“Maybe Epstein was a hero.”

• Actual Republican talking point.

Population is dropping in developed countries. Nothing needs to be done but let nature take its course. That’s not anyone deciding anything.

My bad, I read it as if that’s what she was modifying. It didn’t make sense to me that they could modify a 2024 bill but I figured anything was possible these days.

It’s a schooner.

When Googling it said the start of that bill was from 2024.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-marjorie-taylor-greene-fails-to-win-votes-cut-funding-israel

I don’t think so. It was a modification to this Biden bill to remove the Israel money.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8034

How many long tailed bears were around in Ancient Greece? I saw a backwards interpretation that made more sense where the tail becomes the eye of the head.

Here’s an actual photo of the night sky with all the minor stars. There’s nothing there that even squinting gives the appearance of a bear.

We’re told we can’t walk out. That we’d be abandoning people. That we’re selfish for even thinking about it.

That’s crazy talk. The response to someone saying that should be immediately walking out. They can hire someone else.

They’re using compassion for their personal profit.

Those extra stars don’t really make it more bear looking.

Freakazoid. 1995 Comedy superhero who got his powers from the Internet.

Only 14% of Americans had Internet in 1995.

The article was about production, not wealth. While Bezos certainly uses 1000x the production compared to a regular person, he doesn’t use the 1Billion times that his wealth represents. He doesn’t eat 1B cheeseburgers every day. So while you’d get more out of the 30% of extremely wealthy, it wouldn’t be proportional to their wealth and there’s only .1% of the population that’s in that category.

But humans can clearly survive on a local diet pretty much everywhere

That’s subsistence living. No one wants to go back to that. Nor is anyone stopping you from living that way. Land is cheap in the middle of nowhere. Communes exist everywhere.

People already love to eat or order out. You could have a cafeteria

A communal cafeteria isn’t what people do when “going out”. If it was what people wanted, there would be more cafeterias and fewer restaurants.

A major driver of this is advertising or “brainwashing” people to buy garbage they don’t need.

It’s easy to think that everyone is sheep except for yourself. I’ve now come to believe that consumerism is fundamental to human nature, not advertising changing humans. The proof is thousands of years of pre capitalism artifacts from archeology sites. People have always liked unnecessary “stuff”. People have always liked fashion and trends. People are going to be rampant consumers even if advertising and marketing were stopped tomorrow. It’s their nature.

I find it funny that Seth had to pitch them, “You still want money?” Because the current executives don’t have any idea how to make money.

Dude, that’s not how it works at all!
Stock price is a popularity contest that has virtually no basis on the finances of a company.

See Tesla’s crazy high price that has no basis on their current or future revenue. But if their stock dropped to 0, they would still be selling cars at a profit and wouldn’t go out of business. It wouldn’t change anything.

Companies get money from stock at IPO and when they extremely rarely issue new shares. That’s it. After IPO, you buying stock doesn’t give any money to the company. You are buying it from someone else.

If ever fewer young and able people have to take care of ever more elderly, it won’t have a good outcome.

It takes fewer resources to care for elderly than raise children. Not raising a child means there’s a surplus to care for the elderly. Then the elderly die leaving more surplus behind. It’s not only a theoretical based on money but we have all of history that shows this truth. For example WW2 killed the most productive members of society leaving only the elderly to be cared for. The result was a global economic boom.

“Deserve” implies to me

That’s only semantics. You agree with the OP, you only don’t like the wording.

And I don’t think they deserve less than the rest of us.

So the Doctor that studied for 16 hours a day while I played video games and then worked 16 hour shifts at the hospital during residency for 5 years while I worked 7 hours shifts at Taco Bell should be paid the same as me?

Capitalism has perverse unjust rewards but that doesn’t make the opposite just either.

Air conditioning or cooking is rather nitpicking, those are not real issues, technological advances and passive house design would easily solve that.

The entire world doesn’t have the climate of Japan where it’s possible to live in an apartment without AC and heat. No amount of design can ameliorate 38C high humidity.

growing food directly around you

Only a subset of food can be grown locally and that local food is only available seasonally. It’s the system we already have.

You could also have communal kitchens or diners or cafeteria.

That’s not a technological solution to cooking. That’s social which is far harder if not impossible to overcome.

The greatest luxury of all would be to have free time.

That doesn’t follow. The same work needs to be done, if not more because reducing energy means reducing automation so people have to work to make up the difference.

It bothers me to a minor extent to technically contribute to some of these companies.

Outside of large shareholders like how Musk owns Tesla and sells his stock to fund fascism, buying stock does nothing for companies, ethical or not.

If you buy shares of an ethical green company, none of that money goes to the company. You bought the shares from someone else. It’s like buying a used book of Harry Potter. Absolutely no money goes to JK Rowling.