The Google bullshit generator is going to burn a lot of go juice before eventually saying “42”.

Can’t wait until the next debate when he can shield himself with a tinfoil hat.

I have been rehabbing my shoulder and speaking to friends with similar shoulder issues.

One of the better guides we have found was this guy: https://youtu.be/4Gli-tybcyw?si=6NwRkgrxFOXRZ641

His general approach is very cautious. His big issue is giving the tear better conditions to heal. Putting the arm in a sling whenever you can immobilizes joint and takes the pressure off the tear. Then strengthening the traps will fix things more than rotating the arms under load - because the ball of the joint will sit higher and more centred in the socket putting less stress on the tendons.

The ruling classes will continue to spread hate and distraction away from themselves

I would add that the ruling classes will also hoard assets and make access to services (like healthcare, education and transportation) more exclusive and probably prohibitively expensive.

The economics of poor nations are probably what imperial core collapse will resemble.

It’s pretty obvious I would have thought : Organise with other comrades to collectively own and run productive stuff that helps your standards of living. By pooling your resources with others, you get better outcomes. Those who only can contribute their labour will be more productive if they have access to collectively owned tools. They can still trade their labour even if the currency has gone to shit.

Gamers : “I am being exploited by Chinese capitalism!” (Buys another Funko Pop to keep on the shelf still in original packaging)

A call with Tesla confirmed that the truck had needed a complete reboot which took over five hours of sitting to complete.

I consider this as a second deal-breaker problem with the truck. How does 5 hour reboot time make sense? That seems as quick as the punch card computers great-granddad reminisced about.

“condensation can fry the electronics inside the vehicle”

Electronics defeated by rain. They’ve basically described it as an expensive piece of shit.

Nostalgia is partly an indicator that current environment is so shit that it can’t just be reformed or tweaked to get to a better place. Instead the best solution that people want is to time travel back to before it all took a nosedive and restart from there.

The frog boils itself now?

Cheap solar and semiconductors will reduce the cost of manufacturing in US. Energy and chips are inputs to actually producing stuff that companies charge a lot more for.

Car tariffs is somewhat understandable.

Keep turning…

I believe experts have pointed out the vulnerability is how complex and hence expensive it is to keep these tanks running. It needs a crew of mechanics to regularly service a gas turbine engine which also guzzles jet fuel. They are very heavy which means they can’t be driven on any roads or bridges that are too soft or weak without destroying them.

The tank crew themselves need a lot of skill and teamwork to be effective. They still manually load the main gun. Ukrainian troops would have no training on American tanks. So that time and labour for training up the crew to competency is another cost.

They are less of a resource drain just sitting in storage with the engine off.

Fuck off then. The topic is not about China. The HK police was just used as a comparison vs US police in terms of their response. You quoted a source that is particularly unreliable on HK riots because that’s just a sign of how butthurt China makes you.

US is complete shit. HK police were far far better. To call their behaviours similar is complete bullshit.

On Hong Kong, FridayEveryday.com.

I won’t ever trust HKFP on anything.

HKFP dodgy as fuck as a source.

“Hi TSMC. Could you build a massive pseudo village/factory where you indoctrinate the locals with your toxic work culture, sending your managers to act as overlords for our under-educated workers? We will pay you.”

“You want us to basically colonize a town in Arizona?”

“Ummm… Yeah”

A bottle of kombucha doesn’t have to cost 5 euro

I make my own!

For Australia, it will be a long slog. The land rights acts getting through parliament that previously were making progress started to dry up about 15 years ago. IMO it was a sign Australian politics was going down the toilet.

Previous acts granted ownership of particular areas to various indigenous land councils. The councils would manage the land and it’s effectively a perpetual lease owned by the indigenous community. So post-revolution, those land rights concepts would have to come back and get expanded further to make decolonization work.

Another aspect is that cheaper solar panels means cheaper energy: something that Europe is having trouble with right now.

Cheaper energy means lower costs to produce stuff - Making their economy more competitive not less. E.g. Certain foods need refrigeration. Factory equipment. Server farms. Offices have lighting and aircon etc.

If Europe allows their own solar panel industry to gouge themselves, the initial investment in solar will be more of a cost and they are going to have less future growth.

I originally said the book gives an alternative view.

From the Preface:

The importance of this work by Han Dongping is that it brings into focus the lives of villagers during a dynamic period of great positive change in the countryside. This is a very significant work—a counterweight to the conventional writings about the Cultural Revolution.

IMO it’s actually relevant to the situation in the West right now where inequality is increasing and the masses have less and less political representation.