I buy unbranded brand jeans, but I don’t think that’s it. I just like high quality selvage denim, lasts way longer than Levi’s or Wrangler and looks nicer too.

Sort of like how you’re an unpaid shill for the western empire

I doubt it was under $200k. Paying 3 devs for 7 years is likely $75-100k each per year, or around $700k on just one salary, which they paid with their sales from HK. Then they had to pay the composer, localizers, bug testers, etc etc. it’s definitely still low budget, but not as much as the first one.

Flying in water for them after Ukraine stopped the flow and cooperating with international organizations to reunite children with family?

Well, the indigenous wouldn’t have been so thoroughly genocided if they hadn’t. The primary contradiction leading to the war was the British forbidding further westward settlement and the colonizers were not okay with that.

I flew in 2024 most recently and had no such requirement. I wonder why the differing experience.

Have you been to China? They do none of this shit. They don’t gaf about your phone.

Because he’s lying. I travel to China regularly and they don’t give a fuck about my phone. Not once have they done more than just glance at my passport, glance at me, and stamp it and send me on my way.

No they don’t. Customs in China is like 2 seconds of them glancing at your passport, looking at you, and stamping it. Literally the fastest I’ve ever got through an airport is in China, both arriving and leaving.

Styrofoam is a good thickener, depending on your fuel source.

Israel is recognized for using imprisonment as a form of hostage taking, holding thousands of Palestinians with no charges or trial for up to months at a time, as young as 8 years old. This is more of the same behavior for them. They were not in Israel until dragged there at gunpoint, they were in international waters, btw.

No that goes to Cherry, which just tastes like cough medicine.

What happened the 5th of October, do you even know?

I’d rather have a one party state under a communist party than a two party state under two capitalist parties. In both cases it’s immediately obvious who these parties serve, in China, it’s the people and society, in the U.S., it’s the billionaires and capitalist class.

My job does 4.5 days at full pay during summer, and it is so goddamn liberating. I actually have time to do things, I have more energy because I can take extra time to rest after completing my weekend tasks, I can get into doctors without missing work and having to make it up later. Genuinely, fighting for 4 day week, 8 hour days, and full 40 hour pay should be higher on the labor movements priority list, like it was when we won the 40 hour week in the first place.

A large percentage of Chinas gdp is domestic consumption, and that percentage is growing by leaps and bounds year over year. They are moving away from reliance on export, though not there yet.

They’re already in a union, this is China. All companies over a certain size are unionized by law.

You think they’re going to close all 38 of their bases across all of Europe? That would be a big strategic break from full spectrum dominance, which is US policy, and part of the plan to contain the growth of China.

People don’t see homes as a place to live, they don’t consider community, family, proximity to work as important. Homes are “investments” and being priced out of your home is “good” because you can “sell it and move somewhere cheaper”. The dominant ideas of any era are the ideas of the ruling class.

The US would never give up its vassals in Europe for a single country.