Science is the pursuit of answers - how can we appreciate the beauty of this universe and our existence without truly knowing how it all works.
It's hardly the scientists fault that God continues to keep failing to appear as science has torn through the gaps in humanities knowledge God used to fill.
I find it hard to grasp how these folks just don't seem to notice what a grifter Trump actually is.
Nobody with a moral backbone could ever do half the stuff Trump did before, during, and after his presidency.
What?! You mean to tell me that cutting funding to various public services and cutting taxes for the rich did nothing to help the general public?!
Next thing you'll be telling me is that trickle-down economics is a load of shite
A currency as a "negotiable instrument" only works because:
A. Everyone agrees that it does,
B. Because the controller of the currency has value with which to back the currency
B is less important these days with Fiat currency, but A is essential.
Unless you're a country's central bank, nothing you make as a "negotiable instrument" is going to be recognised as such - and even if it was, if you've no valuabke resource with which to back it up, it's worthless, so nobody would want it.
I feel sorry for these people because I do get the sentiment behind it. They feel like they're being screwed over and want a way to fight back - but if it were this easy, everybody would be doing it.
Essentially, they're writing $1,000,000 on a piece of paper and declaring it to be worth the full amount of the debt. The bank issuing this "coupon" being themselves, who can totally back this coupon's worth.
Kinda like if tried to pay your bills with monopoly money.
It continues to astound me this has to be stated as a political position, as though objecting to Israel committing mass genocide against Palestinians somehow makes you an antisemite.
Mass killing of innocent people is always wrong, no matter who is doing it.
It's such a laughably weak veil the rich pull over people's eyes I'm surprised more folks don't figure this out.
It's sickening to watch the rich people play their game with no care in the world whilst the working families are struggling just to feed their themselves.
Just deleted the duplicate, thanks for the heads up
But that's it. That cognitive dissonance is just part of the veil, same as the meme above.
The poor folks who get absorbed by the veil think they're a shoe-in to the rich, when they couldn't be further away - they'd have better chances of being picked to go to space than becoming part of the ultra-wealthy.
People think they're rich when they've won the lottery, and sure they are compared to the average person, but they're just a fly on the wall in comparison to the ultra-wealthy.
I simply don't believe one can become that wealthy by any honest means - you can't work to get that wealthy, you can't win to become that wealthy, hell there are plenty of entire countries with less money than some of the ultra-wealthy.
The fact that these people can play around with such an unimaginably absurd amount of wealth while so many more struggle, their wildest dreams but a fragment of a fragment of a fragment of what these people have, I find to be absurd.
"The economy" these days is just a nickname for the rich man's game - the stocks, shares, and speculation that have nothing to do with the average person's lived experience.
The average person could be near-destitute, but because the rich man's numbers are going up, tHe EcOnOmY iS dOiNg JuSt FiNe!
Nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe the US is in an economic recession, and the majority blame the Biden administration, according to a Harris poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian. The survey found persistent pessimism about the economy as election day draws closer....
Isn't this the same old "ThE eCoNoMy Is DoInG gReAt, WhY aRe YoU cOmPlAiNiNg?" BS as always?
The average person doesn't care how well the rich people's game is going if they're struggling to afford their groceries because of said rich people's game.
The mainstream consoles nowadays basically are locked-down computers anyway, so makes sense that people are skipping the live-services middleman and going straight to PC
Unless you care about exclusives, then PCs are the better all-rounder IMO, and don't need a yearly payment on top of your internet bill
Honestly, if you replaced those olives with pepper slices, and that "Queso" with something that looked slightly less artificial than the hotdog its covering, that might not be so bad.
Was going to say exactly this - surely it must be illegal to reinstate a debt without any communications, tack on years worth of high-interest, then turn up a decade later demanding all this money your debtor had no idea they even owed anymore (plus interest they never owed in the first place)
Glad I was too dumb to finish college... (startrek.website)
What an original post that you've thought up here... (lemmy.world)
Blow for Rishi Sunak as IFS says Tories oversaw ‘worst income growth for generations’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Sovcit sent the CEO a letter. CEOs love corresponding with sovcits. (lemmy.world)
real progressivism = against hate of all kinds (lemmy.world)
A beginner's guide to nationalism (lemmy.world)
None for me, thanks (lemmy.today)
A very confusing graph posted by the GovBC account (lemmy.ca)
I appreciate the graphics that they post, but this one was… Bad....
Anon catches her boyfriend in a private moment (sh.itjust.works)
Israel Threatens 'Severe Consequences' for Nations Who Recognize Palestine (www.commondreams.org)
Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession – and most blame Biden (www.theguardian.com)
Nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe the US is in an economic recession, and the majority blame the Biden administration, according to a Harris poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian. The survey found persistent pessimism about the economy as election day draws closer....
PC Gaming Is Growing Faster Than Consoles, Data Shows (kotaku.com)
OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson (www.tomsguide.com)
The Sultan doesn't approve of the age gap (lemmy.world)
Nathan's should sue (lemmy.today)
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Wore out playing with the cross body bag. (lemmy.world)
Her name is now “Willow”.
Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening thousands of Americans' homes (www.npr.org)