I found Kreia’s “nuance” tedious. I help someone and she’s all “but if you force them to help themselves they’ll be stronger”. Shut up space Ayn Rand

Not all heroes wear capes

No, it’s obviously soy consumption

My guess is that it’s related to the Weber-Fechner laws of perception. This is the same principle that explains why turning a second light on doesn’t make a room seem twice as bright. Fechner’s formulation is “the intensity of our sensation increases as the logarithm of an increase in energy rather than as rapidly as the increase.”

Chamber of Commerce Republicans sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Chamber of Commerce Republicans reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Although Biden claims to be “outraged” by the killing of aid workers, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the US wouldn’t leverage its extensive military aid, or anything else for that matter, to “hang some sort of condition over [Israel’s] neck.”

Reminder: Hamas does not have a presence in the West Bank. Mass killings of Palestinians have never been about containing or defeating Hamas. The killing, destruction of property/seizure of land, and creation of fear are the point.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/it-s-crazy-desperate-gazans-left-in-despair-after-australian-visas-cancelled-midair-20240313-p5fc5c.html

https://archive.is/DvA1X

I’m useless no matter what OS I use ;)

They are owned by governments in the sense that they exist at the pleasure of the governments they depend wholly upon. Corporations are legal entities; who administers the law? To use a tech analogy, I’m pointing out that though a file has an “owner”, which is a user account, the true owner is the operating system itself.

I have to admit I’m surprised this is as controversial a take as it is.

All corporations are owned and funded by governments. A corporation must be incorporated somewhere by some government. These corporations benefit from services, grants, and special benefits (e.g. limited liability) provided by that government.

However, I don’t think governments are using this to do mass surveillance on people with VPNs, if only for the reason that there’s not much to be gained by such an action. Most privacy invasion is of the kind people freely allow. Using a VPN doesn’t make logging into Google meaningfully more private. The only groups I can think of that would really want to be able to spy on VPN users would be the MPAA, RIAA, etc, and I don’t think they have the kind of sway to get governments to do that.

But yeah, if you are doing something a three letter government agency will target you over, a VPN ain’t going to cut it.

I agree that dropping dumb bombs on populated areas is wrong

Comparing Netanyahu to Assad is very apt, I agree

Oooooooh I tell you if you keep committing genocide I’m gonna get frustrated! Reeaaal frustrated!

there are two healthy sex phenotypes … and b) the result of something going wrong.

What about intersex people makes them “unhealthy”? What makes what their bodies do “wrong”?

Everything else is a) extremely rare

Intersex people are about as common than redheads. Would you agree with the statement that redheads are the exception that proves the rule that there are 3 hair colors, blond, brown, and black?

[Edit: more common -> about as common]

“it” in this case is to magically add a centimeter or so of paper to the left side of the 't

Y’all already have the uncritical support of corporate news media and basically every US politician. I don’t think there’s any risk your propaganda won’t be able to spread, you can relax.

But sure, keep thinking you understand the issue better than people who have studied everything about the issue and are actually paid for their knowledge.

Actually, looking at the source, they openly disagree with you. Here is what they say:

“We now have a credible prospect that inflation will return to 2% in 2025. The only piece that’s missing is the conviction that wage growth will adapt to that lower inflation”, the Dutch central bank governor said in an interview with Dutch TV program Buitenhof.

They are saying inflation is going down, but wage growth may not be. In other words, they aren’t keeping interest rates high to combat inflation, they are doing so to combat wage growth and wage growth alone. The only person here who thinks wage growth and inflation move in lockstep is you.

If I might add, what do you think costs are?

I am intentionally using a somewhat loose term; costs are uses of finite resources. This could be labor, or it could be a physical item, like the iron ore you say I think is retrieved by putting cash in a box. And I’ll pay you the same respect you’ve paid me by asking: do you think workers simply will iron ore into existence? Or make food, independent of the presence of fertile topsoil, water, and sunlight?

Money doesn’t disappear, it goes into someone’s pocket eventually, either through wages or through corporate income.

Yes, and the point is I want more of that money go into workers’ pockets through wages than into owner’s pockets through profits.

If costs are going up it means that someone somewhere is getting richer, meaning he has more money to spend, meaning things get more expensive.

You literally just said that money doesn’t disappear. Someone is getting richer either way. She’ll have more money to spend regardless of if she’s an owner or a worker.

It is true that wage growth does generally cause inflation. That’s one reason you can live in the global south so cheaply. It’s also why workers are so bad off there. Another example is Europe compared to the US: prices are higher in Europe, but workers get paid more and are better off than workers in the US. The whole point is that when workers’ wages go up, they have a bigger portion of the total amount of money, and thus are better off. This inflation fearmongering is all a distraction from that.

Companies like profits, so they’ll keep raising prices as long as people keep paying them.

This is of course true whether or not wages go up.

If people don’t have money to spend on shit, they won’t, and thus the prices will have to go down or at worst stagnate.

No, the prices don’t have to go down or stagnate. Products don’t become cheaper or easier to produce because there are fewer people who can buy them. In fact the opposite is true. Cost per unit is higher as total units produced goes down.

keep thinking you understand the issue better than people who have studied everything about the issue and are actually paid for their knowledge.

Oh, I do think they understand this, and they are paid, but not necessarily for their knowledge.