don’t even think capitalism requires infinite growth. It’s just how we built it. Not even since the beginning.

Eh… It’s kinda baked into a system of competition modified via supply and demand. If there’s not enough demand to initiate the growth of supply then you enter into a recession. Competition forces companies to invest in their avenues of growth so they don’t get cornered out of their market, which means they have to invest more into the company than other companies year over year.

In the beginning stages of capitalism competition is great for building markets, but towards the latter stages of capitalism, especially in fields with high fungibility, competition becomes destructive. Once this destructive competition becomes the norm the only escape for companies to remain profitable and continue growing is to monopolize, conglimorize, or ironically become heavily regulated.

It’s this idea that the money you make from investment should grow exponentially. This demand from professional stock traders that they be able to sell for obscene profits. The company must grow, and those profits must grow, or the shareholders will all sell in a panic and abandon them, and even a profitable company may go under.

It’s not really an option for companies to stagnate, not only because they legally have to make as much profit as possible for shareholders, but because the nature of competition in the market will eventually force them to go under, or more likely be bought up by the competition.

It doesn’t HAVE to be more profit next year than last year, we just made it that way over time.

It’s kinda always been that way, at least since the emergence of business done on a national scale. A lot of the reason Federalism became popularized was because businesses required unified regulation across state lines. Just look at the economic history of railroads and oil tycoons and you’ll see the same scenarios were undergoing today on a smaller scale.

It’s the oblique route for sure, but could be just as effective in the long run. You wouldn’t have to actually overturn the legal concept of gay marriage, while at the same time being able to prevent gay marriage from happening in the future.

You just have to empower the position with the power to deny access to a marriage license and then fill those positions with people who don’t think it should exist. With one ruling you could potentially make it legal to deny gay people marriages, deny women the right to a divorce, or whatever insanely bigoted shit religious people dream up.

would love their ideology to be accepted common sense rather than current one

The crazy thing is that the current economic system we utilize isn’t considered nonsensical.

I guess an economic system that requires infinite growth made a bit more sense during the age of discovery, when people were actively finding new continents to exploit. One would think that now we’ve definitively concluded we inhabit a closed system with a finite amount of natural resources, maybe just maybe we could evolve our economic system to reflect that?

She’s actually an ENT, but it really doesn’t matter what your specialty is. Mnra vaccines are new enough that unless you are actively researching them or are in a specialty like infections disease, most MD’s aren’t really going to be very familiar with them.

I specialize in orthopedics and rehabilitation, I know about bones, joints and the things that connect to bones and joints… If anyone asks me about vaccines I’m going to refer them to someone who actually really knows what they’re talking about.

I don’t trust the vaccines because I went to med school. I trust the vaccines because my colleagues in infectious disease trust the vaccines and this is what they do all day.

Imo, it doesn’t work. The active ingredients are corn gluten meal and salt. The only actual study I could find lacks any real control and makes it’s conclusions basically by saying “yeah, seems to be less mice around lately”.

They claim that corn gluten meal somehow lines the stomach and intestines preventing the rats/mice from hydrating and then the salt dehydrates them even further. I kinda have doubts about this, because I know they use corn gluten meal as cheap feed stock for animals like lab mice and guinea pigs.

I think that comes with the techy side of lemmy

That’s kinda what I’ve always figured.

Even posting this, I’m a bit hesitant.

Yeah, honestly surprised I haven’t been hounded for even suggesting it.

For as politically Left as Lemmy tends to run there still seems to be a high level of mysoginy.

we just have a vague sense of familiarity with the product. We instinctively buy the more familiar, as the “safer” option. It takes conscious effort to overcome this (which most people don’t have to spare).

Sounds like a perfect pitch to sell more ads. Like I said, I would hesitate to actually trust any statistical analysis of the effectiveness of advertising done by the same people wanting to sell more ads.

In a capitalist economy there’s just not a real motivation for researching advertising unless you are a marketing agency. So the vast majority of information is intrinsically biased.

A lot of it is because the only book they all have ever read is the turner diaries. In the book a neonazi group does some terrorism and this magically leads to white people winning a race war.

It’s terrible writing written to appeal to terrible people.

The field that marketing companies truly excel at the most is advertising their own services. Researching the effectiveness of advertising is difficult because most of the information is presented by the marketing companies themselves. However, most scientific studies agree that advertising through environmental means is ineffective and sometimes can even be harmful to brands.

Marketing usually aims to take advantage of impulsive purchasing behaviour by inundating the potential purchasers environment with advertisement. However, this isn’t very effective, most people automatically filter these kinds of ads, or worse are actively annoyed by them. Effective advertising activates the buyers impulsive behavior by engaging with them emotionally, which is why ad space for podcasts and other types of para social relationships are more effective.

I’d say the vast majority of data scraped from personal devices are utilized as tools to market the idea of advertisement to vendors more than they are used to actually market products. Imo marketing is useless for most types of businesses, and is mostly a field of self perpetuating scam artist.

Some people’s midlife crisis are a prolonged experience.

So embarrassing to see a man pushing 60yo roided up and going by the nick name “taz”. Is there anything more cringe than a man afflicted with a tasteless case of midlife crisis?

This can’t be true… Businesses wouldn’t reshape their entire portfolios, spending billions of dollars on a technology with limited to no utility. Ridiculous.

Anyways, I got these tulip bulbs to sell, real cheap, just like give me your house or something.

They were, but when evaluated against their original claim its pretty apparent they were doing it to establish a whataboutism.

I’m sure it is, I can’t recall the exact source atm. It was a couple months ago and I’m struggling to remember if it was on the radio or maybe a podcast? I’ll search around, if I find it or remember the source I’ll shoot you measage

I remember this guy, it’s captain Stolen Valor

Huge piece of shit that made his political career by lying about his military career. Claims to be an elite sniper who did like 4 combat tours, earning half a dozen medals including a bronze star. In reality he drove an ambulance for 4 years, and there’s no evidence he was ever in combat.

I don’t really give a shit about stolen Valor, but i do think it’s hilarious that his constituents all claim to “support the troops” and then elect this dude.

Edit: apparently there’s been updates to his story I didn’t know about, the levels of hypocrisy are insane.

Mills is under new and intense scrutiny after Blaze News revealed that he was married in 2014 by a radical imam in Falls Church, Va. The imam, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Hanooti, was a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundraiser for the terror group Hamas, and an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York. The wedding took place at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, where two of the 9/11 hijackers once attended and where notorious terror leader and al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki was an imam.

Tbh, I think a lot of older Jewish people are in a tremendous amount of self denial about the whole scenario. The Jewish community spent generations drilling the idea that being Jewish was basically an antonym to genocide.

I recently listened to an interview of a Jewish professor who specializes in genocide study who talked about his initial internal conflict with admitting what he was witnessing was genocide. The guy did his best not to cry throughout the interview and failed from doing so a couple times. You could still see that he was struggling with a crisis of consciousness and identity, and it was admirable he could overcome it with academic integrity.

It’s still not an excuse, but I think it’s at least understandable that a people who built a cultural touchstone around their own genocide are largely in a state of disbelief that they are now participating in one.

Political brinkmanship is unfortunately part of the democratic process. If it wasn’t an option that politicians wanted to hold in their pocket, then they could have legislated it away a long time ago. Having Congress be bicameral was supposed to be a hedge against this sort of behaviour, but even the senators are bat shit insane nowadays.

Kinda depends on your environment, a lot of plastics are susceptible to degrading in certain temperatures, humidity levels, or especially from being left in direct sunlight.

Sometimes supply creates its own demand, and this is… good? No more questions.