oh wow hes gonna drop a basket and wait for the little green light
now if he could change the oil, that would actually be impressive
I don't understand, is religion a tool of control or is the holy trinity real?
His acting career started with a no dialog cameo on voyager
now he doesn't even show up and they're still paying for him
Watch out, a British publication is about to tell us how to avoid economic stagnation
there's dozens of us
DOZENS!
the term "middle class" originated from the aristocratic ruling class of european feudalism
when people's place in society was determined by blood, by birth, there were two classes: peasants and nobility (and also there was clergy but there's always more detail, isn't there, so lets ignore the more fiddly categories...). As industrialization and market relations grew out of the early modern period, a funny thing started happening: there were people, born as peasants, who, through their property, started to amass wealth equal to (and often greater than!) the nobility. The nobles didn't like that. They looked down on this strange class that was caught in the middle of two worlds. Middle Class has historically referred to the Capitalists.
I know today the term just means a sort of vague gesture to some 'average of people'. But that's fucking useless. It only really acts to obfuscate the real defining characteristic of modern class; birthright has been replaced with the right of property (specifically property that generates a passive source of income for the owner). I highly advise to rail against, or at least avoid, the term "middle class". It just serves as a wedge to divide different levels of working class people from one another -- that's not a successful way to talk about and promote working class interests!
Family can be frustrating as hell. My own dad seems to expect there will be some point where everyone just realizes they need to "stop being greedy" -- with nothing precipitating that. He hates the idea that systemic changes will have to precede mass behavioral changes. He'll concede that China is getting results, but believes that it's going about it the wrong way and is thus no better than the US.
However, people don't deserve "walls" simply for regurgitating what's in their media environment. My dad and your dad may say some silly things -- that's unfortunate, but not surprising given the circumstances. What matters is how they act, how they treat people day to day.
ok, had to google "Gamurs". Didn't know Destructoid and The Escapist shared a parent company.
Money is free speech when it's our businesses and political donors, but it stops being free speech when that's inconvenient for our foreign policy narrative.
this chip trade war stuff is perplexing. It seems like the only long term outcome is accelerating China's capacity to manufacture computers. Like, the US could have had a few more decades of co-dependancy to coast on if they had just left alone.
A while ago, someone suggested having a second instance that federates with everyone, and that instance be the only one hexbear federates with. Like a demilitarized zone. I think it has merit, even though it's probably means much more work for the admins and more server overhead
Wheaties
joined 4 years ago
tag yourself, I'd be
except I do it on purpose. Chinese democracy is not western democracy - it actually works!