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Ok so how does a cancer kill its host?

It grows until it consumes so many nutrients that the other living cells don't get enough. The host literally starves even if he eats plentifully.

The same applies for the US: The billionaires are not only hoarding wealth, but by doing so they're crippling the economy for workers and everybody besides themselves.

Some key insights from the article:

Basically, what they did was to look at how much batteries would be needed in a given area to provide constant power supply at least 97% of the time, and the calculate the costs of that solar+battery setup compared to coal and nuclear.

Some key insights from the article:

Basically, what they did was to look at how much batteries would be needed in a given area to provide constant power supply at least 97% of the time, and the calculate the costs of that solar+battery setup compared to coal and nuclear.

Ok so hear me out, everyone.

Today i had a funny little dream. I wanna tell you all about it because i found it so funny. (It's not technically a showerthought but i couldn't find a community for this particular thing, and this feels like the next-best-thing. The community notes even says "thoughts that come to you while day-dreaming", so i guess this is close enough. I hope you all forgive me :-) Creating lots of small niche communities splits the userbase too much, i fear, as well)

I was dreaming that I was in an underwater old ship wreckage. I.e., there was an ocean, and it was close to the coastline, and an old wooden ship sank there centuries ago, and i was there.

I observed a lot (20 maybe) penguins going in and out of the ship wreckage, each transporting a cooked, peeled egg in its beak, that looked like it was stolen from a nearby breakfast buffet. They took these eggs, and deposited them in the ship, so that the ship became a treasure chamber of digestible food. There was soo much stuff, that a good part of the ship was filled with food. I was amazed and asked myself why the fuck they would dispose that much good food, instead of eat it, presumably because it would go bad after a while, if oxygen reached it, it would start to rot rather badly.

I went into this ship to investigate and there was so. much. algae. everywhere. It felt like the algae feed on that food, and it was hard to get through. Eventually i exited the ship on the other side.

I thought about why the penguins store the food, and i thought to myself "huh, that's just biology", where "biology" somehow referred to how things are done underwater. Then i wanted to laugh, and to not swallow too much water, i dived up to the surface to breathe, but the closer i got to the surface, the stranger the impression of air seemed to me, as if it was a foreign object, and not like something that my life depended on. When i finally reached the surface, i tried to inhale, and when i did, something in my mind switched, and i suddenly felt like a "air animal" again, i.e. one that breathes, and i noticed that i had seen and perceived everything underwater as a "water animal" would describe it, and that i had even used the word "biology", which was an underwater word for how things are done underwater, while the correct, equivalent term for "air animals" would be "(?) angeles" or "archangeles" which would mean how things are done in-air. And that was discriminatory against fish and water-life, and that i might be a predator because i "look down on things that happen under-water".

And that was surprising, which sounded like "shark-prising" somehow. Anyways, then i tried to dive down again, and just then, a shark came out of nowhere and tried to attack me. I just thought "that's typical with my luck and all". Then i wanted to take a photo from the ship to post on [social media], to ask you all why the penguins did that (i still want to hear your opinion about that) but i woke up through the shark attack. I just assumed that my dream had to end because my dream could not make up a good answer for why the penguins did that, to incorporate into my dream.

I'm going back to sleep now, i have an exam in 4-5 hours, and still want some hours of sleep.

For all their "christianity", republicans in the US are pretty hypocritical.

Jesus actually teached that everybody deserves to get fed and housed. That everybody deserves healthcare. That people should care for other people in their community. That is essentially the core principles of socialism.

For years, there has been a lot of backlash against the "objectification of women", which i can totally understand because it's a "dehumanizing" term that looks at people like objects, not as actual human beings.

But the same is happening with the concept of "workers": If people are referred to as "workers", that means that they are being reduced to their economic function; to their ability to produce.

That is a dehumanizing term. The view should be that people are humans first, and workers second. People deserve rights, and a good life, not because they're workers, but because they're humans. That is how people should be looked at.

Instead of even trying to chase jobs that seem out of reach, Gen Z is embracing living like a rat—not showering or leaving the house for days at a time.

The millennial era of “work hard, play harder” and “girl bossing” has given way to a new trend. In China, at least, Gen Zers are proudly calling themselves “rat people”—they’re spending entire days procrastinating in bed, scrolling on their phones, snoozing and ordering take out.

I think it has something to do with "giving up" on the economy: if you have very low chances of landing a job anyways, why even try?

The article does not directly tell us how many people participate in this movement consciously. It does hint, however:

Today, over 4 million American Gen Zers remain jobless. In China, the government has said that as of February, 1 in 6 young people are unemployed.

I'm saying this because lots of people ask "who will buy your products when the people are poor?" to the companies,

but the companies don't actually care whether you buy their products. As long as they have extracted enough out of you that they already own everything, further profits are not a priority.

I'm saying this in the context of people getting poorer and poorer and the current cost-of-living crisis, where companies don't pay a living wage anymore and people ask "who will buy your products when we can't afford to?". It was never about revenue, it was always about ending up owning everything.