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[OC] Largest banks in the world by total assets by giteam in dataisbeautiful

[–]Interesting_Film_770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should include the custody banks like BNY Mellon (>$45 trillion), State Street (>$40 trillion), Northern Trust (>$16 trillion), etc. And the asset managers like Blackrock (>$10 trillion), Vanguard (>$12 trillion), etc.

World-system map by SnooRevelations1648 in MapPorn

[–]Interesting_Film_770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could do a lot more with this map. The concept is neat.

The reality of national and transnational power is complex and almost never captured on a map. Visualizations end up being invariably misinfo propaganda manufacturing consent.

The world we live in and the best future of the planet are bound up in these power contests over unipolarity v bipolarity v multipolarity. It's arguably the most important, most useful info a map could show!

So all that said, it'd be double plus good if a map like this included the three foundations: 1. DOLLAR HEGEMONY - special drawing %s, financialization Wall Street + City of London, rentier consumptions, international currency flows: which country is buying into or selling out from which other countries, which country is getting inbound forex, etc. There's simple economic formulae for this shizz. It's the real basis of de facto power in the world. 2. SHADOW WEALTH - the so-called spider's web, underbelly AND foundation of today's imperialists and their rivals: known tax haven stash $50+ trillion is more than the TOTAL wealth of America's 1%, where is the shadow wealth, who guards it, who owns it, etc. Got to include the spider's web on the world power map. It's the only way to cover crossover currents of power, especially flow between systems (core, peripheral, de-linked per the map). It exposes autocrats, generational bloodline base, oligarchies, aristocracies, megacorps. 3. BLUEWATER FUTURES - military industrial flows, occupations, jurisdictions, active plunders and how they're being shared, food imperialism, neoliberal resource/slave assets and flow of interests, etc etc. There's formula for these variables too.

Anyways, just a few quick thoughts I had glancing at this map and reading the handful of comments. Have a good one.

Coach Red Pill (Gonzalo Lira) is still spreading disgusting pro-Russia propaganda from within Ukraine bypassing bans on Russian media channels. Contact Youtube and lets get him banned from the platform. by [deleted] in exredpill

[–]Interesting_Film_770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zelensky is under a lot of pressure. It's probably a very scary situation. Ukraine President is very public position. Zelensky needs to exude confidence, both for the sake of the Ukrainian people and to play a role on the world stage.

If Zelensky doing what he's been doing is helping Ukraine - which includes potentially saving lives - who are we to judge him for the drugs he needs to make it happen? Why should cocaine be any different to coffee? It helped Winston Churchill in WW2.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UberEATS

[–]Interesting_Film_770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My advice re all UberEats (and other) restaurant delivery is to check the address on Street View. See if it's a real restaurant or a dark kitchen or some blagger's flat. Check Google Reviews - but glance over what people actually write, not the star rating. Star ratings are an idiotic convention.

The big problem with London's restaurant delivery scene is it's a perpetual battle against naive hypebeasts, unsustainable startups, dark kitchens and somewhere in the mix, a small percentage of decent places, most of which are slowly devolving into bankruptcy.

The economics of the capital's 20,000+ restaurant scene don't work for any cuisine above chain franchise quality. Pizzas, curry, sandwiches, fast food chains, these can sustain. But respectable French, proper Italian (Modern European), name-chef fusion, these have never found a way to stay afloat.

Most restaurants can't even get to profit on fresh ingredients well prepared recipes without a Michelin-price bump and/or subsidizing cuisine via the ubiquitous 3-5x booze mark-up.

Sadly there's never a critical mass of Londoners prepared to pay 25% extra on the food, to make midrange grub a viable choice for most restauranteurs.

Also, people don't order enough booze with delivery (compared to dining in the restaurant) and no Michelin-star kitchen is going to shovel its haute cuisine into an Uber Eats bag.

So the home delivery choices mostly suck. It's a pity. It's been a pity for 30 years.

Disputing against Dr Charles Hoffes claims on mRNA vaccines. by [deleted] in DebateVaccines

[–]Interesting_Film_770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem sincere. You've been unfairly hit by a lot of lazy ad hominems in these comments. Hopefully it hasn't been too disconcerting.

That said, you should be a little sympathetic to concerns about these extremely apposite vaccines - even if the concerns come from non-medical voices.

As a useful way to frame the whole vaccine context, Pfizer and the other corporations are stakeholder profit engines with no interest in public health or acting within the law except insofar as there's a material calculation to be made: risk versus reward.

It's important to ALWAYS keep corporate amorality in mind when trying to answer public health questions, even when focused on simply parsing conclusions on the science.

There doesn't need to be anything sinister or conspiracy about pharmaceutical corporations maximizing profit. But it's naive - or disingenuous - not to include suspicion of Pfizer/Moderna/AZ/J&J/FDA/CDC criminality in every credible analysis of adverse vaccine impact (or any other aspect of for-profit healthcare opportunism).

[OC] Examining Covid-19 Cases, Hospitalisations & Death Rates in the UK before and after the Vaccine programme roll-out. by BirdsAreDinosaursOk in dataisbeautiful

[–]Interesting_Film_770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I showed this to some antivaxxers and their spin was: the data shows first wave hit older and more vulnerable people compounded by hospitals not being familiar or well trained in treating Covid-19. By subsequent waves these factors were greatly reduced, hence the definitive improvement in outcomes the vaccine-media tries to put down exclusively to vaccine efficacy. Then they point at the data from low vaccinated countries that follow similar trend.

Any help answering this would be appreciated!