Don’t forget to kick a few bucks to the Isle of Lesbos

A game with maps that were assembled at random from what some lead/executive thought was the best submissions out of a random assortment of amateur designs sounds like it is going to be crap.

Really knows how to give a pounding

Me, at the opener for Bright Eyes

you being able to only get one internet service provider at that apartment, despite that being illegal now

Your option is the Mediocre Internet everyone uses or the Shit Internet that exists pretty much exclusively to fulfill this requirement. Fuck Windstream, somehow managed to be worse than Comcast.

Work more night shifts. Date more goths.

Cut the toxic diurnal people out of your life.

What is with people and self-snitching?

It’s AI generated and getting passed around Twitter/Right-Wing Facebook ad part of MAGA hysterics.

Was going to say… there’s no shortage of art - historical or modern - that portrays Jesus as the dominant regional ethnicity.

Case in point

A theory that claims multiple leaders – from Jesus to Barack Obama – are actually Turkish and that modern nations are little more than portions of a greater Turkic whole is gaining traction in many countries

If I see anything less than five politically correct flag-emojis in your profile name, I’m not going to take you seriously.

This guy’s a CIA special operative planted to fool Reddit: Kanye-No.jpg

This guy’s a high school student who just aced his US History AP exam: Kanye-Yes.jpg

“America is the greatest, bestest, most amazing country in the whole world” is straight out of the course material. You don’t need to be a double-secret super spy to post it.

multiplying $5,000 a day by so many years is a silly comparison

Sure.

it ignores the dominating factors to building wealth

It ignores the existence of wealth by focusing on income. And it neglects where income comes from.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist but also they don’t exist because they stuff X dollars under their mattress every day.

Something of a joke about the modern billionaire is how much debt they’re carrying around. You don’t become a billionaire by having a high salary. You become a billionaire by getting access to enormous volumes of low interest credit, in order to monopolize a limited stock of productive capital. It isn’t like being an employee with a sky-high salary so much as it is a member of an elite club with access to amenities nobody else is allowed to use.

The ANC made a special point to protect the apartheidists during their Truth and Reconciliation hearings. It wasn’t until said white farmers began violently resisting efforts to repatriate land to native farmers that the government lost control of retribution. Even then, they weren’t “slaughtered”. Many simply abandoned the properties after the ANC failed to intercede on their behalf.

Quite a few white South Africans are currently leaving to become converts to Judaism in order to participate in the Israeli Settler Movement

From a former Pentecostal pastor to entire families, a growing number of Afrikaners are converting to Orthodox Judaism and swapping South Africa for Israel – and, in many cases, West Bank settlements

they displaced the actual indigenous population that was native to the land.

They also sterilized a bunch of Ethiopian and Mizrahi Jews, on the grounds that these non-European ethinic cohorts were having too many kids.

Incidentally, Israel government has been grappling with a big childlessness crisis which threatens to tank their Jewish population.

One big reason for the genocide in Gaza (which has been in effect since 2006, but recently hit a fevered pitch) is that - despite their best efforts - the Israeli government has failed to neuter the Palestinian population growth rate.

So much of Israeli policy boils down to white nationalist eugenics.

Gradually inflating the currency

Gradual inflation that happens under the national growth rate is fine. You need more currency moving at a faster rate in an expanding economy.

Gradual inflation in a contracting national growth rate is a huge problem.

Thomas Picketty lays this all out mathematically in “Capitalism in the 21st Century”, and builds a strong economic case for a high graduated tax rate as a means of tying inflation back to real economic growth.

Where are you getting 4% annual compound returns, though? That’s faster than the historical growth in global GDP over the equivalent time period.

Nevermind dollars. What about inflation? $5000/day in 1900 would be worth $187,000 today. That’s $68M/year.

You’d need, what? 15 years to get a billion at that rate. You’d also be accusing money faster than Rockefeller.

I have to wonder where all that wealth would even be coming from.

In '00s games, sure.

In '20s games, it would be part of the Pay2Win scheme and only available to players who have rich parents.

Little known fact. The .ml server is run out of an old Soviet bunker in Leningrad, powered entirely by burning copies of the Victims of Communism leaflets in a converted T-34.

Worldnews@lemmy.world about to lose their minds with rage.