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Life Magazine from 1943 is pro-USSR in a way that seems like alternate history fiction given the Anticommunist hysteria that came soon after
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Renewable energy is at the heart of China's new economic stimulus. It's difficult to imagine the US spending a trillion dollars on anything other than the military. The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous âEducated Proletariatâ https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/ @yogthos on the bright side: i'll be able to get wasted on the money i could only get one beer in tokyo @yogthos It's a beautiful ideal. Too bad that all the attempts to make it real ended up in some of the worst dictatorships of the last century. đ€  @yogthos There have been several successful attempts at creating a kingless/masterpiece/leaderless society. In fact the Bible records two instances of this happening (I will toot later on with references). However, neighboring realms with rulers would always conquer & take them over. English version of China's April 1952 "Report on the Crime of American Imperialists in Spreading Bacteria in Korea" https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22187637/china-peoples-commision-report-on-bw-apr-1952.pdf Amid Chip Shortages, Companies Bet on RISC-V https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/amid-chip-shortages-companies-bet-on-risc-v/ The world is on the edge of nuclear catastrophe in no small part because of the failure of Western political leaders to be forthright about the causes of the escalating global conflicts. https://johnmenadue.com/the-wests-false-narrative-about-russia-and-china/ @yogthos And Sachs is no tankie or anarchist; in fact a former implementer of the neoliberal world order. GleichermaĂen #beeinduckend wie #unfassbar, daĂ unsere politische Elite sich quasi widerstandslos diesem Spiel hingibt. Sind das die SpĂ€tfolgen der "#bedingungsloseKapitulation" von 1945? Oder sitzt uns die #Angst in den Knochen, daĂ die gröĂenwahnsinnigen #Rassisten in Ăbersee ihre alten PlĂ€ne reaktivieren? https://phenixxenia.org/wiki/USA_geben_geheime_Liste_nuklearer_Ziele_von_1956_frei 1.6 million full-time equivalent workers could be out of work due to long Covid. With 10.6 million unfilled jobs at the time, long Covid potentially accounted for 15% of the labor shortage. https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid-is-keeping-as-many-as-4-million-people-out-of-work/ The Russia-Ukraine War At Six Months: symbolic anniversary or economic and military turning point? https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-146-the-russia-ukraine Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad: US Empire in Withdrawal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8U6hgWouUA Almost the entire European continent is now operating at electricity prices above EUR 600/MWh. This is roughly equivalent to $1000 per barrel of oil. The last decade average cost of electricity was in the EUR 20-30/MWh range. Roger Waters added to Ukrainian Hit List https://medium.com/@deborahlarmstrong/roger-waters-added-to-ukrainian-hit-list-5acede7b0414 Ask a programmer to review 10 lines of code and they will find 10 problems. Ask a programmer to review 500 lines of code and they will say it looks fine. South Korea has once again shattered its own record for the worldâs lowest fertility rate as it faces the prospect of its population of 51 million people more than halving by the end of this century. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-24/fastest-aging-wealthy-economy-breaks-own-fertility-record-again |
@yogthos what is this bizarro world!! holy crap
@yogthos Interesting they needed to say "He was a normal well-balanced man..." Sounds exactly how a partisan hack might regarding the previous US president.
@yogthos Indeed.