America’s still got it. I might not be getting much bread, but the circuses are top-notch.

GDP per capita is the only metric that matters. There’s absoutely no problem with it whatsoever.

This is the best America has ever been.

My standards are getting lower every year.

I’ll settle for regular rail and decriminalizing homelessness at this point.

I once saw a survey done in Seattle asking people whether they would prefer to eat feces raw or deep-fried. Based on the result of that survey, I have concluded that people in Seattle like deep-fried feces and are actively choosing to eat it.

lemmygrad is not 100% ML but leans that way heavily

lemmygrad is not 100% ML

I’m devastated. I need to talk to the manager of grad right now!

*cheapest and the best

That is an interesting question. It is taken as an axiom so I never even questioned it until now.

Since money-lending is a practice with long history, I wonder if interest always was compound or if it was linear before a certain period of time.

Fast-travel

given the rule of law, the need to protect property and defend workers’ rights

He’s making it sound like there are roving bands of lawless of engineers that are press ganging people into building railways in China. Very cool and punk, but not very factual.

My bones never get enough sun and are always pearly white. I can finally change that.

Bong Joon-ho said it best. We live in one country called capitalism.

Nah you’re good. CPUSA members get a pass.

Actually no. I’ve had the thought to make this post for weeks but I was too lazy to actually do it until now.

Also, people are still waiting on me to bring over Chinese image macros for like 5 months but I swear I’ll do it next week.

Very good passage and it’s relevant in the modern world again. Arguably even more so than it was during Marx’s time in some respects.

Essentially the goal is this: to use a giant electromagnetic launch track to accelerate a hypersonic aircraft to Mach 1.6. The aircraft would then separate from the track, ignite its engine and enter near space at seven times the speed of sound.

Does no one read the article anymore before commenting? I’m not responding to all the comments here since it’s clearly a waste of my time, but every single one of the concerns that people mention in this thread so far has been acknowledged in the article already.

Works for me

If you are a small talker, ask for the person’s phone number at the end of the conversation and send them a message a day later and ask if they want to hangout. Prime locations are coffee shops, grocery stores, airports, and bus stops but you can do it anywhere really.

My wife and I make majority of our friends this way.

I hate the discourse around new jobs to make the economy seem better.

Unless it’s a full-time job with full benefits, a pension, and a living wage to support a family, it’s a temporary gig that people are coerced into, not a real job.

Market analysts said that there is no relief as of yet from this difficult period. They urged the government to play a role as a mediator, so companies can map out more specific investment plans by clearing away any lingering uncertainties.

“The government is advised to stand at the forefront in discussing subsidy-related issues with its U.S. counterparts, so local chipmakers and battery firms’ uncertainties can be alleviated,

Give more money please lol. These global companies just keep a train of endless grift going.

Simply outstanding. Great job on providing the Spanish original as well.