If your analogy is based on consumption it makes no sense.

Meanwhile, I could drop eat from mine response and the point stands with a dry place to sit.

It’s an advantage for the people who get a place to sit and eat.

And an advantage for the people who work in that restaurant if they’re ever tired or out when it starts to rain that that they can rest or shelter in any other restaurants near by.

Justice for Ceres, the original former planet.

9 can lnever be the correct number of planets in the solar system.

To catch people selling or sharing essays online, I’d assume.

Someone did a deed of propaganda.

I find it sad that the fact that the protests of 89 were nation wide, and involved worker groups and farmers as well as students.

IIRC the last protest hold out was in South West China and wasn’t quashed until the 5th.

The Tiananmen group was forced out and gunned down on the roads off of the square in the 3rd-4th night.

As someone who uses a Xiaomi phone, that’s not true.

It was a faff getting it to install any random apk I found of off the Internet, but it was possible. Did involve holding down a graphic for 10 seconds as part of the unlock procedure.

But for now at least, you can still install any unsigned apk without going through a store.

Chinese version of YouTube (bilibili (B站)) has built in sleep timer functionality.

That beats the hell out of the adverts and autoplay rubbish YouTube subjects people not using Invidious or Piped to.

Daily Mail are the sort who think adopting the metric system let all the foreigners into Britain and led to the downfall of empire. Probably in that order.

Tadpoles are fish too, right?

And they even have gills.

No red eye in photos!

Yes, certainly there are many people in the EU that benefit, but for most of them that’s a side effect of the choices capital makes for how it runs it.

The system itself doesn’t care about Human Resources managers in France. Regardless of what Jean-Luc and Laura think.

Aye, anyone who can be blind to the truth of the EU after it deposed the Greek government and imposed austerity across southern Europe is not a person with sense.

It is a project of Capital. Not one that works for the people, not even those of Germany or France.

The EU is broken and makes places worse and enforces Germanico-French imperialism upon other places. Wish it pushed back more against US rubbish.

It is still something that if the US was more like the world would be better off.

Obviously if both were substantially different and not pushing imperialism by soft, economic, and hard power we’d all be even better off.

But there’s about enough housing for everyone too… Just that it’s of houses are sitting empty across Europe, North America, and China.

And lots of the food wasted in those places (minus China) is imported from places with less food security, such as Brazil, India, and Morocco.
So it’s almost like the energy use and infrastructure is already part of the problem and solving it would take less.

My point is that Malthusian was never correct, and the problems are ones of distribution. Not number of humans. (And Malthusian worries tend towards genocide naturally, that they’ve been shown consistently to be wrong should make them doubly suspect.)

It’s been much the same for every big technology that’s come along.

TV, radio, electricity, boats, all led to people using the technology of the age to interpret the world.

It’s not though, seeing that a very large proportion of the world’s population get by, and that about 1/3rd of all food produced for human consumption is wasted each year. (Checked the UN source it’s 19% of food that makes it to people, and 13% of food pre-end point in the supply chain).

And this is without starting to consider the energy inefficiency of feeding livestock to feed to humans.

Also an awful lot of the world gets by with much less than US or much of Western Europe does. There’s a long way between our surplus of food and food insecurity.

Do you think this info graphic is more or less worrying if it is numbers of living beings rather than biomass?

Commodity Driven Modernity is absolutely non-sustainable, I agree.

As a country Iceland comes close, and possibly could be sustainable with minor changes you’re right. The others, I know less about the situation of.

Your point isn’t that the PRC is good for the environment?

China is pretty capitalist and incredibly environmentally destructive.

Huge amounts of waste incineration for the huge amounts of waste. . Restaurants will serve you in disposable plastic tubs with one use chopsticks, wrapped in plastic, because:

1. It powers the economy, and gotta chase those GDP numbers.
2. It’s convenient, and is the PRC loves convenience over life more than an ironic stage persona of Jello Biafra.