Politics isn’t sportsball, so no. Breaking arbitrary stats doesn’t mean shit in terms of making material changes in the world, which is what politics is about.

A lot of middle-class people in China are unhappy right now. For more than a decade, many Chinese put their money into buying apartments instead of putting their savings in banks that paid virtually no interest. This created a huge housing bubble. Many people rode it up and then rode it down when the government tightened real estate lending in 2020.

So they are hoarding their cash because their real estate profits are gone but the government pension and health care payments are meager. Everyone has to save for a rainy day.

Won’t somebody please think of the bourgeoisie’s profits!

As my colleague Keith Bradsher just reported, the economic slowdown is depriving the Beijing government of the very tax revenues it needs to stimulate the economy and subsidize “the export industries that are driving economic growth but could be hurt by tariffs.”

NYT economists still don’t know how fiat money works.

Okay. It seems to be related to my DNS sinkhole.

Oh God… it’s Thomas “Suck. On. This.” Friedman 🤢

Did archive.today shit the bed?

$ curl -sI http://archive.today/ | grep '^Location:'
Location: https://www.google.com/
$

I think the idea is for your mail client to translate your Markdown into HTML before sending. To convince the whole world’s email ecosystem to directly support Markdown would be an impossibly large lift given that HTML is already virtually universally supported.

Tangentially: I generally prefer plain text in email, but I really like this idea. Apparently someone in the Emacs ecosystem thought of this, though that probably doesn’t help you. Enhance Your Emails with Org Mode

The reason is that the “Israeli lobby” is not “the Jews.”

You have no actual evidence for this assertion besides your brain on McCarthyism. I think you start from your preconceptions and then work backwards, solely within your mind palace.

Removed for “misinformation,” from Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC, and Wikipedia 🙄

Removed by mod

They are trying to build soviet type dictatorships

The Soviet Union wasn’t a dictatorship, and whatever it is they’re trying to build, it’s the furthest thing from socialism or democratic centralism.

That is not a denial of invasion. The term special military operation is Russian domestic legalese to distinguish it from a formal declaration of war, because a formal war declaration would trigger different laws and government actions in Russia. The same is true in the US, which hasn’t formally declared war since WWII, despite having fought dozens since then.

I think a few people have created their own locked (meaning only mods can post) Lemmy communities to use as their own personal blog. It’s worth noting that every Lemmy community has an RSS feed link.

Oh… there are!

Links or it didn’t happen. I’ve never seen anyone online or off claim that Russia did not invade Ukraine in February of 2022.

Independently of one thinks of the invasion (yes invasion!) of Russia in Ukraine

I don’t know why you’d think that this is a point of contention, when literally no one contends against it being an invasion.

The military-industrial complex doesn’t need to cover up weapons testing with little green men conspiracy theories, because people susceptible to crackpot alien theories pose no threat or obstacle to them. I think those theories are largely self-inflicted.

↓ This one Rush fan is really committed to the China Bad Times Cinematic Universe ↓

We do indeed deny long-debunked “Uyghur genocide” bullshit.

• https://lemmy.ml/comment/14840603
• https://lemmy.ml/comment/14839342

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