If they shut down taco bell it becomes the flag of the Fascist Neo-Confederacy of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
If they shut down taco bell it becomes the flag of the Fascist Neo-Confederacy of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
As far as I can tell? No, but I just did a search of the onimbus for some keywords. The mental image feels very Adamsish though, doesn’t it? I may have unconsciously plagiarized it from somewhere. Props to you if you can find the source. Maybe it’s a Pratchettian quote? Or Giamanic?
When given a robot voice, all it learned how to do was scream endlessly.
All the Neo-Malthusian BS in this thread, holy crap. The “overpopulation is the problem” has got to be one of the best ways for governments, corpos, and the rich to deflect attention from their failures and excesses. Hands down even better than the “personal carbon footprint” propaganda.
earth has a resource distribution/use efficiency issues right now; the rich are greedy and wasteful.
don’t want to have kids? Fine, don’t! Kids deserve parents that want them, and you deserve your autonomy to live your life as more than a means to an end for demographics.
if governments addressed the resource hoarding and waste, more people who want to have kids would have them because they would have enough to have a good quality of life and standard of living, and we would also have addressed things like climate change and dystopic corpo control.
we just forgot how to build houses or something.
Or something, yep. We financialized housing.
We know how to build houses, but we built a system that builds houses for investors to house money, and not for people to house themselves.
Can I also recommend Australian folk? Astral Yeehaw - Working, Drunk or Hungover
And so it goes. Nero fiddled, Putin danced.
Also, Putin may need to divert resources from Ukraine and halt advances there earlier than intended.
Of course, if Putin drops a tactical nuke inside of Russia’s internationally-recognized boarders, will the world care? And if so, how much? Could backfire on Ukraine a bit in the short-term.
And if we had spent the tens of billions on healthcare or housing we would have created as many or more jobs and also had something useful to show for it.
1.5% of all deaths in America were caused by COVID excluding those deaths from acute COVID we didn’t count for various reasons, and also those deaths that were caused by residual COVID damage and happened after the acute phase.
Excess mortality: “FTFY”
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I mean, they are? They are additional consumers in an economy increasingly being driven by consumer spending, where spending per person is falling. So, adding more people keeps things afloat even though each person is spending less.
The main issue is that high immigration is a bandaid (doesn’t address the issues causing spending to fall in the first place, and new spenders just get sucked into the same crappy economic climate once they get here as everyone else) and it comes with a host of other issues (e.g. increasing scarcity of high-quality, appropriate and affordable housing leading to further reduction in consumer spending).
but have nothing to back it up with
Didn’t read the article eh? How 'bout this:
Higher interest rates alongside decades-high inflation in 2022-23 ate away at household purchasing power.
Weaker demand spurred a rise in the unemployment rate of a size that historically only happens in recessions.
For six of the past seven quarters, real per-person output has fallen alongside rising unemployment.
Per capita GDP has fallen to 3.1 per cent below 2019 levels.
The economists noted the only thing that prevented negative GDP growth in consecutive quarters – the typical definition of a recession – was a wave of new consumers
Consumer spending accounts for more than half of GDP
Seems like a lot to “back it up with,” as it were.
“riding for a fall” is a not an idiom I’ve heard before…
Or to bring in more TFW, errode wages and safety standards too! Yay!
Remember when banks were allowed to weaken regulation and move towards self-assessing risk and capital adequacy levels?