You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.
It’s wild, when I was hanging out with Luigi in my place on the West Coast on the night of December 4th, 2024, he told me “I sure like FiletOfish sandwiches, I am thinking of heading out to Altoona, Pennsylvania to my favorite McDonalds there to get one in a few days. I can do this because I know my rights.”
Plus, it’s department of defense.
I expect them to rename it “The Department of Kicking Ass and Throwing Down Cold Ones Like a REAL MAN, Hey Wait, Don’t Leave, Can I Get Your Number?”
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There’s almost nothing humanity could do that would actually impact the world in a way that could even make a dormant supervolcano so much as fart.
America has bowed out of any actual tech race decades ago when capital decided to go for get-rich-quick schemes by deregulating instead of investing in domestic production. The only thing the US had any kind of edge on was AI and that’s just a bubble that’s going to get out-inflated by China.
We could have done FINE on a service economy, importing raw materials and textiles and tech from other countries and assembling, packaging and marketing it here. We could have built an entire NATION of white-collar workers managing tech companies like this. The whole right-wing “we have to bring coal mining and steel milling back to the US” was pure, pandering bullshit meant to appeal to the country’s midwits who have no idea how the wider world or technology works.
But we’re not only not going that direction, we’ve basically slammed the door on that route. Our principle money-making now comes from investment and finance, and this weird, world’s-largest-ponzie-scheme where private equity is just going around gobbling up smaller businesses and putting them out of business to manipulate markets and force market direction. Nothing in the US is real, nothing is built on anything. Or at least that’s how it will be. We still export shit like fuel corn and soybeans… somewhat.
You can read history and see how this has repeated over and over when there’s an authoritarian/fascist takeover, back to the age of barbarians. They don’t want to inherit their conquered nation’s complex infrastructure and problems, they want to sell off anything cheap and easy to make a dime on before ditching the place and living somewhere disconnected from the raped land they’ve left behind. Things like natural resources like oil, coal, easy-to-access minerals and guns and other easy-to-make hardware for war. This is what happened to a lot of other countries and why some places are utter shitholes now.
Likely. Claiming to have resources is a new “get rich quick” scam meant to drive investments in one direction or another. Russia just claimed to have found a bajillion kajillion barrels of oil under antarctica, which is soooo convenient that they find it in an area with international claim and where it’s really, really hard to verify 🙄
so I hope this means that we wouldn’t cause an active super volcano.
There is almost nothing we could do short of apocalyptic nuclear demolition charges in very strategic places that could possibly trigger a supervolcano, and even then I doubt we could do more than create some kind of vent that would reduce the chances of a supervolcano.
The article is really poorly written and has nothing to do with any volcanoes, at least not current ones. Saying it’s in an ancient caldera is like saying something was “found in rock that was once beneath the mantle” or some such sloppy, forced sensationalism.
Also why would anyone think they have claim to the deposit when the government wants it?
They want to get bought out by someone else. Government buys land from citizens all the time when they want something bad enough. It’s a bit of a gamble though because the government is far more likely to find a “loophole” which lets them take what they want without spending a dime than if you are just starting a tech company and hoping Google or OpenAI will buy you out. But they might be hoping to play the lithium market in some way.
eager to trade human bodies for rhetorical points.
There are a lot of people who have sacrificed their lives to defend their homes from invaders. A lot of people would say that’s about as noble of a goal as you can fight for and pretty fucking far from “rhetoric” when it’s a hostile army burning your homes and raping your daughters but hey, yah lets keep saying what’s best for the country and what we need to “give up” to get peace.
Don’t bother replying unless you want to keep showboating for others.
When you post about Ukraine on reddit you get conservative white Americans who have bought the propaganda and think strong, proud, masculine Putin is saving Ukrainian orphans from nazis, and have a mountain of arguments why we shouldn’t fund wars overseas unless it’s Israel, Iraq, Iran or Afghanistan. Or Venezuela of course.
You post about Ukraine on Lemmy and suddenly every tankie hiding in the shadows can’t take the pressure anymore and HAVE to pile out to whinge about how unwinnable the war is, and that it’s useless to resist a tyrant and invader because something something 21st century capitalism and oil economies and nothing will even change under Putin’s rule anyway so why are we even so worked up and on and on.
I feel bad for Ukrainian people having to endure not just a hostile invasion but scorn and skepticism from the whole world because some people have such loose, soupy brains that they have invent entire straw-universes to validate the erections they get thinking Putin’s bare chest.
There are no deep pockets funding progressive ideas. No senators got a call from the Bureau of Keeping People Alive to keep their bottom line profitable.
he’s using that leverage to get what he wants.
Hemp farming industry is paying him to prevent restriction of Delta-8, which is derived from Hemp.
It’s just money. It’s always money.
For the DNC ticket it’s going to be Newsom, Harris and like, one candidate we actually like who won’t make it past primaries because the system isn’t designed for radical change.
What sucks about this is I’ve seen it play out so many times before that I already know that when the populist/socialist doesn’t make it past the primaries, progressives everywhere will balk and choke and say “Well there’s no WAY i’m voting for any of the people still on the ticket. The DNC is corrupt, my vote doesn’t matter.”
And then the bar slides further right.
Every time they break our hearts, and we respond like they predict, they get to slide the bar closer to fascism and authoritarianism. Which is what capital wants. Both republicans and democrats are servants of capital and we don’t defeat capital with some idealistic notions of revolution or uprising. Shake that fantasy out of your head. We have to start pushing the needle back to the left, and sure that means making shitty choices at the presidental elections, but it also means shaking off your introversion and asocial habits and going out and helping your local community and town/state elections so that we can cut the foundations out from under this mess. We can still turn it around but you’re really not going to be happy with the timespans involved in doing so.
You’re not going to see the Star Trek post-scarcity future. I’m sorry. Now start doing the fucking work to make it so your grandkids or grandroids will see that future.