Trickle down is more lying by omission. Wealth trickles down, but at the same time flows up through various means so it’s a net negative for the poor, thus concentrating wealth on the hands of the few.

I’m wondering if Assad ’s grip on Damascus will survive through this weekend

Apparently no.

Chinese constructors indeed told this plan, I’ve seen the interviews, they’ve been following it exactly and got the results they were after. We knew this 10 years ago. There should not be any surprise.

We knew the Western manufacturers would deny, delay and lobby against this to keep shareholder value up, to cry foul when sales take a hit and they did not disappoint. It’s the classic market disruption, something we’ve seen many times in history, but now on the losing side. Again, no surprise.

Capitalism has a fatal flaw with long term planning and it’s been exploited masterfully by China. Actually China had plans to uproot the entire fossil fuel sector and replace it with their renewables, so hold on for a lot more drama.

Looking at Japan, China and Korea, countries with falling birth rate and strict immigration policies, it seems that the expected higher wages and increased births never materialize. The remaining workers are just squeezed harder so the economy can continue to function and grow, what results in people having less children because they have to work so much, and it ends up in a downward spiral.

About time. Were they waiting for the sentiment from world leaders to turn before saying anything?

That’s just looking for an excuse to close borders to keep migrants out. It’s a right winger saying this.

The fertility rate in the Netherlands is 1.49 now, way below replacement rate, so the usual “we have to stop people from having kids” is done. Mission successful. Congratulations.

What they usually don’t say is who’s going to keep production high and do the work that’s needed if you don’t have enough kids to replace workers retiring and keep all the migrants out. Stop people from retiring and stop trying to grow the economy I guess.

That always bugs me. To live on Mars you’d need basically a perfect food production, recycling system and economic system to make it all happen. Why don’t we make that happen here on Earth first is before using a place a hundred million miles away as an experiment? You’re only the richest man in the planet being buddies with soon to be the most powerful man on the planet (again), so not much of an excuse except “don’t wanna”.

It’s the difference between eating a Tic Tac, and just pouring the whole box in your mouth. Neither are good, but the second is definitely worse.

It would help if they’d stop blasting people with ads and marketing, the stuff designed to override people’s choices.

5G is a requirement for self driving cars. Usually the remote driver does low speed interventions to get the car out of a situation, then switches the automation back on.

It’s normal in the industry but the industry likes to tell the public otherwise so from time to time these articles pop up.

Amazon’s just walk out shop, with AI looking with cameras what you bought, was actually run by indians remotely because the automation didn’t quite work. Food delivery robots are run by people in low cost areas. Over guy runs multiple robots with a pont-and-click interface. That kind of thing. I’m sure autonomy is worked on but it’s not fully autonomous yet.

your body, my choice

That policy doesn’t even work. Romania tried this. Decree 770 outlaw all abortions and contraceptives. Parents dumped their children at orphanages because they couldn’t afford to raise them. The regime was in the end toppled, in large part because of all the children raised in poverty and from orphanages.

It’s still not a conflict between NATO and Russia directly, so still a proxy war.

a proxy war is an armed conflict where at least one of the belligerents is directed or supported by an external third-party power.

Hard work and talent might organize and start s union, so they’ll go with the hot garbage AI.

It went to proxy wars after the cold war. There were a whole series of conflicts and interventions where USA and/or Russia were involved, sometimes more, sometimes less. Ukraine is basically the end boss of the proxy wars.

Emotional intelligence is too low, and short term thinking still overrules long term thinking.

It was in the logo from the start

Probably in 2025 when he moves all government communication to X because “it’s more efficient”.

Rich are getting richer in comparison to the poor. Our money brain does basically this. Mammals are hardwired for a certain fairness and bad things happen when this is violated too much.

Insists being a Nazi should not influence anything and demands people and ad money returns.