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  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldUnder Stalin
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    11 days ago

    A quick and drunk google:

    • In 1939 the Soviet Union had around 171m people. At the end of 1940 there were about 1.5m people in gulags - 0.87% of the population

    • In 2023 the USA had 664k prisoners and a population of 337m - 0.19%

    Over the course of 40 years, 14-18m people went through the gulags, and over 1.5m people died.




  • A 1999 comic book by manga artist Ryo Tatsuki has been fuelling these rumours. In a new edition released in 2021, she claimed the next big earthquake would strike on 5 July this year.

    It’s called “The Future I Saw”, with diary entries and is “based on a dream”. One of the covers had a big disaster happening in 2011. That’s the year Fukushima was hit with a tsunami.

    A lot of superstition has arisen around it, causing tourism to drop off recently. And flights from Hong Kong to Japan have been massively reduced, and one airline even halted their flights there as of a week ago.







  • You seem to be missing one major piece of information: They don’t care.

    The more conservative someone is, the more selfish they are and less empathy they have. Most MAGAs are so far up their own ass that if you told them this, they’d roll their eyes and laugh at you. Because in their mind, nothing bad can happen to them. And if something like this did happened, they’d instantly start screaming about a false flag and want to arrest all democrats. You can’t explain to them that they’re wrong, or the potential dangers of their actions, because they 100% will not believe you. They only understand actions or mockery.

    TL;DR: You’re basically trying to convince Narcissus that he’s not that good looking.



  • Paywall it for short term gain, at the expense of long term viewership growth.

    Making a company worse for increased short term revenue, at the cost of customer retention, product quality, etc. causing increased turnover which further compounds all the other steps. Is a common issue among all modern companies.

    In short, there was a shift in MBA education a while back that includes a bunch of lies-by-omission and misrepresented data. Meaning that the only thing on their mind when they graduate, is to please investors at any all costs, including company longevity.



  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneUblock rule(s)!
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    18 days ago

    Still not sure on whose end the problem was, but I had well over a 100k on the counter at one point. Video ran fine all the way through and nothing ever slowed down.

    Different levels of monetization on videos, combined with staggered rollouts of anti-adblock technology.

    They’ve been testing the latest tech recently. Which has, for me, made many of the more commercialized videos hang initially for 10-20 seconds before starting. While a lot of smaller ones play instantly. And similarly, the bigger videos will constantly keep blocking attempts, sometimes dozens in a few seconds, while the smaller ones have a few per minute.