Yeah but the"far left" has never once been given the chance to try.

It’s worth remembering the hype cycle when it comes to these things.

The $425 B number was from an Australian publication reporting in AUD. It’s still 300B USD.

Some people still know how to make shitposts with deep stank .

To be fair, it takes a long time to give you cancer and in the meantime it’s really good at not catching fire. Some of the shit people did in the past seems crazy but if asbestos was discovered today we would probably do most of the same shit.

Mods (and apparently the main developer of Lemmy itself) is a full-on tankie.

I mean fair, but Israel does it deliberately as a matter of policy, and this criticism would never be leveled by Schumer or Biden or most democrats despite all of them knowing it’s true.

The problem with manipulating a narcissist into supporting your war is that when it blows up the narcissist only really cared about himself and isn’t going to adhere to pre-existing norms like “never criticising Israeli military tactics”.

Mostly Bibi just knows how to play the game of respectability better than the freaks in his cabinet.

I always wanted kitchen cookware with a stirring pill. But it would require using glass or ceramic cookware on the stove. Which can be done to some extent but still feels sketchier than metal.

Ultimately if people are determined to give themselves the shits, they’re going to give themself the shits.

The dynamics in play between Belarus and Russia are not as simple as a lot of people ( including me )thought. While firmly in the Russian sphere of influence, if Belarus was truly a completely captive puppet state then Putin would have thrown their troops at Ukraine years ago.

For this to work you would have to specific ban those workers from being allowed to negotiate away their percentage in exchange for guaranteed wages. Because many people would want to make that trade for good reason, because these types of out-of-the-blue success stories are are the exception not the rule.

People come at this one case as if success was a foregone conclusion. This level of financial success was absolutely not a sure thing for a movie made by 2 YouTubers, even if it was good. Plenty of people would negotiate away their equity stake for an increased wage (which would be a good choice in many cases), and some of them would then complain afterwards if it succeeded. Plenty of movies flop. As a person whose work cannot guarantee it even primarily influence success or failure, it makes no sense to trade guaranteed wages for equity in most cases.

I don’t align with this company but let me watch it anyways. At that point just watch it since your twisting yourself to justify yourself.

Self-justification aside, the effect of pirating the games (Fifa gets no money) vs not pirating the games (Fifa gets money) is substantially different.

The motive that makes sense to me is that Zelensky is really speaking to everyone else in Russia who might be exhausted with the war, and seeking to embolden them. Ukraine can now do this from a position of strength, where Russia simply cannot protect their own airspace.

His response seems weak.

Protip if you’re squeamish absolutely do not look up photos of what this does to cattle and other fauna. Pure nightmare fuel.

Notes for anyone else: when someone speaks on complicated topics with 100 percent confidence in exclusively absolutes, they’re usually not a good source of information.

NAFTA did not in any holistic way “destroy Canada’s economy”. It resulted in a mostly free trade zone and the specific upsides of that are very well studied. To be clear, all parties (yes even Mexico) benefitted from this arrangement, even the US.

The interdependencies created however, result in asymmetric strategic dependence. There is no credible case for why Canada-US trade prior or even after 2016 was bad for the US, but their current admin wants to blow it up anyways. In that environment, Canada just by virtue of being smaller bears a much larger disadvantage.

It’s easy in retrospect to say that we should never have done this and there’s a fair case that a more measured approach should have been taken, but the few percentage points of less economic growth this would have caused compounded over the last 3-4 decades would have resulted in all parties being significantly less wealthy than they are today.

I agree. Literally unwatchable.

TFW you’re not swole enough to be part of the swoletariat