Not sure if that’s the reason but I heard that gnu was chosen because gnus, the animal, are essentially one herd spread across Africa. A gnu that loses its particular herd, e.g. while crossing a river, can join any other. Supposedly that’s not the same for other herd animals.

Good for Europe or bad?

American investors are increasingly acquiring European companies, prompting calls for new ownership models to protect economic sovereignty.

https://slrpnk.net/post/22904041

Only for ‘peaceful purposes’. You have to run nuclear reactors to create plutonium for the bomb. So all peaceful nuclear electricity creates the material for the bombs.

Those who through systemic and continuous effort shield themselves from capitalist influence. It discredits them, brands them as enemies,

I am curious how NEET will handle this. They tick all the boxes.

We’re living under the totalitarian rule of capital.

What I meant to say is that the totalitarian part comes from our brain doing value judgements. If it wouldn’t, Capitalism wouldn’t work. Capitalism is a reflection of our mind.

If that makes Capitalism inevitable, could it be that we need more instead of less Capitalism for a better society?

Which is wrong. Fines have to be linked to income and they must hurt or they are just a tax.

There is always the all encompassing totalitarian rule of capital. People trade in prisoner of war camps. Everything has a value and people will exchange things by value unless they have a joined identity. Capital doesn’t crush families. Why should capital try to crush cooperating people who don’t oppose capital itself?

not the strongest individuum has prevailed but the most kooperative group

yes

people have zero real influence on their lives.

Which means that they haven’t become the most kooperative group.

Many places are building horizontal, base democratic communities. Some ideas of people are either solely worker owned companies, full blown democratic socialism or base democracy with federation.

Are those going to be the most kooperative groups?

If we assume that it is possible for society itself to become the most kooperative group then something seems to be missing to make that possible.

My personal hunch is that there must be a more efficient way to resolve in-group conflicts that stand in the way of cooperation. So maybe we should look very closely at what is wrong with the current NEET situation.

How to change human nature? People could stop being pawns and redefine the game but they don’t do it. Here, NEETS stop playing the game and they are immediately shunned by society. People can’t stand to see in others what they have to suppress in themselves.

The end of capitalism would require some benevolent people to be in control or a majority of society that doesn’t fall for manipulations.

The best that I can imagine is that those who don’t like capitalism create their own island, kind of like the situation in brave new world. Fortunately I am not that clever so I hope that others find a better solution.

:) But don’t hold that in my favor.

Burning the board reverses development. Which decision in the past was wrong that could have led to a better society?

We would make the same mistakes again.

We could create a white pill. When groups of humans become enemies and it’s ok to hate them, then somebody is playing a fascist playbook and it becomes time to offer an alternative to all participants. (Which is just other words for ‘pawns of capitalists’.)

At least keep walking and become a queen.

Sweden could join the Euro, but they make sure that they don’t fulfill the criteria to join. Framing this protest as Russian propaganda distracts from the necessary debate.

Beauty. It gives everybody the illusion that they can decide or at least criticize everything. We will end with an unstable system where control becomes impossible and things collapse.

The total value of US-held European business assets has surged from $1.05 trillion in 2011 to $3.79 trillion in 2024, with nearly 32 percent of European assets currently held by American investors.

And yet that’s less than Apple’s market capitalization. That’s even more worrysome than the takeovers.

What’s missing is the same number for Europe. How many American assets are held by European investors?

Stop using hate to focus.

The USA is not comparable because they have illegal immigrants who distort the unemployment rate.

There has to be labor shortage for wages to rise. If employers can, they hire illegal imigrants instead of rising wages.

This means there can be bad employment conditions even with a low unemployment rate. Greece shouldn’t have that problem so living conditions will improve.

Has Pakistan shot down the French jets? India hasn’t confirmed those losses. If true then France doesn’t have much power to project.

On 7 May, Indian and Pakistani fighter jets battled for over an hour. Pakistan claimed that three Dassault Rafales, one MiG-29, one Su-30MKI fighter jet, and one Israeli-manufactured IAI Heron UAV belonging to the Indian Air Force were shot down. If true, would first time that a French-origin Dassault Rafale has been lost in combat, reportedly having been shot down by the Chinese-origin Chengdu J-10. This, along with the performance of Chinese-origin PL-15E missiles in the combat, reportedly gained global attention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_India–Pakistan_conflict

All the downvotes, what’s wrong with my comment?

Tankies perceive the old Tibet like the West perceives Iran, as an abusive Theocracy. That changes the evaluation.

Absolutely. But given those circumstances the prices are still reasonable.

It sounds bad but it is a consequence of female emancipation. If a couple has double the income then a scarce resource like housing ends up costing exactly what a couple can afford.

The situation is actually even better than described. Poor people rent flats. Only a fraction of the population buys homes. The poor people lower the average income but not the average price of a house.

How much has this to do with Michelle and Barak Obama studying at Harvard? Why is no other university involved?