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turdas

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  • Makes sense to me

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  • Dragons weren't spiritual creatures bound into physical form. They were something Morgoth basically selectively bred.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • There's three big reasons: D, R and M.

  • We can play that game too

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  • That makes more sense. I was thinking printing money only to pay pensions, which honestly seems like something European social democrat parties might actually do.

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  • Them being born in a certain period is actually very relevant here, because the state pension system as it works in many EU states (and, to my understanding, many other countries like Japan too) allowed boomers specifically to pay in way less than they are getting out. This was then conveniently adjusted so that millenials and the younger half of gen Xers pay in more than they will get out, because their payments are used to finance the pensions of those above them on the ladder.

    In most/all of these countries boomers are a massive voting bloc and politicians are consistently either doing nothing about the issue or making it worse. While there are populistic aspects to it, young Europeans have a plenty of valid reasons to hate boomers.

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  • I imagine you're not being entirely serious, but I fail to see how that is anything but yet another inventive way of kicking the can down the road so that boomers don't have to deal with it.

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  • You're saying that as if it makes any difference whether I talk about boomers or pensioners. The two are currently synonymous and we live in the present, not in the future. In the future when boomers are dead, if this problem still exists I will be using some other word.

  • I care when it affects deez nutz...

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  • The right hand side is true (the recycling symbol, for example, is notoriously useless), but these days we do have many plastics that can be recycled and/or are actually biodegradable, though obviously there are asterisks to both. Enzymes have also been recently found and engineered to break down many common plastics. So do recycle!

    To my understanding recycling household plastics these days mostly sucks because (1) even though there's fewer varieties now and they're generally more recycleable, there's still a very wide spectrum of different chemistries that goes into all the packagings and automatically sorting them out is non-trivial, and (2) a lot of household plastics like food packaging is dirty and washing it uses more resources than just making a new package and burning (or more recently, composting) the old one does.

    Also, good news: the widely reported "spoon's worth of microplastics in your brain" thing actually isn't really true.

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  • I see you're talking about US numbers, but the US doesn't really have a state pension system in the same way that many other countries doo. Maybe that's the confusion here.

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  • Yes, and once boomers start dropping dead, gen Xers will be fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their slice of the state pension ponzi at the cost of everyone below them on the ladder the same as boomers did. That does not change my point at all.

    There is no fair and equitable world in which state pensions can continue working the way they work now. The system was built on the expectation of infinite growth with every generation being larger than the last.

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  • Neither of those are billionaires.

    Gerontocracy is fundamentally an issue of the few holding more than their fair share of wealth and power at the expense of others and pulling the ladder up behind them. It is a class issue same as everything else.

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  • Most billionaires are also boomers. The class war and the war against gerontocracy are one and the same.

  • Did Russia Really Have a Gasoline Crisis? New Data Suggests Otherwise.

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  • A reminder that just because they're considered the opposition in Russia does not mean they're good guys let alone publish reliable news.

  • "C'mon Commonwealth, don't you miss the good ol' days?"

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  • It's from episode 4 about 1 minute in.

  • [Opinion] How the EU actually worked to undermine Global South debt reforms

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  • Neolibs gonna neolib

  • "C'mon Commonwealth, don't you miss the good ol' days?"

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  • Kyokou Suiri (In/Spectre)

  • Horseshoe idea

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  • Okay smart guy, but how about when you can't make them eat anything?

  • Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month

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  • Doesn't $0.36 times 150,000 downloads come out to 54 thousand dollars, which is a lot of money?

  • Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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  • He has another video about stupid American trucks, but it's about how stupid they are in America, not that politicians are trying to get them into Europe.

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  • You can shift the pole on your back until it's balanced.