MeowZedong

joined 2 years ago
[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

You give too much credit. I think it's pretty safe to assume no one but socialists and historians care (or know) enough about Deng and Zhao outside of China so they aren't likely to weigh in. Now if the question included the tinyman trigger-word, you'd have people jumping all over this post saying China bad and quoting Wikipedia until their fingers bled.

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

The treatment the plant in the picture received is called "air layering" that is used for propagation. You wound the stem you want to propagate, then wrap it with something moist. This leads to roots developing on that stem while it is still attached to the larger plant.

I'm not familiar with using this method to induce fruit production and it didn't look like they used air layering in the paper.

Here's the paper in the meme.

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Pressurized cylinder?

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not clear that this affected the decision to drop the bombs let alone the sole reasoning. Frankly, there was little justifiable strategic argument for use of them at that point in the war aside from as a form of intimidation against the Soviet Union. More likely the US would have dropped the bombs regardless and it was used as a justification after the fact: "the Japanese were barbaric, so this justifies our barbarism!"

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That very much sounds like a moment for self-reflection.

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Therefore they can continue to extract more from people than before. When you default, the amount owed increases significantly (doubles?).

This means more people are stuck with high payments and are required to work to continue to survive, less people getting retirement or other benefits, a larger workforce that is essentially captive to their debt and can be more easily manipulated because they are worried about making ends meet more than other things.

I see plenty of benefits for capitalists in a wide variety of industries if more people are beholden to more student debt.

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

There are entire industries that profit from people being imprisoned. The more people incarcerated in a location, the more that location can charge.

All other things aside, there is very much a profit motive.

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Or join an instance they don't like and they curate themselves for you. :)

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 3 months ago

Join a different instance, there are ones that are more curated for different regions in the world. Lemmy.world is very US centric and essentially a carbon cut-out of reddit. Lots of redditors migrate there and try to maintain that type of culture on the instance, so they also got many of the most toxic complainers condensed from mass reddit exoduses.

The fediverse is meant to be explored and it may take you a month or two to find where you like best.

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Happy birthday, Oppo, and many more to come!

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Joke is on us, they got us all to read the WSJ!

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