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There is a useful edge case to this. In my case I was searching for a specific bit of content that had too few results in English so Google started returning results based on simil…

You can train a skill and improve on it. You can't train your head shape or arm length nearly as much. The brain is more malleable than some of the other body parts.

"Ideal state" is inserted by your own bias. There are plenty of changes made by humans to the planetary system and some of them will be undone once humans are not around to maintai…

Ok fair enough. What is it about China that makes it explicitly not capitalist? Since it's absolutely not communism, what makes it absolutely not a capitalist economy?

Then I didn't fully understand your initial post, I am sorry.

And I don't want to start that discussion. I just think it's easier to call China a totalitarian capitalist state, without torturing other labels to make them fit. It's not unthink…

There are plenty of exclusive communities on the internet because it's just as useful of a tool for any illegal activity as it is for corporations trying to drive more profits.

There's a pretty simple definition of communism and it's "workers own the means of production". That's the one defining trait of communism according to any communist.

We Must Dissent

Need to call it something. Marx went with "estrangement". Alienation seems to be more commonly used today.

Japan is supposedly having a wave of popularity written by elderly featuring older protagonists with the target audience being older generations.

You'd need to specify an age group since it shouldn't be too hard to find supoort for Russia from the older generation that grew up under Soviet Union and is now feeling nostalgic …

Just look at bash.org Short, terse comments are not new. The systemic factors that cause it are somewhat different for twitter. But it's not a new occurrence.

You got trapped in the car driving mode of thinking. Commuting and traffic is a necessary burden to most people. Most see automation as a way to reduce that burden by letting them …

Well that's translation and localization for you. The end result is always filtered through the personal biases of the translator. Although to some people evil and criminal might b…

Ah that sounds pretty much the same type of management philosophy as espoused in "Clouds Above The Hill" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saka_no_Ue_no_Kumo The author attributes the …

The title of article was more interesting than it's contents.

Point and call https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-j... Someone linked this article in a thread related to worker safety or hazards. There always seems to be…

Well it's just meat and potatoes, it's going to be similar to any other dish with those two ingredients. Here's how it looks from one of the local places that makes em here https:/…

I don't think I've ever encountered Russians claiming they invented borscth. It's more of a case of the west attributing most Eastern European culture to Russia. The other Easter E…

Referring to https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2018/10/04/305-car-registrat... Which is kind of a feel good story, point and laugh at those Russian idiots bungling things again.

The article doesn't succeed in presenting a good argument. There's a lot of attempts at making examples and using thought experiments but it doesn't actually present any sort of me…

https://www.amazon.com/Clouds-above-Hill-Historical-Russo-Ja... A historical novel from Japan fully accounting the events leading up to and during the war. It was translated into E…

I can't imagine why that would be intended to be humuoruos. The content of the post seems like a genuine attempt at trying to point out the potential flaws in purely text based com…

Im sorry, I’m not very knowledgeable about the plastic model industry, so I can’t answer that question. Unfortunately, I can’t really make a statement on the plastic scale modeling…