China is a rising juggernaut
China was a rising juggernaut twenty years ago.
They’re the lynchpin of the global economy today.
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it’s for Russia
Americans shitting the bed in the Middle East every day for fifty years
“Yeah, uh, actually that was Russia. Russia did that.”
11D chess. He’s going to turn Iran into another stupid rich petrostate full of corrupt plutocrats.
Iran is going to be another Hong Kong or Singapore by the end of the century.
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Spiciest food a Midwestern can handle
“Donald Trump has six kinds of mental illness and he’s on his third stroke. He will be dead by the end of the week.”
Trump goes on live TV and delivers an hour long rant about how much winning we’re doing in Iran. Emits the loudest fart you’ve ever heard in your life. His cabinet secretaries all applaud. He hobbles out the door to spend the rest of the day golfing.
“That doesn’t prove anything. Look at this grainy photo of his hand. He’s probably already dead as you’re reading this. Anything you see going forward is AI or a hologram or something.”
Like Americans need to realize that not primarying democrats means they feel safe with your vote and are thus incentivized to prioritize seeking republican voters.
Americans liberals think that everyone but them is a Republican. And, therefore, you must trick the Republicans into voting for you be appearing to be better at Things Republicans Care About than the actual Republican on the ballot.
Clinton, Obama, and Biden all did conservative pastiche and won. Therefore, Americans would never vote for a Limousine Liberal rainbow flag hugger from Fake America’s richest city if he was talking shit about veterans and fucking prostitutes in his free time. You’ve got to put John Kerry in a hunting jacket if you want to win Ohio. You need Bernie Sanders to denounce everyone in Cuba. Make Kamala Harris go on Hot Ones alongside Joe Rogan. You can’t step off a plane with your name on it or ride down a golden escalator, like some kind of out-of-touch elitist. You sure as hell can’t glad-hand the President of China or - god fucking forbid - North Korea. Anyone who did those things would lose in a landslide, purely because Real Americans hate it.
You have to play it safe. Only the safest candidates will win. That’s why Jeb Bush was Hillary Clinton’s biggest threat in 2016.
There’s a big semi-sentient computer running the government in Idiocracy, which could make it a neat stand in for Skynet.
Idiocracy -> People become overly reliant on automation and complacent to the point of self-annihilation
Terminator -> Computers decide humans aren’t worth the trouble, so they do a mass extermination
Matrix -> The conflict ends in a blotted out sky, which forces the computers to cannibalize humanity
What they won’t tell you is that all three take place in the same universe.
in the GDR
Yes, but that’s Evil Communism. Didn’t you see the movie “The Dryers of Others”?
Also there was a time where companies actually cared.
:-/
Planned Obselence was pioneered nearly a century ago. You might have individual service reps or salesman with a soul. But no company has ever carried about more than profits.
Long COVID was actually just me turning 40 and losing track of the years.
Although, I’ll say that your perceptions can re-normalize when you have a little guy in your life. Like, people tell you “your kids will grow up so fast” but I’m feeling every single day of the Terrible Twos.
most people probably rapidly lose interest having beyond more than 5 apple.
Going to need to rename this channel to “Lemmy Cumpost”
Oh man, that sucks.
I never understood my generation’s obsession with “growing up”
When it’s perceived as attainable, there’s a real appeal to joining the independent ownership class of professionals. Live in your own house, cultivate your own personal fortune, pursue your own career goals, hit those iconic milestones of adulthood that reward you with comfort and convenience and luxury.
Now that we’re here, all grown up and middle age, what do we do now?
I know quite a few people who still party, well into their fifties. But they also got the jump on family life early and saw their kids off to college years ago. They’re rich enough to work part time, go on vacations regularly, and enjoy nice food, a beautiful house, and various household luxuries.
I also know a few people who never stopped partying, straight out of college. I’ve got a friend who is a professional fire spinner at the Renaissance Festival. Perpetually broke couch surfer who regularly hooks up with girls half his age and never wakes up before noon, then pulls together just enough money to make it to the next Burning Man Festival and cash in on other people’s willingness to sponsor his spectacle.
Who is living better? Idk. I’m a desk jockey with a wife and a dog and a little guy of my own to take care of. And I’m happy for it. But I could have been just as happy under different circumstances. There’d just be trade-offs. You can’t help looking at the grass in the neighbor’s pasture and wondering “What if?”
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Trying to explain lower back pain to a 20 year old.
I think Climate Change and explosion of alternative energy sources is doing that.
They’re just trying to evade Western financial restrictions. Dollars aren’t useful to a country that’s cut out of the LIBOR and SWIFT banking systems.