Or a general strike organized by labor and student unions

Every labor shortage is a capital shortage. If you compensate better for pretty much any job people will work them. It’s employers trying to shift the blame, but if they want 500 widgets but can only afford to employ enough staff to make 50 widgets it’s not the employees fault they didn’t get an extra 450 widgets for free, labor doesn’t work that way.

If you’re asking why wealthy people run to Switzerland specifically I have to assume it is in part due to the history of banks that make disclosing ownership a crime making them useful to hide capital in offshore accounts to dodge taxes in their home country, stash money related to crime or exploitation, laundering, etc. While their money may be stored anonymously once they show up in person they themselves are no longer anonymous and subject to arrest.

So if the same applies to Russia Putin is okay with a foreign country invading Russia based on lies, capturing territory, targeting and murdering civilians and kidnapping children, violating treaties, and they would accept a ceasefire with the invader keeping everything they currently hold to regroup for another assault? Get the fuck out of here

It’s apparently like driving a car or riding a bike or swinging a hammer, there’s a small learning curve but with a little practice it’s overcome pretty quickly and feels like a natural extension of yourself. But yeah given a preference I’d probably want to try tying it to wrist or hand movements for practicality.

I haven’t tried it but it has a couple foot sensors that are used to control it. Probably more preferable if there was some way to link it into the nervous system without surgery, but lacking that it’s going to piggyback on some other fine motor control.

It’s not that intercessory prayer needs to work 100% to be convincing, it just needs to beat random chance and it doesn’t do that.

Natural processes can describe how those things came to exist without needing to appeal to supernatural claims or gods.

You’ve seen things you attribute to a god, but people in other religions attribute the same things to their god and so far I don’t think anyone has shown empirical evidence for any gods, and I don’t know about you but I use empirical evidence when changing my confidence on whether something or someone exists or doesn’t.

Many people have a negative opinion on organized religion because we can see the negative effects believing things without sufficient evidence can have on individuals and communities.

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I’m not sure because google.com requires JavaScript and then when I enable it it says it’s had too much malicious behavior from my VPN address and to enable another host gstatic to connect to I’m guessing for a rechaptcha and I gave up

My assumption is economic in that they will continue to spend as oil and hydrocarbon fuels dependency drops worldwide as it’s replaced with renewables. It seems dogmatic organizations like religions, theocracies, etc tend to do poorly with incremental change, but we’ll see over the next couple decades. 30% of their trade is with China so it largely depends on Chinese markets and how/if they decide to change as the markets change.

The sex obsessed wet blankets in the clergy morality police probably shut down a concert or dance hall they weren’t invited to where people were actually having fun.

I think there’s also a general age demographic shift down as the mods and people who care about moderation, third party apps, bots, etc left. Something similar happened during the digg exodus where social norms and consensus around some topics changed, just not at much with the bots at the time. People who remain may not care, or they just may be unaware. There was always some propaganda blindness too in the ‘i don’t use social media just reddit’ crowd.

White phosphorus is incredibly easy to obtain in small volumes (if you have a matchbook you already have some red phosphorus), and in larger volumes it’s found in some pretty common minerals. Unfortunately the possible damage done or weapons use of a material isn’t always reflected in how difficult it is to obtain. According to the ACS 900,000 tons are produced annually & mostly used in fertilizer and pesticide.

https://www.acs.org/molecule-of-the-week/archive/w/white-phosphorus.html

Hate requires you to consider them first competent with shared common values that inform their beliefs and actions. Otherwise it’s mostly pity and disgust that they have no values other than authority and loyalty like a criminal enterprise, and usually can’t tell if they are being evil on purpose or by accident/inaction/ignorance.

Clearly not a trustee to the beneficiary… filibuster

As soon as the initial Russia attack failed, invalidating the treaty where Ukraine agreed to deproliferate as long as Russia doesn’t attack them, Ukraine should have acquired a handful of nuclear weapons.

June 30th, 2023. There were always subreddits like r/thedonald that used violent right wing authoritarian cult-like political rhetoric, but after the users and mods who gave half a shit left when they banned third party apps and sided with advertisers over the people keeping it from becoming 99% bots and bootlickers.

If you’re beating USD inflation rate for holding cash then you’re at least not losing money. Good returns can be anywhere from like 6-10% depending on the risk involved, but if you have a significant amount of capital to invest over a long term like years you can expect much higher for riskier ventures. The usual idea is start riskier when you’re young with individual stocks, BTC, startup or small business ventures, etc; then gradually shift to lower risk index funds, utilities, CDs, bonds, retirement savings like 401k annuity pension etc low risk financial products as you get closer to a retirement goal.

I’m looking for Karl, let me know if you’ve seen him