sounds like picking-your-side to me

median class

I mean we do too. We rely on information on the internet, which could all be fake. And that’s worrying me, actually. Have we been there in person? No? Then how do we know, actually?

yeah it’s not 100% based but it’s an improvement over 2024.

climate change isn’t a big deal

idk about others but i’ve decided it’s not a big deal. putting food on the table and making housing affordable again are more urgent issues. if you think differently, you’ve probably never been in personal economic hardships, my dear friend.

well i’ve seen cats breed just fine in “captivity” (i.e. living in a human environment). i think it’s a bit more complicated than that

i think that’s blatantly wrong because people in the US in 1960 had a lot of wealth and also good education yet had a lot of children.

yeah i have been saying the same thing to a friend just yesterday

MANN: In this crowded city, it’s hard to see the scale of depopulation and rapid aging already underway. But Li works in China’s sagging real estate industry, and she says she’s already feeling the change.

LI: Housing prices will fall, and the number of home buyers will decrease as well.

Oh no, what a tragedy. (/s)

good article overall, well researched and well written, feels very balanced when reading it.

if you really didn’t see this coming, it’s on you, honestly

We should be emphasizing you should get to know the candidates up and down the ballot

*we should have been

this was probably the last election in a long time

yeah the federal government can essentially print arbitrary amounts of money through the federal reserve bank if it has control of it, yes.

the only way out (to prevent the federal government from having infinite, literally unlimited economic buying power) is to devalue the dollar in such a way that the dollar becomes completely worthless, i.e. its value goes to zero. but this will only happen if people stop accepting the dollar as a valuable currency, i.e. if people switch to using alternative currencies instead, like the euro (€) or something else entirely.

I can’t imagine the people in the US fighting against the government because to have a will to fight, you have to have something worth protecting in your life, and i’m pretty sure that social cohesion has been eroded so much in the USA that people simply won’t care about their neighbours enough to actually fight and risk their lifes for them, but what do i know.

where does the expression “leoparts ate my face” even come from?

fun fact: i think it has nothing to do with it. it’s just that trump is a reality tv star and tv stars and entertainers tend to get elected in democracies (see england, italy, USA) because they know how to present themselves to the people in an “entertaining” way and also because harris refused to focus on the real buying power of people.

this is a disaster for the people affected (and also every society is 3 days without food before violent revolutions and all that) but also IMO these programs should ideally be paid for by the states anyways, not the federal government. i also think that taxes should go to the states instead of the federal government, and the states then forward whatever amount is appropriate to the federal government. that would make the states more resilient against these kinds of federal fraud.

That’s the funny thing about it all: the ruling class couldn’t give less of a shit about the wellbeing of the people. But they care about their companies’ revenue, and that is threatened if people have no money to spend. That is why we need Universal Basic Income in the near future.

Humans like shiny.

guess what’s also shiny? all the advertisement that companies put out for stupid products. doesn’t that make a lot of other things just as shiny?

Gold has utility

not really. IMHO gold is about as useful as aluminum or any other metal, i.e. $10/kg would be justified, but not $70k/kg, which it currently is.

like, $10/kg is real usefulness, the remaining $69990/kg are people’s irrational belief that gold is valuable somehow.