This is going to create unsustainable costs in the long run. In the medium term it will hurt people indescriminately.

Personally ordered by Loomer

you could also say: everything is a commodity from which maximum profit is extracted without killing the consumers and producers all too quickly

well sometimes very quickly in the case of war lol

The USA has done what it did to Cuba to itself

Good website. However I feel it would be safer if they didn’t use Google maps.

Addition: if they didn’t use Google maps and opted for an open source alternative. Not saying no maps should be used. People need to be made aware.

Mussolini himself said that he was inspired by American social policies IIRC. The kernel is just now sprouting

I think the title is slightly misleading because it is very polemical. If I understood correctly it’s not 55 bn USD for crematoriums strictly. The ceiling for ICE camp expenditures has been increased by 45 bn USD from 10 bn USD, in which cremation equipment is included albeit making up only a small share of the costs. The increase alone is so large that everyone here ought to be very concerned.

Please correct me if I’m wrong or have an incomplete angle, because I think when things turn serious an exact understanding is crucial

Mid twenties here, same situation. My bank closed my accounts lol

This mindset isn’t really conducive to meeting your needs.

Marx and Engels predicted that economies would become dominated by rentiers

No, even this is a very bad idea. Ideally, no books are destroyed. A close relative of mine works as an archivist. They have tons of examples of how digitising and then destroying can create extra burdens. The data on hard drives or flash devices is too fragile.

I know that in disciplines such as math there are very often have books with less than 50 copies in circulation. The LLM companies buy maybe 2 of a given book which are subsequently destroyed with no backup data. You’re now at 48 in circulation, that is a significant reduction. Rinse and repeat a couple of million times and this starts to have a major influence on knowledge.

What’s perverse about it is that the data from the books is stored extremely badly within the models. So not only are you destroying sources, you are also necessarily falsifying them.

Pretty sure information that is hard to come by on the internet includes rare books.

I sympathise with the sentiment, but please don’t shame people with disabilities/continence issues. It’s embarrassing enough as it is.

Not sure if it qualifies for being a “good” use of Vaseline, but you can make emergency candles with it.