No, but it shows a pattern. There are plenty of sources in the linked article of the same happening in Nigeria, you just refuse to climb out of your utopia bubble and read those sources that are independent of The Intercept. It's easier to say the source is "POS" and continue living in denial.
Utopian bubble is good. Think I heard it back in the 60s. Goes to prove nothing is new.
Where was the Intercept when Sudan first happened? Where were they when Assad was shooting anti aircraft guns through people's houses? Where were they when Iran poisoned women for religion? No where to be found, because those headlines didn't sell.
"No fossils belonging to the species have been found but scientists know it exists because of footprints found in Fujian Province in south-eastern China."
This phrase has been used by right wing groups to justify violence against the left, who they see as trying to control society.
I find violent rhetoric concerning... I'm still hoping we can find progress without fighting. We don't have to fight. I believe that the only reason anything stable came out of the American revolution is that a lot of people (well, primarily men, but that was the style at the time), who didn't actually agree with each other on a lot of things, spent a lot of time sitting around and talking about what they could do better than the monarchies they had grown up in. They planned for how to make things better, and they compromised with each other for it, and when the first plan didn't work they rewrote it (governments need prototypes like any other complex system). Most importantly they spent time listening to each other (seriously, years and years of discussion, sending letters back and forth, meeting in person, writing new proposals and revising drafts).
If you want to change your community, maybe spend a little more time listening to the people in it. Don't go looking for a fight, go looking to prevent one.
This is one thing noone will convince me is a bad thing. Birds aren't real anyways and if they are, they should just become vegans! ^Except^ ^for^ ^bees,^ ^bees^ ^can^ ^stay.^ ^And^ ^Butterflies^ ^maybe.^
Didn't need a study to notice this, the difference between when I was a kid and now is stark, used to be the car would be covered in them by the time we got to vacation, now it's clean as a whistle.
What's really gonna suck is when people are like "holy shit why did they let us kill all the bugs if they were so important?!!"
Personally my property (2 acres) is free of all pesticides and herbicides. I'm killing introduced species of plants (trees of heaven and privet) by hand mostly pulling them out of the ground.
This year I might add Japanese honeysuckle to the target list.
I mean we're probably doomed to some sort of major collapse either way, but I'll do what I can on the micro scale and vote for people who will fight for the right path on the macro (e.g. never Republican).
PS - I do use poison bait inside for ants and cockroaches so not 100%. Only when they get noticable. Sorry.
Based on the title, I thought it meant they were pulling a "wikiHow" and rotoscoping/reanimating existing movies and TV shows. No, they're contract animators working for HBO Max and Amazon.
When Roy discovered the exposed cloud server, it was being updated on a daily basis. Martyn Williams, a senior fellow on the 38 North Project who helped analyze the contents of the server, says the server likely allowed work to be sent to and from North Korean animators. The server itself is still live, but it mysteriously stopped being used at the end of February. While there is a login page, its contents can be accessed without a username and password. “I found the login page after I found all the exposed files,” Roy says.
I wonder if anyone can find the cloud server, and if so, archive the contents. It's always fascinating seeing behind-the-scenes details about shows, but official behind-the-scenes footage always lacks depth. It'd be cool to archive that stuff.
Yep, it would be fascinating if it happens because not only would the US be comiting compete economic suicide and almost certainly take most of the gobal economy down with it to a decent degree thanks to the US dollar’s heavy use as a foreign reserve, but hyperinflation would hit his donors the hardest while wiping nearly all debts out of the US system.
Given the economic chaos the US stock market, realstate market, and retirement savings would all go down with it. The only possible winners to such a move are Russia, and to a lesser extent China and the EU.
Wouldn’t do anything to wipe out the debts of the working class. Inflation doesn’t translate to increased wages, as we can clearly see from the last few years. It would wipe out the debts of the rich, though. China’s currency is sort of artificially pegged against the dollar, a devaluation of the dollar could cause them a lot of problems also, as they’d be forced to devalue their own currency to maintain its peg.
Except we did see the working classes wages keep pace with and even outpace inflation in the last few years? Inflation has always been primarily a threat to the rich, who by the common definition make their money off of their savings, and so are directly affected by those savings diminishing in real value.
Similarly depts are nearly always denominated in the local currency and so are directly 1 to 1 diminished by the inflation of that currency. For example if you owe two hundred thousand on your mortgage and you see fifty percent inflation then you have effectively just been handed a hundred thousand in real value directly out of the pocket of the person who lent you that money.
None of this is to say that very high inflation is good in an economy where people need to save money for retirement, but it does have some silver linings for the poorest who already have depts rather than savings and who are generally paid in real value.
In a very high inflation scenario where the US was intentionally trying to devalue its currency I expect China would abandon its peg against the dollar, and everyone would likely try and reduce their dependency on the dollar, which would in turn probably lead to a feedback loop that would exacerbate the issue.
I would not expect anyone to come out of the almost certain gobal ressecion better off, except maybe Russia given how little they are tied to the gobal economy and how they’ve run down their forex reserves, but I imagine that unless every economist in China and the Eurozone takes the decade off they will come out of it a lot better off than the US would.
Firstly, I would generally roll the rise during the pandemic into the effects, as that’s when a lot of the inflation that would later be messured actually got going, and in this scenario you would likely see a similar effect to the whole, but I will consede that you likely much in the way in gains, especially given the effects such a recession would have across the board.
That does not have an effect on my main point, which is that a sustained very high inflation/hyperinflation during a loss of confidence crisis is going to do far, far more damage to people who’s source of income is earning a return on their assets and investments. In that earlier fifty percent inflation example you would need working class real wages to nearly half to have a similar effect.
So.. Just to clarify: if I traveled to China and let slip to the authorities that I no longer drink alcohol and am also an ex-smoker, would they arrest me, an atheist, for "potential religious extremism" or would I have to be a Muslim too for THAT particular bit of oppression?
The laws are an excuse to continue their genocide against the Uyghurs. They have no interest in enforcing them against foreign tourists or even Han Chinese.
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