Isn’t “it takes two” couch coop?

IMO the way to prevent such a scenario from happening is not by blocking Meta, but by inviting equally large competitors to join the fediverse. The described tactic can only work if you have close to a monopoly.

What if they hadn’t? Would manufacturers keep shipping different plugs for anything that’s sold here? Just curious…

It doesn’t read as if the author is generalizing all Europeans, it reads more as if he’s criticizing European policy. For what it’s worth in his book he’s very critical of Brexit as well.

These EU funding programs are the original reason I came to Switzerland. It would be good to have this back. Research flourishes by collaboration.

Reality: most tech workers view it as fairly rated or slightly overrated according to the real data: https://www.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2023/11/2023-11-20-image-3.png

Because you were replying to this statement by OP:

and as societies get richer in material wealth they produce fewer children and have the luxury to pay attention to things like the environment and their impact on it.

In short your source doesn’t support your claim, but it does story OP’s claim

For crying out loud, Clyde… you need a bunch of science nerds to tell you something this obvious? Fine.

Lol, very first sentence in that source:

Three mechanisms influence the fertility decision of educated women: (1) the relatively higher incomes and thus higher income forgone due to childbearing leads them to want fewer children. […]

Sci-fi is fictional, Clyde - not prophecy.

They’re just referring to the fact that the universe we live in is no “finite system” per the meme

Riiight… that’s why we’re the most destructive agent on the planet since the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs - because we “do more with less.” Wtf?

Yes exactly! They’re not saying that’s a good thing but that’s exactly why!

Which societies, Clyde? The ones that capitalism has impoverished so that a small minority can pretend their privileged lives are (somehow) “normal?”

Regardless if the distribution of that wealth is acceptable, growth has made the overall society richer in material wealth. The distribution of that wealth is an entirely different question.

And that’s a good thing, is it? You know we could just achieve that easily by giving women reproductive rights, don’t you? As in… no capitalism required at all?

You have any proof for that statement?

Adding to this, “limitless” growth just refers to the idea that it’s very hard to reach all limits in our present universe.

I agree that there are more important problems with capitalism than if we’ve reached a limit or not.

Not saying I agree or disagree with the author. However you being his wife did not result in “female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy” (their words) so it’s not really an argument against their hypothesis.

(Of course your husband being nice and not a dickhead probably also plays a role)

What are you talking about?

Nice! The first design is always a big step!

Are you having space for magnets in there?

If you’d like I’d suggest to put the files in printables.com, that way everyone can profit and remix your designs!

There’s still the European Parliament. But yeah I guess he gets the job…

Truth is not supposed to be assigned to who makes the statement. What is actually happening is what is truth.

Also not all Muslim countries, mainly authoritarian régimes.

“We must eat the billionaires. This is all the fault of capitalism. No wonder that’s how they make their profit.”

This sort of thing is ‘leftist’ everywhere.

Here’s the citation:

“The radical left thugs have weaponised law enforcement to arrest their leading political opponent … leading by a lot … including Obama,” he said before catching the error and trying to get back on track but appearing to forget that it was Hillary Clinton he beat in the 2016 presidential election.

“I’ll tell you what … you take a look at Obama and you look at some of the things that he’s done, this is the same thing, the country was very divided and we did with Obama, we won an election they said that couldn’t be won.”

It made no sense to me, I thought I was used to how this guy speaks. I listened to the video. It’s the same thing. makes no sense.

Good news for both UK and EU

I think it would make more sense to include the saved CO2 emissions in monetary value in their earnings, that way the real profitability can be calculated as you say

Tbh the other side is also anecdotal. There’s no stats here.