Push dash twice on a phone, no alt code needed. Almost no one uses social media on a computer anymore.
Bartsbigbugbag
joined 2 years ago
More western trend. Much of the global south, conceding that it’s not all, but much of the global south is headed in better directions. Mexico, Brazil, Mali, Burkina Faso, China, etc etc have been moving in a good direction. Expansion of labor rights, improving infrastructure, land reforms, renewable energy pushes, electrification. The hope for the future lies not in the old guard, but in the rising new guard.
They’re already in a union, this is China. All companies over a certain size are unionized by law.
It’s so bad. Even in high school I knew a lot of people who were illiterate 20 years ago, but it’s gotten even worse nowadays. I made sure to teach my young brothers to read before they were a few years old, because school was never going to teach them. I was always a voracious reader, and I think a lot of it comes down to being read to as a child, which made me want to read ASAP. I think the alienated and disaffected parents these days don’t have the energy for that, and so we have entire generations of iPad kids. Don’t get me wrong, I was a gamer kid, but you could only replay Mario World so many times, and so I’d end up reading books, but now the slop is available as a non-stop intravenous drip feed custom tuned to light up your dopamine receptors. Without boredom, people never do anything that challenges them I feel.
I bet half those people are still rocking their old cow colored Gateways.
I prefer 人民共和国 myself.
And half of those 46,000 are apparently around me, because I can’t go two days without seeing one of those monstrosities. Not surprising though, we were among the first to adopt electric cars in general, and even the Rivian trucks and SUVs are an almost daily sight here too. But god damn if the cyber truck isn’t the single most idiotic looking vehicle I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen f350s with 20” lifts and tiny tires.
They didn’t even deny it, they just said “they were warning shots because the diplomats veered off the approved path”.
Hoorah! Burn the empire!
You think they’re going to close all 38 of their bases across all of Europe? That would be a big strategic break from full spectrum dominance, which is US policy, and part of the plan to contain the growth of China.
People don’t see homes as a place to live, they don’t consider community, family, proximity to work as important. Homes are “investments” and being priced out of your home is “good” because you can “sell it and move somewhere cheaper”. The dominant ideas of any era are the ideas of the ruling class.
Less than $1000. Moissanite > Diamond