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In the United States today there are more prisoners than farmers. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/building.html A unified clipboard to use anywhere in the command line https://github.com/Slackadays/Clipboard Chinese are much more negative about US than Europe, survey finds: An overwhelming majority had an “unfavourable” view of the US, with 43 per cent holding a “very unfavourable” perception. Only 23 per cent of respondents took a “very” or “somewhat” favourable view Ocean heat shatters record with warming equal to 5 atomic bombs exploding "every second" for a year. Researchers say it's "getting worse."  I did some arithmetic, and this is about the same amount of energy that the US state of Idaho receives from the sun in one second at noon in summer. It actually gets only 4.8 Hiroshimas per second, but it was the closest match of the US states. Oregon is next at 5.6 Hiroshimas per second. The use of nuclear weapons to suggest damage and harm is artful, but their connotation of absolute evil and unforgivable crime might interfere with accurate understanding of the energy involved. Raul Castro on the two party system (2016): "That's the same as if in Cuba we had two parties: Fidel leads one, I lead the other." 😂 The fact that they're finding classified docs all over the place likely indicates that there's some internal power struggle happening within the US government. It's entirely implausible that they just randomly found all these documents in different locations after 6 years. @yogthos I was wondering if maybe it was the folks who hoped he’d bow out after four years trying to damage him a bit. What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer https://nolanlawson.com/2017/03/05/what-it-feels-like-to-be-an-open-source-maintainer/ Karl Marx and Adam Smith on the dangers of capitalism. I bet that if you quoted Smith to a modern capitalism enjoyer they'd call him a communist. https://www.wondriumdaily.com/karl-marx-and-adam-smith-on-the-dangers-of-capitalism/ @yogthos His 'pin factory' was a caricature. "Our merchants and master manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods, both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits ; they are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains; they complain only of those of other people." -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations @yogthos "The landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for the natural produce of the earth." -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith and Marx were both radically departing from what everything the monarchic hierarchies known as "government" in the Eurocentric world embodied until the early 19th century. Je crois que le dernier monarque français et sa petite amie ont perdu la tête dans toute cette excitation. Capitalism is nought but grab all the cookies and share none. A practical and sane "government" exists to regulate this natural human behavior. China's government is buying Alibaba and Tencent shares that give the Communist Party special rights over certain business decisions. Not quite nationalization, but a step in the right direction. https://news.yahoo.com/chinas-government-buying-alibaba-tencent-165617215.html @yogthos Emmanuel Todd, one of the greatest French intellectuals today, claims that the "Third World War has started." https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/monde/emmanuel-todd-la-troisieme-guerre-mondiale-a-commence-20230112 @yogthos Purports to be an English translation of the most important bits (I can't access the original article.) https://mobile.twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1613924570725244928 It sounds extremely misguided and misinformed to me in important respects, but I'm an Australian who loves the US. U.S. to hit debt limit next week, Yellen warns Congress. Yellen said that the Treasury Department would begin taking “extraordinary measures” in order to avoid default. Sounds like US is about to start doing even more austerity this year. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/us-hit-debt-limit-week-yellen-warns-congress-rcna65725 |
