StinkyFingerItchyBum @ Thedogdrinkscoffee @lemmy.ca

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While I accept the premise of the article, I find it misdirected. If we weren't watching a national housing crisis, a cost of living crisis, the death of the middle class, the climate crisis, the demographic crisis, the healthcare crisis pile up on Canadians one after the other, no one would want change and would fight to preserve our way of life.

But we went down the yellow brick road of neoliberal plattitudes about free markets and privatization and made offshore tax evasion easy and risk free for wealthy Canadians and multinationals alike.

Even today, there are tremendous forces working hard with big money to privatise one of our most effective, efficient and formerly sacrosanct institutions. Healthcare. What good is not paying directly for a family doctor when you've never had one and can't get one?

Public healthcare was fantastically productive and efficient, and the same voices that decry canada's productivity crisis are happy to keep erroding public healthcare and march in the profiteers knowing full well it will be a disaster.

Happy people don't revolt. You got unhappy people, it will be taken advantage of by your rivals and enemies.

Only if you fail to stop dictionairies from getting into the rooms.

I don't think there is an "or" there.

They are incapable of talking without saying the quiet parts out loud. Silence is better than spilling the beans on evil.

Great post. I wonder what the mental math is for 200 years of industrial civilization for other civs?

Is their planet the same size? Is earth resource rich or poor in comparison? Would abundance exacerbate depletion as it is taken for granted, and would scarcity teach restraint? Is the entire planet fully colonized under exponential growth at the begining or does it happen later as harsher environs are explored?

Is their culture subject to the same ideological pursuits or are they capable of self restraint?

Fascinating topic.

Edit: I just realized that I am fearful of learning the answers for an alien civilization considering our path assumed as relatively unexceptional.

Designing a contest where participants have access to AI, when they aren't supposed to use it and then looking shocked when the inevitable happens.

Either allow a commonly accepted industry tool, or restrict participants for the duration of the testing.

I remember my grade 6 teacher telling me I won't always have a calculator handy. **gestures broadly out the window.

But then a lack of healthcare would be self-inflicted and deserved and the racist mysogenist bigots could die with a societal clear conscience.

How did you get the beans above the frank?

Frank and beans!

Arrrgh!

The salmonella and campylobacter laced chicken should reduce demand before the fall harvests.

RFK is installing his brainworm parasites into the food supply, so there is lots of reason to be optomistic about supply and demand becoming balanced.

Then: Remember the outrage and confusion when podunk sherrifs departments in Armpit, Anywhere were getting MRAPs.

Why would the police need war vehicles to police their own people?!?!?

Now: Ahh! Now I get it.

How can they? There is little news left. Just propaganda.

It's why the US will fail, quickly.

Does lemmy have a block limit? Reddit does. I hit it.

Savage. Everyone knows the civilized world wafflestomps in the shower.

We don't eat cattlecorn, but we do eat cattle. The point stands.

You bring up another good point is that corn is in a million industrial processes and products. From plastics, medicine, booze and fuel and a million other things we're going to miss.

Double entendre.

They knew.

Human beings are, for the most part, path-of-least-resistance creatures. This was inevitable. It's like building long straight stroads with few intersections and a school with a lonely crosswalk then wondering why speeders keep hitting children.

Bad design gets bad outcomes.

Growers, insurers, eaters...

I've tried to leave a trail of breadcrumbs, and I got called "paranoid" for years by family and the kids picked that up from them too. Now every time anyone points out the superdepressing news and where it looks like were heading I just say "don't be paranoid." and give my best derp look.

I'm still waiting for my apology, but nobody likes to hear "I told you so". At least no one calls me paranoid anymore, so there is that.