Treats his workers like shit, especially during the pandemic

Tesla was very well known as practically a relatively well-paying burnout factory a decade ago, and I doubt it was a big secret when musk first started cultivating the image of the real-life iron man. Anyone who looked up to him but now accept this to be a bad thing are either lying or admitting an absurd degree of ignorance when it comes to their heroes.

Cass Eris (cognitive psychologist, succdem/liberal) has a playlist going through the book. She brushes part of outright accepts some anti-communist horseshit, but those should be obvious to you when she does. Other than that, she shows that holding JPB to any reasonable academic standard is a futile endeavour, from sharing information from his patients doing little to protect their identity to making absurd propositions and comparisons all with little to no citations. She also makes it a point to point out all the Freudian and Jungian poppycock Beterson has incorporated into his work.

It’s a lot of videos averaging 40 mins so you could limit yourself to 1-3 rules and probably still be far more in-depth than your friend. I don’t suggest trying to go through the whole thing quickly, Dr. B’s work is quite frequently a mindfuck to think about with any depth, far too much quackery to take at face value.

And the next one of course.

This is not a case of Trump having done bad things and Biden doing nothing. An analogue is if trump were firing a minigun on a bunch of people, he left office, Biden took over and resumed firing.

Also, sanctions by the richest country in history need to be proven to have adverse effects on the imposed in the same way the theory of gravity needs to be proven again: only flat earth type loonies need it so it’s merely an exercise, not an academic necessity.

This fellow argues against pausing games, wtf? Why are gamers like this?

Ebil sissypea making hardworking bosses pay their parasite employees after closing the shutters. (they didn’t even take the risk) This would never happen in free^TM countries, where you’re allowed to not pay the proles for a year, sell off all the company assets and pocket the difference. Obviously the individuals clever enough to defraud their employees, who have no recourse, should be rewarded.

It’s irritating that we won’t get to see Biden fail to string up sentences together on the debate in September, but I’m far more annoyed at how quickly all the morons trying to get people to vote for a corpse turned around to sing a different tune. Previously people who didn’t want to support a zionist zombie were against democracy or whatever the fuck, now Biden is laudable for realising his flesh will have fallen off by November.

On the scale of not good things to be doing, diligently paying taxes in a western country does more harm than any form of sex work.

You are absolutely correct, picking stats and indices in alignment with our views isn’t something communists are immune to. We’re nevertheless decent at it.

This post is an indication of that. OP’s proposition is that western media says Chinese markets aren’t attractive to investment, and that the FDI index shows otherwise. This holds up, and here’s the description of the index:

The FDI confidence index is calculated as a weighted average of the number of high, medium, and low responses to questions regarding the likelihood of making a direct investment in the market over the next three years. Values are calculated on a scale of 0 to 3, with 3 being the highest level of confidence in a market for Foreign Direct Investment, and 0 being the lowest level of confidence.

Biggest reason, I can still use Boost after the api shit. If I were forced to use a browser or shudder the official app, I wouldn’t even consider it.

Most of my scrolling I do here, my Reddit use had become more specific even before I became more active on the 'grad. I don’t use twitter or any other social media, so Reddit is my only source of news on the series and mangas I follow.

For my part I don’t use the wider Lemmy either. I’ve got 2 subscriptions from hexbear and that’s it. Other instances feel like knock-off Reddit so I don’t browse them for the same reasons I haven’t browsed r/all in years.

This idiot really is pissing herself that she’ll be governed by Labour aristocrats instead of blue blooded Etonian pig fuckers. Worst case scenario, TERF island will saunter into the sea instead of actively sinking, more likely nothing will change.

All this needs is to make the indigenous person a golden eagle, may not be such a direct relation to the supposed ancient ancestors but certainly more of a descendant than a lizard.

I hope the Tories don’t stop coming up with policies just because they’ve been relegated to the shadow cabinet, otherwise sir Keir might not know what to do and accidentally enact something half decent once a year.

Kiev is a metonymy, and the headline is a clarification for previous ones, where it was questioned whether the F-16s would be stationed in a NATO country, which has obvious dangers.

They’re hoping for another Khrushchev or Gorbachev, someone who’ll just make shit up about the previous regime and satiate western lust for vindication pending a shred of evidence.

Doesn’t fight to the death imply, ya know, death? How’re they going to make a cup of coffee dead? Also running for one’s life doesn’t have an age cutoff, older people can still run like hell when they come under fire.

What sort of depraved lunatic would derive some sort of enjoyment or comfort from the notion that the Ukrainian soldiers cannot fight and therefore have to fight to the death? This looks like the hellish mix of denial and bargaining. About as healthy a mix as benzos and heroin.

List of periphery/colony countries that had a war involving imperialists, the imperialists won and the country went on to become an industrial hub:

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List of countries privatised to shreds only to produce more than ever:

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On the other hand, if we lay down and file all the westerners coping about how they haven’t destroyed the Ukraine, we could go around the world 20 times over.

No doubt about it. A lot of my favourites are near broken as they’re distributed and need fixes, others can use a bit of flavour regardless.

How about yourself? You said you were from the PCMR crowd so you must’ve modded the hell out of some games.

I don’t believe either candidate is doing a bad job gutting the US on the inside, though as an outsider my perspective is limited.

On the diplomatic front, absolutely. During Trump’s term, most usian “allies” took the dumb shit he did as the temporary acts of some man-child. The corpse of Joe Biden is disproving the myth of the adults in charge in real time. He started a losing war in the Ukraine and now he’s practically overseeing a genocide. What’s more, he could’ve let Trump have sinophobia, but he chose to reveal that democrats could be just as sabre-rattling.

At this point anyone who isn’t as dignified as Obama is fine though. It’s all a race to the bottom with the bourgeois dictatorships and only an articulate, pretty face can mask that, and even that not for long.

Consoles are perfectly fine. They’re cheaper than PCs that will perform as well, a lot of people don’t care about modding all that much and like playing with a controller. For these reasons (not the price one) they’re just not for me. The games I play the most are the ones I mod the heaviest. I absolutely abhor using controllers, I never managed to get used to them.

That said if the main issue is convenience a tablet or just the phone might be better suited for many genres.