Quite the opposite. Due to systemic corruption autocracies are economically highly inefficient with low productivity across the board with all kinds of long term effects this brings. And while it might look bad for democracies at the moment, I think many of the current crop of autocracies will be short lived. In the end, economy is where it’s at, and autocracies are horrible at it.

You’re right. An even shittier reddit that failed due to extreme greed before? What’s the point?

This is the correct answer.

I just deleted the reddit app today, apparently not a minute too early.

Just for anyone who still holds out hope: NATO as we have known it is over. The US won’t come to the defense of the other members if they are attacked. It’s time to move on.

I strongly disagree. They are actually very dumb and there is no grand strategy at play here. While everyone tries to understand the sense behind the erratic decisions, there really is not much to understand at all. It’s as simple as “we don’t want to spend money on European defense anymore”, so all activities related to that are stopped, without any regard to the consequences.

I went for ultra big. 42’ 4k OLED with no scaling is beautiful for gaming and practical for work.

I’ve noticed an uptik of pro Chinese propaganda content here on lemmy in recent days. I am afraid the fediverse had been discovered.

Can anyone explain what we are seeing here?

I root for bazzite. It’s so easy to setup and update all while providing superb support for gaming. I actually run it as a desktop os and I love it.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

That is my impression, too.

… and many brain cells.

The way things are going he will announce it tomorrow, likely via social media and without prior warning to the other NATO members.

Thank God I’m not on reddit anymore.

So?

Is this picture real?

The lifting of all sanctions against Russia, I guess.

I expected this and yet I am shocked. The ultimate betrayal. This will have irreversible consequences for the US and the world order.

But really, how would you prevent this? Ban cars?