lots of countries have hosted US bases because they sold oil and made good business that way … now it’s becoming clear that they won’t be selling oil to the US in 10 years, so better start kicking them out now that they’re of no use anymore .

And if there was they wouldn’t ever give it to regular civilians.

takes 20 years for patents to expire and cheap generica to become available

Random thought: If there’s a breakthrough in life-prolonging medication in the next decades (i.e. you live to 120 instead of 80), that would mean that world population would go up by 1.5x simply due to that, so if there’s no prior drop in numbers, that might not be sustainable.

be dubai
build city in the middle of the desert
literally nothing grows here
we import all our stuff
trade blockade
gonna starve
mfw

Also how did people historically live there? Before desalination plants

can’t say that i’m surprised

And that’s why it’s good that we have thrown away around 50% of our food so far, so we have significant buffers now.

I did once and the next day i could hear my roommate shrubbing the bathtub with some cleaning utensil … so i guess it smelled and he was sensitive to it? But i couldn’t smell anything, idk.

It’s all random bullshit. Reality is just monkeys on typewriters. You can safely ignore it. Don’t let it ruin your day.

excuse my german dialect but i gotta release some steam: des duad weh beim lesen. aua.

I’ve started thinking that it’s not so much about blackmail after all, instead it’s about connections and relationships.

Consider this: Epstein clearly had thousands of customers. I don’t have any actual number in my head, but clearly it must have been a lot and seemingly everybody knew about it. Like, if you look at how many people are related to all this, it’s impossible to think that nobody knew anything. Probably, a very large number of people knew what was going on; but nobody bothered to do anything about this. Why? Because they didn’t care. To them, it was just business as usual, everybody’s all in on this anyways, those that aren’t have no actual power, so who’s gonna do anything?

Like, even if it did get public, i’m pretty sure most of the people involved felt certain enough that nothing bad would happen anyways. Considering there were mostly no consequences till today, they’re mostly right, i’d say.

Instead, they just used the parties and connections as a networking platform, getting to know other influential people and stuff. That’s IMHO the bigger reason why mossad is involved in all of this. Not for blackmailing purposes, but to be in the center of a network of connections that gives them a lot of strategic influence in the world.

Realistically, that doesn’t happen. At least not if we consider mathematics to be the useful kind of mathematics. The stuff that helps you do statistics/finances/engineering. Because that type of mathematics is based on reality and for the mathematics to be inconsistent would mean that reality is inconsistent, and then we have much much bigger problems.

As for the higher abstract maths (which is closer to philosophy anyways) yeah such things have happened many times and led to revolutionary insights each time. An example is when we started basing everything on set theory (which in medieval times did not really exist). But that’s a philosophical question, not one that concerns daily life.

Unironically a good thing. Prostitution is one of the most abusive businesses out there, at least in the western world. Idk about japan.

You know, the thing that pisses me off about Friendica is that you can’t easily see what the site actually looks like without signing up for an account. that really sucks. who wouldn’t want a preview of what they’re getting into?

she also looks like the “liberal” purple haired girl they told us they hated so much.

typical right-wing mindset is pretty simple. is she hot? if yes, she gets a lot of views, no matter what her hair color is.

All of the smart people on his team are in bed with Russia.

The thing is that Trump himself was apparently in bed with russia … sort of. At least i remember reading him sleeping with 14yo russian girls (via epstein). they literally did empire marriage.

Wow that’s interesting!

The book emphasizes that Russia must spread geopolitical anti-Americanism everywhere: “the main ‘scapegoat’ will be precisely the U.S.”

Wait a moment … blaming the US … that’s what a lot of people here on Lemmy do, does that mean we’re influenced by russian propaganda?

Reminds me of this:

Replace Chinese with Russian

tbf i think it should drop by sth like 90%.

the opposite is the case: if the Dollar drops significantly, it makes exports more desirable and that creates jobs in the US.

The thing is that the Dollar needs to lose credibility to weaken Trump. He can just print arbitrary amounts of money; this needs to end. Fiat currency needs to end. There should be sth like a gold standard again.