À défaut de les bouffer…

This article is not saying money does not help, but saying it’s not all it takes. I don’t think this is a hot take at all

Your entire argument is based on a strawman.

TIL civilisation didn’t exist before the 20th century

You’re basically proving their point for them. If a wrong election turns your democracy into a police state, then you were not living in a true democracy in the first place. And don’t get me started on a democracy where the same assholes get elected for 40+ years

The second Reich flag is basically a Nazi flag nowadays, since flying the 3rd Reich flag is illegal…

Edit: is there a source for this video?

Knowing what an SDK is already puts you in the 1% most knowledgeable users

Why can’t they speak freedom language? 🇺🇲🍔💣🇺🇲 we’re here to fuck up democracy and act like the center of the world, and we’re out of democracy 🇺🇲

Would be fun if Lemmy had a feature to block people / instances by country, now that I think of it

Reads like a non story. His comments are basically describing how many places handle this topic already. USians will get outrage at anything but their own making I swear

Argument goes both ways

Trust In whom? The level of trust of The average European towards Germany is probably the same as it was during the war. Which is, coincidentally, the same as before the war.

Sounds like the nickname was perfectly on point

Wouldn’t want to miss an opportunity to fuck over women. And they call themselves progressives. I guess overturning Roe v Wade is “progress” to them

Mildest ml take.

That’s still following a convention

… And?

Have you spent the last 10 years under a rock? Everyone drives an SUV nowadays

A fifth of your country vote for nazis, and another third don’t mind them. Time to get out of Berlin a bit. AfD voters don’t really hide anymore

Entry level at my company is 55k, in a much smaller city, in a field that’s not super competitive salary wise (i.e. not automotive industry), so I’d slap a huge YMMV on your comment.

I’m sure there are entire studies about why homeopathy works. What’s your point? That economists are better liars than homeopaths?

Economics should be viewed like history: as an after-the-fact study, not some form of prediction model. Meaning, not a science, as it is by definition non reproducible (until we invent a time machine). Seen from this angle, I think economics is a quite interesting topic, yes.

But most “economists” from last century just spew things about how capitalism is great, because suggesting otherwise would be a (career) suicide in most of the west during the cold war, and things have been slow to evolve. Also, empirical data is not what defines science. It’s only used to support theories. Otherwise, I can tell you that 99% of the people who take homeopathy for their flue are cured within the week. See how useless “empirical” data can be on their own?

Economists who view themselves as anything more than historians are basically gurus pushing whatever ideology is trending. Even the more mathematical aspects of economics rely on vague theoretical models that cannot be used for anything but filling up a thesis. But if one of those models can predict when ww3 starts, when Putin dies, or who will win the next election in my city, then I’ll admit, maybe they are good for something.

Makes me wonder who, between you and I, needs to learn more about economics.