Fuck the USA

Boost for Lemmy. I love it.

My introduction to Pink Floyd was this live version of “Comfortably Numb.” Before that, I really only knew the name and maybe the line “we don’t need no education” from The Wall. I’ve been a fan ever since. But to this day, no song touches my soul quite like David Gilmour’s guitar solo.

Believe me, nothing good comes from this publishing house. In Germany, they are neoliberal and right-wing. They are largely responsible for right-wing ideas gaining acceptance even within middle-class circles. They are against climate protection policies, in favour of fossil fuels, against feminism, against migrants, nationalistic and racist, against social policies, in favour of militarisation, and against anti-fascism. They will always side with employers, persuade people to vote against their own interests, and defend the interests of capital. At the moment, they’re in a growth phase with Politico, and you don’t win over right-wing Europeans with pro-Trump rhetoric. After all, he threatens national European interests.

Please dont use or link politico. It is part of Springer Publishing, which is attempting to become the European equivalent of Fox News

I hate the US so much.They should finally stop dragging the rest of the world into their bullshit. I pay high gas prices because you can’t manage to put a bullet in the head of this fucking baby.

The funny thing is that, with a sensible foreign and alliance policy, many of these countries would probably have actually helped with US Imperialism, like they did in the past. Take Iraq, for example. But if you treat all your allies like shit and as submissive military service, the governments of those countries simply have no choice but to reject, if they don’t want to be voted out. I’m sure, for instance, that my country’s ruling party, the CDU in Germany, was really keen on it.

Everyone knows what needs to be done and what should have happened long ago. And not just to Trump, but to the entire oligarchic class in the US and worldwide.

If you can’t bring yourself to give it up, at least use it productively: if you see something interesting there, copy it and post it on the Fediverse.

Why would they get involved? What’s in it for the UK? The whole war is just bad for Europeans.

This is one of those ideas that sound great on first glance but aren’t when you take a deeper look. The floor absorbs the kinetic energy that a normal floor would normally send back to the spring system that constitutes your foot, making it necessary for you to expend more energy to compensate for it, and that makes walking more tiring. Essentially, the power is created by making it harder to walk. The additional effort that is placed on the people walking is turned into energy at a very low conversion rate. The energy required to create and maintain this machine dwarfs the expected output.

Such statistics are almost always meaningless. In Germany, the total volume of work has increased significantly over the last 30 years, but the number of hours worked per worker has fallen over the same period. How can this be? This is because part-time workers are also included in the statistics. This can lead to the bizarre situation where more work is being done, but the average number of hours worked is falling, for example because more women are working part-time instead of not working at all.

Therefore, we should either compare only the total volume of work in relation to the population or only the average working hours of full-time positions. Both of these approaches, however, have their own problems.

Nevertheless, it is of course ridiculous that people in the USA are not entitled to vacation. That said, I wouldn’t put my faith in politics. But strong unions can change that.

But then the seller is missing out on those $50, which they can’t spend anywhere else. From an macroeconomic perspective, the effect is zero. Like advertising, it only serves to allocate resources, not to create value. What’s more, it’s mainly large companies that benefit from something like this. Firstly, because of scale effects, and secondly, because they can sustain price dumping for longer than smaller companies.

The same applies to deals. You only benefit from them because someone else is disadvantaged. Unless, of course, you assume that companies have something to give away out of kindness. And, of course, you yourself have been someone who has given someone else an advantage at your own disadvantage. You paid more so that someone else could pay less. The macroeconomic effect was zero because no value was created.

Relevant:

"Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.

Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.

Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about “meritocracy” and the salutary effects of hard work.

Poor kids aren’t visiting the carnival. They’re the ones working it."

Shareholders will expect their 185 million to turn into more. Someone will have to pay for this “more.” The business model will therefore boil down to either selling user data or companies paying to be given preferential treatment by the system. Probably both.

Furthermore, such services do not create any added value for the economy because, like advertising, they merely ensure that money is spent at B instead of at A. They are not productive and can be used much more efficiently by the bigger players.

Please try to avoid politico. It belongs to the right-wing conservative Springer publishing house (Axel Springer SE), which is trying to become a European Fox News.

so civilization doesn’t collapse from rapid population decline

Would that really be a bad thing?