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They use their arms to hold their tummies so their beer bellies don’t flop around

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Honestly being constrained to only respond to a prompt is a big crack, for me, in the “am i talking to a person” illusion that these things seem to be for all these idiots. Oh, it only says a thing, in response? Well that’s lame

I have literally never in my life heard of a country make an ambitious climate goal and then actually achieve it other than china. China is the only country actually investing substantial money into all that renewable energy research while western countries cling to fossil fuel profits (almost like capitalism affords incredibly wealthy oil companies inordinate political and economic authority, huh).

There’s literally a fucking meme of California vs China talking about high speed rail, after like 20 years California had built shit and China’s built over 25000 miles of it. I’m pretty sure here in present year that’s 46000 miles of it.

China is stockpiling resources and building infrastructure to plan for the absolute devastation that is going to be wrought on human society over the next few decades. What the fuck has literally anyone else done? If any country in earth is going to be resilient enough to weather the crop failures and super storms we’re destined for and, god fucking i hope, be in a position to help anyone else (and with an ideological basis that would impel them to without expecting a century of debt bondage in return) it’s going to be China.

ok hack me

I hate 2fa so very much and long for the world of the past where just having a fucking account and a password was enough, now you need to check your fucking email and wait for a fucking text to turn on your fucking toaster

I don’t care what security nerds say I don’t need every single fucking god damn thing to have the same security as a bank account

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bruhs pulled pork

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China is literally the only hope humanity has to survive climate change at this point and if you’re not aware of that you’re ignorant, sorry

feddit.nl continuing to be identical to feddit.uk continuing to be identical to reddit i don’t know why you dumb fucking shitlibs don’t just stay on reddit

many of us migrated here because the other site wanted to lock down their api and user data so that they could auction it to google for profit.

The venn diagram of people who did this and “liberals who would have been fine staying on reddit rather than make a site exactly like reddit” is a circle

im assuming this apple based honey is for vegans so if any of y’all have tried it let me know how it would work as a honey substitute in cooking recipes, the best solution I’ve found so far is to ignore my chefs who tell me not to use corn syrup and mix that with brown sugar. It’s obviously not the same as honey but better than just going “ah fuck it just skip it”

Without looking it up I can confidently tell you that bee free honey isn’t about “avoiding ecological collapse affecting a product,” it’s about vegans giving waaaay too much of a shit about bees to the point that honey is “not vegan”

two characters who are Definitely Just Roommates in Gravity Falls

Favorite characters btw, “Ciiiiiiiityyyy booooyyyy” lives in my head as a meme

Edit: well not their professions

yeah you wanna elaborate there buddy, so we can see who the real brain genius is

i object to this because the phrasing “invasion” still makes it out like the DPRK are the bad guys

it was a civil war, the lead up to the civil war seeing the South have a police dictatorship supported by the U.S. which did literally every awful thing the u.s. has accused the DPRK of doing, including killing people for the wrong fucking haircut

notice how literally no american ever talks about the U.S. civil war with “the North invaded the South”

and they’re the good guys because they “ended slavery”*

*terms and conditions apply

Motherfucker, people were already commenting on how ACTUAL labor relations for LITERAL SERFS weren’t ACTUALLY as bad as wage labor (a form of slavery if you’re not too brainwashed to realize what it means to have to work for a wage TO SURVIVE) in the motherfuckong 1800s

This isn’t the own you think it is, it’s just an admission of your vast and all encompassing ignorance

We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We called those barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die or hunger.

The result of this state of things is that all our production tends in a wrong direction. Enterprise takes no thought for the needs of the community. Its only aim is to increase the gains of the speculator. Hence the constant fluctuations of trade, the periodical industrial crises, each of which throws scores of thousands of workers on the streets.

Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

Let me tl;dr that for you: literal fucking peasants would give up a quarter of their crop, and this was seen as barbarous. The wage laborer GIVES UP THE ENTIRETY OF THE PRODUCT OF HIS LABOR. In exchange, he recieves A FRACTION OF ITS VALUE IN WAGE. The relative exploitation here is obscene, and yet people like you, ignorant, think it’s some sort of voluntary contract that benefits us all.

But the wage laborer only “chooses” to work because they’ll starve in the streets otherwise. The employer only has the privilege of benefiting from their work by owning the means by which they can do profitable work. They EXPLOIT THE WORKERS’ SURVIVAL NEEDS and in doing so reap shares of profit from their labor that would make the cruelest medieval lord envious.

And now, you dumb motherfuckers sit here, reading all this, and think, oh, so you want to return to feudalism? like that in any way makes sense

How about ending the exploitation of labor entirely? That’s what socialism seeks to do. But you dumb motherfuckers are out here acting like your fucking landlords do you any favors (while somehow pretending to yourselves they’re any different from the evil feudal lords capitalism supposedly saved you from)

People in this thread: BUT WHAT ABOUT LIFE EXPECTANCY?!?!

Bro you really want to argue life expectancy in favour of the ideology that argues whether curing a patient is makes business sense?

Your long life expectancy is thanks to science, which has existed for a far greater percentage of human history. To argue it’s because of capitalism is dumb as hell.

We’re also literally watching it nosedive in the west and skyrocket in china but unfortunately the west is full of morons such as the one in this very thread who think that “everyone starved in medieval times” and that capitalism somehow liberated us from it

hey wait, let’s ask John Steinbeck how capitalism ACTUALLY TREATS AFFECTS FOOD SECURITY

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

huh

if “everyone was starving” how did humanity survive you dumb fucker

jason hickel talks a lot about actual medieval living standards if you’d ever like to be less of an ignorant dipshit