Carl
@Carl@lemm.ee
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 12 hours ago:
This is a default family in the Sims.
- Comment on Murica 1 week ago:
I’ve wiped out a bunch of times on my motorcycle, never broke anything. I wiped out on my bike, broken arm.
The solution is clear: mandate motorcycle jackets for bicyclists.
- Comment on Little know fact 1 week ago:
I think people got mad at something she said about Avatar on twitter (the cartoon not the movie), and her anti-fandom reached a critical mass spreading around every single thing she’d ever said that could be interpreted uncharitably, and with her book out and her presence on Nebula secured she decided that being on YouTube was more trouble than its worth.
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 1 week ago:
Get a dog and pamper it.
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 1 week ago:
The marketing stunt came to a halt after just one day when the security guard noticed the metal frame of the glass case had been weakened from the constant barrage of physical pressure.
Why not just let people keep going until someone breaks the frame? Still makes for a good marketing blurb - “the iron broke before the glass did!”
- Comment on my version is better 2 weeks ago:
It was but they had to change it for Shrek and the G-rated version became the canonical one.
- Comment on Anon is a veteran 2 weeks ago:
rip bozo shouldn’t have murdered iraqis for money
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 3 weeks ago:
I had a friend who did this for a living, he had two phones so he would run Uber Eats and Doordash at the same time in order to try and optimize, and even then he spent a lot of time just sitting around because these apps are extremely inefficient (and later they started cracking down on people trying to increase their pay by doing both, dunno if it’s still doable now).
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 3 weeks ago:
Hear hear for living too far away from DD to be tempted by it. I used to waste a lot of money on it back in like 2021/22, but I moved to a town whose only “fast food” is a burger grill that’s attached to the gas station and run by exactly one guy and if he’s on break when you show up then you can either wait until he’s done or leave and go to the grocery store.
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 3 weeks ago:
There’s no way that they should be allowed to advertise “no ads” when there are in fact ads. This is consumer protection so basic and obvious that it should be a slam dunk even with the current government… right?
- Comment on It really is like this 4 weeks ago:
China continuing to claim the same seas that it has been claiming since the 19th century is imperialism, not the country from the other side of the world using legal warfare and gunboat diplomacy to deny them that claim
whatever you say bud
- Comment on It really is like this 4 weeks ago:
Brother 90% of the world’s labor is done by 50% of the countries, and it aint fukken Europe that’s doing the hard work to keep the global economy running.
And please point to any example of Chinese imperialism that has occurred in the last forty years. No, offering loans with better terms than what the IMF offers to African countries does not count.
- Comment on It really is like this 4 weeks ago:
every western European country has already eliminated the worst kind of poverty and on average European citizens are better off than Chinese citizens
This is an apples-to-oranges comparison. Europe is the beneficiary of hundreds of years of imperialism and accumulation and the ongoing system of global unequal exchange, whereas China is a former victim of said imperialism that has pulled themselves out of the muck with their own workers’ labor. China is better off compared to India, which achieved independence not long afterward but has fallen far behind in every single development index because of their failure to overthrow capital.
- Comment on It really is like this 4 weeks ago:
What makes you think Xi is a dictator? If your answer is “because that’s the vibe I get from American Government propaganda”, then you should reassess the things you think you know about the world. The truth is that China has a very vibrant and active democracy that is much more responsive to the demands of its people than that of most other nations, and Xi is merely the one currently at the top of that democratic system.
- Comment on It really is like this 4 weeks ago:
Do you take the Chinese citizens at theirs?
We find that first, since the start of the survey in 2003, Chinese citizen satisfaction with government has increased virtually across the board. From the impact of broad national policies to the conduct of local town officials, Chinese citizens rate the government as more capable and effective than ever before. Interestingly, more marginalized groups in poorer, inland regions are actually comparatively more likely to report increases in satisfaction. Second, the attitudes of Chinese citizens appear to respond (both positively and negatively) to real changes in their material well-being, which suggests that support could be undermined by the twin challenges of declining economic growth and a deteriorating natural environment.
Very few governments on this planet have approval numbers this good, and even fewer have ones this good when it’s a neutral third party conducting the surveys.
- Comment on It really is like this 4 weeks ago:
I think China would have to do a lot more for the avg person before they could be considered socialist or communist again
Within the last five years China completely eliminated the worst category of poverty in their borders. I’d say they are currently actively engaged in doing a lot more for the average person than most countries.
- Comment on It really is like this 4 weeks ago:
more recently expressed complete authority over such as Taiwan
What complete authority does the PRC have over Taiwan? Their position now is the same as its been for seventy years - they consider it part of their country but exercise no actual control over it.
- Comment on It really is like this 4 weeks ago:
The entire country tried to revolt in 1984 and millions of citizens were killed by their own military
Literally nobody claims that millions died, that’s flat earth levels of alternate reality.
- Comment on It really is like this 4 weeks ago:
Naw the same shit happens on Reddit and Facebook and every other place that isn’t TikTok or XHS. There’s a chart that shows Americans’ opinion of China being more or less 50/50 until 2015ish and then turning sharply negative after the trade war/propaganda blitz against them that started during Trump’s first term.