I was in school when i realized that doing homework faster doesn’t mean you get to go home earlier. You just get assigned more homework.

We are indeed going to face massive, catastrophic changes […]

And they say “nothing ever changes” smh

I think the people who actually want to work might be in the minority?

I guess most people want to contribute to society, or earn money, or both.

That’s the neat part: they don’t!

I don’t know who that is, but that might actually check out. I have a bookshelf full of books that i looved as a teenager :D i just keep them for the memories of enjoying them:P

I’m just glad that renewable energy will make us independent from middle eastern oil eventually. maybe then the bloodshed can end.

fair

i guess most western maps are arranged in such a way that the middle east is in the center and the atlantic is on the map completely because

1. the atlantic has probably been more important historically than the pacific, as europeans sailed over the atlantic, not the pacific.

2. the pacific ocean is a bigger body of water, so having it on the “back” side of the globe makes sense because this way, you have a more uninteresting back-side of the globe and a more interesting front-side.

This might sound ridiculous to you.

But, it does matter. Ultimately, those in charge determine whether there would be a war or not. That’s why their perspective matters.

It’s ultimately because a war does enormous harm and throws the country’s progress back by decades why the rich are (or should be) against war. That is a very important message that can have a lot of influence on the world!

Das ist nicht gut.

I just want to respond to my own comment with some follow-up thoughts:

Israel is mostly backed by the US to “protect US interests in the area”, which i translate as: mostly oil.

Since the transition to renewable energy is happening at an exponential speed, i guess that the consumption of fossil fuels could be reduced by 2040 by 90%. That would make the US completely independent from oil from the middle east, and the US would no longer need Israel, which would weaken Israel’s grip in the region. That is why i think they would retreat, instead of attack.

Just my two cents.

there’s a low likelyhood.

The key question is what will happen to Israel in the future?

In my opinion, Israel cannot stay in the middle east for much longer. They have to move out.

Israel is so universally hated in the middle east, it’s difficult to put into words. (at least that’s what i got from other people’s messages). it’s difficult/impossible to conceive a long-term stability in the region with Israel in it. and israel knows this, of course.

The question is: what will israel do? Will it escalate the conflict to try to grasp to power through military dominance in the area? Or will it soften its grip and let go of control in the middle east?

To be fair to the Germans, I can understand how the Holocaust is integrated into them as a kind of “original sin”. What was done to the Jews under the Nazis was so unspeakable terrible, and German society as a whole has done an enormous job at ingraining in themselves that nothing of the sort should ever repeat itself.

The problem with Germany is that they learned the wrong lesson out of WW2.

Instead of learning “genocide is bad”, it’s “Jews are always on the right side of history”. And that’s why Germany is completely uncritically supporting Israel with everything that it does.

Their government is way worse than Israel’s.

So why bomb Iranian civilians?

Israel is not only at the very center of the world (look at maps: it’s very much the geographic center. That’s why we call it middle east.)

it’s also reckless and like a dying star, a supernova. it blows up without regards to casualties. it is a very dangerous situation that we’re in indeed.

you’re joking but the world’s economy at large actually works that way

company borrows 1M in the first year, next year instead of paying back, it borrows 2M …

kinda “Hilbert’s hotel”. instead of running out of money, shift everything into more debt and continue …

Really learning from the Arabs.

Al Project
Al Company
Al Product

I guess when they say, she bathed in milk, they mean, she bathed in cum?

philosophy is bullshit if you don’t take it seriously, at least.

What does “6th graders” mean? After 6 years of total education, i.e. at age 12; or 6 years of high school, at age 16?

I often wonder whether the type of “mutual respect” that modern movements teach is actually just a way to disable people from taking effective action, as everything is considered “too extreme” these days (at least for a normal person to do it).