iraq_lobster Now • 100%
prioritize better lifestyle for the masses, not record quarterly earnings. to hell with the economy.
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
How about wealth decline for the rich and redistribution among the bottom 80% ? on an individual scale, working way less and having no offspring should be the way to go. raise pets not babies!
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
Wealth owners: billionaires should be degraded to millionaires, starting from the industrial revolution. and voila!
iraq_lobster Now • 75%
in Canada they are still allowed to drive those 2004 Peterbilt trucks that run with no emissions controls (no dpf, no euro 7 emission standands: just plain, NOx rich, diesel exhaust gases straight to the atmosphere). If anything, it would help to boycott canadian products.
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
haha! though i didn't bother thinking it up, still i dont mind being enlightened in that regard. I think anything that would ensure a constant supply of serotonin would be a good fit. But now you will have tolerance issues to deal with ..
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
:/
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
the purpose of life is to maximize happiness and euphoria. have other suggestions in mind ?
iraq_lobster Now • 38%
stock ownership need to have an expiration date. Sure he did work to reclaim the gains of these shares, but at a certain point these stocks need to be relinquished and shared among the real contributors of the company so they could also get a taste of their work. You can't keep leeching off of people like this all the time, or whats the point of having kids and procreation overall ? Even 1 billion$ isn't much to make a globe changing endeavour like space travel, but its too much that if he chose to keep having coke injected directly into his body for the rest of his life he would still have money left. The mere existence of this person is just a nuisance, like many anonymous others
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
:(
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he racks such wealth because he is a shareholder who leeches off of the effort of 1000s of people like you that do actual honest work.
nationalpost.com
Another attempt by imperialists to shift attention from their wealth hoarding by scapegoating immigrants who are the real value creators: they pay taxes to sustain public services, but also benefit the rich with good value labor. Rest of the population would complain: oh, no! immigrants now are lowering the bar for life quality, while in fact they aren't the real enemy. Hopefully people would see right through it. > The Canadian economy experienced a contraction “unprecedented outside a recession,” according to a new analysis from National Bank Financial, a trend driven, at least in part, by a population spike that has squeezed per capita GDP growth. > The bank’s monthly economic analysis says that “signs of an economic slowdown have been multiplying.” > “Consumption stagnated for the second quarter in a row, a stinging setback in the current demographic context characterized by record population increases,” the report says. > The recalculated GDP per capita — which the bank’s economists had estimated had contracted by 2.4 per cent — now sits, they say, at a 4.4 per cent contraction during the third quarter. > The report also finds that while Canada’s inflation rate is at 3.1 per cent, costs for shelter are growing at six per cent annually. > The first nine months of 2023 saw the single fastest population growth since Confederation. Around one million people joined the Canadian population in that time, exceeding growth in 2022, already a record year for population growth. Since July 1, 430,635 people have come to call Canada home. Less consumerim and lower GDP is the way: living a happy life with the advent of technology should theoratically allow us to work 1 day per week and dedicate the rest of the week to be spend with family and pursuing personal interests, all while having reliable public services like health and transport, while maintaining an ecological lifestyle so the offspring could inherit a healthy habitat. People need to unite to make this a reality, because we are weak when we are divided. We don't need flying cars nor Mars to be populated, a sustainable future is easily achievable for the bottom 80%.
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
Maybe i am wrong then. Also probably funded by imperialists. Politicians are pointless and will never fight corporate owners for the people. The middle man need to be cut and power should be controlled by the people directly. Retirees were already erased long time ago.
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
Shocking reality sometimes. Personally i got disappointed when i tried to look for engagement in the wrong places, sometimes you need to 'feel' the people out and see if your interests fit them or not, or you can try to find a middleground between you and them, maybe this sound too 'incel' from me but sometimes internet is the best place to find like-minded people, all while keeping real life in mind. As proven above, i keep using an unpopular app among lemmies, but i dont really take the sentiment to heart: i try to pick the jewel from the garbage, and then share it with my favourite people, i get confirmation, then i profit! i even use trash apps like tiktok and Zuccapp but luckely i could hide behind a DNS if i dont want to be tracked, then i freeze those apps when i am done. The internet now is more addictive than ever, i hope no one get caught into it much. So you are handling this as it should ^^
iraq_lobster Now • 80%
meh, i doubt so. The french has this Zemmour dude that keep bringing this up all the time, i hope they see through it too. For immigrants, France is just a transit zone.
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
Lemmy has good quality content but also not as addictive as other platforms. Also the audience is maybe more mature, techy and less artsy. You should still keep posting though, your posts will be recognized years later in the future. Luckely the internet doesn't forget.
iraq_lobster Now • 83%
i am using connect, and running the same word filter too lol was afraid this post wouldn't reach enough people 😭 First 30 upvotes make me feel like a superstar thou 🤣
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
italians (and the japanese) can see through the bs all along
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
Also an article with the same spirit as the post: Congress may let jet owners like Elon Musk block flight info
I am aware that the use of such source is frowned upon. Nonetheless, the elonjettracker dude got busted from X© and now has his own sub. Interesting content to say the least, and it does help put things into perspective. Also i hope Lemmy implements flairs as a feature, this post could thus use a discussion flair, to signal that such content is up for debate.
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
politicians only role is to be against the person in charge, even just out of spite to look like they are aware of the shortcomings of said governing body; they just like to stir things up in order to stay relevant, while in fact they dont really add any value to society. Just another middleman between imperialists and the bottom 80%.
Yea i know: in a former post, american 'lemmies' ? argued that 100k$/year salary puts you in the top 10% of american society, and apparently 75k$ earners are just homeless people, hence the 80%..
iraq_lobster Now • 100%
decentralize governance, fediverse style. Senate my ass.
weareyard.com
A full breakdown of the top 10 celebrity CO2e offenders: 1. Taylor Swift: 8,293.54 tonnes (per year), or 1,184.8 times more than the average person's total annual emissions. 2. Floyd Mayweather: 7,076.8 tCO2e (tonnes of CO2 emitted, per year) 3. Jay-Z: 6,981.3 tCO2e 4. A-Rod ( J-Lo's ex-fiance and baseball player) : 5,342.7 tCO2e 5. Blake Shelton: 4495 tCO2e 6. Steven Spielberg: 4,465 tCO2e 7. Kim Kardashian: 4268.5 tCO2e 8. Mark Wahlberg: 3772.85 tCO2e 9. Oprah Winfrey: 3,493.17 tCO2e 10. Travis Scott (Kylie Jenner’s Beau) : 3033.3 tCO2e
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/worlds-richest-10-produce-half-of-global-carbon-emissions-says-oxfam
     https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-per-capita-carbon-emissions-by-country/
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change
cosmosmagazine.com
>Unusually, for the actual rocket launch, the CO2 isn’t really the biggest deal here. It’s possible to use rocket fuel without any carbon in it at all – NASA has been using liquid hydrogen for decades, and Jeff Bezos’ rocket used it too. But commercial hydrogen is made in a very carbon-intensive way, although it’s possible to make with zero emissions. >So it’s hard to untangle rocket launch emissions. We need more research before we can be really definitive, although we know it’s not great. As a ballpark, one researcher has suggested that per person, a space tourism flight is 50-100 times worse for the atmosphere than a long-distance plane flight. >In SpaceX’s case, the Scope 1 emissions are the emissions from the rocket fuel, transporting rockets and SpaceX employees about, and any fuel burned during testing and building. >But SpaceX doesn’t publish its emissions widely. Tesla, Inc., one of Elon Musk’s other ventures, is also surprisingly opaque about the emissions required to build its electric cars – something other electric car manufacturers have been much more open about. And Musk himself doesn’t seem particularly interested in addressing this. In fact, he recently tweeted that corporate environmental and social governance – a common method of reporting and addressing environmental impacts – was “the devil incarnate”. Daddy Elona on the other side launching rockets like hot potates, while some people trying to lower their thermostat and eat ecofriendly food. is it vain ? idk ..
icallbs.substack.com
>As we reach the end of our Christmas reality check, the cynical contradictions of Christmas stand glaringly exposed. Despite its image as a season of joy and giving, Christmas in its current form is fraught with issues that extend far beyond its religious and cultural roots. The holiday's deeply ingrained consumerism not only exacerbates economic disparities but also contributes to environmental degradation on a massive scale. Beyond the tangible impacts, Christmas exerts a considerable psychological toll, amplifying stress, loneliness, and mental health challenges. The physical health of individuals and the strain on public health systems can't be ignored either, with marked increases in health emergencies and lifestyle-related ailments during this period.
As a rail operator u get sued to oblivion for chopping a cat, but on the other side thousands of bird flocks are killed to avoid costly bird strikes. Also airplane is gOoD since flight crew is nice enough to let you in their cabin and wave your sweet 🥺🥺 mom goodbye. how touching! /s also train defects gets overly publicized while flight and TSA misshaps aren't getting enough coverage (+ the special treatement of the enslaved luggage crew for suitcases, whom i can't blame for their anger really)    
