This is the real answer. The french aren’t the pretentious ones in this story, they’re the plebs who don’t know any better haha

(All in good fun)

REEEE MM/DD/YYYY Burn it with fire

Missed opportunity to call it “AkkuBattery” for all the dual language pun enjoyers out there 🎩

We need to be moving before technology becomes profitable. This is one of the major downsides of capitalism. We temper it somewhat with government investment and regulation, but buy-in-large, the profit motive is what drives practically all economic questions.

We simply do not have time.

We need to building more energy storage, like yesterday.

It just hasn’t made much financial sense to build it, because fossil fuels were cheap, now we’re slowly getting started.

If the profit motive wasn’t the motive above all else, we could get a whole bunch more done in the fight on climate change.

We can’t wait for capitalism. It’s just not fundamentally aligned with our preservation, it’s aligned with profit motive.

We’re lucky it’s becoming more profitable. But we’re still massively reliant on fossil fuels. It’s way, way, way, way not fast enough.

And yes, capitalism is the problem. If governments weren’t so afraid of being criticised for how they run something we’d bring back more state run organisations and just start building, even if it runs at a “loss”.

Or at the very, very least, we should be directly contracting private companies to build and maintain the infrastructure, but WE own it. Not them.

Conclusion, capitalism isn’t the only economic system we can imagine. We already temper it. We used to even temper it more than we do now (post-world war II in the anglosphere, as an example, until the neo-libs privatised practically everything).

The neo-liberal experiment has been a colossal failure.

Capitalism isn’t the end of history.

The observation is that capitalism isn’t any good at efficiently allocating resources

To me any religion that excludes people or exalts people on the basis of tribe is not tolerant end of story.

I haven’t read the entirety of the Bible. But happy to be persuaded that my understanding of God and his chosen people is inaccurate.

For example, this was incredibly easy to search for: Destruction of the Canaanites

I would wager there are many such stories. Judaism, like most religions, is pretty fucked up.

If anyone really believes God chose their people over others, you inherently believe your tribe is more special, more righteous, or favoured by God. To me, that belief is nothing short of dangerous - *gestures broadly throughout human history*

I’m not really out of line here to assert that makes the orthodox belief foster ethnic/tribal supremacy.

I’m not saying everyone who believes in Judaism believes this way, but as a whole it’s pretty hard to argue their shit doesn’t smell as bad as the others.

Exclusion is just not a sign of tolerance. Sorry ¯_(ツ)_/¯

People are individuals, and I’d assert there’s a spectrum of views across believers.

If we’re talking about the religion in general? I’ll have to strongly disagree that it’s only inward looking.

They run a large budget deficit each year which Denmark subsidises out of historical obligation, since they subjugated Greenland. Fair enough I say.

Greenland is largely independent on internal policies and have their own laws, but still technically part of Denmark.

This is my laymen’s explanation.

Yeah, the religion with the “chosen people” . Yep. Definitely tolerant of non-believers.

God’s wrath? This only is directed at believers right?

Lol

Jews are welcome to believe in whatever they like provided they’re not hurting anyone, but let’s not pretend their religion as written, or hell even widely practiced, is somehow more tolerant compared to other religions.

Oh neato then. I had a full-sized corded lawn mower back when I lived in a house where I was burdened with a lawn. It was quieter, but still loud.

Glad to hear that there are quieter ones.

Or the properties are just so huge you wouldn’t disturb anyone haha (I lived in a inner suburban place where the next house was less than 5m wall to wall)

Why would you run it at night? They’re not as loud as petrol mowers, but spinning blades are not exactly quiet when mowing

This went way over my head and I was thinking: the writer’s taken their mask off as a racist??

Didn’t make the colour connection

“Bear” and “Bull” as terms are so cringe and I can’t put my finger on why.

I think I just associate them with grifters and idiots.

Yay! Cheaper goods for everyone else. Thanks USA!

Lol, if it’s gonna happen, can it really get underway in the next 3 weeks?

The Australian Labor party could ride its credentials from the previous recession, which we basically came out of unscathed, into another term of government. Anything to avoid the Libs (the conservatives, confusingly for everyone else outside Australia).

Might be a bit of a stretch though, since we won’t be able to sell as much raw materials to China as we did back then.

Anything to keep the Libs out of power, pls.

It’s crazy that people thought Trump’s plans were a good idea. Or that they still do, even now.

“Slams”. Look at what journalists did to our boy!

Good thing it ends up in the hands of the Belters (at least in the TV show)

Props to musk. He’s doing what the rest of the oligarchs are doing. He’s just making it plainly obvious.

Hopefully people then start to wake up to who their enemies truly are.

Oh don’t get me wrong. The strong adherence to pacifism is laudable. But they have not reckoned with their atrocities committed during and prior world war II. They practically deny them ever happening.

Your whataboutism is not appreciated.

Japan has never really reckoned with its past. They were just pacified.

I judge the country as a whole for this, since they keep electing politicians who continue to do very little to reckon with their past.

I feel a lot could be gained by apologising to the people and nations for the past, and nothing lost, other than nationalistic pride, bring forced into self reflection, and being genuinely sorry on behalf of the country.

People who think they shouldn’t apologise because it wasn’t them personally are stupid, frankly, and standing in the way of reducing tensions.

Will it fix everything in the region? No. Will it take some of the steam out of the war machine? Probably.

Ugh. They’re probably worse than a lot of them.

Abducting extremely young children into their cult. Teaching them to suppress their emotions, telling them to cut all families ties.

Someone ought to order their temples shut down to bring peace and stability to the galaxy world.