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  • Uruanna@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldTotal lie
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    12 days ago

    They’re not all upper class, Joey starts as a small background / ad actor, Rachel and Phoebe do small jobs like waitress and massages - Phoebe living in the street as a kid comes up a few times. (well, Rachel is born rich but she starts the series getting cut off and left with nothing - after she dumps her dad’s credit cards she had) An episode has Joey, Phoebe, Rachel point out that they’re poor and often out of a job so they complain that they aren’t nearly as loaded as Chandler, Ross, Monica, and they have a hard time keeping up with their lifestyle. Also confirming Chandler, Ross, Monica are indeed well off. Later, Joey gets a good acting role, Rachel has a good job, and Phoebe gets a good place at some point.








  • Actually, it has been identified as one of the bigger issues. Lack of childcare options means one parent needs to stay home, means one income, means lots of women tend to just work a few years in office exclusively to find a good husband and then drop out of everything (cue the incel population who understands that if they can’t have a huge income, they might never get laid). Also, single income participates in the terrible work culture where staying at one company forever is the better option because people who leave get burned everywhere. And this lifestyle, this work identity, this lack of prospectives, is a big part of why young people are losing hope fast. This vicious cycle has been pretty well known forever, and childcare has been recognized as a major starter of it for a while.

    Housing in Japan is often a culture of 3 generations living in the same home, single income participates in that too, but there are housing options - Japan has a notoriously high number of empty homes, abandoned and falling apart; we don’t have any perspective right now on what direction this could go if the demographics started improving. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone ever bring up that education had any particular problem, as far as I can tell they get what they need. In all of those fields there’s probably a bunch of issues about outdated standards everywhere, but there’s no big issue about entire spans of population dropping out of education or housing or feeding.


  • Yeah, Japan is notoriously deep in a hole about that: the total lack of child care support has long been identified as a major drive for all the gender inequalities they have (employment high up above everything else, then salary), which is super bad. There have been talks about something like child care for a few years, and apparently only now they’re actually doing it - they’ve been extra dragging their feet for a long time, and if they’re doing it now, it’s only because they finally accepted that their known demographics disaster will not be miraculously fixed by checks notes doing nothing. Hell must be freezing over right now.


  • When the Avengers go back to the past and Past Thanos learns that Future Thanos succeeded but still failed, Past Thanos says clearly that means he didn’t genocide hard enough, erasing half of all life was too kind, and he really needs to erase all life and start from scratch - which does sound very familiar. Sorry, I vote full genocidal, even if not specific to one or some cultures.






  • The green Sahara was gone 5 000 years ago when Egypt barely started being Egypt and long before Assyria, the Bronze Age Collapse happened 3 200 years ago, and the Old Testament started getting written a bit before 600 BCE over a few hundred years. The Egyptians and Assyrians already had their breadbasket, it was the fertile crescent from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates, it was not a desert there.

    The israelite texts survived because they were written right when some big empires (Babylon and the Achaemenids) came around and then carried them over until the Greeks and Romans came by.


  • Uruanna@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    but at least they would not personally execute my whole family just because I’m not a muslim who listens to music.

    Man, they are literally executing anyone they see for just existing in Gaza. Americans, health workers, ambulances. They literally said that babies born in Gaza are already terrorists. They make prisoners confess that they are Hamas by threatening to drone their whole family. So yes, they do execute your whole family just because they live there.


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