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  • Nearly every respectable major news outlet that has commentary tries to invite commentary from multiple sides.

    Maybe that's part of the issue though?

    If Jimmy Allred says it’s raining, and W. Lee O’Daniel says it isn’t raining, Texas newspapermen quote them both, and don’t look out the window to see which is lying, and to tell the readers what the truth is at the moment.

  • I'd even say that this illustrates the success even more...

    • lemm.ee shuts down, iirc, because it took too much time and effort to run the instance. Not really a sign of inactivity.
    • the platform keeps going! The whole idea of a federated network works, as a single instance going down doesn't impact other ones. As it happened before, see e.g. feddit.de.

    So Lemmy as a whole is alive and healthy - and successful.

  • Thanks for the explanation. It kind of makes sense, but I'll still try to play devil's advocate... If people only get slightly more than 60 percent of the value they create, is the rest really only there to make the rich people richer or is it being used to pay off a loan the company might have gotten to pay for a large machine or something? With the bank receiving, obviously, the excess money, which they then use to pay their employees and buildings etc? These numbers seem to suggest that all money that isn't paid to employees directly feeds the greedy ruling class, but it isn't mentioned explicitly and maybe the excess money goes somewhere else as well? Not trying to say it has to be like that, just trying to get a better understanding.

  • I have no idea how that makes any sense.

    First of all, according to your link, the richer countries seem to already be at much higher values, second I have no idea where that 50 percent value comes from even if we ignore the variety in distribution over the various countries.

  • Germany recently declared horses are no longer work animals but recreational, hiking vet prices astronomically. Also, horses might be driven around now but I'm sure there were more of them when 90% of the population were farmers and they all needed some of them.

  • Either Alien (Ian Holm as Ash), Aliens (Lance Henriksen as Bishop) or maybe Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator). Just for the big reveal of "he's a machine", with all the muppets being like "oh woooow, that's insane, we literally couldn't tell him apart from us!"

  • DS9 is waaaay better than voyager.

    That's debatable. Both had their flaws, but I really preferred Voyager's idea of "dang, it's going to take us decades to get home and we're in uncharted territory, so let's explore the hell out of our way back" over DS9's "were sitting at the galaxy's newly discovered traffic junction and our new enemies look like anything, so our major conflict is that anybody could be a traitor and our utopia is turned upside down into a surveillance state".

  • Yeah. But if they pull over after somebody "politely" flashes at them, they aren't obeying the traffic rules in the first place as those require them to drive in the right lane if they can at all times.