Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact” or a variation of that sentiment. Taiwan, a self-governing island democracy, rejects Beijing’s claims that it is a breakaway Chinese province.

Did it also refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America?

“CCP talking points”? Get the fuck out of here with this “China == bad” horseshit. This article isn’t journalism, just scaremongering.

It told a child how to safely sharpen a knife. Oh no.

It told a child how to safely light a match. Oh no.

I’m in Virginia. I’ll go for the water one. Get all that Atlantic up in me. Between the microplastics and bioluminescent life- I think that’s the right choice for me.

The addition of the backstory on Zuko’s crew was a very nice touch. Cautiously optimistic on season two.

I think my comment, and the person I responded to, were being a bit … light hearted (not sure if that’s the right term) about it.

Speaking for myself, don’t let use dissuade you in any way at all. More Americans need to be:

1. aware of how shitty the for profit medical system is. It’s the most expensive healthcare in the world and not even close to the top in healthcare outcomes.
2. Aware that countries much poorer that it dignify all of their citizenry with healthcare. (And zero countries that have done so have ever gone back on that choice)
3. Much more vocal, including in deciding who to vote for, about ending the predatory, immoral profit imperative in healthcare.

Personally I don’t think America can vote its way out of a damn thing, but the corporate propaganda seems to be so terrifically good at getting people I know and care for who I believe have fully functioning brains to believe that somehow this shitty healthcare system is the best in the world.

Thank you for posting the video.

I’ve had a certain person accused of a certain thing as my lock screen for about a year because of how much I hate it. Maybe we’re already maxed out and not the target audience for this.

Hail you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#Commons_in_historical_reality

Wikipedia also recently asked AI companies to start using its paid API instead of scraping it, which would be management of its own commons, but that seems unlikely that anti-Wikipedia Musk projects would spend money on the very thing that it’s trying to destroy.

Anyway, I’m just agreeing with you.

If they were real Christian’s they’d know about Proverbs 26:11.

I’m sure it is. My point is - what do Lemmy users expect out of a for-profit company operating inside of a capitalistic economic system? Saying “no” to China’s LGBT hating demands is impossible in this situation.

Please please please be a good phone. I feel like that’ll be great. I’d like a Linux phone, but I can’t see that shaping up as a Linux reliable daily driver in the next couple of years.

I’d love to give this a simple upvote. What is Tim Cook’s choice here? Operate illegally in China until the government shuts down their entire source of revenue in an entire market which, also, is the one that produces nearly all of its hardware?

If he doesn’t do it - shareholders will remove him in the blink of an eye and replace him with someone who will.

Where I’m agreeing though is - my current phone is my last Apple phone. I’ll be going with Graphene after this. I don’t want corporations telling me what software I can and can’t run on my decides while surveilling me.

Late to the party, Jacobin. Who doesn’t already know this?

The same people ago told me as a child that television would “rot my brain”, turns out, has no information literacy or critical thinking abilities when it comes to what the Facebook told them.

My ideals extend beyond my pragmatism in my comment. UBI for every human being would be terrific.

I have a medical condition that seems to be cheaper in countries that have socialized healthcare as a non-citizen, than it is here with insurance.

“We the people” indeed.

In case you’d like to discuss this uncited social media post screenshot with others, a good place to begin would be this Forbes article, which focuses on Walmart primarily. https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/

This is the very horseshit that the American K-12 public school system brainwashed me into thinking was “socialism”. SNAP is a governmental bandaid that exists as a symptom of a labor market predated upon by the already wealthy.

Every corporate employee in the United States could be paid a living wage, be dignified with healthcare, and know that when their working days are over that they can rest without worrying about housing or food insecurity AND the rich can still have their yacht with a swimming pool.

I don’t want the rich exist, but my point is - if this society wants the rich to exist, okay - I guess, they can, but the very poor don’t have to. That’s an optional thing because our society tolerates artificial scarcities created by the rich.

Disclosing things is too hard for ultra profitable economic parasites. :(

https://www.investors.com/news/trump-earnings-reports-six-months/

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about the possibility of a pardon for Maxwell at an Oval Office event on Monday.
“I haven’t heard the name in so long,” the president responded. “I can say this, that I’d have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look.”

Who is that? I barely even remember who that is.

jfc how has this horror show of a human being courted votes?

Not by a long shot. It’s mainly just Walmart. There are others, but they’re the exception, not the rule.

I worked in retail for about ten years. The company I was at did make a big deal about making a customer feel welcome, which might incidentally involve greeting a customer at the door, but we certainly were too busy to have someone perpetually posted up at the door like Walmart. Any sort of “greeting” we might have done would be the same as I what I experienced in Ireland or Italian retail where if I was approaching an employee, I’d get the local version of “hello”. Didn’t strike me as being very different.

So, no, the American retail space that has a dedicated greeter is fairly uncommon.

Fair point! I’d’ve liked something about the whole “market place of ideas” illusion that the ruling class says exists, but I guess your perspective gets right to the quick of things.

More of the same.

because it presents a slippery slope that could end with conservatives facing government censorship down the road

Silencing speech in “the Land of the Free” isn’t really the problem to him. The problem is that the sword swings both ways.

Turd continues to be turd.