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  • Just come to Eastern Europe where every trend arrives a decade later.

  • "If you don't give me a Nobel Peace Prize I'll go to war with you."

  • Ok I just don't see a reasonable way that less children helps to fight the oligarchy. Not having enough nurses to take care of all the dying boomers does what to further the cause? Eliminating labor doesn't work the same way as withholding labor. I can't exactly imagine a childless adult union so what would the plan even be?

  • Who do you think suffers most during economic turmoil though? If you want to fuck up the economy in a productive way you need mass action, for which you need a mobilized working class. Reducing the number of workers doesn't help with this.

  • Yeah funny thing is this is basically what we're already doing. China's one child policy and neoliberal austerity everywhere else ensured the current generation of children is smaller than ever. We're running the experiment now, and overall we'd be fine if the countries that have negative growth rates weren't so xenophobic and let immigrants in to replace their ageing workforce.

    Twenty years ago I would have agreed, there's too many people, but now the pendulum is swinging the other way.

  • I used to think this. Then I remembered everyone will get old and no one will be around to run the economy.

  • If AI is coming for the CEO position, does that mean he's giving all his money to an AI? His position consists of hyping a bullshit machine and having money. His income comes from capital, not productivity or growth. Technically, you don't even need an AI to fill that role. If a potato could hold a bank account and invest, it would do a better job than this man because at least we wouldn't have to listen to him.

  • And media outlets love reporting on them as if they're imminent.

  • I'm sorry for being such a wonderful person and then we don't want Russia to win the election of this week and you can be there by Iran Contra affair with Brandi and Denise and then the rest of your life

  • My favorite part of that movie was the last half hour where they're just like "fuck it, we'll just get special ops guys to shoot everything."

  • Entropy decreasing isn't original or a good idea for a film.

  • I think we should not have an economic system in which people are forced to sell their bodies so they can eat and have a place to live. I bet neither prostitution nor pornography would be problematic without capitalism.

  • For some reason society decided that it was not ok to sell sexual acts. However, if you film yourself doing it, it's allowed. 🤷

  • Do you hear yourself? What do you get out of this?

  • I don't think it's this simple. Russia is primarily relying on China as a buyer for its hydrocarbons. It has a large and developed military industrial complex. Ukraine has had to bootstrap its arms industry since the war started. Russia also imports artillery from North Korea. Europe has historically had a dearth of war material and industry, so Ukraine can't just order a million shells from Germany or something, although maybe this is where we're headed. Just because we don't want Russia to win doesn't mean they don't have major military and economic advantages. Ukraine hasn't gained any territory since the Kursk offensive, which was short lived, and they lose ground slowly every day. While I agree that this can go on indefinitely, I don't think the sides are evenly matched.

  • This comment strikes me as incredibly out of touch and full of straw men. Nobody was impressed with the Russian military in 2022. That's why they've been waging a hybrid war since before they annexed Crimea. Their economy is the size of Italy's. Ukraine has a lot of land area for a power like that to conquer, and so it's been adrawn-out war of attrition and slow gains. You're asking where they are? Mostly the same place that they started, with half a million casualties and an occupied pile of rubble.

    The useful idiots are the people who drag this conflict out, thinking that one side can win. We need a cease fire, the map has to be redrawn, and security guarantees need to be made to both sides regarding the region. Instead we'll get another half million dead and a frozen conflict in the middle of the most fertile land in Europe. In the meantime we'll keep hearing about how another 20 F-16s will turn the tide and Putin's government is on the verge of collapse. And everyone who points out how absurd that is gets called a Russian propagandist.

  • They planned for Zelenskyy's government to collapse. It didn't. That doesn't mean they're unable to carry on the war indefinitely with a major advantage in manpower and war material.

  • 61 million tons of rubble was just made up. It's all styrofoam brought there by Iran.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    The Turing test has been inverted.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    Why does my 787's wing look like this?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    What can I do to support Lemmy?