'i'm glad your family lost their property'

just in case anyone here doesn't already know, the death toll from the US-Israel bombing of the elementary girls school is currently at 164 with dozens more wounded. Victims are mostly little girls aged 9-12.

For some reason our western media seems reluctant to spread this basic factual information...

*edited US to US-Israel so that it's super duper accurate

not having kids is one of the few things i am utterly, truly grateful for.

Something like this already happened when we traded the long-term health and fertility of the topsoil for the immediate high yield output of artificially fertilized crops.

By outsourcing the repleneshment of fertility to the relatively fragile and unreliable supply chains and social organisations of man, we assumed management over a delicate balance which previously belonged to nature.

I'm not arguing against industrial agriculture and its commodification of fertiliser by the way. If carefully managed it's possible to imagine an endpoint of equilibrium where global supply chains increase total system fertility by selectively resting soil and relying more on imports to then switch once local fertility peaks and so on. Really just sane and unmolested market forces should in theory discover such a negotiated endpoint.

Fertility alone is not descriptive enough to capture, say, the importance of biological diversity or the load bearing capacity of local environments to support ecosystems, while also producing exportable outputs suitable for maintaining population growth in humanity.

Perennial crops are also ridiculously underused in overall food supply chains. They are more difficult to monetize in existing commodity forms because their overall system value is not captured numerically.

I don't have an overall solution, but any solution will require at its core a way to assign value to the work which nature already does to replenish its own local fertility and to price that effect very cautiously in such a way that it becomes cheaper for intensive producers to rest unfertile soil until it becomes fertile than it is to compensate for unproductive soil by importing chemical fertiliser from somewhere else

china already have a supercritical carbon dioxide system integrated into a functioning powergrid and operating commercially. The system exploits an exotic phase of co2 which expands to fill a volume like gas, but moves frictionlessly through tubes as a liquid. There are concerns about lifespan because of how caustic the system is, but apparently some new materials are being trialled which negate this.

this is funny and everything but there was no reason for him to be in the mcdonalds, wearing the same outfit, carrying a buffet of incriminating evidence. It doesn't make any sense at all. He's probably innocent, like for real innocent. Or at worst a fall-guy for thompson's wife, who gained the most feom his death and now doesn't have to go through messy divorce proceedings to get her hands on a good chunk of his wealth. That should have been the starting point for the investigation, but the whole thing became a circus.

a globe-spanning mossad influence operation which manipulates our politicians, business-people and academics from the shadows with child rape and blood sacrifice is already pretty grand ...

what larger context do you mean? spiritual warfare?

it's time to start dragging these people out of their homes...

here's a few i haven't seen mentioned yet:

oz - uncompromising US prison drama

garth merenghi's darkplace - deadpan british tele-horror parody

the mighty boosh - absurdist musical stage-theatre from the UK

dirk gently's holistic detective agency - fast-paced comedy with an interesting premise that plays out like a douglas adams novel

happy - netflix series which combines a gritty procedural crime-drama with a cartoon mascot. Very violent and dark humour

do they have a gofundme i can donate to?

the Ferrero brand make nutella and kinder bars, and they also financially support the zionist entity and their ongoing genocide of palestinians. If that's the kind of thing you'd rather not support i'd suggest avoiding ferrero (and nestle)

for ukraine supporters and soon to be moldovian supporters

i just wanted to be a big man in front of my kids

the search providers (especially that famously 'not evil' one) had a huge hand in centralising and then gatekeeping access to 'the web'. They have such a disproportionately powerful effect on how users discover content, and huge power to drive self-fulfilling 'network effects' where people go where people already are, which has become so normalised that most people couldn't imagine 'the web' without them.

i'm not suggesting it was ever realistic or possible, but what we needed was for that one search provider and indexer of content to be broken up, partially nationalised, and partially integrated into the network specification itself. Only they are powerful enough to become a model for how to functionally disentangle their operations into public and private parts.

the only alternative is to break the centralisation of the web as china is doing and other BRICS nations intend to do, by creating 'national internets' which in some ways federate together and in other ways do not. I don't like this model of development for the future of the internet but the security considerations of the present require this kind of approach.

One of the tricks they use with pokies (slot machines) to keep people addicted is to fool them into thinking they 'almost won'. For example if you need 5 cherries in a row to win, but end up with say 2 cherries and other random symbols, the outcome will be modified to show 4 cherries, to encourage the gambler to keep trying (losing money).

I think stories about senate votes and such being decided by a razer-thin margin produce a similar effect in the voter

the 'no domestic surveillance' is just language that mirrors some limitations (from their pov) from the patriot act. They're still willing to surveil people outside the USA, and in fact all they have to do is route domestic traffic through an international part of a network and they can legally spy on domestic americans which is what already happens.

same here man, except our parents desperately want grandkids lol

I could live a thousand lifetimes and in none of them would i voluntarily subject my own flesh and blood to this removed nightmare world. Never ever ever.

anyone with over let's say, 100 million dollars of private wealth, should taxed at 100% (with a strong enforcement mechanism) and that money should go directly into public equity. What should the public equity be spent on? my vote is a UBI

what is the deal with your neighbour?

in the 1990s we would gather in giant rooms full of people smoking cigarettes, and we would put small metal discs into machines so we could yell at people for sucking at video games in person and it was a kind of church for many