Tell that to Sri Lanka

I could imagine China using policy demands, similar to what the IMF does, still evil. That’s basically what the Belt and Road initiative is.

Can’t get cavities if you ain’t got teeth

It won’t prevent you from needing a deep cleaning (in cases where you actually need it). Deep cleanings are necessary when the inflammation from poor hygiene has caused you to lose bone in your jaw and the pockets underneath the gums have deepened to the point that food is getting stuck in them and hardening (causing more of the inflammation mentioned above). In those cases you need to be numbed to have the hardened food scraped out by a professional.

Dental schools are a good option for general care too. Cheap and surprisingly high quality work, but very slow.

This only works if the source of the pain is an infection. If the pain is from an exposed nerve this will be torture.

Syzygy - a roughly straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system.

Thanks for the new word!

Have you checked out Bisq?

I heard it back in '68 but it was about Paul McCartney

Writing may have some benefits over typing but ultimately, what is the purpose of writing? To communicate! The vast majority of written communication these days is done via typing. Basically the only time I have to write anything in cursive is to sign a document, and even that use case is done via typing more often than not nowadays. Cursive is dead and I couldn’t care less.

Not sure why you interpreted my post as accusatory. I agree we’re all along for the ride and there isn’t much we can do. As far as what I’m ‘bringing to the party’, I guess I would say that we should opt out of their broken system as much as possible. Reject blind consumerism and reject the extreme polarization the media is constantly trying to instill in us. Create value for others and store your economic energy in a system they can’t control (Bitcoin). Try to raise awareness in others of the unfairness of the system, and its inevitable doom due to the inherrent requirement of infinite growth with finite resources (the logic of a cancer cell). It’s not much on an individual scale, and probably won’t affect the ultimate outcome, but hopefully we and the people we love can be somewhat insulated from the system as it exists and the chaos that will come when it falls.

Ideally, but the ones with their hands on the controls are the biggest beneficiaries of the current system, so it’s unlikely to change without a revolution or collapse.

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Damn. Definitely got lucky on that.

Ultimately it has to do with the way our society is structured economically. We need continuous growth to pay off the debt we’re continuously accruing. If growth stalls or reverses the whole system collapses. Population decrease basically ensures that the required economic growth won’t occur.

You sound exhausting.

Same. Just this morning actually. And here I was thinking I was done with social media after the Reddit API debacle. So far Lemmy scratches that same itch for me.