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You just gotta love the narcissism these people have.
Idk what misinformation and conspiracy theories you’re referring to here are. Yes, food is literally being poisoned, and there’s an ongoing class action about it in the US right now.
Maybe actually read the thread before commenting? I’ve literally addressed this here https://lemmy.ml/post/43791761/24225658
I don’t believe I ever asked you to sealion into my threads in the first place. It’s some great loss that I don’t have to see your drivel anymore. 🤣
Money is not fake, it’s arbitrary.
While distinction between fictitious and arbitrary is technically correct, it’s just pedantry which misses the actual point of the colloquialism. It’s not that it doesn’t serve an exchange function, or that the dollars in your account are somehow illusory. It’s an expression of frustration with how we have chosen as a society to treat economic institutions being treated as laws of nature, rather than as social construct which we ourselves have invented and therefore can revise at any time. As in much public discourse, the statement is a rebuke to the widespread habit of treating financial constraints as absolute barriers, beyond which no serious thought need be expended, and as an excuse for avoiding responsibility to address the underlying human issues. Correcting their metaphors ignores their argument. If the rules that govern human wealth are entirely of our own making, they can also be systematically changed whenever those rules no longer serve our common good.
Food is not being poisoned, what a crock of shit.
Meanwhile in the real world, there’s literally a lawsuit against companies knowingly designing, marketing, and selling food products that are harmful and addictive.
- https://www.olshanlaw.com/Advertising-Law-Blog/food-manufacturers-to-suffer-increasing-legal-pressure
- https://sfcityattorney.org/san-francisco-city-attorney-chiu-sues-largest-manufacturers-of-ultra-processed-foods/
- https://www.venable.com/insights/publications/2025/09/emerging-litigation-over-ultra-processed-foods
- https://hls.harvard.edu/today/the-new-case-against-ultraprocessed-food
Going on about how it’s being poisoned makes you sound anti-science or like someone trying to scare people into watching their paid content.
Again back in the real world, the history of US water pollution is unfortunately marked by numerous instances where industrial discharge, coupled with weak or failed regulation, has poisoned water supplies. Just a few examples which you could’ve trivially googled yourself
- https://environmentamerica.org/michigan/media-center/campbell-soup-admits-to-more-than-5000-days-of-clean-water-act-violations/
- https://www.hbsslaw.com/press/oregon-groundwater-contamination/oregon-lawsuit-alleging-nitrate-polluted-groundwater-filed-against-power-company-and-dairy-manufacturer
- https://www.selc.org/news/the-city-contaminating-almost-900000-north-carolinians-drinking-water/
The desire for Taiwanese independence has experienced a significant drop over the past three years, with only 25.3% of people who want to “move toward independence” or seeking “independence as soon as possible” - down from nearly one-third - 32.4% - in 2020.
6·2 days agoincidentally, a good dive into the sketchy stuff the dev baked into piefed https://lemmy.ml/post/42049895/23496934
and unapologetically so too
yeah, and also stuff like this that’s been going on forever https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-was
yeah the direct reddit tie in with world and piefed definitely feels sketch af
aww dronie is mad
I’m beginning to think that the whole reason lemmy.world exists is to remind us why we left reddit
4·3 days agoRight, it’s the lack of any double checking that’s shocking. I use LLMs to make mermaid diagrams of code all the time, it’s super useful, but you have to actually read through what it generates.
1·3 days agoEven if this ends up being a narrow domain speedup, it’s still massive, and coding tasks happen to be one of the big practical applications for LLMs. I can also hybrid approaches going forward, where specialized models end up being invoked based on the task at hand.
Oh I’m well aware, but seems like a lot of Europeans are not.
Indeed, and the fact that around 60% of the population is living on subsistence wages underscores the point. They literally pay people just enough for them to keep working, literally all the value produced through labor is appropriated by the parasites.
China is a prime example. It went from a century of humiliation and utter destruction in WW2 to becoming a super power that can challenge the US today. There is no precedent in human history for such a rate of development, and increase in a standard of living. We can look at some numbers to see just how stunning China’s progress is.
90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes
The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf
From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China’s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4
People in China enjoy high levels of social mobility in general https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html
Student debt in China is virtually non-existent because education is not run for profit. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jlim/2016/08/29/why-china-doesnt-have-a-student-debt-problem/
Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-bank-earnings-01-12-2024/card/chinese-household-savings-hit-another-record-high-xqyky00IsIe357rtJb4j
The typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-chinese-adult-now-richer-than-europeans-wealth-report-finds-2022-9
Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it’s the most populous country on the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8SvK0E5dI
From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2019&%3Blocations=CN&%3Bstart=2008
By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/asia/china-poverty-xi-jinping.html
Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience
China massively invests in public infrastructure. They used more concrete in 3 years than US in all of 20th century https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2014/12/05/china-used-more-concrete-in-3-years-than-the-u-s-used-in-the-entire-20th-century-infographic/
China also built 27,000km of high speed rail in a decade https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/high-speed/ten-years-27000km-china-celebrates-a-decade-of-high-speed/
Vietnam provides another great example, poised to become the fastest growing economy in Asia https://en.vneconomy.vn/vietnam-has-a-potential-to-become-the-fastest-growing-economy-in-asia.htm
And then there’s DPRK which survived brutal sanctions after the fall of USSR, and looking like a modern nation today https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vcGj0SMVLrI
That’s precisely why organized labour has been systematically dismantled in the US. Back in the day there were strong unions, mutual support groups, and so on. These systems are key for workers to be able to take collective action like general strikes.