dictators hate this one simple trick!

transfer of power? are people fucking stupid? a state’s constitution goes out the window if the president is kidnapped?

she offered to sell the whole country to the gringos, how much more peaceful can you get?

but does the market have Buddha nature?

(mu)

if you’re a public figure and you haven’t gotten called out by “israeli” state twitter, rethink your life choices

Petro starting 2026 with a bang in Colombia

• Raising minimum wage 23%, to just shy of 2 million COP (about $530 USD) per month including transportation assistance
• Implementing price controls so that the rich can’t just gobble it all back (not clear exactly what this means yet)
• Eliminating the toll booth between me and the closest city to my house
• Lowering the tax-free import de minimis value for online purchases from $200 US to $50 US

Colombian Redditors are losing their fuckin’ minds which is always fun to see. The last bullet does kind of suck for me personally but in the spirit of popular solidarity I will just have to moderate my consumption habits.

the turning meat explanation is what I’ve always heard, and the interior provinces were poorer than the coasts so it intuitively tracks

sichuanese shuizhuyu (“boiled fish”) is just fish boiled with a ton of chilis, which seems like the thing you would do if the fish weren’t smellin’ so hot anymore

hotpot started as poor people food (throw whatever you’ve got handy - the stuff nobody else wants to eat - into intensely spicy oil broth), then rich people caught on and the “weird” exotic stuff became expensive delicacies

just a couple of smol bean hugo boss enjoyers being unjustly oppressed

the anarchist, pictured

Well if you’re going down for terrorism anyway, might as well do something to deserve it

This post is a triumph

I’m making a note here, huge success

Moissanite is awesome, and thanks to the productive forces of Chinese socialism, is extremely cheap on AliExpress and Amazon. I have been getting tons of it for the jewelry enjoyers on my Christmas shopping list.

It is chemically different. The natural form only occurs in meteorites in small quantities. It’s not quite as hard as diamond, although it’s close - harder than sapphire even. The main visual difference vs. diamond is that diamond sparkles white, while moissanite sparkles in colors. It’s actually more sparkly, and it weighs a bit less so the stones are larger for the same carat weight.

They are to diamonds what Soviet Champagne was to the regular stuff. Different, but accessible to the proletariat, and actually superior in several metrics.

CEO is ultimately responsible for workplace safety culture, should have done a better job

• car
• racism

minimum wage will still be $7.25

pomum delenda est

We don’t care, we don’t have to. We’re the (i)phone company.

socdems and fucking it up for everyone, name a more iconic duo

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