This look is only acceptable for old dudes and the Amish. Hipsters, get your own look.
This look is only acceptable for old dudes and the Amish. Hipsters, get your own look.
I know very few things in this world, but that chair is definitely haunted.
Where did Rob Cantor get $20k?
So anyway, I started blasting
Hopefully I’m not mistaken, but I’m going to assume you are asking in good faith.
Capitalism is an ideology of infinite growth. Capital is only invested for growth, that’s the whole point…so corporations have to consume more, produce more, sell more, or capitalists will take away their capital investments. Think of it this way, you’re a capitalist (by which, I don’t mean someone who believes in the idea of capitalism…I mean someone who makes the bulk of their wealth with capital investments instead of labor) with millions invested in an oil company – that oil company realizes that we need to phase out the use of fossil fuels for the sake of the planet – so they announce a plan to limit production (and therefore profits).
Your capital is how you make your money, so if they announce a very finite upside (with a real possibility that in a decade or two, their whole business will dry up), you will quickly take your millions and move them somewhere else. And you won’t be alone – think of the bank run that Silicon Valley Bank had once everyone suspected the bank would have solvency problems. And before you know it, that whole company has lost trillions and fails almost immediately.
Now repeat this while coal, commercial beef farms, and down the line of the worst industries for the climate.
The corporations that are the main source of climate change causing emissions also know that if any one of them chooses to do the right thing for the planet, other, less ethical corporations will see blood in the water, and take over their portion of the market; and nothing will change for the environment, all that CEO will have done is put thousands of their own workers out of business.
Socialism, by contrast, is not an ideology of infinite growth. At it’s core, it’s an ideology of collectivism – we all need to take care of everyone else – this includes making sure everyone has a habitable planet to live on. The government can make sure all companies play by the rules, for the benefit of all humankind, not just do as they do now…ask nicely for the corporations to be nice, and then shrug their shoulders when nothing changes.
“ever recorded” - there was nobody around to record the formation of the earth.
Seriously! I give it pretty good odds this runs for a full month, then we’ll probably get some relief with days that are only near record-breaking 🥵
Any lyrics would be better than “tell me more…did she put up a fight?”
For anyone who wants to hear the best country hip hop song of 1998: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gcbe-dznTZk 🤠
I feel personally attacked
Free Kevin!
I remember seeing him speak at Comdex 20 years ago. He was as funny as he was clever. RIP
TIL a new word. Also, Germans have the best words.
My retirement plan: wait for the zombie apocalypse. No rent, no taxes, no cubicles.
How many ducks would it take to span the equator if they were all lined up in a row?
Source toot: https://mas.to/@advisorybriefs/110735907070699446
Data source: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/
Mine’s going to be called “I can’t believe it’s not I can’t believe it’s not butter”
Yeah that’s what I’d like to know too. Dev must be clever.
And many states let private companies charge accused people up to $40 a day for the ankle bracelets.
UN: Israel, stop committing genocide. Israel: how about you just stop providing aid to the people we’re genociding.