I’m normally pretty critical of China but this I can get behind.

Goldbugs have a lot of nostalgia for the Gilded Age, so they put the face value it where it would have been in 1896.

Yeah the 13th amendment has a carve-out for prisoners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU

They conquered the whole planet in search of someone they could beat at cricket.

During the 2022 election the French left was saying “A vote for Macron in 2022 is a vote for Le Pen in 2027”.

They appear to be right on schedule.

Both CEOs are horrible but the new one is a former McKinsey consultant with a background in finance and the silicon-valley C-suite. According to statements she put out her strategy is: layoffs and AI.

I have a lot of nostalgia for good old-fashioned goldbug grifters.

The least realistic thing here is Trump running.

Thanks. “Clean Coal” is the biggest con since ethanol. “NG is a transition fuel” is also a con but not on the same level.

He’s a “free-breathing absolutist.” He thinks everyone should have a supply of oxygen except the people he personally doesn’t like.

I quite frankly flat out do not understand why people on the left are so against space exploration suddenly

Ever heard the song “whitey on the moon?”

Setting that aside, exploring space is not the same thing as building a company town for the world’s least mentally stable pregnancy fetishist oligarch in an unworldly cold desert where everyone is sure to die.

supporting Israel being an easy and surface-level way to alleviate that guilt.

No doubt reinforced by enormous amounts of hasbara.

Almost as if they’re overcompensating for something. 🤔

This is the result explicit, aggressive and longstanding propaganda by the State of Israel and its foreign agents like AIPAC.

They want there to be no conceptual space between the State of Israel, the Jewish religion, and the Jewish people around the world, so they can turn any criticism of Israel into antisemitism and therefore a hate crime.

Not secret

Tactical nukes aren’t real. They start an escalation ladder that gets you to global thermonuclear war in a few hours. Using a “tactical nuke” is just laying naked your intent to have things go nuclear while giving your opponent a chance to respond.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy wanted to nuke Cuba. The joint chiefs told him that if he wanted to do that he would also have to nuke Russia in a massive fully committed first strike.

The way this has worked is that the Japanese economy has bifurcated with the graduation-to-retirement employment being available to a ever smaller group of white collar workers called salary-men. To become a salary-man you have to go to college and get hired the year you graduate through campus recruiting. If you miss your “window” then you can’t become a salary-man and will be stuck in contingent work for the rest of your life.

The people quitting in this case are not salary-men (a salary-man quitting would be pretty unthinkable) but their bosses probably are, hence the cultural divide.

Sometimes salary-men do lose their jobs due to bankruptcy of the organization for instance. Typically the solution if that happens is to jump in front of a train.

My understanding is that the employer side of this contract quit getting honored religiously during the lost decade and employment in Japan is increasingly contingent and precarious.

It’s just a suggestion.

Quebec is also where I learned the phrase “No cop, no stop.”

But I think they were arrested for not saying arrêt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iHr0Hytrls