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@ queermunist @lemmy.ml

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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

  • If it happened, would anybody even question it?

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  • Legitimate improvement.

  • California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind

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  • They're mountainous. Surely pumped water storage would be better than chemical batteries?

  • Donald Trump sued over east wing demolition

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  • My only problem with the demolition is that he's only doing the East Wing.

  • Rapid early spread of bird flu in Europe raises fears of fresh crisis

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  • It's in the US too, they just aren't testing because of the shutdown and deregulation.

  • ‘Israel’ army claims assassination of Islamic Jihad leader in central Gaza

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  • It's the Israeli promise: you cease, we fire!

  • Lemmy is designed to fail the same way as reddit when reaching the same size

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  • Downvoting doesn't stop you from reading the opinion?

  • AI investment the only thing keeping the US out of recession

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  • Yeah, green energy and batteries and electric vehicles and the like are the future, even if the regime is trying to stop the march of history by ending all the government incentives and canceling projects and doing trade wars against China's green tech industry. There's no where else for the capital to go. Trump can stand in front of the avalanche and scream "STOP!" all he wants, he might be run over by the sheer momentum that's building right now once the AI bubble stops parasitically feeding on the real economy.

    Probably not, though.

    I mostly expect the US to enter a Lost Decade of low growth+high inflation, and for China to inherit the world economy.

  • AI investment the only thing keeping the US out of recession

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  • It's the opposite. The non-AI economy is in recession because the AI bubble is sucking the oxygen out of the rest of the market.

    Which actually presents a possible upside to the bubble bursting: maybe the rest of the economy will actually recover.

    Probably not. But maybe!

  • Is the world actually worse than it was 25 years ago, or does it just feel that way because I'm now more aware of how dysfunctional and cruel everything seems?

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  • When I was younger it seemed politics were more rational and cruelty never seemed to be the point of doing nothing.

    The cruelty was outside our borders. The rational, reasonable debate was for domestic issues. Foreigners got the bullet.

    As the empire collapses the cruelty turns inwards i.e. fascism.

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  • Is this ADHD?

  • Impossible Foods CEO Says The Plant-Based Sector Became Too 'Woke And Partisan'

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  • I don't really see why any carnist would eat a meat replacement that's 1) more expensive and 2) not as versatile and 3) less healthy

    I'm vegan! Impossible is junk food. It's not a sustainable part of anyone's diet, it's a sometimes food for when you're feeling lazy or have a craving. There's basically no value here for carnists, they can just eat meat and have a better experience. Basically the only reason you'd eat Impossible is if you have ethical or political opinions that conflict with meat eating i.e. woke and partisan

    Another CEO that doesn't understand his consumers, his market, his industry, or his purpose.

  • There was no need to ever improve upon THIS

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  • All of that stuff is great.

    Just don't make me use a touch screen while I'm driving.

  • Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

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  • In the past we'd call them wealthy landed peasantry, but under capitalism they're just petite bourgeoisie.

  • Why does MyAnimeList need 938 partners?

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  • I think the AI bubble is actually a deeper, more structural data bubble. There isn't actually a case for profitability, they're just doing it out of investor demands and inertia and because That's Just How We Do Things.

  • China is dramatically outpacing the US in R&D due to a massive, consistent, and strategically focused investment campaign.

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  • The secret to increasing profit is to cut costs, always, no matter what. Research? Workforce development? Safety? Just keep cutting costs, shareholders love it!

    What do you mean we're falling behind? We've cut so many costs, growth is infinite!

  • Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?

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  • There's also longer work days (it's not like peasants spent very much time farming in the middle of the winter) and less work shared between the clan/gens/extended family. Our time is spent productively, it's just that almost all of it is spent working for a wage and and doing chores to maintain a living space. A few minutes squeezed in to relax isn't the problem.

  • Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?

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  • That pales in comparison to the massive time investment of having a full time job and taking care of a living space by yourself (cooking, cleaning, shopping, repairs, etc). This is unique to our era, we used to not work as many hours and we used to live in more communal family spaces where work was evenly shared so that everyone had lighter loads.

    The fact that I can squeeze in 20 minutes of posting a day isn't the reason I can't go on 3 hour walks like I used to.

  • Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?

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  • Time isn't free.

  • 'Cruel, inhuman and degrading': Iran slams Israel’s mistreatment of rights activist

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  • Fuck the Iranian and Israeli dictator governments

    You have to choose. You can't just say "fuck everyone!" and pretend like your stance means anything. Pick one.