Larger platform changes such as ranking content based on quality, rather than engagement, might hit at the root of the problem

Wait, we shouldn’t just let people create intentionally divisive outrage machines?

Some people love to dry hump strangers on a crowded bus or train, is that more like it?

I have to admit I don’t understand what connection this has with paying for music apps.

I’m pretty sure if you’re paying for it, that’s not love.

The real cycle is:

Rich people create hard times, hard times create more poor people, rich people create more hard times.

Didnt we already know that elon opened starlink to the russians? I thought he announced after that call with putin?

Oh yeah, I see that. No idea what I thought it said.

Y’all … You guys … you’re

Let’s ignore the question of what you think moralizing is if you saw it in the eight words you replied to. What I’m curious about is, do you think you’re talking to Hezbollah? On Lemmy?

part of God’s plan

Netanhayu’s not god, he’s just a brutal lying tyrant with no respect for human life - so I can see how you’d get confused.

My understanding is that a lot of the big agribusiness is structured as a monopsony - all the people farming a particular crop have only one big Ag company they all have to sell their produce to and that company sets the price low enough that the farmers doing the actual growing for Big Ag are still getting screwed.

Exactly. That’s a service that some rich people could be making profit on and here we are just giving it away for the collective good of our society. Won’t someone think of (financially screwing over) the farmers?

Yep! In my experience it’s awful and it stays awful for ever.

But just like with going to work, over time you come to accept that existence is suffering.

“Chinese” mummies is a bit misleading. The Tarim Basin has a long history of Chinese rule/influence, but not that far back.

These mummies are from a unique population that descended largely from Ancient North Eurasians, a group who contributed smaller percentages of ancestry to Northern Chinese people, Europeans, Siberians and Native Americans.

So these cheese enthusiasts are less Chinese and more like distant foreign relatives to the Chinese who adopted dairy-heavy pastoralism after it expanded through the steppe.

The funny thing is that actual chinese snake oil was incredibly effective at alleviating things like joint pain or some skin conditions. It has higher concentrations of omega 3s than fish oil and has even been shown to help mice learn mazes faster.

That’s why grifters selling fake medicine all claimed it was snake oil - people already wanted snake oil because they knew it worked.

Exactly. So many peoplev still trying to analyze what the Democrats did wrong in an election they won 🙄.

Personal trainers. Watching other people exercise is not a job.

You may as well be a corporate tax accountant, a ghost writer for the rich or an email scammer in terms of the value you create for society.

Republicans accuse their opponents of eating pets and drinking the blood of children while they themselves conduct actual human sacrifices when their king faces an uncertainty battle.

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Both parties support the US empire, of which Israel is a keystone piece in a vital region.

But israel’s genocide and a wider war in the middle east don’t benefit our imperial interests, only netanyahu’s career. Without the leverage of an election year, we’d have more political room to reign in our wayward vassal a little.

We’re just gonna let netanyahu start a regional war to avoid the consequences of his own failures because if we try to stop him AIPAC will do even more to help the neo-nazi riddled republican party win in november.

The 21st century is going great.

This kind of horrific torture occurs in large part because the republican party and their various neo-nazi allies have already normalized violent racist rhetoric and violent racist action always comes next.

I just strongly doubt that. Firstly, heaps of people would be dressing as aliens for Halloween and thus talking about it.

Secondly, there’s just way too many follow up questions, about them, their culture, their home, their tech, their goals, their language, their biology, the impact they’ve already had in our history, who knew and who didn’t, etc.

So many fields would begin looking into it and throwing up new angles and facts for people to chew over.

Just think of how much time christians would devote to converting aliens to jeebus.