I’ve tried explaining this to people but it doesn’t get traction.

Israel wants to be the major power in the Middle East, the only way that’s possible is to keep Iran as low powered as possible.

Sure, in theory they would want the Iranian people to thrive, but that would require the Iranian economy to thrive and Israel would see that as a competition.

Replace Russia with the Russian state mafia and it makes more sense

What if fans of eugenic are just projecting their own inferiority complex?

As in, what if some people are so shallow that they think genetic success is very important but think they would never have a good chance unless the game is rigged in their favour?

Has there been many cases of super smart people or Olympic athletes being big on eugenics? I can’t recall any.

Hahahahahaha,

Hahahaha,

Never underestimate dem’s ability to self sabotage.

Would you pull it off while inhaling at the end so it makes a pop sound?

Isn’t it obvious?

Instead of having government rely on tech companies, it should just build its own solutions.

And those solutions would be open source and use open source dependencies.

It would then have a budget to donate to different projects given that it saves time by using other foss software.

Another take is that they believe in inherit hierarchy that must be conserved.

In this situation, being German is very high on the ladder, so even if they accept immigrants, they would only do so because there are plenty of foreigners that would be lower.

It’s less about where you draw the exclusion line, and more about that their entire worldview is a pyramid in which only a few groups can have a good life if that is built on the shoulders of a larger, lower group.

This is why it’s not about healthcare, it’s about equality. Even if you convince them that everyone deserves healthcare, they would automatically believe that since they are in the top group, they have to get a better kind of healthcare.

This is also why they would never see someone that is fully integrated as true Germans, cause even within the top group, there is a structure.

And of course, their worse fear is being in the bottom group.

If it affects the world in an unavoidable way, why wouldn’t it?

Before WWI, a war halfway around the world didn’t affect you. Now it raises prices within a week of starting.

IMO WWIII started with the invasion of Ukraine.

Now we have both US and Russia participating in war.

If china takes Taiwan then you’ll have the big 3 which will effect pretty much all other countries one way or another.

Orrr, keep up with me on the optimism, it would be like post WWII in which the pendulum will swing the other way.

Not op but nope. Same with office as well.

There are just some people that enjoy watching others be uncomfortable and I think it’s correlated with having less empathy.

When I watched the office, I just felt bad for Michael.

A lot of those shows just focus on punching down.

I always thought what would kill Microsoft is their greed and insistence that their products should have a high price, remember how expensive office used to be even for regular people?

So I always thought the solution was just go get everyone to pirate their stuff as much as possible.

Never thought they would make themselves irrelevant by just making their products worse.

I used to want a windows surface, now I just want a good Linux optimized laptop.

Amateur,

You need to always have a bigger reward for the end.

If you are gonna have a cookie now, then clearly you need to have two when you’re done.

Unless you eat two halfway through…

Instead of this number, I wish we used something more comprehensive, like total hours worked, average income/wage and labour participation rate.

The current metric only counts those looking for work.

He was a fairy tale villain, not a modern villain.

A fairy tale villain is evil by virtue, bowser is always bad and will always be bad.

Modern villains are more about becoming evil under the right circumstance, and serve as a warning of why you shouldn’t let that circumstance happen.

The ending was all about that there is always evil in the world, it just needs to be contained by the hero.

In a modern story, it’s more about society overcoming systematic struggles.

Yea, from what I’ve seen from his work, he is very critical on a lot of sensitive topics and doesn’t pull punches when it comes to his Jewish side.

But to be fair, he makes fun of Judaism, can’t recall many Israel jokes.

Which means it must step out of the water at some point.

Or more terrifying, step on the sea floor.

The only good thing out of NFTs was that I learned what fungible means.

Huh, TIL

Anyone else a little surprised by the realization that if an enemy took out all datacenters it would actually improve a lot of things and take us back 20 years to the golden age of the internet?