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In China the government can force you to leave your village so they can tear it down to build more industry. They will offer you below market value for your house. A market value which has already declined drastically because your location has no future, fucking you over twice.
Except this isn’t China but wholesome The Netherlands instead.
Comrades, New Bridge Collapse In China, Already the MSM is Mass Reporting This collapse, and off course…
Do not Look at The comment section and replies of the Bridge Collapse in Social Media, it is Dogshit
Landslide, by the way. Natural disaster, not structural engineering failure. But that kind of “detail” is of course not going to be mentioned.
I could point to several bridges no more than 100km away from me that collapsed during the severe flooding we had in Germany in 2021. And some of them are still not rebuilt.
Shit happens when you have natural disasters, what’s important is how you deal with it. China closed the bridge just in time and avoided any casualties.
How much do you want to bet China will rebuild the bridge, if not in this exact place then just a little further away over the same valley within a year at most?
I’m not interested because America doesn’t do infrastructure.
there is large discussion on the korean left about china. many see them as a model of efficiency, while others are quick to point out their contradictions, particularly their overseas investments in real estate in korea. in my opinion, these questions are there to obfuscate the primary contradiction that is the military occupation of the united states.
another day, another struggle!
Got a few days off the job this week. Which is good as I could feel my sanity slipping away with every living second there. I can use the days off to read my new Star Wars EU novels which I am looking forward to.
Keep yer mental health steady. Communism will win.
Also, at this point, for the Belgian government, I hope the drones are Russian or military. Because it painfully exposes how incompetent this country’s defence is. Yesterday five drones managed to hover over a nearby nuclear facility without being detected or taken down. For over an hour.
Or this is the point and it will be used to further military spending.
Probably the latter
Apparently the Belgian army has a specialized anti drone team that has not been called to action, so it is suspicious.
I don’t understand how the Russians are supposed to be doing this all the way over in Belgium. Not only is it pointless, it would be an extreme waste of resources. Not even of the drones themselves but of the human resources.
If they have agents embedded in Western Europe why would they be so stupid as to waste those assets on such pointless stunts that only help the Europeans increase the level of paranoia and militarization? What do they realistically even gain from it? There are much better ways to gain intel that is actually relevant to Russia.
The dysfunction of Belgian drone defenses is totally irrelevant to Russia, they aren’t ever going to need to drone strike Belgium. If they were to probe NATO defenses they would do it in the Baltics, Romania and Poland, where they may actually need to strike at some point.
And why would they risk their agent network being burned on such a childish stunt? It’s not like it’s impossible (for a competent country) to find out from where the drones are being flown. People have been arrested before for flying their hobby drones over restricted areas in many other countries.
So, sorry but the “Russia theory” makes zero sense and anyone who continues to insist that this is a serious possibility just loses credibility in my eyes.
imagining a very confused phone call
“General Kobylash, how goes our probing of Belgian defenses?”
“Mr President, they uhhhh… seem to be just letting the drones just… hover there”
“Over the nuclear facility?”
“Yes”
“How many drones made it to their target?”
“All of them”
“And they haven’t made any attempt to shoot them down?”
“No, they are just sort of… staring at them, it’s a little odd”
“Are we absolutely certain the Belgians actually have an air force?”One of the funniest exchanges I read about this ordeal was between defence and the police. Apparently defence filed a report at the police because drones were flying over their base but since the police is also the victim of budget cuts, the handling of the report might take weeks. This is a national security breach of basically the highest order lol.
I can only imagine the feedback at the Russian side being like how you described above
Oh hey, I’m back.
I got a job.
After looking for eight months, stopping for two months, and then resuming and looking for one week, I got a job.
I start on Monday.
Congratulations, comrade! I’m still looking for a job.
Congrats!
thank you!
Babe wake up it’s time for the annual Dutch Black Pete riots
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too comrade!
You too!
Thanks comrade!
You too Oppo… Tomorrow I get to go to a library opening
If my local libraries were open 24x7, I wouldn’t be found at home on the weekends. It’s my dream to open or help open a 24-hour library or atleast a book cafe.
Unfortunatly this one will not be open 24 7
it also has a funny thing where it is opeing vetrens day while bragging that they are closed vetrens day
hahaha That is very funny.
hope you have a nice week oppo ㅇㅅㅇ
Have a nice week, comrade o7
YouTube, Oppo
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Can we keep Gatorade when the revolution comes? (unless they’ve committed atrocities I am unaware of as is usually the case with capitalism soft-drink brands)
Been tryna wean away from buying treats but Gatorlyte/Gatorade just hits the fucking spot that IV powders and shit don’t. Lots of landscaping finishing touches before winter hits with some fall-weather work and it makes me feel normal so quickly unlike the other hydration stuff that takes forever. This feels like an advertisement for Gatorlyte but yeah. I guess mostly I’m just posting this to see if some user tells me about the Gator-Death Squads in central america squashing trade unionists or some other atrocity I’m unaware of.
you can just make your own; it’s mostly water, sugar (sucrose and dextrose) and salt, along with some kind of flavour
i know and have done that for extended trips but it doesn’t hit as hard as the treat does.
sounds like you need to modify the recipe until it has the same effect; there’s probably already research on the proportions available online
(the answer to your original question is that the new proletarian state would create its own equivalent, so there would be no need to maintain the old corporations)
(the answer to your original question is that the new proletarian state would create its own equivalent, so there would be no need to maintain the old corporations)
Wouldn’t nationalization of the corporation basically lead to it being the same entity just reorganized in whom it rewards/enriches? I genuinely wonder if it would get a new name. Stalinade.
And yeah, I was seeing if anyone had their own similar recipes. Gotta crack their powdered/concentrate recipe from those pods/powder packs they have and it’s surprisingly tough to find an exact match online. I do make my own if I am gonna be away from a store for a couple days in a big 2l. A link I found was pretty close to what I do and my partner showed me it a while back
https://gardenbetty.com/vietnamese-preserved-lemons-chanh-muoi-and-salty-lemonade
Really close to the yellow flavor.
it’s not just nationalization; it would fundamentally change the company by having workers directed by other workers rather than professional managers
Yea, nationalization comes first and then the transitionary period of worker control, which the design of depends entirely on the conditions of the socialist experiment in that nation/area, e.g soviets.
The nationalization period is funny to think about though. Entire capitalist corporations at first getting completely owned by whatever form of socialist experiment comes to X country. Even a soviet leading groups of local supply chains of Pepsi is a funny thought. Just the idea of Pepsi becoming socialist. Major capitalist brands that have been associated with the face of the economic hegemony now reorganizing under the will of the workers. I understand it’s happened in the past, but we are such a terminal stage of capitalism that Stalinade is just funny.
ok I’ve finally swallowed my pride and decided to just ask here: how do you create line breaks on Lemmy?? I feel like I’ve tried everything
Two spaces at the end of a line adds a line break, as does a backslash followed by a newline. Two newlines adds an empty line. Example:
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new lineThe “view source” button shows the Markdown used for a post or comment.
ohh ok im a fool lol
thanks!Good luck on whatever you’re trying to do.
Think I just saw another drone fly over lol
Oh, I know you’re somewhere in Europe, I forget where
Smoking is bad for you but it’s great for socialising. I always have a person come to me after the club because saw me smoke a cigarette, because they need a cigeratte or a lighter. And then we start talking. I don’t smoke a lot, but it’s great to be a social smoker when you don’t have that many social contact. I’m gonna quit when I have a better social life
I think you should stop now, but I understand why you’re doing it.
Still, my grandpa died of lung cancer from excessive smoking, at the end of the day.
When I was still in my partying era, and smoking, I’d have the Wilders conversations in the smoking areas of the bars (which existed back then). If it wasn’t so bad for you I’d do it again just for that lol.
It also gives you an excuse to remove yourself from crowded social situations that you are not enjoying. You say you need to go outside for a smoke and chances are at least one other person will join you and you can finally talk one on one. Or you meet someone standing in the smoking area and strike up a conversation with them. Regardless, it’s an excellent opportunity to socialize in a smaller circle or just to chill together in silence and enjoy the fresh air.
I don’t smoke anymore and haven’t for over a decade, but i still miss that part. If only there was a way to be a smoker without actually smoking…
This was one of the best parts about smoking. My favorite part of smoking though was that I never had to sit around waiting because I could just go have a dart.
I fucking hate Americans so much. My countrymen are completely insufferable.
Criticize Republicans and you’re a Democrat; criticize Democrats and you’re a Republican.
Nothing else exists. Two parties, two ideologies, two worldviews, two moral compasses, two philosophies, two of goddamn everything. Nothing more, nothing less.
I fucking hate it here so much.
Now imagine that same discourse, while playing telephone, make it ‘‘en Español’’, and you have Puerto Rico.
It’s sometimes the same discourse in Latam, but that’s mainly due to the media there being largely Americanized.
I feel you. It’s sad that they don’t understand that when they reflexively bring up the other party (or parties) they’re Falling For It.
Like… we are so past partisan politics and electoral solutions lol. Even in Canada I have to hear this donkey shit about the alternate universe where the conservatives won and how it’d be worse when I’m being fucked over by the banker factions NOW, in this timeline.
“Sure they’re promising to gut everything and build new pipelines and give handouts to Bay street and turn their bureaucrats into soliders (HUGE LOL btw) but PP would’ve licherally made Handmaid’s Tale real!1!”
I think people would be just as upset, Democrat or Republican; we saw more pro-Gaza protests under Biden than Trump.
I wish the pro-Palestine protests were still going on.
Yeah, feel like there’s no choice sometimes.
New thread of mine:
