They said it's not just stupid people being stupid. Given the stakes of allowing stupid people to be stupid in this context, there should be guardrails in place so that even stupid people being stupid can't lead to something like this.
Yeah, it's not out of character unfortunately. It's just an extension of the "strikers/unionizers are greedy bastards" rhetoric that's common in the USA. They've done a good job of painting advocating for your rights as a laborer as being "greedy".
CNN is already planting the seeds to blame workers for the upcoming recession.
Of course they are. Even the title of the article does that: they put the blame of the economic impact on the strike(rs), not on UPS. An honest title would read something like: UPS could cost the USA economy $7.1B. An even more honest one would hint at the actual reason for such greed, but I'd settle for getting the blame properly assigned.
Awesome thank you so much. I'm glad it is going to be easy to fix then.
Now, one thing I'm not sure of is: how do I find the exact torrent to use? By now there's no way I have a magnet link or torrent file, and due to file renaming for my media library I doubt I'd be able to identify an exact release anyway.
Oh cool! I had considered that as maybe being an option but I wasn't sure if it would actually work or not. I can't afford a VPN right now so I wasn't going to try, I figured I'd go ahead and ask so when I can get one running I can jump right in.
Now, will it know the difference between "missing" and "corrupt"?
In general I agree, it's just from the specific comment I replied to it isn't immediately obvious if they're saying "China is suffering from the same problems as capitalist states (despite not being one)" or if they're saying "China is suffering from the same problems because it's also capitalist".
While I agree that per capita emissions is a useful metric, perhaps even more useful than raw emissions numbers, where are you getting that the USA has the highest production per capita?
This table shows data from 2018 so things change, but the per capita emissions would have had to double in five years to put the USA on top.
If you look at the non-per capita numbers, the USA is the second largest emitter behind China (using data from 2018).
Seems a bit silly to decide that “capitalism” is the majority contributor to climate change when the country that produces the most greenhouse gases is only “pretty capitalist” doesn’t it? If capitalism is the major contributor, why don’t more capitalist country produce more greenhouse gases?
That's not necessarily the case. The pollution comes from where manufacturing is, not necessarily where consumption is. The demand is coming from capitalist countries.
Have you been keeping up with the story? Few people are saying there is absolutely zero value in telemetry as a concept. Most people have an issue with it being on by default. For a FOSS community, especially one who tries to act as if privacy matters, the very nature of the concept "telemetry that's on by default" is the problem. I wouldn't personally use the phrase corporate shilling because I think it's not the most precise descriptor of the situation, but it's not entirely innacurate either. I think all of their talk about "it's anonymized" or "it's not excessive" or what have you is just distraction: the real issue is that it's on by default.
People are sanctioned, people are unhappy, people protest their government that allowed it to happen. It’s how you put pressure on the leadership of a country.
This doesn't follow. First of all, no change happens internally in the USA despite its own citizens complaining of material conditions; so to say that people being unhappy and protesting necessarily leads to change is false. Second, every other sentence people say about Russia is calling it "authoritarian", "dictatorship", etc: you can't simultaneously pretend its an authoritarian dictatorship and also that the people protesting have any say in its trajectory.
You can’t force Russia’s hand in this, but you can make the situation for their people uncomfortable.
Which is just wrong. You're making the everyday civilian uncomfortable. You aren't doing anything against those who actually make decisions. Instead you're punishing someone for their nationality, or where they were born or choose to live. It's punishment for something they didn't do and it's not constructive.
The alternative would be to say “Russia pls open the grain corridor again” and I think you can imagine their response.
Sure, I understand that you're saying Russia isn't going to just cooperate with requests. But it's also not going to be any more likely to cooperate because you've made the lives of their citizens, or people of Russian ethnicity living on foreign soil, any harder.
In the end this just punishes innocent people and does nothing to achieve the stated goal.
Every nation should kick Russians out, block their accounts,
The Russian people are not making these decisions. Moreover, those who have left Russia are probably among the least likely to support Russia anyway.
What good comes from attacking the people of a country because you disagree with the leadership of the country? This is the same disgusting rhetoric used in the USA after 9/11 where there were widespread calls to kick out ALL Muslims and people from the middle east.
And China has just about as many of those capitalism problems as we do.
Do you really think China has all of the same capitalism problems?
China doesn't have:
a rampant and actively ignored homeless problem
widespread food insecurity, including among children
a disgustingly large and widening wealth gap, with the government bribery that comes with it
inaccessible or unaffordable healthcare for a large portion of its population, especially those most needing of it
reversal of child labor laws and increasing promotion of its use
destruction of the education system and villifying those seeking to escape generational poverty
a massive and increasing renting population (compared to those with outright ownership), spending an increasingly large fraction of their constantly decreasing wages on housing
an incarceration rate nearly five times average developed nations driven largely by for-profit prisons and slave labor performed by the imprisoned
Does China have problems related to capitalism's influence? Of course. Does it have as many, or do they permeate it so deeply and thoroughly? Of course not.
Pharmaceuticals is about the worst example you could pick to make a point. It's notorious for socializing the cost and privatizing the profit (not to mention the ethics of price gouging life saving medication treatments).
The pill, called bedaquiline, was first approved in 2012 as the first new TB drug in over 40 years and revolutionized treatment for drug-resistant infections. But its relatively high cost limited access in many low- and middle-income countries hit hardest by an epidemic that still kills around 1.5 million people every year, most of them among the world’s poorest. The company initially charged $900 per course in low-income countries, according to a 2016 report, but gradually lowered it to $340 three years ago.
The secondary patent particularly irked some advocates because the drug’s development was largely underwritten by public funds, according to a 2020 analysis. That study found public sector funds contributed $455 million to $747 million to getting bedaquiline to market, compared to $90 million to $240 million from J&J.
You deny that the USA does propaganda. I give you proof (from the USA's government themselves) that they do propaganda. Now you move the goalpost: "yeah they do it, but it's different".
All of your comments are low effort. I see no reason not to block you.
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Can you lay out precisely how its member countries are in opposition of one another?