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Well, by that logic, the private militaries in question should have just gone on strike, as well. It wouldn’t take many to foul up the operation, right? There’s just way, way more public support for life to go on like normal, than there is for whatever fringe party you’re pushing to seize power. (Or for a raging power vacuum, if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t have an alternative society ready)

At the polls, this basic logic works. Normal voters are kind of predictable and inert, and elections are routine and safe, so that 1% of activists do make it rain. If you really mean business, you should go and sign up to doorknock - for an established party, or a fringe party. If nothing else, you’d get to see what we’re talking about first hand.

If that’s too big an ask for you personally - and let’s be real, most people on Lemmy wouldn’t ever do that - you should stop talking about people’s livelihoods and personal safety. Hopefully, you’re not in that picture.

Well, 1/3 of, say, America supports what’s going on, and another 1/3 doesn’t really care either way. Even in just that last third, caring enough to take on enormous personal cost is extremely rare.

The thing is, nobody wants to sacrifice for some distant, abstract ideal. That’s why history’s revolutions never happened like this, either.

Yeah, IIRC the force between nucleons is actually mediated by virtual pions, which are themselves composite particles. (Which is why it doesn’t get stronger with distance, like happens with the direct strong force)

It turns out that glueballs don’t come from “taking the quarks out” of regular matter but by some kind of direct excitation of the colour charge field – a thing I didn’t even know was a thing.

Yep. It’s like if photons (which are the fundamental particles of electromagnetism) had a magnetic or electric charge.

Ironic to post on SDF, but yes.

I guess it makes sense - the more CO2 you breath, the more your body has to deal with, and it’s physiologically relevant.

If you didn’t read the article, don’t get too worked up - it’s a cell raised in a bath of ready-made cell organelles, which it can absorb and use, basically.

It’s still impressive, given what the state of the art was, but don’t expect it growing on a damp spot near you anytime soon.

Yay! No more dark ages.

Yeah, it doesn’t actually matter. It kind of fills the same roll as a weird look or awkward silence would in real life.

Which is good, on the old forums you’d see someone post something insane (like actually trolling or insane, not just unpopular or against the jerk like this one), and since there was no cue it hadn’t been taken seriously, the whole thread would derail into arguments about it.

You knew people would downvote this to hell, right?

I mean, Lemmy is definitely both far left and anti-LLM on average, so that’s one sample point.

IRL few people hate LLMs that much, and mean around the political centre by definition, so that’s the other one.

Hmm, I wonder if there’s an actual poll?

Yes, me too! Does anyone know if there is some way to donate other than PayPal?

And FWIW futurology.today has 0 blocked/blocked by last I checked, so that’s what I’ve been using.

Love you too.

One quote vs. a bunch of hard statistics, sources available on request.

It’s not even a quote that contradicts what I said, when put in context, where it was about tax policy. Warren buffet is well aware of the gradualness of the wealth gap, and that there’s no free lunch for corporations. His whole investment philosophy is built on the latter fact.

Well, since you’re not OP.

Most stuff in the West, including businesses, is owned by kinda rich but mostly ordinary people - the 9% after the 1%. Furthermore, people have always tried to make money, and while big businesses are a lot more efficient at it today margins are much lower to compensate. There’s no self-contained club getting a free lunch here at the public’s expense, which is what OP was implying.

A few things have gotten more expensive relative to wages. Some things are actually less expensive (clothes are a minor expense post-globalisation, a basic TV costs less than a really nice meal), other things are kinda the same. The real trend has been the split between well paying jobs (like most of Lemmy has) and poorly paying jobs widening; the rest is “everything used to be better”, which people are recorded saying all the way back through Socratese.

I want to argue with this, but it wouldn’t be much of a rant community if it talked back.