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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't worried about population decline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:
They are fundamentally different; the west is looting their country for resources and cheap labor, they will maintain high burthrates so long as neocolonialism prevents them from developing their own means of production.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a very revealing photo of him⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"What is the cost of lies?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Russia has changed quite a bit since Putin took leadership, and for the better

Well yeah compared to the borderline failed state that was 90s Russia, that’s not a difficult task, accomplished by getting the other billionaires to keep 1% of the wealth they’re extracting in the country.

This is why Trump wants

Trump is literally senile. There might be people in his administration who feel that way, but the administration’s policy is so demented I don’t think we can attribute clear motivations to anything.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"What is the cost of lies?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I mean it is, but Russia was giving up its resources for pennies ever since the 90s, this framing is a bit weird.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.🤨.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Crater Lake is 7700 years old. The natives passed down an oral history of the eruption for all that time. Do you think it is entirely coincidence that their story matches modern geologic analysis?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

execs and shareholders only care about growing the player

If this was true, the base version of the 6 year old console wouldn’t cost 650 and the pro 900 USD.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The irony of arguing with someone who read about it in a history book vs. you having lived it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

they skim off the floating oil in trash and sewers

There is not a meaningful amount of oil in random sewers.

Resturaunt grease traps are often located under sidewalks. It gets sold to companies that refine it for industrial uses, but some restaurants were buying that refined product for food. It makes absolutely no sense to put your grease into the grease trap, and then take it back out to reuse it when you could just not change your oil in the first place.

There was a backlash, it probably doesn’t happen anymore.

Chinese food is healthier than US food simply because there’s more veggies.

As far as the other stuff goes, I haven’t seen situations where those would be possible, but I understand things were very different 10 years ago.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The irony of arguing with someone who read about it in a history book vs. you having lived it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There’s also no documentation of chibattas in Italy before the 80s, but 100% of people who traveled to Italy say they were around.

If it didn’t happen, someone was certainly going around saying it did.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ONE OF US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
A cubic centimeter is ~150th of a modern nuclear weapon’s core. U-235 production accounts for every single gram, plutonium is even stricter.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tried THIS and it actually works all the time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Lets test that: 🧀

Are you a woman now?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you, I will.

Pulls up a chair and starts eating your meal
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least extreme biophysics phd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yup. It’s actually crazy how anticommunist propaganda creates so many people who are so confidently wrong about things that are so easy to investigate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You should probably just throw it away"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It’s called LTSC IoT, but it’s normal windows. Actually much better because it doesn’t automatically install so much bloat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least extreme biophysics phd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The guy you’re responding to is a liberal doing a piss poor parody of a ML.

You can’t do a good parody if you get angry before the punchline, or don’t understand the thing you’re parodying in the first place.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least extreme biophysics phd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Lemmitors downvoting you because actually learning about the case conflicts with their “cHiNa BaD” circlejerk.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You should probably just throw it away"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Windows 10 LTSC is supported until 2032, and is free to pirate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨history rhymes, or something⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Let me simplify this for you: Shooting communist protesters trying to reform the system is bad. Shooting fascists lynching people in the street is good.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨history rhymes, or something⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

Yeah, that is why it was justified to shoot protesters

If that’s what you think I’m suggesting, you need to work on your reading comprehension.

There were protesters protesting for a change in government, there were organizers setting up alternative structures to compensate for the government’s failure, there were also fascists lynching government officials in the streets.

Are you suggesting it would have been better to just let the fascists seize power?

A lot of governments built monuments to Nazi collaborteurs. That doesn’t mean jack shit

Oh lmao.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨history rhymes, or something⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

weren’t those protests by-and-large made up of parents?

Yes and no, a number of universities had pro-segregation actions by students including protests

History is always more complicated and nuanced than any narrative would lead you to believe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨history rhymes, or something⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The Young Turk movement started with medical students.

There were quite a few pro-segregation protests when schools were desegregated.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨history rhymes, or something⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The guy you’re responding to is a liberal doing a piss-poor satire of a ML.

The students protests was quickly co-opted by nazi collaborators entirely unaffiliated with the students, it’d be like if Jan 6 happened during the 2020 protests.

The government vindicating those protestors also built monuments to nazi collaborators.

It’s a complex issue, the students had genuine issues the government was failing to address, but if the soviets didn’t step in, things would have been far, far worse. For comparison, here’s what tended to happen in countries that failed to stop the counterrevolution around that time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Rent control tied to bottom quintile income. Everyone should be able to afford a home. If construction companies can’t afford to build homes at that cost, look at their material and labor costs; in China they invest in education and have state-run steel and concrete companies to keep the private ones competitive. It costs them avg ~50K to make a 900 sqft 2bd house or apartment in the major cities. Much less elsewhere.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’m really trying to reconcile how the Chinese manage a more equal society while having a fraction of the tools we do; they don’t have property taxes, just a lease you renew every ~70 years, they can’t do QE like we do.

It’s like we have all the tools to delay the trajectory of capitalism, we just choose not to use it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservatism Saved As Muslim Sex Trafficker Brought Back To U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
heartbreaking The worst onion clone has made a funny joke.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford was 'fuelled' by Andrew Tate videos before rape and murders, court told⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Why do you think every time there’s a school shooting, it’s a weird right-winger, and the only leftist mass shooting in the last decade was directed at congress?

If mass shooters were randomized among <30s, we’d expect way more lib and left shooters, because most <30s are lib and left.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Leftism is when you don’t have any money.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Rich foreigners can already get an EB-5 greencard if they invest 500K.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
You don’t need to receive money to spend money if you print money. The purpose of taxation is to reduce the monetary supply.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Federal taxes don’t actually work that way. The federal government prints its own money. All taxes effectively go into a giant shredder and are unrelated to spending.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That division is much, much older. The beltway is full of people who benefit from corporations or come from wealthy families and are materially aligned against the working class, and their ideology reflects this. These people as a group stand to lose more from the democrats moving to the left and hurting the bourgeoisie than winning than staying in the middle and losing.

This is a common dynamic historically; liberals in power need the people to maintain power, but their interests aren’t aligned with the people, so they pass policies that marginalize their own base, and so the conservatives take power and then do counterrevolution.