I sure hope those 2nd amendment fanatics can afford the naval vessels and foreign military bases they’re going to need to get involved in the South China Sea! 💸
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Military spending in 2023 (in billions of US dollars):
United States: 916
China: 296
Russia: 109
India: 83.6
People who own a “don’t tread on me” flag: 0*(* Rounded to nearest significant figure)
13·8 days agoOh hey look, we have the real world Firecracker!
That’s a really big rug they put in there. Would be a shame to everyone else if they were to pull it out suddenly.
2·16 days agoThe post mentioned a wireless mesh network, so it sounds like the ISP/provider already has a bunch of wireless access points set up to cover the whole building. One of the problems with high-density living spaces is that there are only a limited number of communication channels WiFi can use, so if everyone living there also runs their own wireless networks they use up all the available channels and have to cross-talk over eachother, leading to everything slowing down.
402·19 days agoMoney corrupts absolutely everything: science, politics, people…
3·21 days agoWhen a corporation or private individual uses their large pool of capital to subsidize an unsustainable business model that undercuts and disrupts the competition until it can establish market dominance, that’s called venture capitalism. When a government does the exact same thing, that’s called communism.
The typical American mindset of “corporation good, government bad”.
Before Elon acquired Twitter, the platform enforced an one-sided policy of censoring right-wing points of view. It even started actively shielding the left from any criticism, such as when the Hunter Biden Laptop story was blatantly censored so as to not affect Joe Biden’s presidential campaign negatively.
What’s funny is that there are a slew of articles from 2019 to 2022, before Musk’s takeover, talking about a study that found Twitter’s algorithm actually had a right wing bias because conservative opinions generated higher engagement (both positive and negative) so it boosted them more than liberal ones.
Also Elon has censored many news stories about himself and his companies since his acquisition. He hasn’t stopped censorship, he merely took control of it.
A handful of citations:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59011271
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/twitter-musk-censors-turkey-election-erdogan
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-journalists-free-speech-mashable-matt-binder
Good Old Projection: The Republicans are already using X to cheat the election and they don’t want competition.
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Face eating leopard says they have to continue eating faces because there is nothing else to eat.
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9·30 days agoThis is why they want TFWs: they can’t quit and will do almost anything to avoid being fired because they risk being deported. Modern day slavery.
The fair market wage is determined by the same market forces of supply and demand. If they can’t find local workers at the wage they are offering, raise the wage until they can. If they can’t afford the wages necessary to staff their business with local employees and still make a profit, then they have failed as a business. Simple as that.
Temporary foreign workers are supposed to fill skill gaps in the economy when not enough qualified workers exist, not to supply cheap labour when employers want to improve their bottom line.
I’d also like to point out that smaller local businesses don’t have the power and money to exploit temporary foreign workers in the way corporations such as Tim Hortons can, putting them at a severe disadvantage to compete with them. These businesses still manage to survive in most markets, but would grow and thrive if the playing field was leveled. Fuck corporations, support small local businesses.
I’ve just had this Chinese dynasty, it is fucking minging! Suck your dad!
I think taste builds up a tolerance to sweet in the same way it does for heat. I used to drink lots of soda, but I stopped drinking it completely and now when I have a sip of Coke it tastes WAY too sweet and I can barely stand it. For people who eat lots of fast and ultra-processed foods packed with added sugar, salt, and fat, they need more extremes like this shake to overcome their tolerance in the same way a person who eats lots of spicy foods gets bored with jalapenos and needs ghost peppers and Carolina reapers that would destroy most other people’s palettes.
Meanwhile priests get caught molesting children and don’t have to resign because the church silently moves them to another parish hoping nobody else finds out.
No, see you proposed a theory, that these were not “true” Trump supporters in the picture, with zero evidence to support your theory. You’re simply making up conspiracies and shifting the burden of proof to be edgy.
Try this one: How do you know Trump is human and not actually an alien sent from Alpha Centauri to take over Earth for colonization by assuming one of the most powerful positions? Give me irrefutable proof or I’m right because of “critical thinking”.
That’s what the government should do then, help create a Canadian competitor… 🤷