Quarterly reporting makes company leadership focus on short term gains over the long term health of the company, leading to frequent layoffs, selloffs and other actions that hurt both the employees and the economy as a whole.

Many Central African cities are built on sandy terrain and steep slopes—conditions that make the earth especially vulnerable to erosion. When rain falls, instead of soaking gently into the ground, it rushes downhill, carrying grains of soil with it. Over time, rivulets deepen into channels. Left unchecked, those channels can transform into colossal gullies, wide and deep enough to engulf homes, bridges, and entire streets.

Nope.

I’m sorry, I was making a joke. lemmy.ml censors the word “chink” and changes it to “removed”, making “chink in his armor” turn into “removed in his armor”.

Feel free to contact Remigijus Žemaitaitis. Say anything, he will 100% believe you.

Do you mean removed in his armor?

WWIII is about to start and I’m just sitting here masturbating.

The last time someone called me aromatic, I had to get a shower.

I have this idea of a story where teenagers from the near future ditch the digital tech and start reading books in secret, meeting away from the adults to discuss what they read. The adults think that it’s a cult of some sort, and that the books are dangerous, etc.

The English term “empathy,” in fact, was coined only in 1908. English-speaking psychologists needed translations of the German scientific terms appearing in the new discipline of experimental psychology. By around 1913, “empathy” became the term of choice for the German Einfühlung, which literally means “in-feeling.” Empathy captured the ability to project one’s own inner strivings, movements, and feelings into the shapes of objects. In the early twentieth century, then, empathy was quintessentially an aesthetic impulse.

Wild that we didn’t need a word for it before.

One person’s utopia is another person’s dystopia.

It costs 999.99€ in Europe too though.

Lithuanian literature: I killed a cat, now I’m sad about it.

Yes, and they solved the inequality overnight and nobody spoke of it ever again.

Something something Legend of Korra’s first villain?

I was raised and educated by people who grew up in USSR. If it was a paradise like tankies claim, those people would know.

I did my own research and it disagrees with tankies’ conclusions. Now what?

The woman in the apartment nextdoor is called The Slug. She drinks like a waterfall, smokes like a chimney and screams like a cow. Looking like one doesn’t stop her from finding men to bring over and bang though.

I like widgets of this type. It would be even cooler if you could see what things they are importing/exporting to which countries, before and after.

I come from a country that is 99.99% white, leave your racist bullshit at the door, please.

Monarchism was never even an option. Do you really think that is a thing that gets discussed in countries that haven’t been monarchies for hundreds of years?

Slavery shouldn’t exist, of any people, of any form. All people across the political spectrum would agree. Being pro-slavery would get you kicked of the most marginal movements across Europe and beyond.

I do own calipers. How is a measurement device relevant to the discussion? Does anyone who own a scale is a jew, is that something you are implying?

I accept no sovereigns. Only elected leadership. My country’s current government leaves a lot to be desired though.

I have no clue what you are talking about, to be honest.