CommanderCloon

Didn't the boston tea party start because they lowered the price of legally imported (and thus taxed) tea, undermining smugglers?

There are issues with LGBTQ people in CHina, but they're not really worse than Japan for example. Not good, because there is no official support or recognition (except at the local level), but no one really cares, especially not the government (except trans people -- they do get treatment & support)

They are scaling up but as with other things they will most likely scale to their inner market first, and then I doubt they'll subsidize a price depreciation to help westerners when they can get the profits for themselves

But did you think about China Bad™?

Most french housing doesn't have AC to begin with. My very recent apartment has none, the one I'll be moving to (which is currently being built) won't either. It's only built under the notion that energy is a winter issue, and designed to keep the heat in.

The start of the heat wave was uneventful for me, but I now restrict my day in a tiny square in front of the portable AC (so much for saving energy by not designing the building with AC in mind...)

The cold tap water is lukewarm 😭

Not only is AC rare, but new apartments aren't always equipped, and some countries literally forbid AC installations (Switzerland) in the name of energy savings (which means people then buy those terrible mobile units, which are way less efficient)

well, we’re at the stage of violent revolution and there’s no point faffing about further

I do believe we are at the stage where this is the only means of change. We're not doing it because most people are still delusional (or generously, "hopeful") that we are not, or don't even think about changing things at all by desperation / capitulation / ignorance.

A distinction without a difference. There is no need for collusion when you're moving in the same social circles, meeting the same people, having your campaign funded by the same social class with the same needs and objectives.

And yes, Trump was a mold breaker there, but only as a facade, the reality is not that Trump is "rejecting" neoliberalism, it is that neoliberalism is breaking apart, by its own incoherence, in the US as everywhere else.

This video was 12 years ago but I've noticed that newer trucks had the new ""beep"" instead of the one you're thinking about https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8