You’ve just described the post-scarcity economy.

I think of the two possible trajectories as the Star Wars universe and the Star Trek universe. Both have fully automated supply chains through droids/replicator technology. However, in Star Wars, only the elite few have access to that technology. Hence, the economy is still centered around trade and, well, as the title would suggest — wars. In Star Trek, that technology is democratized and made available to everyone to create a world in which money has no meaning, and everyone has access to technology and meeting their basic needs.

It all depends on what kind of society we decide to build from here on out.

So in the middle of planning his invasion of Venezuela, he noticed Colombia is right next door?

Milei is a monster, but Maduro is a tyrant who has

• overturned election results
• wiped out the free press
• eliminated the independent courts
• jailed thousands of opponents
• killed/dissapeared 20,000 of his own people
• made refugees of 8 million of his own people

Maybe count me skeptical of an article that characterizes that as “a beacon of national sovereignty and social progress.”

This is potentially really great news. A strong, stable, and diverse Syrian government could have a tremendously positive impact on both the Syrian people and the entire region. Diverse coalitions are more resilient.

Tearing down the wrong Amazon

Maduro’s already sacrificed millions who are now refugees and thousands who have been disappeared. Seems like someone whose main agenda is just fair elections and human rights couldn’t be worse than that.

Probably strategic. Everyone knows that he has been vying for it and was prepared to make an enemy of anyone who won it. She shouldn’t have endorsed Trump, even tacitly, but she headed off a dangerous enemy.

Dictators gonna dictate

… Which MEE presents and uncritically defends. It’s an article about a Nobel Peace Prize winner that literally doesn’t mention why the Prize was awarded. Please think before you post.

Imagine quoting the (checks notes) Nobel Peace Prize committee. The horror. They should be quoting the Maduro regime instead.

Middle East Eye consistently has the most baffling and undisciplined takes imaginable.

Depending on how cold you want it, the heat death if the universe is just another 10^101 years away ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Yes, over a long enough timeline this is true. Usually people are interested in cooling things sooner than the death of the Sun.

Antisemitism refers specifically to hatred against Jews, not all Semitic people in general.

Just like antibiotics don’t kill all biological life. Words have meaning.

I never read about Jews attacking and killing thousands of Germans, capturing and holding a portion of German territory, and kidnapping hundreds of civilians.

The number of fat cells don’t really change in your body. The individual cells grow and shrink.

They’ve already agreed to it. It’s been endorsed by The Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE.

It’s just waiting on Hamas

There are still 48 hostages. They have been repeatedly confirmed by both Hamas and Israel. There is literally no disagreement about who they are.

Ariel Cunio (27)  Alon Ohel (23)  Eitan Horn (38)  Avinatan Or (31)  Elkana Bohbot (35)  Evyatar David (24)  Bipin Joshi (24)  Ziv Berman (27)  Gali Berman (27)  David Cunio (34)  Eitan Mor (24)  Maxim Herkin (36)  Omri Miran (47)  Bar Abraham Kupershtein (23)  Guy Gilboa-Dalal (23)  Nimrod Cohen (20)  Matan Zangauker (25)  Tamir Nimrodi (20)  Matan Angrest (22)  Segev Kalfon (27)  Rom Braslavski (21)  Yosef-Haim Ohana (24)  Itay Chen (19) - Eliyahu Margalit (75)  Eitan Levi (52)  Sahar Baruch (24)  Joshua Luito Mollel (21)  Tal Haimi (41)  Arie Zalmanowicz (85)  Ran Gvili (24)  Dror Or (48)  Tamir Adar (38)  Ronen Engel (54)  Inbar Hayman (27)  Guy Iluz (26)  Asaf Hamami (41)  Lior Rudaeff (61)  Muhammad Al-Atarash (39)  Meny Godard (73)  Omer Neutra (21)  Yossi Sharabi (53)  Daniel Oz (19)  Daniel Perez (22)  Uriel Baruch (35)  Sontia Ok’Krasari (30)  Sontisek Rintalk (43)  Amiram Cooper (85)  Hadar Goldin (23)

115 tons of aid have entered Gaza from Israel/Egypt since the start of this flotilla.

The flotilla is carrying less than half of that.

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