Welcome to the post-developed world, folks. Hope you made good use of that free fossil energy to make the world a special place for every living being on the planet…

What is so special about piefed? I see a few communities moving there. The interface looks different from the original lemmy interface.

cute

can confirm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ1MrzoZV8c

Yeah, no, this one is mother nature throwing a curve ball at putin to tell him that russia is already hard to manage as is, without trying to invade neighbours and fucking with other countries.

Yeah, nobody is getting any real benefits from watching the drama, but the damage they do will keep accumulating.

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Yeah, I noticed that too, but the observer and the explorer in the same page show them, so…ok…🧐

Maybe they’re trying to divide the load among different servers, so they don’t serve .world as the obvious default choice.

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The most intriguing alt-history stuff I’ve read about it was that the protesters were “lefties” protesting the Dengist attempts at liberalization and confucianist reform, because in one of the videos the protesters were singing socialist anthems e.g. 1st international. It looked like the last gasp of the cultural revolution. But I’m not sure how to check any of this (certainly not from the Chinese archives and the rest of the world only has videos…and the cables you mention), it’s probably just another bullshit story to cover up what happened.

You can already see the severed trade networks start to heal circumventing the US. This is going to be brexit x 100

Most of that looks right, but

Violent overthrow of East Timor (widely considered a genocide)

Ok, this was Indonesia, with murican quiet assent, but still, don’t give other countries a pass on these things to make them look clean.

Many of these also involved the local elites going to the US for help. e.g. The draft UN resolution for the no-fly zone in Lybia was produced by the Arab League and backed by the African Union, which pressured russia and China not to veto it.

Damn, it was like the 2/3rd most active instance

https://lemmyverse.net/ to search for a new instance

Lemme ask: isn’t China’s dominance on rare earth extraction just because their environmental laws are basically non-existent? Any other country could do that at scale if they really needed to, but it would take time and sacrifice nature.

That’s one way to see a live goatse in the wild if you’re not careful 😅

What is the lowest wages/(wages+profits) (after all energy, taxes, transport, marketing costs are removed) ratio that workers should tolerate? I’d say a min of 70%, but OECD countries have slipped to 55%.

PS: Bear in mind that this microeconomic wage share links up with inequality macroeconomically. And inequality leads to the decay of democracies and rule of law (because with depressed wage share economic indicators you may still have great growth numbers, but if nobody feels it in their wallet, they go vote for the loudest village idiot)

I’m just writing this to be more constructive than the average tankie, but to also make it clear that the neoliberal approach to things has unintended social consequences that end up eating your pretty conceptions of markets, risk, investment and innovation and people are growing tired of it. FDR knew this, but nobody high up seems to care anymore about regulating these forces, because that would be “socialism”.

um, this lion specifically did like human. 🙃

Yeah, Ukraine knows more than NATO about drone warfare. Can’t lose that.

Apart from all the other deflationary stuff…

I can’t get past the adjustable difficulty lottery system they use for mining blocks every 10m… :/ there has to be a better way.

It’s like diagonalizing huge matrices repeatedly just as a wait() function.

Mr. Rogers would 100% approve of this.