The company “was once forced to close down, like other companies across a number of industries, because it could not compete against large quantities of goods that China was exporting at artificially depressed prices,” Yellen said.

regardless of what you think of him, Deng Xiaoping was the guy in a way that pretty much no other human is gonna be for the unfolding of the 21st century

When things go wrong? When things go right for coal and gas plants, the “boom” is a humanity-threatening event that already in its extremely early stages has been named the Holocene Extinction.

this is some of the wackiest Zionist bullshit I’ve seen of all time, what the entire fuck

My understanding is that it means going, loosely, to the opposite side of the state of the major metropolitan area in that state. Upstate NY is the northwest part, upstate MA is the west part, upstate PA is the northeast part. I’m looking around, and it seems to also 1) only be used on a few states, 2) usually is on the north half (but not always), and 3) is somewhat interchangable with “rural”.

It’s because you’re not using the same muscle groups. Simply set the pickle jar on the ground, put your power foot on the jar, grip the lid, and heave with your entire lower back and glutes in the open direction

There’s also a pity mechanic in which your chances of waking up on a Wednesday increase the longer it’s been since the last time

there’s not really a joke here it’s just a bunch of slurs

Not only is @jacksilver@lemmy.world right, but additionally, this article is extremely biased in favor of Xorg and is much more of a (completely unfair and one-sided) take-down of Wayland oriented at technical folks and not at all an explainer for laypeople

dyed purple hair is a right-wing dogwhistle for “SJW man-hating feminist”, who are more often leftists than they are liberals. You don’t have any issues with social justice or feminism, do you?

One party where a basic platform is defined and differences are expressed vibrantly on top of that is better than two parties that brand themselves as different but only offer a couple of aesthetic differences and concessions to keep people mad at the opposing party and not the underlying structure

lmao “I’m not transphobic, I know a trans person on the internet who caters to my specific interests”

“don’t blame the state officials that direct the propaganda and line their pockets with the spoils of war, blame the conscripted teenagers”

I do love a good jape from time to time, but colonization is when you show up and expel/enslave/imprison the people who are already there, which is decidedly not how the spread of people from Africa worked

I have every idea what 4chan is, I’m just trying to get people to actually engage with the fact that posting racism is cringe

hey woah, end up quitting after two or three years because of what?

I’m all about solidarity with anarchists, y’all do some serious work, but recognizing objective reality is part of the bare minimum for you upholding your end of solidarity with us.

There are a number of legitimate critiques of the Soviet Union and Bolshevism, but that it did not benefit the Russian people is not one of them.

(pre edit this comment read:

The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.” — Emma Goldman)

this thread is wild

can we remember, everyone:

1. discussion on who is winning has no bearing on discussion of who is in the right, and vice versa

2. Russia, Ukraine, and NATO can all be evil and wrong for separate and true reasons

3. criticizing NATO does not amount to supporting Putin

4. criticizing Putin does not amount to supporting NATO

https://news.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx

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