MeepsTheBard

What’s the difference between befriending someone who’s worse off than you who works in the same building vs someone off the street? Your ability to help them is ~ the same, but you could give them a person to talk to.

They’re not aliens, or pets to be taken care of. If a grown-ass man wants to chat with another grown-ass man about something mutually interesting to both, then why bring prerequisites into the equation?

Now, if it’s a “we hang out every single night and discuss finances and aspirations and such” situation, sure, I can see a disconnect if the higher-up person doesn’t try to help, but your comment almost sounds like a internet-fueled caste system when taken too literally.

“shit, how do I tell her?”

It’s common in states that have a lower population center, geographically. I’m in Minnesota, and our Twin Cities are in the southern third of the state.

“Going up north (to the cabin)” is our spin on “upstate”, because (for most people) there isn’t much of a reason to go much more north than we already do.

The people making the big decisions aren’t the ones working. They’re the ones put in charge to make money for investors, who want monthly returns. Not “here’s what will get us 1XX% growth in 6-8 years,” but now.

And you’d think this would only be the case with public companies, but private equity is gobbling up quality companies and milking them dry by cutting costs and abusing their brand’s good name. People want returns on their investments QUICK these days.

This isn’t a one-hour-summary topic, and you’re not going to find “unbiased” reporting on it. Not trying to be a dick, it’s just the facts. Anyone telling you they have the “unbiased truth” about it is lying or delusional.

With that said, start with some Wikipedia browsing from the end of WW2, where the Allies started looking around for places around the world as Jewish refuges, and the struggles/ decisions made to plop Israel in the Middle East.

From there, there’s a bunch of back-and forth action between the new state of Israel and the people who were already living there (Palestinians), which has a lot of video summaries on YouTube. You’ll hear “Nakba” (Catastrophe in Arabic) used a lot, if that’s any indication of how it went.

All of that puts the Oct 7 attacks in more context, as well as the ongoing bombing in Gaza.

Good luck in your search. If people are being rude with you, it’s because the tone of your post is basically “I actively tried not to look at this conflict that’s been going on for 4 months that’s killed 30,000 people, and now care because of a single guy (Aaron Bushnell) immolating himself.” I’m VERY glad that his message got to you, as I agree that it’s an important issue, but it also feels frustrating that it took this long (respectfully).

Similar experience for my xm4s. Great sound, they’re comfy, but the app is dogshit and the buttons/ touch controls physically hurt me to use.

“look at all the benefits you get from being in a fascist state that doesn’t have laws respecting rights to a fair trial and sufficient burden of proof!”

Like there’s a reason we only see the taliban + authoritarian regimes do this, lmao.

Tenets breaking rules and being shitty mean that landlords lose on their investments (which inherently carry risk).

Landlords breaking rules and being shitty means that people go homeless, live in awful conditions, or cannot afford basic necessities.

Sure, both sides have the capacity to be bad, but trying to “both sides” basic shelter is fucking wild.

You sound really sure about your understanding of statistics and probability, and I don’t think anything I can say can impact that. I’m going to defer to the experts, but you do you I guess.

The thing about long-term predictions (at least ones that get publicity) is that usually the goal is to change them, so few have been “proven”. No one is printing stories about how an isolated set of rocks is going to be decayed by X% due to weather, because no one cares.

Except birth rates aren’t physics that will progress if left alone, they’re dominated by cultural choices that are impacted by economics and governmental policy.

Exactly. Those are the factors that are being considered when making these predictions. If economic factors and policies are making it harder to have kids, then birth rates drop, which is what we’re seeing now. What else is going to have as much of an effect?

These predictions don’t exist to take bets on. They’re not scrying into the future. They’re just binoculars that point to where we’re going.

No, they just need to be kept in that context. We trusted science on chlorofluorocarbons impacting the ozone layer, and chose to fix it rather than let it keep going. Was the projection “wrong” because CFCs were regulated, or did we just interact with it in a practical way?

The same applies here. There’s a population issue that (as you mentioned in another comment) without other factors, will come into effect. China can fix it, or let things play out and see if the “unknowns” can fix it for them.

“AI isn’t good enough to replace workers yet, but it’s good enough to convince CEOs it can.”

You’re correct, and I agree. It does shift dems to the right slightly. But again, it’s hyperbole to say dems are now “radical” on the border, which is what I was responding to.

So now the dems endorse the radical rights position on the border. You don’t see how that’s an issue?

Equating “letting the opposition party fuck themselves as they try to pass a bill THEY don’t even want” to actively endorsing extreme policy is hyperbole.

At a very surface level you’re correct, but using that to state that the entire democratic party has abandoned their morals is absurd.

I think they were commenting on how people seem to be zealots for Firefox on Lemmy, despite having some (reasonable) flaws. Despite this news, I’d bet a lot of them will continue. Not a pro-Chrome stance by any means.

(I had to block the Firefox and Linux subs day 1 because of how much anti-Chrome/ anti-Windows I saw).

You’re making a lot of worst-possible-assumptions about my character based on a throwaway comment on how fake awards aren’t that important. Go outside.

Bro it is truly, truly not that deep.

Award shows have been on the way out for well over a decade, and have been purely marketing tools for even longer.

More importantly, the devs who got their games nominated likely saw sales spike, which means more players enjoying the things they created, and they were properly compensated for their work. That means way more than a BS award that sits on a shelf.

It’s “undermining gaming” to give award show results so much weight when we know how biased they are.

Considering the awards are nigh-useless anyway, sacrificing some “credibility” to call out shitty business seems worth it imo.

It’s not like it’s a “haha look how silly this is” joke–it’s a “you all fucked this up though for the public to hate you, do better” joke.

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