[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 week ago

A lot of malls near me are filled with slop hypebeast stores that resell fashion products or pokemon cards / merchandise now.

The successful ones seemed to have pivoted from selling products to selling services like bowling / axe throwing / go karting.

Which I don't blame them for, really. It makes sense, the only reason I go to the mall is to try on clothes to see what size I am. A lot of fast fashion now, overprivileged teenagers carrying dozens of bags from zara / h&m even though the clothes won't survive one wash.

Uniqlo is also doing really well, they have a lot of business but they can't seem to keep up with the demand, the place is always a mess when I go there.

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 3 months ago

Disney adults are so funny lol. My boss came to work with a disney mug + wallet + phone case after her most recent trip. We get it bro you hate your adult children

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 3 months ago

After Christmas I was telling my partner that if you put a microphone above every person's dinner tables for just Christmas day you'd get enough confessions of war crimes to fill the hague 10x.

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 6 months ago

I'm sorry how the fuck does someone get all these benefits and is still living paycheck to paycheck

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 6 months ago

Was at a gunshow the other day and my buddy kept on asking chuds about it. Quite a few of them are talking about "inconsistencies" with how he disassembled the gun on the roof and somehow reassembled it later without the tools. Everyone's sceptic!

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 8 months ago

Same thing 🤣

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 8 months ago

You're laughing? A hitler youth camp was brutalized by parasailers and you're laughing?

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 8 months ago

Shes a disgusting piece of shit.

Instead of building affordable housing shes spending $3 billion of tax payer money to build a stadium for some rich assholes.

She enacted curfews across the city, with harsher curfews in ~~minority~~ problematic areas.

Now she's kissing the ring of Trump, as a democrat by the way. I hope someone shoots her in the head.

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 8 months ago

both China and the US seems to be incentivized to go to war with each other. The former to hide its overcapacity and youth unemployment issue and the latter to mask its already quite visible and accelerating decline.

I don't think China has an incentive to go to war with anyone, I also think the overcapacity issue is what China was intending for, producing massive amounts of solar panels and investing money into EV tech is something a centralized economy would want to do for the sake of humanity.

And as far as I can tell, industrialization in China never left. What America and Europe did over the past ~50 years was move industrialization to other countries so they could exploit ~~cheap~~ slave labor from the global south.

While China has been making deals with many countries in the global south, the minerals that are extracted are sent back to China to be repurposed. I think they will hopefully realize how powerful an industrialized society is on a global scale, even though exploiting foreign labor seems lucrative in the short term.

It would make sense for America to instigate a war with China due to losing their chokehold on the world's economy, but with how things are going currently, China does not need to make such a rash decision, the author themselves cited that BRICS consumes over half of the world's energy currently, while tying that to energy consumption = industrial output.

It was an interesting read though, I hope others here can contribute to the discussion with a better material analysis of it.

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 9 months ago

Yeah I was kinda surprised too, a lot of them were defending the use of the rhodesian camo on their weapons and how it looked "really cool".

After I called them out on it I got banned, then told the mods they were pieces of shit and I got banned on the entire site for ~2 weeks for "harassment"

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 years ago

Hopefully he pays in this lifetime and the next

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