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davel, 5 days ago

We have NTT DoCoMo to thank for that.

davel, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

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davel, 18 hours ago

The occupied Palestinians have a legal right to struggle against their occupiers “by all available means, including armed struggle.”: www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-184801/

Furthermore, As an Occupier, Israel Has No Right to ‘Self-Defense’.

davel, 5 days ago

While true, the cost differentials go much deeper, and they affect all products & services.

Michael Hudson: America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism

davel, 5 days ago

It sounds you’re still stuck in the 1990s. Where do our iPhones and other smartphones and our laptops come from? Where do many of the parts in our cars come from? What country has more high speed rail than every other combined? What country has its own space station?

davel, 5 days ago

This is what the NHTSA has done since its formation in 1970.

davel, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Also medical supplies, including masks, because COVID is Joever.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3c277883-3b45-4593-8d9a-a6a7c237644b.jpeg

Edit to add: There is necessarily a lag between tariff imposition and indigenous production, and we’re left to fill that gap with our own wallets individually. Worse, the prices will almost definitely never come back down as they might in theory, because this is late-stage capitalism.

davel, 4 days ago

Same. If It’s to exist at all, it should be opt-in and explicit about what it’s doing.

davel, 3 days ago

their killing of innocent people

The US & Israel are literally committing genocide while you’re parroting US Cold War III talking points.

davel, 7 days ago

Someone reported this as NSFW, but I don’t see it. This is just Grandpa Simpson gumming a cucumber with his dentures out.

davel, 3 days ago

r/TalesFromYourServer: Kicking a Nazi out as soon as they walk in

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

davel, 3 days ago

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: it’s pizzacake

Some people don’t know how to click downvote and move on with their day,
or make a comment,
or unsubscribe,
or make their own c/ComicsExceptPizzaCake community.

Some people have to talk to the manager and waste my time.

davel, 4 days ago

No, it’s just about 4,700 km.

davel, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

I’m of the opinion that we can’t expect any improvements from the political class before we take more of the profits so we can buy those politicians like corporations have.

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. — Audre Lorde

I don’t think we should try to play the game by the capitalist class’ own rules, which they created for themselves. We’re never going to be able buy the political system by outspending the capitalist class: they own the means of production and it’s their political system.

Right now labor is very divided, shattered. It was significantly more organized a hundred years ago, though still divided along racial lines, a mistake we mustn’t repeat. People don’t seem to remember now how many socialists existed back then and were deeply involved in that organizing, before they were crushed by red scares and other skulduggery. And unfortunately almost all of our surviving unions came from explicitly anti-socialist roots, the others having been purged. Socialists are still extremely few in the US.

We can’t buy government, and we know our vote alone has very little power. What we need is a resurgent, re-organized labor movement, and new labor media (we used to have our own newspapers!) to counteract corporate media, and we need new mass industrial actions that fit today’s material conditions*. That’s how we forced the state to make concessions in the past.

*Simply organizing “blue collar” workers again won’t cut it, because many of us are not that now.

davel, 4 days ago

and they don’t get maimed by robots much

???

• Is there evidence that Chinese workers have high high rates of this?
• People are getting maimed at Tesla plants all the time.
• The US created the neoliberal WTO to crush labor rights worldwide, worker safety among them. The only reason the US is sabotaging the WTO now is because that system no longer favors it.

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Honda and Toyota posed the same problem and they were forced to create factories here in order to eliminate the labor cost disparity that would have destroyed the lives of UAW members.

I don’t understand. Were Honda & Toyota forced to, or did they do it out of the kindness of their hearts?

davel, 3 days ago

This question can probably be interpreted a dozen different ways, so you’ll likely get answers to questions you hadn’t intended meow-popcorn

davel, 4 days ago

The crew, made up of 20 Indians and a Sri Lankan national, has been unable to disembark because of visa restrictions, a lack of required shore passes and parallel ongoing investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and FBI.

Red tape and racism. I suspect that if they were say Dutch, accommodations would be made somehow.

davel, 8 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

The number of downvotes on this meme is fascinating.

Perhaps this will also be popular: Reuters, 2018: China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

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Edit to add: Do people think we just make this shit up?

United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding

World Bank, 2022: Lifting 800 Million People Out of Poverty – New Report Looks at Lessons from China’s Experience

Tricontinental: Serve the People: The Eradication of Extreme Poverty in China

davel, 11 days ago

It’s unsurprising that this ecofascist, evolutionary psychology garbage might come out of Stanford.

• Stanford Eugenics History Project
• Greed, eugenics and giant gambles: author Malcolm Harris on the deadly toll of Silicon Valley capitalism

H. sapiens tends to respond to problems in simplistic, reductionist, mechanical ways. Simplistic diagnoses lead to simplistic remedies.

Talk about reductionist, Dr. Rees. This guy reeks of 19th century white male anthropologist.