Yup, we get lowballed with the paid vacation :( And the US abominable corporations are pushing more and more “freelancers”, “gig workers” etc to suck us dry and remove those benefits.

Btw - last time I was in the UK I was honestly surprised how many immigrants I can see. You are like 20% of foreign born. Very new yorker of you :)

working at a chinese company would be fucking awful

I got floored when I was told they get 5 days of paid vacation (10 if you worked for 10-20 years and 15 days if you worked for 20+ years) , and no vacation for the first year in a new company, and they have like ~7 days of public holidays.

Oh, and no paid sick leave (for a flue etc - you will get it for operations and similar but they must be dona via public hospitals).

Meanwhile here in Poland we get 5 weeks + 13 public holidays, and if they happen to be during weekend you get an extra day free later, and it’s considered rather low for the EU. And unlimited paid sick leave, including for fatigue etc.

Depression is a bit of catch-all term. Considering that some forms are immune to certain drugs, but not the other, or that for some kinds therapy works better (or worse) - it is very likely that when we learn more about depression, we will type it like diabetes (depression type 1, type 2 etc).

Thus it is theoretically possible that there is a type of what we currently call depression that can get better with mental effort.

I personally haven’t seen it, but I also haven’t seen Thailand and it still exists :-)

So far any technical blog that Antrophic made regarding their new capabilities was a marketing lie (e.g. agents clean room implementing c compiler without human intervention - turns out the only true part of that was that the agents did burn tokens, but it was neither clean room, nor without human intervention, it didn’t compile and it needed to use the actual compiler to copy paste working code [sic!]). I am not convinced the Mythos one is different.

Hanging out alone with out a child at a playground sure

Here in Poland playgrounds are often extended with a public outdoor gym or something similar. That solves all problems, making them social centers for both child-free and parents.

E.g.

With fenced playground:

And no fence anywhere

Bigos in English is called Hunter’s Stew, and you ideally include wild game meat in it.

Besides that, shitton of spices, few other kinds of meat like pork and sausage, shrooms, prunes, cabbage (required) and onions.

And it must stew for at least half a day.

Yo, a Pole here. Can you explain what the commenter misrepresented and what’s the reality in Germany? I am curious.

I am assuming that like in the rest of the Europe, everyone gets healthcare and education, and that jobless do get welfare, as well as sick people. I can also see that your senior numbers are growing compared to young, so more of the budgets goes to supplement the pension schemes?

(And I don’t think Germany needs skilled/unskilled migrants to fill in open positions, as Germany has what, 3M unemployed people that could be retrained for them)

Both IIRC.

I know of no such increase.

The more you know 🌈

Bots aggressively scrapping everything they can.

How would that help? Bots will just move to another instance. Maybe yours.

Consider the fact he was in power for like 20 years, and he was purged during power struggles. And the problem, like always, is not communism, but the fact it was USSR - contemporary communists, like Mao, were calling it socialist in words, imperialist in deeds.

I don’t think his downfall screems “oh, he was arrested for his crimes” - it seems more “he’s getting purged for political reasons”?

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gay music video night

It’s called a kiki.

Let’s have a kiki: https://youtu.be/eGCD4xb-Tr8

Or a kaikai https://youtu.be/rfWeBYd7rkQ

Oh god no. This is still monopoly. Every company that reaches significantly lower market rate - say 4% - should be forcibly split or wound down (IIRC correctly at 5% market rate it becomes more profitable to buy the competition out so you don’t have to compete with them).

When was the last time China got a trade deal or negotiated settlement because it pointed a load of guns and

~1950.

Imperialism is the stage of Capitalism where a militaristic foreign policy is developed and employed as a continuation of economic policy.

Same book - “socialist in words, imperialist in deeds”? But that doesn’t really matter, as you’re just gonna cherry pick other Lenin quotes at me like if its the Bible. Or call me names.

Nonetheless, I highly recommend the article I linked - but since it might paint a picture that you’re unable to comprehend (or unwilling to entertain), you will of course not read it.

Edit: and if you don’t like that source, here’s another fav of mine https://spectrejournal.com/one-should-not-camouflage-capitalist-and-imperialist-china-as-socialist/.

the US is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and that people still fail to see that after the epstein files is actually shocking

While this is true

https://progressive.international/blueprint/cb7dbaf4-b106-4105-8bde-fdab4bfc2fe8-building-whole-process-peoples-democracy-in-china/en/

To be fair, you didn’t pick ubiased authors here. Neither of the authors is capable of saying anything negative of China.

For example, Paweł Wargan proponent of new Chinese imperialisms with extra steps - e.g. https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/multi-polar-world-order-is-multi-imperialism/

Who holds the political power in China

On executive level? Princelings.

In the NPC? Worker representatives are 15% vs 50% in the 1970’s. So… bureaucrats and the princelings?

I was under an impression that it was always “police station” with the quotes, to make it more sinister or smthing (and it was sold as something unlicensed by the country where ir was repoeted, obviously)

But the Evil Empire did prosecute someone in the case of those stations, as far as I can tell with no verdicts yet - but it seems to be some PIs?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/private-investigator-sentenced-prison-interstate-stalking-and-harassment-chinese-nationals