it’s not really difficult to recycle plastics (depolymerisation) - but it’s not cheap to do it at scale and there really isnt any way to profit from it, so it’s just not done.
Ford doesn’t have any special tolerance or respect for trans rights, he just knows it’s a can of worms that doesn’t benefit him to open.
Make no mistake - he’d kneecap a trans person at least as quickly as anyone else for stiffing him on drug payments; and probably add an extra few kicks for being a freak; but that’s personal, and his business dealings (mob-backed government) aren’t helped by declaring war on trans folks.
I just got into a debate with an erstwhile Conservative who assured me that this wasn’t something the political right was going to do, and that they certainly weren’t going to try abortion next.
I wouldn’t mind as much if they made them realistic. “You’re now scared of fireworks and your wife fucked 13 dudes while you were deployed” kind of thing.
Cemalettin Küçük, an engineer who co-authored a report on the mine’s safety when its operator sought permission to expand its capacity, said the soil was filled with “stone fragments containing cyanide”.
“We are talking about a mountain weighing millions of tonnes,” Küçük told Turkish media. “We have warned about this many times.”
Mehmet Torun, the former president of the Chamber of Mining Engineers, said that the huge pile of soil sliding towards the Euphrates River consists of materials washed with cyanide and sulphuric acid.
So, did ANYONE here read the article? It’s not the LCO decided not to pay. Barclays froze their accounts without warning in an effort to weed out fraud. It happened to several other non-profits as well.
At a certain point in capitalism, a wealthy person can get enough money to live comfortably the rest of your life. If you decide to continue to grow your wealth from there, you’re essentially not just making money for yourself, but so others can’t have it.
I have a feeling that number is well below a billion, but I’m no economist.
There was a study from 2010 that said that the happiness already plateaus somewhere around 75k annually. But more recent studies suggest that for some people, more money means more happiness well beyond that, and for some it doesn’t. Basically, if you’re generall an unhappy person, money doesn’t help much. …upenn.edu/…/does-more-money-correlate-greater-ha…
But I agree that owning more than 1 billion (or even 100 million) is just useless hoarding, since no one can spend that much money in a lifetime (at least without decadent spending for spending’s sake).
But you miss that having the money isn’t necessarily the point they have power and control over resources people and machines as well as influence in government
Also not a psychologist, but attended a four hour lecture on psychopaths recently (out of interest). I don’t think happiness as a concept exists for actual psychopaths, because they don’t really feel emotions the same way.
It’s called hoarding and it’s an unhealthy habit so why isn’t anybody doing anything? Because if you give them enough of that money they won’t complain.
If you decide to continue to grow your wealth from there, you’re essentially not just making money for yourself, but so others can’t have it.
This is a zero-sum fallacy. The size of the economy isn’t fixed. It continues to grow each year. The hyper productive people you’re referring to are disproportionately responsible for that growth, and they are disproportionately the recipients of that growth. My father was one of those people. Working 18 hours every day for 30 years. It led to a divorce and our family falling apart, but fuck did he generate a lot of economic value for the world, his company, and himself. He didn’t steal it from you. He created it.
While true, the growth of the economy has been wildly outpaced by the rate of hoarding at the top. After all that extra work, how much better off was your dad after everyone above him benefitted?
Nearly all social animals would be punished in some way for hoarding resources from the group. Between loss of social status all the way to being killed. Our closest relatives like apes straight up murder individuals that do this.
It’s a mental illness. We’ll probably find out it was caused by lead or micro plastics if our species survives this time.
For now. I believe the correct call to action involves guillotines. We can dial it back if things get better.
Out of all Looter Shooters launches since and including Destiny 2: Suicide Squad Kills The Justice League has been by far the most complete (nr of bugs, overall polish, features, feel, gunplay, controls, fps, etc).
Claiming anything else highlights you (not you as in the OP specifically) as someone who haven’t given it any time and possible weaksauce bandwagoneer.
What it does show, clearly to all of the interwebz, is that Gaming Journalism is not your path and you should take a step back and just research words. Words like integrity, ethics and character
/awaits your 3 hour 1/10 review of Skull & Bones and banter like “something something ubisoftisdarknessandbadnessnomatyerwhatyousay”
Industry figures indicate employment in IT is still above pre-covid levels. Companies over-hired and are normalising. We’re not seeing this labour activity in most other sectors. There’s no reason to panic.
That’s one way to look at it, if you’re looking to downplay the human impact. The way I look at is these companies had a short sighted hiring spree and now thousands of people are without income and can’t just get a new job as the industry is laying off everywhere. That seems like a reasonable source of panic for the people with no income and not a lot of prospects.
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