In my opinion seeing this through the lens of nations is nearly meaningless.

What is happening is the end of oil has begun and the Ukrainian war has made it very difficult to keep oil prices high. China is moving towards alternative energy and massively investing into EVs, the writing is on the wall. If you don’t secure a buyer for your oil even if you have lots of oil it is going to become harder and harder to sell it.

The way I see it, Trump is at the end of the day attacking Venezuela and seizing tankers in order to try to introduce enough instability into the world oil markets that prices don’t crash further for the oil companies actually running all of this. I don’t really even see this as a true hostile action against Russia, it feels like a purely cynical price manipulation move that Russia just happened to be the convenient target of.

All of the other context people are providing are the details built upon this core reality.

All of that is a large, large amount of capital expenditure, and the people who can put that money down will want solid assurances that the Venezuela arrangement will continue for years and decades.

Right and I think Trump doing this was mainly about introducing instability into Venezuela to reduce the likelihood foreign investors will help make this happen that aren’t US companies, and I don’t think US oil companies by and large want oil supply to increase on the world market.

Yeah it is definitely about more than the oil, but insofar as it is about oil I am completely unconvinced this is actually about pumping more oil, it doesn’t make basic sense in the context of the oil market and the glut of US oil production supply being extremely poorly positioned for the current oil market.

This only makes sense if Trump is trying to keep oil prices from dropping further, not drive them down even more.

Their business is B2B now.

That and mass surveillance such as with Palestine and Microslop’s Azure used by Israel to obscure individual culpability in deciding who to murder next.

Do you honestly think blanket restrictions on alcohol and cigarettes etc… actually work? In my experience they don’t.

Further this is a moral panic and distraction from actually addressing the problems, it will do nothing to keep kids safe and will just backfire when they search out even less safe alternatives.

The conclusion in the headline is a correlation not causation, and I think it is honestly lazy that these narratives are getting repeated by scientists without proper skepticism. The related study is far more illuminating in my opinion.

While it’s unclear why social media increases [WITH] depressive symptoms, prior research points to risks such as cyberbullying and disrupted sleep. In fact, Nagata and team just published a separate study in The Lancet Regional Health - Americas looking at the same cohort of participants, focusing instead on the effects of cyberbullying.

The study found kids aged 11 to 12 years who were cyberbullied were 2.62 times more likely to report suicidal ideation or a suicide attempt one year later. Additionally, those kids were also 2.31 times more likely to experiment with a substance (4.65 times more likely with marijuana, 3.37 with nicotine, and 1.92 with alcohol) in the following year.

To me this doesn’t point to the fact that social media is bad for health, it points to the fact that handwaving social media as all equally bad is a stupid move and we need to be more curious and engaged about the communities younger people inhabit online… and actively desire to make them positive spaces for younger people. What people need to get through their thick skulls is that even if we could cut kids out of social media and even if there are negative impacts, that doesn’t justify taking it away from kids until we understand what we are potentially taking away from kids that might be crucial for their wellbeing. What right do we really even have to make such choices past a certain point?

Increasingly, the youngest generations find themselves facing a catch-22, with growing evidence that social media is associated with depressive symptoms and risky behavior yet also a primary area for them to connect and communicate with friends.

What bothers me is scientists that are experts in this area have a very narrow interest in studying their topic of research and advancing their careers, but I don’t think they understand how much of a moral panic we are in right now and how their research will be used to justify draconian and unhelpful policies even if they state publicly over and over again they aren’t in support of those policies or in the conclusions the public draws from only reading the headline of their research.

What determines whether social media is healthy for people or not are the choices that are made in the architecture of social media and this is EXACTLY why the ruling class wants us to be distracted by the idea that social media is inherently a sinful vice so we don’t start asking problematic questions about whether rightwing billionaires should have a stranglehold and monopoly over our digital lives. We can fall back on a judgement of individuals taking the drug of social media and the moral failure of doing so and condescend them instead of thinking harder about the structures our digital lives rely on and are shaped by.

“The bison are there to teach the prairie how to be a prairie, so the prairie remembers how to be a prairie,” Young said. “And the prairie is there, so the bison can remember how to be bison.”

Edit it is so perfectly fitting for the Linux community to respond with mostly criticisms and negations to these flowcharts I shared without a single negative commenter actually suggesting a different similar helpful resource for newbies to Linux who feel overwhelmed or adding something productive and helpful to the conversation.

Do better y’all.

You can’t condescend these resources and pretend with a handwave like there are better ones out there, you gotta prove it. If you are going to pick apart these charts then you gotta make a new chart or link me to a better one, I don’t care about your condescending minor criticisms of the specifics of the flowcharts, that is irrelevant input unless you are going to edit a flowchart and make a new one or add something else productive.

I feel like I am inside a meme making fun of Linux users right now lol.

https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/347408

https://lemmy.ca/post/53099450

We’re now producing almost 100% of the food that we consume. And that is because Venezuela’s popular organizations during the worst times of the economic crisis in between 2017 and 2020, when Trump applied the first sanctions against Venezuela, during those times, we learned that we needed to diversify the economy. We learned that we needed to create a sovereign production, that we needed to create sovereign distribution systems in Venezuela, so we couldn’t be led to a starvation, which is what the Trump administration is trying to do right now. They’re trying to starve the Venezuelan population by creating this naval blockade. So Venezuelan communes are pledging alliance to defending the country from these — from this imperialist attack.

Oh believe me I have also seen precarious tall stacks of rocks that manage to stay standing for much longer than you would expect. Usually it is because they are surrounded by a forest of other much more solid formations of rocks or the ground is solid and well suited to support a base stone.

Sometimes though I see someone waving to me smugly from atop a precarious stack of rocks amidst a sea of other precarious stacks of rocks and I chuckle to myself and wave back condescendingly… and then feel guilty about the ugliness of pre-emptive disaster tourism.

There was a time when tech talent would uproot their lives for the US because it offered collaboration, publishing, company-building and a big conference circuit. Now they run a gauntlet at the border, where even a green card or citizenship does not guarantee they will not be hassled.

Thus it can be seen how when industries aren’t mitigated in their self defeating behavior by unions, the associated job market and domestic industry can be driven to collapse and there will be zero ability to slow the process down once it begins spiralling.

Unions, even if you are a super smart techbro who understands EVERYTHING about the world better than other people because you understand computers… you still need Unions or else the company you are working for will inveitably blow itself up and leave nothing but a crater behind.

yes but gestures at spaceship it is org mode tho!

org mode and pandoc :P

sorry I understood, I didn’t mean to frame my response like I was correcting you!

The data IS inconclusive on whether I give a shit.

Good explanation but if I can TL;DR something here that is basic but a lot of geologists don’t explicitly introduce as context to lay people because they are silly…

Think of earth as a lava lamp where hot goop rises to the surface and cools into new surface area at mid-ocean spreading ridges and is shunted along the conveyor belt of plate tectonics along until being forced back down underneath another plate and recycled back into goop.

Material is recycled this way, what is significant is this might be a sample of OG earth goop and it might suggest some of the OG earth goop doesn’t mix well with modern earth goop and it might influence modern indigestion in earth as in Hawaii or Yellowstone type stuff.

Remember, we are talking about goop in a lava lamp here, ostensibly it is always mixing so somehow finding a bit of goop that has remained isolated in composition for a long time is going to be fascinating to big lava lamp nerds.

Environmental Conservation -> because only a psycho would want LESS kinds of cats in the world

Aksala-Dnalneerg is the resource rich border region in the far tundras of the north between Alaska and Greenland, it is largely undeveloped because no real estate developer has had the proper vision for it yet (a great flat low expanse with easy access to water).

Can’t we just fly Trump to a random ice covered rock and just hire some people to pretend it is Greenland and he can have a little senior assisted living situation inside Trump Castle in Newer New York City, Greenland safely isolated from the rest of us?

This is a good thing honestly, fuck Spotify it ruined music as much as any single company/service could.