Again, Netanyahu is not going to back down from this war, because if he does he goes to jail. This is his only ticket to staying out. If he needs to pull money from other sectors, he will (also, you’re overstating the impact on the Israeli economy).
As compared to Ukraine, where the US’s decision is of critical importance right now.
You realise Israel doesn’t get cash, right? The cash goes into the American military industrial complex. All they get are free weapons, which they can live without for a while.
That money will likely mean the difference between victory and defeat for Ukraine, and all the geopolitical fallout that entails. It is however unlikely to change Israel’s stance on Gaza as long as Netanyahu remains in power.
Turning every landfill into a fission reactor is certainly one way to fix the landfill issue
I’m using sync myself, but I think most of the lemmy apps have the feature by now
Right now, this is analogous to having an active shooter walking around gunning down people, and a random person safely elsewhere saying ‘Don’t shoot him, he has rights!’. No, people are actively suffering and dying. Fix the emergency first, then consider the ramifications.
I believe in the tolerance social contract. You deserve rights so long as you respect the rights of others. Kiwi farms has absolutely no respect for anybody’s rights, and hence does not deserve any themselves.
You’re probably being downvoted because nobody is drawing any comparisons to the Apollo missions, except yourself. You’re defending a point nobody else is making.
The only cost comparison to other space missions I’ve seen is a one liner from the article which compares it to a current day Falcon launch. Which is a reasonable comparison and data point.
Can we not have the hundred identical stupid jokes in the comment section like we did in reddit?
For those who dislike YouTube / videos:
https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes
https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes
Not a transcript, but probably even better.
https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes
Maybe read what the Chinese people in China are saying.
Seems like many people aren’t aware that’s an option
You don’t get it. I KNOW he was referring to Americans. My comment is entirely meant as a reminder that America is not the world, and the rest of us exist. I don’t understand why you have a problem with that.
Can you point to the part of his post that specifically states he’s talking about the US only? The entire point of my reply was just to remind everybody that the US is not the only country in existence.
The original statement is that only wealthy Americans will get it. That’s categorically wrong, as many people outside the states have no problem affording modern healthcare. Either he’s forgotten there are countries outside the states, or he thinks the healthcare system worldwide is as screwed up as it is in the states.
adding over 7 million people is what’s important
It is not. When dealing with statistics, percentages are the only thing that matter.
If it was a country like Canada, with a population of less than 50 million people, that would be problematic.
Losing 15% of your population on a yearly basis isn’t problematic, it’s species-ending catastrophic.
But with a population pool of 1.5 billion, what’s the actual concern? What social instability does this cause that a population of 1.5 billion already doesn’t?
To put it in perspective, that’s the same population loss ratio that japan is currently experiencing. Japan, the country that’s teetering on the brink of cultural and societal collapse from an aging population.
There will never be too few people in China
Yeah this sums up the problem fairly well. You’re so stuck in your personal opinion of china’s population that you can’t imagine for a moment the situation changing, regardless of what the data might be saying. You’re no better than the people who refused to believe climate change was occurring. Fuck your gut instinct, pay attention to the actual numbers.
The number of people is irrelevant in the context, only the birth vs death rate. For context, there were about 10.5 million deaths in China last year. For social stability, you’d want the population to at most have a slight decline. A 50% higher death rate than birth rate is NOT slight.
Which part of `this will not stop the genocide’ did you not understand?