90% of the shit on Amazon is just Aliexpress dropshippers at 20% markup, whom are mostly taobao resellers at 300% markup.

Wait you don’t put the beans on the toast?

Its so sad when you return to a tiktok account you haven’t seen since 2020, and its 4 years of doing the same bit once a week.

Wtf we have phishing on the fedverse nkw?

There’s definitely rural areas nobody goes to or leaves where nobody has met an Asian, but they’ll have seen them on TV, it shouldn’t be too shocking.

Why did computers make the computer thinking noise anyway?

Isn’t he supposed to be in prison?

Wait until you’re using it to make real broth. Pressure cookers are a miracle.

Ever been to a country where motorbikes are just a normal form of transport, for both 16 year old race boy and 75 year old great grandma?

So part of the reason for that is .ml and hexbear are pretty much the only instances blocked by the great firewall. So .ml users who go to China can either jump instances or use a vpn/hk-based esim to post.

Idk… am I supposed to like people that believes its for the greater good for me to have been aborted because “bUt tHe oVeRpOpUlAtIoN”…?

I’m pretty sure (or hope) that antinatalist ecofascist horseshit will get you banned from any leftist instance, nobody thinks the 1 child policy was anything except a mistake based off some liberal neomalthusulan horseshit.

try watching porn in China… (porn is illegal)

I’ve done that lol just use a vpn. Probably a quarter of my xhs is thirst content

So they have a system where towns are appointed a mayor who gets changed out every 5 years. The mayor is then graded on things like education, economy, popularity, and how many veggies the village ate.

The purpose of this is to prevent local fiefdoms from developing and to quickly identify and remove underperforming leaders.

This has the effect of people appealing to the provincial government to either keep or remove candidates who are exceptionally good or bad.

SpaceX as Henry Ford is to the modern Ford motor corporation

A nazi with political connections who keeps dropping completely unworkable tasks onto competent engineers and administrators, and also lost the company a shitton of money because he couldn’t stop disseminating nazi propaganda?

Yugoslavia’s computer industry is also interesting. People were encouraged to build computers from off-the-shelf parts and schematics in magazines.

Computer programs were broadcast on radio, so you could hold a tape recorder up to the radio when the program was being broadcast, then plug it into your home-made PC and run the program.

https://jacobin.com/2020/08/computer-yugoslavia-galaksija-voja-antonic

The group that’s most at risk due to bad road conditions, motorcycles, did nothing to deserve this.

So if if a 400 lb motorbike costs 1 penny per mile in road damage, the 4000 lb SUV should be paying 60 bucks and the 40,000 lb tractor trailer 1 million dollars?

Or is it divided by contact area?

What kind of camera?

That’s not unattractive. I was waiting until after things calmed down to visit, but maybe I head over earlier.

Weather is getting a bit warm though, will the position still be open in 6 months or so?

What kind of position are you talking about?

having private companies compete has certain advantages in railway infrastructure, if the right framework is given.

Its better than private monopolies, but no, lack of centralization has lead to really awful transfers compared to China and Korea.

Under capitalism the ideal rail company runs zero trains, owns no infrastructure, is somehow charging rent to every other business, employs nobody, pays them nothing, and charges infinity dollars. It requires external force to fight against the pressures pushing it towards its ideal form.

Hell the author even glosses over the “runs no trains” part in the article, saying the OG JR built too many unprofitable rural lines, as if having reliable transit isn’t good in and of itself, and then explains how the JR’S land ownership is profitable, as if charging businesses rent is a social good.

In general the good thing about markets is that they enable less planning overhead as everyone focuses on their own thing

This is how you get 12 companies owning mass transit in 1 city that don’t share timetables and have bizarre interchanges between like subway, grade-seperated streetcar, and an elevated bus.

Japan’s sucess is in spite of neoliberalism, not because of it.