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- Comment on Insomnia 1 week ago:
eh idk, i had difficulty finding exact numbers. apparently the napoleonic wars did have wide consequences but not so much because of the number of people that died in them but because they basically pushed very severely the modernization of all states in europe, which then caused a whole lot of things to happen rather quickly.
- Comment on Insomnia 1 week ago:
yeah that’s not what i meant. phylogenetic trees are constructed by considering the genetics of recent (living) species, not from fossils.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 week ago:
this doesn’t really have anything to do with “work”, therefore it’s questionable whether it belongs in the “work reform” community. anyways, it’s a good post, with a good point.
it’s quite clear that we need tax reforms. the current system works for no-one anymore, not even for the rich. the stock market is a bubble only waiting to burst, and everybody’s well aware of it. the economy, the way it is today, is absolutely not sustainable. people are getting poorer, due to not having jobs, or rather the jobs pay like shit (bullshit pay for bullshit jobs) because the jobs aren’t fundamentally important to the economy. there’s a declining labor market because there’s not so many new inventions compared to 1900 when stuff was new and hot. (consider that the electric grid was literally invented around 1900, there’s an interesting chapter of history there, current wars). that’s why the labor market is cooling down.
i advocate for spaceflight partially because it would create jobs. also waging wars would create jobs but deeply unpopular so nobody wants to do that. so jobs will still be lost, and can only be partially replaced. we need a universal basic income or sth similar to give people enough resources to live. we need to start writing policy proposals for that. i propose the following fields should be covered and provided for by state-run services somehow:
- water, food, healthcare
- housing
- transport
- energy
- IT, telecommunication, education
- Comment on I'm going to change the world 1 week ago:
there are 3 sources of energy on the surface of earth:
- energy from inside earth (geological heat)
- energy from the moon (tides can make water go up and down -> generates energy)
- energy from the sun (and hypothetically, other stars)
so, the thing is that earth’s internal heat generates 0.03% of the energy on the surface of Earth (source) while i couldn’t find any numbers for the moon (so i guess it’s too low to mention). so basically everything comes from the sun.
and this is true for living beings. living beings can live off the sun’s energy (photosynthesis) or they don’t, in which case they’re utilizing Earth’s internal processes (volcanoes, …) as an energy source.
basically all life was dependent on energy from inside the Earth before photosynthesis was developed, which is severely restricted. this is why this is such a big breakthrough.
- Comment on Insomnia 1 week ago:
ehh, modern biology doesn’t construct evolutionary history from fossil records, but from genetic similarities.
- Comment on Insomnia 1 week ago:
i looked up the number of deaths during the napoleonic wars like yesterday
- Comment on Apes smart 1 week ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
when you’re using a sailing ship, you’re not actually using wind to drive, instead you’re using the energy within the wind’s movement, that’s what you’re using to push the ship forward
it’s similar with electricity. the electrons rarely get consumed (exceptions exist, mostly in electrochemistry)
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 2 weeks ago:
funny but not true, i knew nice farmers
- Comment on gotteem 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on chad 4 weeks ago:
I think that if i was driving by there i could only read “I smoked” and that’s it.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 4 weeks ago:
i don’t see it that way, my views have changed significantly because of the discussions i’ve had (mostly online)
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 4 weeks ago:
this could be because they understand “democracy” completely differently, though honestly it’s probably just a cover for “our way of life” or “our interests”
like when the US goes to the middle east to spread “democracy”, they’re not actually spreading a better quality of life for the people, just violence and bloodshed. could be that your acquaintance meant it in that way.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 4 weeks ago:
did you ask him why he thinks that the bible is true?
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 4 weeks ago:
yeah you’re not gonna convince people who have the violence and bloodshed running through their veins; where would you even start to discuss that?
i think international law should be based on some principles that are easy to see for everybody, the whole russia situation is all fucked up and it’s largely because people in russia often have such a bad quality of life that it turns into “seeking an external enemy to blame it on” which then leads to invasion.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 4 weeks ago:
i feel like this is talking about me.
however it’s not bullshit, it’s often just another point of view, and people should get more exposed to that. it’s not as if i’m being mean or obtuse either. people downvote me because it doesn’t (yet) fit their world model
- Comment on What if? 4 weeks ago:
is there some pic missing to this post?
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 4 weeks ago:
this reminds me of a story … the american foreign politics minister visits china in 1950. he sees the workers are building a new railway using shovels instead of machine baggers. he asks the construction leader “why don’t they use engines for that?” the construction leader replies “sothat it creates more jobs”. american minister replies “they should use spoons the next time!”
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Some kids playing with model rockets on school grounds in 1970. 4 weeks ago:
this is dumb as hell if it contains explosives
otherwise yeah water bottle rockets (air pressure rockets) are fun :)
- Comment on Good n dumb 4 weeks ago:
i care very little about what the government allows, if i think it’s wrong, i’m gonna act by it.
- Comment on Good n dumb 4 weeks ago:
can we pls stop shitting on disabled people. pls
just call her “dumb” or sth, no need to call her “down syndrome”
- Comment on Banning from social media 5 weeks ago:
believe it or not, that’s exactly what a wealth tax would do.
- Comment on Banning from social media 5 weeks ago:
Take away the kids access to communicate with friends and what the fuck do they have left? It’s not like we have youth centers or shit any more. Barely had any when I was a kid;
well, i grew up in the countryside and we did have youth centers. i can guarantee you i made a wide circle around them, in the sense that i avoided them like the plague
it’s not the absence of youth centers that’s the problem, it’s the fact that i grew up in a very backwards rural countryside full of the exact type of shitheads that you would expect to find there. one person more annoying than the next, the excesses in alcohol consumption weren’t the worst part, it was how people looked at people who didn’t fit their definition of “normal”. really not a good place to be.
- Comment on Anon was bullied 5 weeks ago:
noo haha i don’t reject mainstream because it’s mainstream, i reject mainstream because it’s often stupid and bland.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 5 weeks ago:
kein problem ;-)
- Comment on Anon was bullied 5 weeks ago:
i … don’t? i don’t get it? is this some reference?
- Comment on Close enough 1 month ago:
upvoting for the “baby”
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 month ago:
i mean i agree that most people prefer to live in small groups. i was just pointing it out for reasons that i now forgot.
also, Johnny, it’s really weird to be called by name somehow.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 1 month ago:
because of WW2 and the experiences made there.
if euthanasia was legal, it would be immediately used against some kind of disadvantaged group, which is why it’s kept forbidden.
