Mexico desperately needs a better military to withstand this kind of bullshit. At the current rate, the US is gonna try to coup Mexico soon. Once the US starts collapsing for real, Mexico is the first place American fascists are gonna expand into. The current Mexican air force is composed of 40 propeller plane fighters, and the other Army and Navy don’t look much better.

Simple solution: we use AI to fill our resumes with the right fucking keywords so that eventually, both sides are talking and reading nonsense.

It’s ridiculous that this needs to be done. Water utilities are the definition of a public good and natural monopoly. Any developing country whose water utilities are privately owned will have water access and shortage issues, as the “costs” of the infrastructure to provide drinking water to all threaten the easy profit of sitting back and forcing people to pay, lest they die from disease or dehydration.

The issue is that dollars do not make weapons via alchemy, Europe spent shittons of money on of artillery shells to Ukraine, just to raise the price of existing shells without making any more new ones.

The DPRK is only able to take such a principled position because most of their trade is with the PRC. If China didn’t thread the diplomatic needle, DPRK would have no one to trade with.

That’s hilarious.

Israel: “Oops, we accidentally sniped your military outposts. Please continue being our ally though.”

This is kinda wrong. Nuclear energy is extremely hard to ramp up and down. Instead, it provides very stable base load power, reducing the amount of ramping energy sources required.

On the other hand, solar and wind provide irregular, momentary power, which needs to be stored in batteries to be able to be used over any other period of time where it is not sunny or windy. These batteries can supply electricity on demand.

By building nuclear, we can decrease the amount of solar, wind, and batteries we have to build and ramp daily. However, because nuclear cannot adjust to meet the ebs and flows of energy consumption every day, we will still need renewables and batteries to make up the shortfall.

If your concern is about national security, why the heck are you hiring Nepalese Ghurkas who have never seen an ocean in their lives? Why can’t the British do their own laundry themselves?

Is it that they have a fetish for foreign laundry servants, or that the working conditions of laundrymen on their ships are so poor that no full-blooded Brit would ever consider the job?

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I think this mostly has to do with the extensive use of vegetables cooked in various tasty ways. Western dishes (specifically West European) seem to have very few good techniques to cook vegetables, leading white children to hate veggies. I think this is exacerbated in Britain and their Anglo-Saxon colonies (cue the meme about British food having no seasoning).

Also, proper Asian dishes tend not to actually use much oil. Stir frying only lightly coats the outside of food with oil, very different from western deep frying.

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One million preorders, the phones haven’t been delivered yet.

Americans don’t want to call them ‘Latins’ because that might imply some sort of relationship between them and the Romans, and that’s not allowed because they’re from shithole countries, and America is the rightful heir to the Roman throne or whatever.

In America, the terms Latino, Latinx, and Hispanic refer to basically anyone from any country in the Americas that is below the United States, geographically and ‘culturally’. It’s essentially a label Americans use to say, " oh you’re from one of THOSE shithole countries".

The great great grandson of a Spanish conquistador who massacred thousands of indigenous people to claim his own plantation is considered the exact same as the granddaughter of an indigenous person on the receiving end. Both are called Hispanics, making the word an utterly meaningless label.

Buy the time you save for 10 months, you can just save a couple more months and buy the newly released upgraded version of that GPU.

Sorry to Bother You (2018) is the most on-the-nose communist film I have ever watched. It’s written by communist activist Boots Riley. The Wikipedia synopsis should give a good idea of how great it is:

The film follows a young black telemarketer who adopts a white accent to succeed at his job. Swept into a corporate conspiracy, he must choose between profit and joining his activist friends to organize labor.