And now Jeff Bezos money please

Rule 1: dont fall for the fetishisation of the consumer world

Italians

• make weird noodles
• need strange tools to eat them

South east asians

• use literal sticks that chop
• make overcomplicated food that just needs to be grabbed
• breed special rice that sticks

Germans

• Spoon go brrr

Wtf is that site.

Looking crappy as fuck, selling 1mio$/m² tiles without a single picture, and fucking islands

You are talking to a person with a 0,295623% chance of getting a match…

Amputated the leg in under 21⁄2 minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene; they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He amputated in addition the fingers of his young assistant (who died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene). He also slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he fainted from fright (and was later discovered to have died from shock).

Wtf

What the hell happened between 1940 and 1986

This is what we call “the global north causes climate change”

Or a fucking hairbrush and a gun

I.e. not Germany either

Bodycams are

• not independently monitored
• not always on
• only on when they want it

And your ADHD kid is 5 times more likely to use Linux or be on Lemmy lol

And the amount of undiagnosed adults is missing. There are very little reasons why ADHD would just disappear when growing up. People simply suppress their emotions.

No u

As always, a better resolution version without strange Reddit stuff

That was already a sharper version I could find, and I edited it to increase readability via sharpening and decreasing grain

This is big scale capitalism, not free market.

Capitalism is the key problem.

A free market is probably necessary. With a system where everyone has enough to live well, affordable healthcare, equal treatment etc.

A free market ensures a lot of quality standards.

But it is not only competition, improvements and “getting the best, the best way”.

It is “making & selling something that people buy, the cheap way”. This principle is fundamentally flawed, as environmental protection doesnt pay, and there is no real reason for companies to be good for the enviroment. Like, actually being good.

You can also argue that products enshittified over time (glued together laptops, unnecessarily weak drinking glasses, “IOT-ifying” everything, cheap clothes, throwaway razors, cheap food,…) because there is no value in making good products in a free market, if people get f**ing brainwashed and dont buy stuff based on their value over time.

And equally it is even worse with the environment. As there is no value in protecting the environment, nobody does it. Now laws force companies to list all important data, and this gets converted into some indirect form of money. But not nearly as transparently and freely as a free market. You may get fees or not, you may save some “carbon credits” but these are horrendously underpriced and can be bought with neocolonial freakshows like forcing people out of their own land, to “protect it”, as if it would have been destroyed before.

And the main flaw is that there is no big reason to not fake these values. Or not just write down what you already do, and keep it at this. Or do more than needed.

And to the topic, a free market has no stop sign. Companies naturally grow bigger and bigger, get more and more efficient, critical for whole societies that rely on working for them, and thus they are inherently not “neutral possibilities in a free world”.

This always leads to huge mega-giants having influence on people, politics etc.

And this leads us to the situation we are currently in. Companies abusing license and patent laws, to cripple the system that even made them possible.

I have no idea why the US is so f**cked up in this graph, but believe me Germany is also horrible.

Trickle down economics does work in a way that ensures basic healthcare for all germans. But meanwhile these damn germans produce a SH**LOAD of stuff.

I have no numbers but it is insane how much utter garbage we produce. And from this endless, insane stream of trash, we always scoop off enough profit to make the 1% even more ugly rich, and keep the said basic human rights intact.

This may work, but it is soooo far from sufficiency.

I really liked the latest video of “Second Thought”, about the american dream and capitalisms natural path to fascism

1 and 2 but the rest makes sense

This differentiation between weird license fees and safety regulations makes sense.

But the privatised hospitals etc is extremely problematic, as they underpay their stuff regularily, causing extreme situations.

I guess that a free market has advantages over slow and established monopoles. But the companies will still exploit as much as possible, if not every single thing is regulated.

Example environment and labor laws. If you have exact laws for every known process, they will try to find loopholes to be cheaper, because there is only profit, no moral.