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  • Yes that's correct.

    All has posts from all the communities the members on that instance subscribe to.

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    Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?
  • Those are very big questions. This Wikipedia Page is a good place to start.

    The simple answer is, everything humanity does happens in cycles.
    But you can think of it as roller-coaster passing through an infinite series of loops. We keep going forward in the long run. But but the repeating loops take us up and down, even upside down and backwards along the way. In every case, coming down each loop gives us the momentum to reach the next one.

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    The 10 worst superhero movies of the 2010s, ranked
  • Cowboys and Aliens doesn't have any superheros.

    And you're wrong. It's perfect.

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    Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?
  • It works in cycles.

    The last Guilded Age (think Roaring 20s) ended with the great depression. Which then triggered the creation of all the great economic policies the boomers enjoyed as children, which they've been dismantling since the 70s.

    Once things get bad enough, (very nearly there now) the cycle will repeat.

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    Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?
  • I'm not sure you know what post scarcity means.

    Imagine a world where nobody needs to work, but everyone can still have any material desire filled at any time.

    Think Star Trek. Unlimited energy resources, combined with replicators which use that endless energy to create unlimited stuff without any labor required.

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    Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?
  • It really is the most efficient way to manage and trade scarce resources. Going back to a barter system wouldn't be possible with the size and scope of a global economy.

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    Stellantis pauses production of electric Fiat 500 due to poor demand | Reuters
  • Is the demand low, or were the expectations unrealistic?
    Nobody likes to blame their own estimates I guess.

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    Chief O'Brien at Work #21 - The Future
  • Not too complicated. There are already LLMs spewing that nonsense.

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    Trump Says He's Done Debating: 'THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!'
  • I'm generally not a sit com person.
    But that sounds cute. I'd give it a chance.

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    Trump Says He's Done Debating: 'THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!'
  • Sure they ask for a rematch.
    Unless they're afraid they'll get humiliated again.

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    'Parasitic' IPTV Piracy is Killing Football, "It's Them or Us" Says Serie A CEO.
  • The most profitable league in all of sports...
    Is being killed?

    I don't think that means what they think it means.

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    There's a proton AMA happening on reddit right now. Feel free to use this oportunity to ask about anything you'd like proton to do
  • I loged in to my account for the first time in over a year, to ask them about starting their own Fediverse instances for public communications. Specifically Mastodon and Lemmy.

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    USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers
  • Prettier, sure. But less practical, functionally.

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    USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers
  • Oh! That's better.
    One of the images had a van looking one, the caption said was the electric.

    I thinks it's the back one in your image.

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    USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers
  • Ugly in an iconic way.
    Clearly designed for practicality.
    They look great to drive with all that visibility.

    On the other hand the electric version just looks like a disappointing van.

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    Video on how "biological sex" is a social construct
  • I looked at both of those.
    The first is conflating Sex and Gender. As I said, sex isn't defined by chromosomes and specific genes. It is partially determined by them, and other factors, such as in you temperature dependent example. But again Male and Female are terms used throughout all sexually reproducing lifeforms. Not just Humans. The terms are defined by the reproductive role of the animals gametes; not their genes or anatomy or anything else.

    The Beyond XX & XY chart you provided shows a whole host of genetic disorders that can result in a range of outcomes that mix male and female traits in humans. Then it tries to assign genders onto those mixes of traits. But gender isn't determined by genes, or anatomy. It's determined by society and social convention. Do you see what I'm saying?

    The statement "She is male" is consistent with a separation of gender from sex. It does leave an open question as to the use of Man and Woman. I'm torn on that one myself. Traditionally Man and Woman are terms of sex, while Masculine and Feminine are terms of gender. My first impulse is to maintain that. But calling her a man, seems different than calling her a male. So I can see changing man and woman to terms of gender, while keeping male and female as terms of sex. I'm not sure we really need a separate word for "human male" anyway. Most of the time there's plenty of context to indicate if we're talking about humans or other animals.

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    Kamala Harris’s climate policies, explained
  • I'm not trying to pick on Harris specifically here. It's just a perfect example of politicians being asked direct yes or no questions, and them giving paragraph long responses that don't actually answer the question.

    Do you believe that climate change is largely driven by human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels? If not, is there a different cause you would cite?

    Didn't say yes.

    Do you believe climate change is making disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves more intense?

    Almost said yes.

    Should climate change be addressed through government action or market forces?

    Practically a yes. I award a half credit.

    Do you support clean-energy tax credits such as those for electric vehicles?

    Again half credit. Not an actual yes.

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    Video on how "biological sex" is a social construct
  • Biological sex isn't defined by beards or breasts.
    It's defined by the reproductive roll of an animals gametes. They apply through all sexualy reproducing species on earth.

    You can't in one place, say sex and gender are unrelated; Then another place use them as synonyms.

    I'm all in favor of trans rights. And I believe seperating sex and gender is great! But it needs to be consistent. This inconsistent selective misuse of terms is infuriating. And I think it's a big part of the hangups otherwise liberal people have with this movement.

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