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19 hours agoTwo words about furniture:
Killing machines
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Nah, they got a point:
, but the skills, and knowledge of how to make things.
Apple spent billions training Chinese workers how to do highly skilled manufacturing work for pennies and shitty hours with huge turnover rates. Remember the days of suicide nets in factories where the workers lived?
Apple viewed them as a disposible work force, they viewed it as job training.
They wash out, then get jobs doing the same things “the Apple method” for more pay and better conditions for a Chinese company.
Still not great pay, still not great conditions, but there’s an incentive there to work for a local company instead of Apple.
Over decades this has led to today where even if we tank our manufacturing away, that just makes manufacturing Chinese competitors even cheaper.
It has nothing to do with discoveries, it’s about a trained workforce with the infrastructure in place for them to work and a supply of the rare earth materials they need.
Superman fighting the klan didn’t work because adults laughed at their hand signs and shit that were disclosed…
It’s because it got a generation of kids to see the klan as the bad guys
If Superman hated you, how the fuck were you going to indoctrinate your kid into the klan?
That’s why they’re always bitching about media. The people doing it are ignorant, but the ones telling them what to be mad about it are picking logical targets to fufil longterm goals.
It’s why fighting fascism is like losing weight, you can’t reach a goal and stop giving a fuck, it’s a lifestyle.
6·2 days agoIt’s someone making a bunch of alts that look like the same name.
The way they’re up sizing there’ll be a lot of “slide” positions
Where each year you jump two levels, so 5, 7, 9 decent money
The advantage to taking the short term pay cut used to be stability, but that shits gone now
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which assesses modern science’s ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization,
We can’t, we know we can’t.
It doesn’t even take lizard people millions of years ago.
Past 50k years is a blank spot. Anatomically modern humans have been around for at least 300k years.
They say it took the ice age ending so we could have agriculture, but that ignores we had 3-4 ice age cycles before the last one where humans were running around. Plenty of time for agriculture each cycle.
Even then, during the last ice age the Sarah desert was a lush rain forest the entire time.
The modern timeline is very Euro-centric, which is an incredibly naive view considering the glaceriers from an ice age are basically a giant bulldozer that erases everything. It plows down mountains. Obviously we won’t find any evidence there, it keeps getting erased every ice age.
And the places around the equater that would have fostered large settlements, are under the ocean due to those glaciers melting.
Just like with everything else, it’s incredibly ignorant to think we know everything and there’s no missing pieces of the puzzle
As a violent psychopath once said:
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
would remain in five or six million years if we all just vanish?
Literally nothing…
10-20k years left and the only thing left would be like Mount Rushmore and other giant stone monuments.
At 5-6 million years it would only be the layer of plastic in landfills from before bacteria evolved to break it down and nuclear test sites if the future society does isotope testing there. Both things that have much more logical explanations than an ancient civilization with no other evidence.
271·4 days agoThe timing of the memo is sensitive, coming before key elections in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, and possibly France. It also references recent elections in Poland and Romania.
Critics fear the memo signals U.S. support for far-right candidates and could encourage political interference in European elections.
They’re 100% going to meddle in elections, that’s a bipartisan issue:
Speaking to the Jewish Press about the January 25, 2006, election for the second Palestinian Legislative Council (the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority), Clinton weighed in about the result, which was a resounding victory for Hamas (74 seats) over the U.S.-preferred Fatah (45 seats).
“I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,” said Sen. Clinton. “And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”
Seriously, fucking up other people’s election is one of America’s favorite pass times and largest open secrets.
It would be naive to expect trump to be the only president who didn’t do it
Which doesn’t mean it’s ok trump is doing it.
It means we need to be pissed anytime a president does it, not just when it’s trump
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The fuck kind of popup is that?
Let them sell IP addresses to 437 different people or pay $5 a week?
If this is a real story I’m sure more reputable places will be picking it up shortly, absolutely no one should agree to that popup.
Quick edit:
No other sources it seems, but here’s msn rehosting the same article without the crazy agreement to sell your IP:
10·4 days agoWhile 10,000 miles of river sounds like a lot…
We’ve known for a while that Mars had oceans, and even glacier ice caps.
Maybe on this one specific area there wasn’t direct evidence of water, but Mars would have had rain and thus rivers all over the globe.
So despite no direct evidence, it was a reasonable assumption to see riverways like this.
There’s usually one or two guys who are willing to play the “big scary” when necessary
It’s not even willingness…
I’m a huge dude, basically the human equivalent of a silverback.
Especially in big events like college/pro sports or music festivals, if I was with a large coed group, random dudes approached me before hitting on any of the women around.
It wasn’t like they came up thumping chests or asking permission.
They’d just test the waters with me and if I seemed cool pivot to hitting on the women. Because out of everyone in the group, if I had a problem with them, I would literally and figuratively be their biggest problem.
But size doesn’t mean shit in the modern world, so it’s super weird for big guys, especially if it starts when they’re young. Sometimes it goes to people’s heads and that’s pretty much where bullies come from. The people who tolerate that behavior and hang around reinforce it and it just feedback loops
The problem here, is AI is shit
Elon keeps trying to program it to “think” like this, but respond vaguely enough to not obviously be a Nazi
And even if the person in charge of that didn’t think literal Nazi salutes at political rallies werent over the line, AI just isn’t good enough to have a bias like that and not say the quiet part out loud.
To get the bias they need to train it on racist social media, but then they can’t stop it from sounding like racists social media.
30·5 days agoIt’s wild some places don’t have these…
I’ve lived all of the country including SC, and these were just a normal part of life. If you were close enough your home could be in danger, you could usually hear it from inside.
Cell notifications are nice. But storm alarms like this for flooding, fire, tornadoes, anything saves lives.
We can’t just rely on one method, this is a clear example where redundancy is a positive.
Deception is woven into the DNA of that genocidal colony.
The worst thing about criticizing Israel, is every once and a while someone strolls in and starts saying actual Nazi shit because they think it’s acceptable…
The nazis kept claiming their victims deserved to be genocided too…
It’s a safe bet anytime someone refuses to criticize the aggressors and only tries to rationalize their acts, that nothing they’re saying is being communicated honestly.
There’s no valid reason to listen to fascist propaganda, before anyone tries to claim we need to listen to “both sides”.
If Israel wants people to listen, they can stop the fucking genocide then talk.
The only reason their careers has lasted this long was prior iterations of the DNC protected them from primaries.
The current DNC won’t do that.
If primary voters want to ditch the incumbent, Martin will support the new candidate just as hard as he would have supported the incumbent
He doesn’t really care what candidate makes it to the general, except that they were/are the ones voters chose.
And sadly enough, that makes him the most progressive DNC chair since Carter’s election.
It’s a level playing field, and neoliberals can’t win in that environment unless it’s against a Republican.
They won’t all get replaced at once, but it’ll happen. And more will choose to cash out and become a lobbyist before losing office.
We don’t need the individuals, we need the seat they’re occupying.
Biden and the rest of the neoliberals gave Bibi everything he wanted, but it was never going to be enough.
Give someone like that two choices who will do whatever he wants, but one is a sadistic asshole. And they’ll go with the asshole everytime.
There was never any gain for a Dem to defend Bibi, except for the personal gain of campaign donations from a foreign country.
And that’s one of the big reasons Dem turnout was low enough for trump to be president.
Neoliberals picked Israel over America and we need to get every single one of them out of office
Well, yeah…
Silverbacks used to be the go-to primate “alpha” example, but we know that “the tribe” isn’t controlled by the Silverback, and it’s not the biggest or most aggressive that “leads”.
The females select more for compassion than anything. And the only real point of the Silverback in the tribe is to scare off rogue males.
Fights rarely happen, there just has to be a silverback already with the group to stop the rogues from hassling the group.
Even if a rogue male started a fight, and beat the group’s silverback, there’s still like 20 other gorillas, it’s not like they only have conflict in 1v1 fights. They don’t “win” leadership thru fighting.
The tribe just picks their own Silverback as designated chest thumper to avoid conflict.
Yeah…
India is a huge multicultural area that is only unified because the Brits did it…
The majority religion/language/culture is led by Modi who is a full on fascist trying to “erase” everyone who is different. And his actions often meet the definition of genocide.
It’s not as bad as Gaza right now. But lots of people care.