I knew and use this, but I never thought to call it two clipboards :)

Plus I’d never heard of shift-ins, I just used ctrl-shift-c/v in graphic terminals :P

Maybe it will get worse in the future, but what resources do immigrants require? They don’t need nannies or childcare or schooling…they just work, consume and pay taxes like everyone else. Has this ever been a problem for the US? Up to the 1930s, the US had an immigration of over 11% of population, the same as it’s been since the 2000s. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time

I won’t even mention the EU, we’re in demographic suicide here because raising kids people until they have a job and a house and stability is fucking expensive xP

There was Artifact 🤦

Why are you replying here? I’m talking to you upstairs. Chill out.

Sometimes it is, but even when it isn’t, “taste” by itself is not by itself what is making people stopping themselves from an adequate vehicle.

This is what I was originally replying to and I think it’s nonsense (regardless of how “refined” your taste is):

Well if Mercedes and BMW could stop making electric cars as ugly as humanly possible we would quickly see them take that market back.

Yes, I’m one of those people who wouldn’t mind living in Zion, eating nutritious slop and wearing unremarkable homemade textiles ;)

PS: but I understand many people need to brag to their friends or impress their clients or make themselves feel better by displaying their status in some material way.

I just don’t see any huge aesthetic differences between any of the cars for sale that would singlehandedly stop e.g. German electric cars from being sold: they all look like sleek solutions to a conditioned aerodynamics problem :D

Haha, yea, the only heresy greater than owning an ugly efficient car these days is riding a bus 😧, it seems.

Ugly? Why do people fetishize their cars? I want it to work efficiently, be safe and cheap to maintain…if it looks like a gherkin, so be it 😄 The problem with German electric cars is not that, it’s that atm they can’t compete with China in price and they have no tech edge in supply chains anymore. Also, newer generations in Europe aren’t as obsessed with owning a car anymore (I think).

No more cheap russian gas and oil, internal combustion engine expertise and all the associated pieces and submarkets being phased out in favour of simpler electric cars…it’s going to be a few hard years until they find a new export industry to perfect. I’d expect hydrogen-based aviation or pharma, maybe even semiconductors, they’ll figure it out.

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The term tankie has been vulgarized, but it has a specific meaning. A tankie is an orthodox communist who puts the “dictatorship of proletariat” above any morality or any other interest, foreign or domestic. That’s how a tankie brushes away any genocide, any crime, because no value or entity is too important to stand in the way of their communist utopia, even human rights. In this sense, this group is very close in practice to nazis, you just have to replace “proletariat” with “nation” and for that abstraction anything is allowed: internal repression, invading your neighbours and allies.

But not all “communists”/socialists are like that and many mean well (e.g. Gorbachev, some anarchists like Chomsky or “democratic-communist” Lula, etc), but a good few follow tankies unquestioningly without realising the underlying inhumanity dressed as theory.

Eh, but you have examples of long-term problems created by each president: you had Clinton’s half-baked Eastern European legacy, Bush II’s middle east legacy that lasted a while, Trump’s completely polarised political landscape. I’m not sure what Obama’s main fuckup was, but there were many small neglects (maybe the main one was how he handled the 2008 crisis that Bush II left him)…the more influence you have as a country and as a person, the more shit falls on your plate to deal with :/

In fairness, these are huge problems that he inherited, but that’s what you get when you wanna become leader of any country, even more if you wanna act like an emperor.

Xi vented his frustration, pointing fingers at his three predecessors – Deng Xiaoping, Jiang and Hu.

“All the issues that were left by the previous three leaders are on my shoulders” he is believed to have said. “I’ve spent the last decade tackling them but they remain unresolved. Am I to blame?”

So Deng left the one-child policy, Jiang left financialization/inequality and Hu left the housing bubble?

Tankies.

If you can hardly feed and house yourself … you can’t afford to woo a wife or raise a kid :/ but that won’t stop some people trying to half-ass it I guess

US created modern russia

(and everything else that happened since 1989 that goes beyond america bad)

modern russia is an imperialist country that competes for the world resources

(it has never stopped being so and Poland+Baltics warned us and we didn’t listen)

There’s a context, but the fact is that countries should be stopped from invading (and annexing) other countries, no matter what their sob story is.

If some disturbed kid goes on a rampage on a school, first you stop the shooting, then you investigate wtf caused it to start and stop it happening again, maybe some other school kids bullied him…none of it matters once it got to the shooting part.

I could say the same for Napoleon, for Hitler, for Vietnam, hey look, here’s Chomsky on that:

https://chomsky.info/20060109/

The United States went to war in Vietnam for a very good reason. They were afraid Vietnam would be a successful model of independent development and that would have a virus effect—infect others who might try to follow the same course. There was a very simple war aim—destroy Vietnam. And they did it.

When you take the context into account, maybe it helps understand why it’s happening, but it’s still a war crime that has to be stopped.

PS: if you think the world can withstand going back to 18th century multipolar conquest politics with nuclear weapons on the table, you don’t appreciate the miserable suffering that means for most of us. The nuclear era only allows one or 2 poles, more than that and you get an unstable solution. So russia better stop it, go back and cozy up to China, because it’s not getting its empire back if we can help it (that’s one of the few things China and the US agree on).

yea, I know, nobody got my joke about the mispelling of treason as teason sounding like teasing and using that to mock people who said this was all an american plan to trap russia devised by the CIA in putin’s head using 7-level deep inception.

oh, and

/S

Yes, you should also cry about Australia and Israel being in Eurovision, but not russia: https://piped.video/watch?v=m7MZs-QdrFI

No, you need to imagine that Europe has as much of a right (a need, actually) to have an army coordination structure as russia does, what world do you live in? What are we going to have? 30 independent armies? That’s how we got the napoleonic wars, WW1, WW2. Turkey membership has kept Greece and Turkey from going to war. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

I mean, how about russia disbands its own army? How about that, can’t you imagine a world like that?