make Israel change its stance on things; but it’s still good that people are complaining.

This is actually great timing, i’d say. Just now most of the northern hemisphere is starting into summer. At least i deeply feel it on a personal level that summer is arriving. I take this as a gift from the universe that directs me towards touching grass, and going swimming. Enjoy your summer, you all! Connect with your local community, if you can.

Windows only in a VM.

i’m gonna counter that with

hey ^^ time to listen to some brony music :) i totally forgot that exists 😂👍

It’s not soup if they discard the water after cooking, leaving only the vegetables.

The alternative, btw, would be to fry everything in butter or some plant oil, i believe. That’s what they’re opposing.

oh come on. this is the most harmless behavior of the year. people make a big story out of anything.

instead of focusing on actual problems, such as Musk tried to cut social spending, people talk about this.