Wow this is batshit.
Yep this. It's a combination of becoming more financially well-off, combined with loss aversion, combined with a sense that the culture starts to alienate you. It's like grandpa simpson said: "I used to be with it. But what was 'it' changed. And now what I'm with isn't 'it', and what is 'it' is scary and strange."
I'm normally pretty critical of China but this I can get behind.
Man, I’m so glad this shit is illegal on multiple levels in Europe.
In other news: https://midwest.social/post/17142014
Goldbugs have a lot of nostalgia for the Gilded Age, so they put the face value it where it would have been in 1896.
They conquered the whole planet in search of someone they could beat at cricket.
During 2022 the French left was saying "A vote for Macron in 2022 is a vote for Le Pen in 2027".
They appear to be right on schedule.
Both CEOs are horrible but the new one is a former McKinsey consultant with a background in finance and the silicon-valley C-suite. According to statements she put out her strategy is: layoffs and AI.
He's a "free-breathing absolutist." He thinks everyone should have a supply of oxygen except the people he personally doesn't like.
I quite frankly flat out do not understand why people on the left are so against space exploration suddenly
Ever heard the song "whitey on the moon?"
Setting that aside, exploring space is not the same thing as building a company town for the world's least mentally stable pregnancy fetishist oligarch in an unworldly cold desert where everyone is sure to die.
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That's too 5-d chess for "the US" to pull off. I find it more plausible that the US supports Israel because Israel has a lot of powerful supporters in the US who manipulate public opinion and government policy.