Argentina is becoming an increasingly interesting case study on how economic policy affects everyday life of a population.

More like confirmation bias. People only remember when their prayers “solved” a situation that surely wouldn’t resolve itself either way, but forget the million others where it failed.

Guess the mayor forgot he was supposed to find an alternative mode of transportation so customers can “hang out at the expensive boutiques”.

“While sales are not our main concern at the moment, we have seen a very significant drop,” said the official.

I always find it funny when representatives of a big corporation say this.

The profit is all that matters to companies, even their reputation with the wider public only matters because it affects their ability to achieve a higher profit margin.

It feels disingenuous and manipulative to hear this.

That seems like a misrepresentation of the “left” (pretty much a useless term, but oh well).

Most of the “right” indeed believes “rich people” are essential to the economy and their abandonment of a country leads to economic collapse.

I’d argue the “left” agrees that the owners of capital play an essential role in most economies nowadays, but also believe that it doesn’t have to be that way. In a capitalist economy (like most in the world), the need to appease capital owners, constantly growing, desire to accumulate capital leads to unwanted outcomes like democratic backsliding and without resistance economic power subverts democratic institutions.

I’ll admit I don’t know the work you mention in your comment, so I might have missed some context.

Why the hate on Alberta specifically?

In the end, what most people seem to care about is their own material conditions

I’m not even complaining, just pointing out the obvious, even though I understand why it’s the way it is.

As the other commenter said in a reply to this, people are quick to complain about a better solution just because it isn’t perfect. But I’m not complaining because frankly I don’t care that much.

I’m not from NYC, I’m not from the USA and I’m not even from that continent.

It’s cool Zohran won the election, you guys should celebrate his feats and criticise his faults.

Still only corporate platforms unfortunately.

He could livestream to multiple platforms.

Personally I’d enjoy a stream to any federated/open source platform like peertube.

That’s hilarious, gotta love kagi.

I don’t really have the time to spare right now so I’ll take your word on that claim. Either way I wasn’t really talking about this specific group, I was referencing separatist movements in general as the OC seems to “hate” all of them.

I can understand this reasoning, but I still believe some separatist movements are genuine and should be respected, without trying to trigger the hornet’s nest the Catalonia separatists come to mind.

Why? Aren’t they attempting to make use of their right to self-determination?

Is the “revolutionary flu shot” even feasible at the moment?

From the little I understand about the topic, our hopes of getting rid of the flu are pretty much none until vaccines for the constantly adapting flu virus are very cheap and very quick to develop/deploy. Until then, the virus will simply adapt to the old vaccines quicker than we can counter it.

Can’t say, never tried it, just know that it’s creator owned and doesn’t have any AI voiced content.

Or means.tv, a creator owned platform.

Not contesting that, but at some point in time announcing that the sun is in the center of our solar system would have you barbecued.

Aren’t you thinking of US law?

Not sure if most countries do the same.

I’m actually surrounded by cool people, but I’m aware of my bubble.