Cannot or will not?

You really live in an imperial bubble.

Colonial capitalism captures countries in one way or another and keeps wages depressed in those countries so that the finance sector can extract wealth. Non-wealthy people in the imperial core live in relative privilege off the table scraps.

Your argument only works when you forget about the rest of the world and discount imperial hegemony.

China is way ahead on this kind of automation.

Athletes should have their DNA made public information so you can gamble? This is really your position? That a person’s DNA should be public so you can profit off of it? Would you be cool with a boss doing this to you or your family?

And if phenotype is what’s important, your female - male pheno is already competing as a male FYI.

Aid is a gift. They paid for some of it.

Is he entitled to US arm shipments?

The headline makes him sound pretty fucking entitled

Maybe the pilot is a Boeing whistleblower and afraid for their safety?

They’re giving the royal family jail time?

They told the crowd that a key focus of their visit was to underscore the Resolve Tibet Act, passed by the U.S. Congress last week, and aims to encourage dialogue between the Dalai Lama and Chinese officials with the hopes of finding a peaceful resolution between Tibet and Beijing. The bill should now be sent to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into a law.

Pelosi said the bill is “a message to the Chinese government that we have clarity in our thinking and our understanding of this issue of the freedom of Tibet,” eliciting applause.

McCaul, the Republican representative, said it reaffirmed American support for the Tibetan right to self-determination. “Just this week our delegation received a letter from the Chinese Communist Party, warning us not to come here… but we did not let the CCP intimidate us for we are here today,” he said as people cheered.

I like reading news like this :)

Did you read the article? Google is not an insurance company. So, why is my hospital sharing information with them? And why wasn’t that disclosed in the privacy policy?

Those are the types of questions this study raises.

Actually, that’s just me. A frog that juggles regular things. I don’t juggle frogs, sorry.

They’re a market based mixed economy. Mixed means both socialist and capitalist (public and private ownership of the means of production).

It’s Communist in the sense that there’s only one political party, the communist party. And their goal is to move towards socialism.

The Đổi Mới economic reforms were initiated by the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1986 during the party’s 6th National Congress. These reforms introduced a greater role for market forces for the coordination of economic activity between enterprises and government agencies, and allowed for private ownership of small enterprises and the creation of a stock exchange for both state and non-state enterprises

The economic reforms aimed to restructure the Vietnamese economy away from Soviet-type central planning and towards a market-based mixed economy intended to be a transitional phase in the development of a socialist economy. The goal of this economic system is to improve the productive forces of the economy, developing a firm technical-material base for the foundation of socialism, and to enable Vietnam to better integrate with the world economy.

Money is only money in the contexts of a society. So, it’s always a form of power. Being dependent on other power structures does not make it not power.

Societies depend on the sun’s power, as does all life here. Still we talk of other forms of power and how they influence democracy 🤷

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Democracy and money don’t mix. And as long as we’re attached to money, we’ll never have a democracy that isn’t contaminated by it.

They might be getting the formaldehyde from human bones, depending on how it’s controlled in the country.

Nothing else about that sounds like drug war propaganda.

And this comment told me everything I needed to know about your intentions for posting this article. Thanks OP for clarifying your position!

As will food supply so I guess that’s working out okay.

Overlook and oversee can have the same meaning. It depends on the context and the intent of the speaker.

I do like baking. Used to keep a sourdough starter but haven’t messed with it for a few years. Probably cheaper than smoking, both economically and on my health.