yogthos

one's not sure why and the other is don't know

Also worth noting that the US continued to do business with the nazis well into the war, and IBM famously facilitated the holocaust.

lol yeah that sounds like a nightmare

I find setters/getters are generally an antipattern because they obfuscate behavior. When you access a field you know what it looks like, but if you pass it through some implicit transformation in a getter then you have to know what that was.

Gotta love how western regimes are dropping the whole pretense of having human rights and freeze peach.

This bit is hilarious, like what China couldn't issue currency the way the US does if they really wanted to?

“China’s fiscal deficits have reached a tipping point,” said Gary Ng, a senior economist at Natixis. “There is more urgency to find alternative revenue sources . . . and taxing the wealthy and some companies creates a less direct economic impact on most residents.”

I got into photography during the pandemic as a way to go outside and stay active. I find it makes you pay attention to the environment around you a lot more closely. Things you normally wouldn't notice become interesting.

wasps 🤝 genocide

The fact that somebody would be asking this question after a year of genocide is phenomenal.

Gotta love how there's always unlimited money for war, but never any money for the people actually living in Yankeestan.

Construction projects require workers and stimulate the economy as a result, so the benefits appear even before they're completed. And there absolutely is an alternative to the dollar for the global south today because both Russia and China trade outside the dollar right now. The BRICS is offering a tangible bulwark against US imperialism and we can see the effects of that today. This is all happening as we speak.

welcome to the real world child

What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.