Spendrill

joined 2 years ago
[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How about the EU declares all their drugs generics and sets up a factory to produce them cheaply.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

What's your problem now?

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm guessing the Chinese diet doesn't have as much corn syrup in it.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's mocking Trump and MAGA's fantasy. For the workers it's providing them with work that is unpleasant, poorly paid and painful. For the factory owners it is ending up with staff that just aren't going to be productive.

As for toiling for a pittance: Trump is trying to devalue the dollar and erode workers rights in a race to the bottom. Apart from the fact that, as others here have pointed out, the endgame would be automation the intermediary stage is pushing those in precarity and poverty into jobs that don't benefit them in any meaningful way.

But the Chinese, being somewhat keener students of human nature, have distilled those arguments into thirty seconds of comedy gold.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gotta link to that?

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Mate, there are so many things that suggest I am on the spectrum now that I have given up keeping track of them all. I'm not sure that at my time of life there's anything that can be done for me even if I did get a diagnosis.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, if my memory is correct the flickers stopped completely for me at around 80hz. I'm talking about monitors here rather than TVs.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

No, I have very poor hand eye co-ordination. Every time I have tried to play table tennis people have been on the floor laughing at how poor my reactions are. My eyes are just very sensitive to light.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 88 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

I used to be able to tell what refresh rate they were set to because everything below a certain point flickered. I'd ask people why their screens were flickering and they couldn't see it.

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