You give too much credit. I think it’s pretty safe to assume no one but socialists and historians care (or know) enough about Deng and Zhao outside of China so they aren’t likely to weigh in. Now if the question included the tinyman trigger-word, you’d have people jumping all over this post saying China bad and quoting Wikipedia until their fingers bled.

Therefore they can continue to extract more from people than before. When you default, the amount owed increases significantly (doubles?).

This means more people are stuck with high payments and are required to work to continue to survive, less people getting retirement or other benefits, a larger workforce that is essentially captive to their debt and can be more easily manipulated because they are worried about making ends meet more than other things.

I see plenty of benefits for capitalists in a wide variety of industries if more people are beholden to more student debt.

There are entire industries that profit from people being imprisoned. The more people incarcerated in a location, the more that location can charge.

All other things aside, there is very much a profit motive.

Or join an instance they don’t like and they curate themselves for you. :)

Join a different instance, there are ones that are more curated for different regions in the world. Lemmy.world is very US centric and essentially a carbon cut-out of reddit. Lots of redditors migrate there and try to maintain that type of culture on the instance, so they also got many of the most toxic complainers condensed from mass reddit exoduses.

The fediverse is meant to be explored and it may take you a month or two to find where you like best.

At least one company made a soylent, it’s just not soylent green. Not sure if it contains soy or lentils.

I was in the same boat.

Spent all day cooking and listening to podcasts/music. Invited a friend over for dinner like usual and she said she couldn’t come until it was late and well past dark, which was very unusual. Then she told me she was at a Superbowl party and that was how I found out what was going on.

Only way things could have been better is if I had D&D with the food.

And your body is the “collateral damage” in that war.

I think it’s just missing a bit of specificity.

Building more bike lanes will reduce traffic. Building more bus lanes will reduce traffic. Building more tram lines will reduce traffic. Building more car lanes will reduce induce traffic.

Not perfect, but solid logic within reason (Building 100 more bus lanes will reduce traffic).

I’ve seen those orange ones, but was never much of a fan. The demonstrators are beautiful though. There’s nothing quite like seeing a beautiful ink sloshing around inside.

I slept on the kaweco sport, but when I finally got one, it quickly became my everyday. I got a transparent body and fill the body directly with ink like an oil tanker ready to defile the ocean within my pocket, then lube the threads with petroleum jelly. Not a single leak.

Iconic style, affordable, ink lasts forever, one of the most reliable, smoothest gold bibs came with it, and it’s comfortable to write with. I love that pen and wish I had as many chances to use it these days as I did in the past. Unfortunately, my writing at work is almost entirely digital now.

What the fuck, that had to be a trip! Either watch order would suck: ruin your mood before Totoro or get blindsided by the second feature.

It happens constantly in the US too.

They teach us about roundabouts in driver’s education or at least the written tests to get a license. Most of us just shouldn’t be allowed to drive without additional training at this point. Laws are suggestions and when the car can’t go straight and fast without inhibition, it breaks our brains.

It’s doing something for someone else vs doing it for you. For some people, it can serve as a “hack” to engage the hyperfocus.

Aside from stimulants and therapy, learning to live with ADHD is about developing seemingly abnormal coping skills to overcome the barriers it presents. Looks weird from the outside, but it makes total sense to that person because they know it engages something within them that won’t engage under normal circumstances.

It sucks to use and I hate it, but if someone starts doing the thing I’ve been struggling to do, that can engage my ability to do it because I’m doing it so they don’t have to…such as cleaning up one of my messes. Maybe you can use this too?

Aerogel. Always seemed like it would have an interesting texture.

Trampoline floor

Aspartame cures cancer, but only when ingested in soda.

Pi equals exactly 3.

The most effective, universal vaccine is based on asbestos.

I took the same approach and my kids started believing when they were in elementary school. My mom was taking them to church sometimes more for the social aspect (my mom wasn’t directly preaching to them at all), so the influence was relatively weak. It caused some problems for a while but neither of them believe as teenagers now.

Just as a word of warning, you may run into situations where your children’s beliefs are different from yours and worse yet, they are getting conflicting information from multiple trusted adults. It can be very uncomfortable and confusing for them to the point that it’s very upsetting because kids often idolize the adults closest to them when they are that young.

It’s very important to talk to them, but you need to tread very lightly. I ended up telling them my beliefs and telling them that it’s up to them to choose what they believe in life, even if what they choose is different from mine.

Good luck!

Do you want to die?

Or how they have trillions to spend on war, but that money can’t be found when people are starving and living in the streets.