For anyone who doesn’t know, the US is the largest oil producer in the world, more than double any other country. So that’s the reason prices aren’t going up as much as they may be elsewhere, but also what that means is that when we attack Iran us oil company stocks skyrocket. People pay more, billionaires reap, hedge funds reap, the military industrial complex reaps. War as a service.

https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/War_economy

Not to worry. He’s going to be SLAMMED for this. Perhaps even someone will BLAST him. And since journalism is literal Pokémon moves now he might even be CONFUSED or HYPNOTIZED

Yeah is hospitals were staffed by “wellness practitioners” it would be like

https://youtu.be/FUBVuvstPCs

Maybe a few more gold plated jets will do the trick

Yup but also, the idea of submarines providing rescue went out the window. Even the nazis were trying to rescue people at one point, and the allies attacked them after they broadcasted their rescue attempts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident

The US has the most powerful military in the world. This was just cruelty

Less than half of Americans read a book a year

48.5 percent of adults reported having read at least one book in the past year

https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2024/federal-data-reading-pleasure-all-signs-show-slump

And my guess is the vast majority of those that are reading are mostly scooping books from booktok (literary smut) or something off the New York Times bestseller lists

https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-side-jesus.aspx

“The politics are important because they might affect your investments”

I think the answer is pretty complex and gets into why online communities in general become hostile, not just Reddit.

First off, there are incredible amounts of money and effort being spent to make people feel tribal and hate each other. Destabilization happens by convincing people that those next to them are at fault for their woes, and ensuring they don’t look up at the strings being pulled.

Second, those who generally aren’t hostile naturally don’t gravitate to places that are, so the gravity of hostility increases by hostile people being there and echoing hostility to those they perceive to be being hostile to them, even if the sentiment is “be less hostile.” It’s baked into meme culture. “Touch grass” is genuinely like “hey go outside, take a breath” at its core, but is now an insult or hostility that gets a reaction of further hostility.

Third, the world is really fucking shitty in ways outside of most people’s control. You can vote, martyr, donate, but generally the world has gotten to a close point to 100s of sci fi stories we’ve written warn us about, and so some people are just doing what the money in item one is spending, the conditioning works. Feels warm to hate someone. But then for those on the opposite they want to hate what they consider stupid.

That being said, people are genuinely shitty often, and it’s foolish to pretend that’s not the case. Open source has often been full of pettiness and bickering. Many a GitHub threads are just arguing about someone who wants a feature and is mad at volunteer developers for not delivering it. I could go on a tirade but I’ll end there

I haven’t seen how Lemmy responds to troubleshooting requests about Linux. But I remember some Linux Reddit communities being full of vitriol of like “don’t use things you don’t understand” or like “distro? version? Hardware specs? Logs? Did you even search?” Which I believe led to people just starting out uncomfortable with asking for help there

engineers are just letting

That’s a bold claim cotton, I’m sure there are no project managers, middle managers, or executives involved

Agreed and also rather than saying “Russia is using Ubiquiti hardware” they led with a sports team, it’s so dumb

Fake: women don’t even poop, how can they smell like cum.

Gay: expert in the smell of cum

watercolors?

And stay away from tea too. And silenced handguns aimed at the back of the head. Just so many accidental ways people are dying nowadays

Checkmate, socialists

And more than half a billion dollars adjusting for inflation

Though the vehicle is either an original or cloned MAZ missile vehicle from the 60s, so not really impressive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAZ-7310

Ah yeah, sorry, wrote that rant while on the verge of falling asleep, thanks for the heads up

Yeah the consistent and ever growing wealth gap as corporations continue to grow more profitable and people have more trouble affording food and housing is at the core of a lot of it. People are angry, but the corporations/1% are spending billions on social media, lobbying, funding certain political campaigns etc to convince people that their anger should be directed towards others around them. It’s the fault of foreigners, immigrants, minorities, women, LGBTQ, the young, the old, etc etc.

And on the other side of that, Russia has been working to stir up division in a ton of nations since the 90s and has gotten much better at it with social media, so these two groups have homogenized.

Then on the third level, the super rich billionaires like musk and Thiel want dark enlightenment, which is the collapse of society so they can create neofuedalism and run their own techno-slavery-kingdoms, so they want it just as bad.