In the short run, yes. However in the long run, their profits have to shrink. They’ll try recovering that from labor. If labor responds with organizing, the oligarchs would see their profits shrink further. Further, the West won’t close up wholesale. Some parts would, others wouldn’t. If people in the insular parts see people having it better across the border, they might vote to have that too. Assuming such a change could happen somewhat democratically. I don’t think the West would be able to insulate long term. But that’s a bet based on a lot of assumptions that could turn out wrong.

I bought Cetaphil. Would look into Cutibase next time around.

While that isn’t going away, chief executives of large pharmaceutical companies are broadening their horizons. Why spend $10 billion acquiring a U.S. biotech with a mid-stage drug when a similar molecule can be licensed from China for a fraction of the price?

So these fuckers are going to run the research sector through the same outsourcing treatment they ran manufacturing won’t they.

I’m wondering what would happen if PRC doesn’t profit maximize their product in the long run. As standard of living increases the cost of labor in China would get close to the cost of labor in the West. If the difference in cost of labor isn’t a significant factor and Chinese product (manufacturing and IP like drugs) is sold close to the cost of labor and materials, wouldn’t that force the Western firms to operate as non-profits? If they can’t make significant profit on anything, won’t that significantly disrupt the current capitalist model?

JFC… This such a trainwreck…

No amount of sabotage from old entrenched maintainers is going to stop the world from moving forward towards memory-safe languages.

Jesus fucking insufferable Christ… Saying shit like this, given C has been in use for 50 years and is still in very wide use today, and given the vast number of languages that have come and gone over this period, it’s just incredible.

ZFS with automatic snapshots and scrubbing. This will keep as many and as old snapshots as your like. It’ll ensure the files don’t rot. It’ll ensure the media doesn’t die, so long as you have enough redundancy and you replace disks as they die. This is what I’d trust for long term storage because I think I understand how and why it works. It should last as long as I feed it disks. If I delete something, I should be able to restore it from a snapshot. The hardware doesn’t need to be anything fancy. Just a Pi 4/5 with a couple of WD Elements would be fine. Could add more disks for more redudnancy. I’m running 2-disk residency.

You don’t have to touch the software if it’s not exposed to the Internet. Whatever works today on it will work 20 years from now, so long as the hardware works. A couple of spare Pis, SD cards and power supplies should let it last for decades.

I had to buy moisturizer. I saw two on the shelf. Flipped the labels, one was made in USA, the other made Canada. I picked the latter. That was it.

Good point. I’d be arming myself pronto under an Americanization scenario.

1. Become 6th US territory
2. Add 40 million left leaning socialism supporting workers to the USA who can’t vote.
3. …
4. 🥲

Black magic software.

Too good. I’m gonna change the title to it.

You’re absolutely right.

Time for the opposition to blow this into proportion.

We don’t have any nuclear weapons.

• Show up at protests when I can.
• Give what I can afford to orgs who organize people like the OHC.
• Show up at picket lines when I can.
• Chip away at the corporate programming of family and friends.
• Keep self deprogramming.
• Vote in every election I can, including party elections.
• Donate what I can to election campaigns I think have the best chance to stave off corporate control.
• Contribute time and money to non-corporate social media.

Reminds me of illegal / semi-legal immigrant labor in US agriculture, US private prisons renting out prisoner labor to businesses. Also the Canadian temporary worker program to a lesser extent.

Ouch.

Because beyond the racism, their issues are our issues. They’re class issues.

Let me suggest a good default feed setup that I like.

• Subscribe to any community you might be interested in, from lemmy.ca and other instances. If there are duplicates e.g. Android@lemmy.ml, Android@lemmy.world, subscribe to all duplicates.
• Set the feed filter to Subscribed and the sorting to Scaled.
• When you get bored or want to check what’s up with Lemmy general, switch to All + TopDay/Hot
• Play around with the sorting and filtering. You can save the default setting you prefer in your profile.

Don’t forget to contribute by voting, commenting and posting. Don’t just lurk.