Most famous actors these days come from nepotism, from family wealth or family in the industry or both.

In general, please don’t ask loaded, third-rail questions on !asklemmy@lemmy.ml, because

1. it’s a PITA for mods, and
2. that’s not what the community is for:. It’s supposed to be a clone of r/askreddit.

It’s extremely hairy to define biological sex.

Doubly so after puberty.

Now that the Red Scare is largely over

It never ended and won’t be over until capitalism is dead. What do you think the bullshit about a “Uyghur genocide” was for?

House votes to denounce ‘horrors’ of socialism ahead of Mamdani-Trump meeting

I feel like we Marxists have explained why hundreds of times in dozens of ways already.

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Practically speaking you don’t retain ownership of anything you publish here. It’s all out there in the open, being scrapped by bots.

*Your instance may vary.

That’s not really how it works, or we’d already have them. People in China have those things because they beat the fascist KMT back to Formosa, and by force subordinated the bourgeoisie and the remnants of feudalism.

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In most states (meaning countries), all base/narrow money^[1] is backed by the fact that the state will only accept its own currency for taxes due. Which means that, if the state has no debt, then there is no (base) money. The base money in the economy is equal to the state’s debt. All the base money in the economy came from the state at some point buying goods/services/labor.

The US dollar is a safe haven insomuch as it’s likely to continue to have value for the foreseeable future, but it isn’t necessarily safe compared to the value of other currencies. In fact, IMO the US dollar is likely to continue falling w/r/t other currencies in the short & medium term, thanks to the deterioration of the petrodollar system and of dollar hegemony. We’re also a fading empire, and our economy is hyper-financialized, awash in debt, which doesn’t help. We’ve de-industrialized and don’t have a viable path to re-industrialization.

the USA is more on promoting maximum employment.

It’s supposed to be that, but in practice it isn’t. The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate, but they’re in conflict with each other, and really the maximum employment part is only given lip service.

I don’t know, but I think more Germans per capita are fluent in English than French, Spanish, or Latino people are, and maybe that has something to do with it.

Even if it were to exist in the short run, it wouldn’t be stable. The predictor must be predicting somehow, which eventually could be at least partially sussed out, and future decisions would change as a result. Unless the predictor runs on literal magic, it would eventually no longer fit its own definition.

Mmmm, this sounds like an idealist hypothetical problem that in reality can’t exist, so to engage with it is to engage with nonsense.

The predictor rarely makes mistakes because… just because. It’s axiomatic. The predictor runs on the magic of unsupported assertion.

Are you not dismissing every other type of sausage, or did just not consider them? Because if this is about lips & assholes, almost all of them are all lips & assholes.

I don’t know. Why don’t you ask them next time?

I’ve learned that I’ll never learn.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong. — Mencken

People not only don’t know what’s happening to them, they don’t even know that they don’t know. — Chomsky

We assassinated the president and covered it up so that we can more easily identify conspiracy theorists.

How is there any utility in being able to identify a few crackpots—only the ones who happen to crack their pot on this one particular event? How is Identifying crackpots of any use to the state?