Its true. But there was this brief, beautiful moment, during the early internet, where you could get good recommendations from YouTube…

I can’t wait until we put whalers on the moon

Thanks!

If I were taught this version of Jesus, I would likely be religious. Also, did Sankara write any books?

So we have clear examples of American bullying. Do you have examples of Chinese bullying?

So Stalin helped kill a buttload of Nazis which is nice.

And saying “under Chinese rule” is a weird way to state it. I mean, of course the Chinese people should rule themselves. Unless you’re butt hurt about China resisting the western colonial powers and murdering a bunch of capitalists.

Given the bad faith of your comment, I feel no need to elaborate, clarify, or provide nuance.

Bruh

It would be better to compare the cost using average wages, or even minimum wage. Where I live in the west we could get about 282kg of eggs permonth on minimum wage (pretax), and in some Chinese provinces (minimum wage varies) you could get 340kg.

Yes, you can choose to decorate eggs OR potatoes. Why not apples! This is true freedom. No shegingping telling you what you can and can’t decorate!

+1 capitalism

I started reading and was like “okay, sure buddy” then I remembered I have developed a lot of the same skills, including tracking wildlife.

And then I remembered the time I learned to identify clay deposits and to separate out the clay so I could build stuff with it.

So I thought: “wth, this is so weird! Ohh, they have ADHD too… That explains a lot”.

I wasn’t diagnosed at the time, when I was learning to find clay, but that should have been a sign lol

Because clearly the worst thing that could happen to a man, is to lose to a woman …

Whats wrong with you?

Theres someone at my gym who basically says this, and explicitly says “pretty much all University professors are Marxists” though he never can tell me anything Marx has ever said, other than “everyone should be paid the same”.

So… Yeah

I’m pretty sure thats the only reason anyone ever did. The US used military and economic power to ensure folks negotiated.

How, in your opinion, is China behaving as a bully?

They can definitely sell them elsewhere, and if companies threaten to abandon ship, while I am just hypothesizing here, China likely has a legal way to seize the factories to prevent the loss of productive capacity.

If we assume he and his administration are stupid, ya maybe they messed up. But if there was a thought involved, having every piece of land subject to tariffs means there will be fewer loop holes to avoid them.

For example, changing your business address to one of these islands.

I think its liberation from the yoke of the American empire.

The “easy” thing to do is retreat inwards. Regardless if you’re organizing or not, now is the time to lean into friends and family. With love and support, we will always feel much safer to take the actions we need to.

No one said zero publishable results. Besides, to get to the stage of a publishing scientist (I mean a primary investigator) you have gone through a Bsc, Msc (maybe published, but definitely a thesis), phD (usually 1+ publications), post docs (at least 1 which may last between 6months and 5 years, and would be expected to publish), a probation period at a University/Research Institute or other organization (where you would be expected to publish).

So if you make it through that entire process and are incapable of publishing, the entire system failed you.

That is the argument, but when those with more publications get more funding than those with better publications, the drive is to produce more.

Don’t get me wrong, there are still good publications out there, but the incentives and pressures move the needle to the quantity side. How do you measure goodness? I dont know. But what we are doing now isn’t working, which is evidenced by, well how everything is going at the moment.

Of course we could moralize it and say something like “ohh well scientists are just greedier and lazier than they used to be” but that is thought terminating and no solution can be found that way.