How can you guys get any work done around the house if you’re constantly swapping shoes?
How can you guys get any work done around the house if you’re constantly swapping shoes?
My impression is informed primarily by visiting several small and medium sized businesses across China. What I saw in these industrial regions was an incredibly widespread entrepreneurial spirit. Everyone wanted to get ahead and have their own business. When the money gets really big, I don’t have direct experience, but it stands to reason the autocracy takes control. Greedy pieces of shit who Elon it up like Jack Ma find this out when they get too big for their britches.
As I’m sure you’re aware, many democracies around the world are largely performative (see e.g. USA) and based on fear, lies, and social engineering. Nothing and nobody in the world could honestly achieve a 90 percent favorability rating, and having observed thousands of workers in China I cannot believe such a number.
The most obvious flaw in your narrative is the assertion that China maintains a dictatorship of the proletariat, which is patently false. China is an autocracy of the party elite, with one man at the top. A dictatorship of a dictator. The fact there may be high level power games and intrigue among the upper echelon doesn’t significantly change this. It doesn’t matter that Xi happens to be the dictator du jour.
What this means for day-to-day life of the citizenry is something very divorced from socialism or communism. There are some elements of safety net and job placement, but just beneath that is a hyper-capitalist libertarian hellscape punctuated by fearful, feigned, and forced reverence of the party. As long as businesses play along and grease the right wheels the exploitative accumulation of wealth is sanctioned and encouraged.
I mean, we have to pay gift tax if we give more than $13.61 million to a person. I thought corporations (PACs) are people now.
“Her husband should have made more money.”
It should take Chutkan about an hour to list all the reasons these aren’t official acts, then get this shit going again.
The US MIC doesn’t give a fuck because the DOD will never pay a reasonable price for anything, ever.
LLMs: using statistics to generate reasonable-sounding wrong answers from bad data.
Dude literally bought Kleenex and insists you call it facial tissue paper.
It’s an issue for perovskite cells. “Traditional” silicon cells (which makes up probably 90+% of current installs) last 40+ years.
Tens of thousands of innocents dead? Uh… No. I would think there were far more effective methods that should have been used.
This take is so incredibly ignorant of history and reality I can’t even…
They’re not organic, and pumped full of plastics and preservatives
People have a hard-on about nuclear being “baseload” power and renewables being intermittent. Solar/wind plus batteries to add dispatchability is a valid comparison to nuclear if you only want to talk about baseload.
They all just blow hot germs around though.
Because other drivers are blinded…
This is due to corporate greed. Solar and wind are the cheapest sources of energy in the history of the world.
Even current lithium-based battery storage is already cheaper than nuclear.
Hydro is often turned on and off as pumped storage. Nuclear never is
Whole milk also often called “Vitamin D Milk”