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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Star Trek is communist." No, we already have communist Star Trek. It's called Yefremov's Great Circle series. And it also has bad politics, like gender and eugenics.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Critical support to AI companies!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Found a Lassallean meme on my phone from years ago.... Yikes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Is it a pine tree monoculture scheme? Is this two of the worst people fighting?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

If you want to be gender neutral, use they/them. If you insist this causes ambiguity once every fifty pages, use gender-neutral she/her. If you actually care about removal of (Very rare! You can usually reword your sentences!) ambiguity and gender neutrality, use two sets of neopronouns!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

It was never true, it was just male chauvinism accepted by a male chauvinist academia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Bridget tulpa...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I bet it's good tbh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

One time I had a friend over and we ate japanese curry and did my estrogen shot while watching the gack mix and narration

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

People can be corporations too though!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Corporations are people so rule by companies is just populism. Truth nuke

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A Greenhouse Boom in China (earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Supreme Court ruled the President gets near absolute immunity and can't have evidence brought forth against him lmaoo

Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts.

Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial.

 

The queerbaiting will go crazy but hey at least this will be good for the eggconomy

 

We're reopening the community so that there's a space on Hexbear dedicated to discussing feminist issues. However, that does not mean c/womenby will now be exclusively for that. Feel free to use it as you would have before its closure. aubrey-happy

You can discuss in this thread what you'd like to see out of the comm as well as any potential changes you'd want.

 

In the past few months, “overcapacity” has become the key theme among Western politicians looking to fight back against China’s dominance in energy transition sectors.

"Overcapacity" is a tool of memetic warfare used by the Group of Imperialists who are so detached from reality that they believe China will just stop developing because they asked... and not even nicely

Sustainable Aviation Fuel is another large future market for Green Hydrogen.

Contrary to aerodyne lobby propaganda, airplanes aren't the only flying mode of transportation that can use green hydrogen

Western countries always complain about China dominating green energy supply chain. Okay, then don’t buy the machines that produce green energy. China can use its own machines to generate green energy and ship that to you.

Wrong. America will put sanctions on Chinese hydrogen to ensure another couple degrees of warming. Then they'll sabotage the Pan-Eurasian Hydrogen Pipeline. Assuming the Pacific Fleet doesn't get sunk before then, of course

 

The Senate voted 130-4 to pass the law in its final reading with 18 abstentions.

The bill will be forwarded to the cabinet and then submitted for royal endorsement.

It will take effect within 120 days of being published in the Royal Gazette, making Thailand the third country in Asia to recognise same-sex marriages after Nepal and Taiwan.

 

I think we should have a feminism comm dedicated to feminist theory, women's issues, etc. There's already feminist discussions on Hexbear fairly frequently, so I foresee there being enough activity to warrant a community. However, @thelastaxolotl suggested just reusing c/womenby when I brought this up last month, so here's my formal request for either a feminism community or the reopening of c/womenby.

...also how do we nominate mods?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

China’s PPP GDP is only 25% larger than that of the US? Come on people… who are we kidding? Last year, China generated twice as much electricity as the US, produced 12.6 times as much steel and 22 times as much cement. China’s shipyards accounted for over 50% of the world’s output while US production was negligible. In 2023, China produced 30.2 million vehicles, almost three times more than the 10.6 million made in the US.

On the demand side, 26 million vehicles were sold in China last year, 68% more than the 15.5 million sold in the US. Chinese consumers bought 434 million smartphones, three times the 144 million sold in the US. As a country, China consumes twice as much meat and eight times as much seafood as the US. Chinese shoppers spent twice as much on luxury goods as American shoppers.

In 2023, Chinese travelers took 620 million flights, 25% fewer than the 819 million flights taken by Americans, but Chinese travelers also took 3 billion trips on high-speed rail (and 685 million on traditional rail), significantly more than the 28m Amtrak trips.

It’s not that we think the World Bank has done a bad job. It’s that we believe China’s NBS, contrary to popular opinion, has been lowballing GDP for decades and the World Bank has to work within the confines of the NBS’s reported data. This was politically important decades ago for WTO concessions and it is politically important today to maintain developing economy status as China makes a play for leadership of the Global South.

We believe China’s GDP and PPP GDP are lowballed by an incomplete transition from the Material Product System (MPS) of national accounts, which excludes services by design. The World Bank is likely dutifully doing its sums with goods consumption in China multiples of the US but measuring services consumption as a fraction of the US.

China’s NBS stood its ground on a conceptual level. Rightly or wrongly, the Leninist MPS considers services necessary costs of material production rather than real value creation. In China’s first attempt at converting MPS to SNA in 1985, it tacked on a ludicrously low 13% to the MPS number and called it China’s services GDP.

Adherence to UNSNA [United Nations System of National Accounts] has caused a breakdown in the meaning of GDP. As necessary services become an ever larger share of Western economies, their growth does not appear to result in discernable improvements in living standards.

Are US healthcare and universities twice as good as they were in the year 2000? If US households have not gotten vastly improved healthcare, education, housing and childcare over the past two decades, then inflation has been systematically underreported and GDP growth may have, in fact, been less than 1% per annum (instead of 2%), which equals stagnation given 0.8% per annum population growth. This may go a long way in explaining popular anger and the meltdown of American politics.

China's economy is much larger than everyone says it is (and America's economy is much smaller), but it's beneficial to keep up this ruse. 韬光养晦 deng-smile

 

(the male and female sex-classes are in a dialectical relationship; the abolition of the male sex also entails the self-abolition of the female sex, dw)

 

I've been on a bit of a slammer roll recently...

 

Trust the plan. Patriots are in control. sunday-friend

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