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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • It’s been that way. I ask myself this kind of question often, what do other major country blocks have to propel themselves into the future? There’s been nothing new and big enough to gain global traction in decades where as America constantly looks for ways to expand its portfolio and often takes neighboring countries with it.

    Look to major shakeups in labor and manufacturing next, China is not a good bet anymore so lots of it will move, plenty to Mexico or South America but unfortunately not much to the US still. Maybe chips because they will have massive subsidies for the security value of them but otherwise it’s still too expensive.

    What can Europe do? Maybe they will just have to accept the gradual slowdown as they wrestle with a lack of innovation















  • While it’s all true, I suggest a different mindset. It’s not an argument we need to win and all of a sudden businesses are going to wake up and start acting different. We need to realize we’re something business wants, not the other way around. They want us so they need to treat us right or we leave, and it’s no problem for us because we’re in demand right now.

    If they can’t figure that out, that’s thier problem and no amount of crying changes that. Shit like “nobody wants to work anymore” is an attempt to make us feel bad and make it our problem, it’s not our problem it’s their problem.



  • I think it’s also true to say shitty people have more time on their hands and put more time into things like hating on others because it makes them feel better about themselves and whatever bad situation they’re in that they feel powerless to change. That can cross generations, personality types, political spectrum and anything else.

    Big subreddits haven’t been a good place for conversation for years. Within an hour or less any popular thread has thousands of comments, anything you might write and add to it will be so far down the list, it’ll never be seen. The reddit hive mind is very rigid in it’s thinking and yes can be quite toxic sometimes.

    I’ve only used reddit as a news aggregator and meme scroller for a long time now. Occasionally I’ll pop over to a specific subreddit and maybe get a few words in but it’s rare, I can easily do the same here too so I plan to give the fediverse a solid chance for the next few months.