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Ten dollars a month!? Ha ha ha, no.

Are you saying you doubt that the US did this? Seriously? Do you have an alternative theory?

Sorry but humans do not look like that, sternocleidomastoid or no. Even the shadow makes no sense. Cochlear implants are, implanted, not worn over the ears.

There's many many more pictures like this. They're fake people.

You're just splitting hairs. It's the same picture.

Literally every country in the world, including the USA, believes that Taiwan is a part of China. You're extremely uninformed on this matter.

If every single person made some positive change and moved the needle... then nothing else would happen. Because there's profit to be made, the issue is global capitalism. Environmental disaster is just a side effect.

Th notion of "Ethical Consumption" is a completely unworkable concept that's been long debunked.

See here for example, there are many others:

https://www.marxist.ca/article/why-there-is-no-ethical-consu...

You're a bigot for pretending to believe such obvious bullshit.

That's a ridiculous and obvious lie. This kind of absurd nonsense can only be founded on bigotry.

Interesting thanks!

Maybe this one? https://i.imgur.com/avjsowj.png

How can we bring down temperatures?

The "Uighur genocide" war propaganda has gotten completely out of control. Even the US State department dropped it early into Biden's presidency apparently realising how ridiculous it was. However it's still got a lot of momentum and the masses have swallowed it wholesale. It's dumbfounding and terrifying to me how much of it is still regurgitated wholesale on mass media when it's trivially demonstrated that every single part of it comes from CIA funded orgs like the NED or even just random crackpots like Adrian Zenz who are led by God to fight homosexuality and Communism.

The Chinese are supposedly imprisoning or killing millions and the evidence is this one girl who they won't give a passport to, or a google maps satellite image of a school, or a BBC documentary with scary music and shaky cam, or a random person linked with the CIA who managed to "escape".

"Please don’t take anything in this post as supporting China..."

Why you even feel the need to say this is weird.

The time to drop that support is long passed. UTF-8 has won, the value of pandering to these ancient codepages versus the cost of choking and displaying mojibake just because someone dared to add a kanji character to a CSV should be clear by now.

It shouldn't need a BOM. Besides, UTF-8 doesn't need a BOM at all.

>This blog post screams of vulture capitalism.

This is Hacker News?

You can never prove causality.

Yes but you can't plan these things. So here we are...

As unemployment is about to skyrocket during this pandemic, America's tight coupling of healthcare with purchasing power is going to be revealed as a poor design for keeping maximal citizens healthy. Spain has nationalised all its private hospitals.

they're expecting that the word private means something. Why do you think that an unauthenticated user should be able to read comments of a private group just because they have a URL?

Temblor, his arms wide.

This won't go down well with the temporarily embarrassed Donald Trumps on this website.

>You can’t impose “minimum standards” for housing by fiat

Of course you can. This is precisely how the modern world operates.

>any more than you can make a plane fly by regulatory directive.

This honestly sounds like a childish understanding of governance. How you can compare two entirely different things? Aerospace is perhaps the most regulated mode of transport than I can think of. Planes are, quite literally, kept flying by regulatory directive. I'm embarrassed for myself that I need to stoop to explain such a fundamental working of the world.

>That idea displays a level of ignorance comparable to flat eatherism. All you can do is push on the balloon—and when you do, it’ll bulge out somewhere else.

I think you've either got a lot of reading to do or you're a young person who's been inculcated with a juvenile ideology. In either case you need to rid yourself of this simplistic world view.

>In the context of housing, that means if you make it illegal to build housing for poor people in places wit jobs, you’ll either make them homeless, unemployed, or you’ll saddle them with long commutes from places with affordable housing.

You need to have more imagination here. Most countries manage this just fine.

You're mad that people think that basic standards should exist?

Yeah that much is obvious. The job is untenable unless it's commutable. Just move the job out of Tokyo instead of requiring such a ludicrous "sacrifice".

It makes just as much sense for them to live in coffin size spaces with food funnelled in tubes. Where does this absurdity end? "Making sense" and accepting that you need to cater to real humans in a society are two things that are rationally far apart. It doesn't "make sense" to pretend that human needs of space have no consideration.

>In Japan, with it's work culture of long work hours and most people working at the same office for very long time

This is not something that should be venerated above all else. It should be condemned.

In most other countries we call these homes.

>I totally agree. It makes me irrationally mad that some cities like London and Los Angeles enact policies meant to prevent small apartments on a pretense of lofty words, completely ignorant to the fact that commute distance is one of the largest factors in one's happiness and well-being.

Meanwhile all of northern England suffers from underemployment. The obvious solution is to not concentrate jobs in one place. It makes me irrationally angry that people can't see the obvious solution when it's staring them in the face.

>In the US, trading a very long commute for lower housing costs is widely understood and socially acceptable, I wonder why trading a tiny space for low rent and a short commute isn’t.

Because it's a race to the bottom. In EU society minimum standards of accommodation are socially acceptable. Allowing people to exploit the desperate to all possible extents is anathema to any humane values.

Japan is already a caricature of extremist employee exploitation. It's not something to emulate. I wonder why such a basic observation of the situation isn't obvious to people "in the US".

>bunch of posts soliciting violence towards slaveholders

Slaveholders? What kind of violence?