How do you justify democracy when people are voting for life to be worse instead of better, even to the point of undermining the democratic process itself? Sure we could argue at some point democracy had the effect of improving living conditions but should we expect that to be true forever in all circumstances?

I dont believe that democracy is valuable as an end unto itself, it is a tool that should serve its people and if it stops doing that we shouldn’t be dogmatic about it. Authoritarian systems certainly arent the way, and I would guess what we need doesnt even have a name yet.

I can’t say I care about these videos either while real children are still going hungry. Save your activism for children that exist please

EV’s are crazy affordable, get one of the cheap Chinese imports that are a few years old. you dont live in a country that artificially restricts competition do you?

What? No. In europe you could receive calls for free but calling out cost per minute billing so all the teenagers pretty much only had their phone as a means for their parents to call them. if you had to call your parents you’d call let it ring once and hang up, they’d see the missed call and call you back. if you had one kid whose parents loved them enough to give him a subscription with included minutes instead of pre-paid everyone in the group had to use their phone.

Its only the pensioners you see not using their phones all the time.

Is a joke? every oldie i see has their readers on stuck to a tablet or phone, parents, grandparents, aunts uncles and neighbors all in a trance

Sure but lets allow the world population to naturally contract to 500 million or so before we start pushing for replacement numbers

If Jesus didnt exist as the son of god then what does it matter? Santa isnt Saint Nicholas and Jesus Christ isnt whatever historical julio you want to project onto why are we even entertaining this bullshit? There is no historical Jesus because there is no Jesus Christ, it’s not more complicated than that.

You should be browsing from your subscriptions. Youtube front page is just monetized slop, for discovery talk to your friends let them be the slop filter (or worst case reddit)

If youre doing niche hobby stuff why are you even talking about monetization? This is for people who dont have a real job and trying to make it in youtubes version of hollywood.

Emissions and their impact exist in the context of the value they produce and to whom that value benefits… duh?

You frame it with ambition as a virtue to be desired, but that’s really not a given… ambition is often super toxic. I can imagine a future of luxury automated space communism™ where the ultimate purpose is fulfillment. To be Zen is to release ones self from ego and put desire and ambition in context.

Sure but what does it matter that Saint Nicholas existed in turkey if the santa that children “worship” lives at the north poles with elves and magic reindeer? that a fictional story might draw inspiration from a historical fact but it doesnt mean anything more than leonardo divinci being in assassins creed.

historical jesus didnt exist because whatever person with a similar name that you pluck from history will not have been the son of god and all the supernatural implications that brings. santa didn’t exist and neither did jesus.

Their values are bad sure, but does it not matter that they’re also just wrong? does the truth not motivate people?

they’re the type that uses reddit the same way they’d use instagram or 9gag so it doesnt have any particularly unique value to them

We must be on different lemmys because it seems pretty well understood here that the whole point of socialism is that the workers democratically control the means of production, only liberals from the USA act confused about that

This is a well understood phenomenon well explored in many books with both nuanced and obvious answers, please ask your local librarian to direct you. In the mean time I’ve heard the new movie I Love Boosters is really good…

I assumed they were all working from their iphones

But then the problem is the grooming not the incest so grooming should be the taboo

Are you not adding detergent to the prewash!?

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