I don’t consider myself old… or even much of an adult, but I feel like i’ve long outgrown concerts. It seems like all I read about is fans getting seriously injured and crowds of people too preoccupied video-recording instead actually enjoying the music.
Nah, speaking from personal experience, I grew up in a sutuation where my family took care of a small adjacent strip of property we didn’t own for 20+ years. The true owner lived ~5 houses down and for 18+ years he didn’t know he owned it. —In that situation we could have claimed the property and the only reason we didn’t is the cost of surveying the property was greater than it’s perceived value. it was probably 20 ft wide and had a large storm drain running under the middle of it that came from a walmart parking lot a half-mile away.
fast-forward a few years and the people we sold the home to were moving out and the number of acres listed had been updated to include that strip of land.
“diseases of despair” which includes but is not limited to suicides and overdoses has been steadily on the rise for over a decade in the U.S and so far as we know suicides reached an all-time high in 2022. -I’m betting they just haven’t collected and presented the 2023 data yet.
So Apple became the first trillion dollar company and ~5 years later Google becomes the first A* 2 trillion dollar company. That rate of growth sounds inflated and unrealistic.
[edit] updated to reflect corrections based on u/TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 's pedantry
This is the same conclusion Second Thought came to a while back in one of his youtube videos. While I don’t disagree with the conclusion, I also wouldn’t say it’s mutually exclusive to reasoning promoted by the mainstream media of "foreign influence. " What’s really wild is the idea that the ban is also being pushed by “foreign influence.”
That explains it. You don’t know what it’s like to live outside of a shithole. How could you? Every time an oligarch is taken down, it’s a win for society.
So you consider Margaret Thatcher to still be an authority. Since you argued that less Oligarchs is worse, then what is the adequate number of Mega-rich oligarchs you want to live with?
So we come back full-circle and now you agree with me. Less oligarchs is better and the only way to ensure that there are less is by nationalizing and reappropriating their assets.
It’s not my fault you don’t understand how to formulate a coherent, and logical argument without resorting to name-calling.
One would arguably call that a strawman since I never brought up nor commented on the subject of genocide. That is, if I really was your intended audience.
The legal situation is more complex and nuanced than the headline implies, so the article is worth reading. This adds another ruling to the confusing case history regarding forced biometric unlocking.
The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. U.S. allies France, Japan and South Korea supported the resolution....
I think if you take a kind of birds-eye view (i.e. The proverbial forest) of the world around us without putting effort into understanding the granular nature of the individual things (i.e. the trees) around us, then one of the takeaways could be that we exist in an otherwise chaotic universe, which might give rise to this thought that we’re living in a simulation. —That said, the world isn’t chaotic, not really. It is an incredibly complex group of relations and things, and most of it has little concern for us as individuals.
Some of us sometimes struggle to see the forest from trees. Others of us sometimes struggle to see the trees from the forest.
There’s a big ol’ beautiful world out there beyond our computers and the games we play. It’s worth going out and studying a lot of it.
-What would be the implications if we were in a simulation? would it matter?
Donald Trump has not been accused of paying for sex, but several supporters protesting outside of his trial on Monday wanted to make it clear that they have. It seems the crowds that come out to protest the persecution of the former president are getting smaller, and weirder...
Back in 2010 an Officer in my state killed 1 motorcyclist and injured two others while drunk driving on the job. He was eventually sentenced to 4 years in prison for that.
By comparison 18 months seems reasonable for her crime.
Punk rock band Trophy Eyes fan left paralyzed after singer jumped on her at concert (www.independent.co.uk)
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices (www.wshu.org)
Need this nationwide. I hate having fees added on to the price of what I’m ordering.
A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries (www.popularmechanics.com)
Homeless woman was living inside Michigan rooftop store sign with computer, coffee maker (apnews.com)
Ex-Purdue president says student protesters who break laws should be expelled and replaced [Sarah Fortinsky | 05/05/24 | The Hill] (thehill.com)
Anti-LGBTQ+ laws lead to 'public health crisis' with higher suicide rates among queer youth (www.advocate.com)
Trump hit with $9,000 fine for violating hush money trial gag order (www.independent.co.uk)
Google Is Worth $2 Trillion Now (www.businessinsider.com)
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, hit a new milestone on Friday: a $2 trillion market cap....
TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US (www.bbc.com)
TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell (www.entrepreneur.com)
Congress passes bill that could unlock billions in frozen Russian assets for Ukraine (www.nbcnews.com)
Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules (arstechnica.com)
The legal situation is more complex and nuanced than the headline implies, so the article is worth reading. This adds another ruling to the confusing case history regarding forced biometric unlocking.
US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine (apnews.com)
The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. U.S. allies France, Japan and South Korea supported the resolution....
Stephen Miller epically roasted for calling Donald Trump a “style icon” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
What do you think about the idea that we're in a simulation?
I don’t think that we’re in a simulation, but I do find myself occasionally entertaining the idea of it....
Trump supporters gather outside courthouse and ask: Who among us hasn’t paid for sex? (www.independent.co.uk)
Donald Trump has not been accused of paying for sex, but several supporters protesting outside of his trial on Monday wanted to make it clear that they have. It seems the crowds that come out to protest the persecution of the former president are getting smaller, and weirder...
"Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sentenced to 18 months in prison over deadly 2021 shooting (www.cbsnews.com)