To summarise, it is a combination of many related factors
Overly sedately lifestyle. In America, you are forced to use your car everywhere. Even in other countries, sports and gyms aren’t usually cheap, and you also need the spare time to engage
Diets contain too much sugar, other people have given resources for this
I am really worried that the Chinese leadership might buy into this nonsense and try to reduce the savings rate. That is the exact opposite of what China needs. As the productive forces develop, developing them further takes even more effort as you have to take on even more challenging projects while also maintaining the productive forces already developed. It is precisely because the liberal economies stopped accumulating that they have degenerated.
Americans who get their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza, according to a new survey that examined the relationship between attitudes toward the war and news consumption habits....
Only social media users said they’d be more likely to support a candidate who supported Palestinians (33-19 percent). Just 15 percent of cable news viewers said the same, even though 31 percent of cable viewers agreed that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians.
Does this mean what I think it means? That roughly half of the cable news watchers who believe that Israel is commiting genocide literally do not care?
In your scenario, if some of the people who think there is no genocide still supported a pro Palestinians candidate (likely that there are at least some), then the number of people who believe there is a genocide, but still wouldn’t support a pro Palestinians candidate would be even higher. My scenario is actually the most optimistic one.
The 45+ crowd will vote for him because they support isn’treal and are afraid of Drumpf but I think we’re going to see a massive drop out of young voters. Probably too with the people who already don’t vote to begin with, namely service workers who are fucked over either way with D’s and R’s....
The Democrats had many legal mechanisms to take care of this issue. They could have codified it. They could have threatened the court. They could have even distributed abortion drugs by mail (which the states aren’t allowed to check iirc)for free, which would have significantly weakened any bans.
Spook is from the german “spuking” which means haunting. Its use in this context comes from the german philosopher Max Stirner who is infamous for the memes where X is declared to be a spook.
Understanding what exactly spooks are is somewhat challenging, and plenty of people get the wrong ubderstanding about what is meany by spooks. But at least in the meme way of using the word, a spook is anything you think is a fairy tale, or nonsense that you don’t care about.
The world is seeing a near breakdown of international law amid flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, multiplying armed conflicts, the rise of authoritarianism and huge rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar, Amnesty International warned Wednesday as it published its annual report....
The rule of law is always synonymous with the rule of force. A law which isn’t implemented by force is just a suggestion. The international rules based order could by definition, never have been anything more than the rule of the hegemon.
We’ve lost. Truth must be told. The inability to admit it encapsulates everything you need to know about Israel’s individual and mass psychology. There’s a clear, sharp, predictable reality that we should begin to fathom, to process, to understand and to draw conclusions from for the future. It’s no fun to admit that...
The other day, I was arguing with someone israel and Palestine, and they brought up the whole “everybody has done settler colonialism before” trope. While it’s an idiotic argument even if true (directly contradicting their whole “rules based international order” sthick), it did get me wondering....
The US’s role in suppressing food security around the world is well known. It doesn’t matter how much they donate to food programs, which BTW themselves have a destabilising effect on food prices ans contribute to the problem when you violate the food sovereignty of like half the world.
I haven’t looked into this in detail either, but I am guessing that the food program being talked about buys much of its food from US corporations. It wouldn’t surprise me, especially since the US is such a major food exporter.
(Consider Russia as an example of a country that the USA had no particular hostility towards, despite the Cold War, but now actively opposes due to its ambitions.)
Guys. You are missing the obvious answer here. More than half of the world’s industrial robots are installed in China. Furthermore, they have been developing their internal supply chain for decades on end. Their economies of scale are very strong.
I swear, the orientalism is very strong on this post. It cannot be that a country is yielding the fruits of decades of hard work building up their industry. It has to be slave labor …
After Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza, the US says it has not found any incidents of Israel violating international humanitarian law in the past six months. An Al Jazeera probe concluded the World Central Kitchen vehicles were deliberately hit.
Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria on Monday, a marked escalation in a war pitting Israel against its regional adversaries, and Tehran said the strike killed seven military advisers including three senior commanders....
Right now Russia is tied up in Ukraine. For Israel, this is the perfect opportunity to get rid of Iran. Once the war in Ukraine ends, Israel will be in deep shit because Russia can provide support to Iran and other regional Israeli enemies. Furthermore, the Israeli economy has also been severely damaged by the emmigration that was triggered by the war. Their reputation as a Jewish safe haven is toast. Time is running out.
Biden Is Trying to Buy EVs Time With New Tariffs on China. It Might Not Work (www.wired.com)
Do you think the obesity epidemic is caused by capitalism.
I think it could be because unhealthy food that can cause obesity is more addictive and therefore more profitable.
Yellen was stumped by the question: Is it possible we’re just being outcompeted by the Chinese in those (electric vehicles, batteries, all of those things.) (www.marketplace.org)
archive.ph/E0JUs
The European economy is entering stagnation. Over past five quarters, the average quarterly GDP growth for the EU-27 was 0.03%, with all progress occurring in Q1 2023, which saw a growth of 0.33%. (lemmy.ml)
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/…/2-30042024-bp
Only Cable News Viewers Think Israel isn't Committing a Genocide, Survey Finds (theintercept.com)
Americans who get their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza, according to a new survey that examined the relationship between attitudes toward the war and news consumption habits....
Biden is toast with people under 45 isn't he?
The 45+ crowd will vote for him because they support isn’treal and are afraid of Drumpf but I think we’re going to see a massive drop out of young voters. Probably too with the people who already don’t vote to begin with, namely service workers who are fucked over either way with D’s and R’s....
Libs' Schrödinger's presidency. Biden is a smol bean president incapable of doing anything to pack the court or to stop fascism. etc. Trump will be a king fascist president destroying democracy. (hexbear.net)
bsky.app/profile/…/3krabdrorar2z
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones (www.military.com)
"I want to live forever in AI" (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14869314...
Amnesty: World seeing near breakdown of international law amid wars in Gaza and Ukraine (apnews.com)
The world is seeing a near breakdown of international law amid flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, multiplying armed conflicts, the rise of authoritarianism and huge rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar, Amnesty International warned Wednesday as it published its annual report....
Deportation flights to Rwanda will take off in 10 to 12 weeks, Rishi Sunak says (www.bbc.co.uk)
‘Blatant aggression’: Reactions to US veto of Palestine’s UN membership bid (www.aljazeera.com)
The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favour and two abstentions – the UK and Switzerland....
Iran Shuts Airspace, Flights Divert as Israel Launches Missiles (www.bloomberg.com)
Vast tracts of western Iran airspace are empty after strikes...
Double A. (lemmy.world)
Tandem heat waves, storm surges increasingly batter coasts (phys.org)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8644234...
Saying what can't be said: Israel has been defeated – a total defeat (www.haaretz.com)
We’ve lost. Truth must be told. The inability to admit it encapsulates everything you need to know about Israel’s individual and mass psychology. There’s a clear, sharp, predictable reality that we should begin to fathom, to process, to understand and to draw conclusions from for the future. It’s no fun to admit that...
Settler colonialism in the ancient world?
The other day, I was arguing with someone israel and Palestine, and they brought up the whole “everybody has done settler colonialism before” trope. While it’s an idiotic argument even if true (directly contradicting their whole “rules based international order” sthick), it did get me wondering....
Data-driven nerds get the wall (www.tiktok.com)
"Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world" - Vladimir Lenin. (lemmygrad.ml)
Is Israel's plan to draw the US into a war with Iran? (responsiblestatecraft.org)
Getting a human to assemble something is usually more expensive then getting a robot to do it. Provided that the human gets paid, that is. (lemmy.world)
US says Israel has not violated international law during Gaza war (www.aljazeera.com)
After Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza, the US says it has not found any incidents of Israel violating international humanitarian law in the past six months. An Al Jazeera probe concluded the World Central Kitchen vehicles were deliberately hit.
Israel bombs Iran's embassy in Syria, kills commanders says Iran (www.reuters.com)
Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria on Monday, a marked escalation in a war pitting Israel against its regional adversaries, and Tehran said the strike killed seven military advisers including three senior commanders....