[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Even currently in some rich Middle East countries, there are technically slave workers - construction & household to name 2.

[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Here's a good podcast about US petro-dollars & how it impacts the world economy

[Congressional Dish] CD276: The Demise of Dollar Dominance #congressionalDish https://podcastaddict.com/congressional-dish/episode/159774687 via @PodcastAddict

[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Here are some messages sent

https://atlantic-cable.com/Article/1858Messages/index.htm

Also the first message was from Q Victoria to President Buchanan for laying the Transatlantic line.

[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tell me more. I'm no rocket surgeon, so use comprehensively monosyllabic word thingys.

I've read that some do it to help the scientific community figure out stuff. What though. Idk.

Is AI doing this too? Is it faster, better, more creative at optimizing?

Aren't molecules already optimized, so what are you actually doing? Folding them? What does that even mean?

Help me understand.

[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yes. If he talks with Putin about "government policy" or "international relations" then he has to register with the US government as doing so.

It's against the law to privately speak with foreign nations about those categories. It may put you at odds with US policy or maybe you dont see the whole picture, so it's better in the US eyes to ban foreign diplomacy by private citizens.

[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

For those not around when that happened, i remember it this way, after 20 years of booze, weed & hookers:

The student protest was extremely peaceful and organized. There were student delegations that would report up to student representatives, educatio delegation, housing delegation, for example. The representatives were negotiating with Party people. It was unclear at the time if the Party people were indicative of the top brass. But there was a worldwide feeling something good and right might be changing in China. If I recall correctly this went on for weeks, so the implications were setting in.

Then it all changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

What the video & still represent is not 1 man facing a line of tanks. It a culmination of a generation of students frustrated enough but clever enough to find a way to negotiate a change and when the Army came in they knew they failed. The world knew they failed. The question was how badly that failure was. There were a few days when nothing happened after this video. Then it happened all at once. And the rest as they say is History -- repression, violence, killing, abductions, lost family members, and rewriting history.

Like the Velvet Revolutions of the Middle East, it was a short time of hope for a better future, for the students & for their nation.

That feeling stays & that feeling is what China wants their populace to forget - and you forget by meming this historic picture without context.

P.S I don't know if the man was ever found out, but I hope he stays anonymous.

[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

It reminds me of that old joke of the 2 scientists studying a fly.

Scientist 1: Fly, fly! Scientist 2: When fly has two wings fly flies 2 feet.

Scientist 1: pulls off one wing and says Fly, Fly! Scientist 2: When fly has 1 wing, fly flies 1 foot

Scientist 1: pulls off the other wing and says, Fly, fly!. Nothing happens Scientist 1 Fly, Fly! Nothing happens Scientist 1 showing frustration> FLY! FLY! Scientist 2: When fly has no wings, fly becomes deaf.

Bad-dum!

[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And lol meant lots if love ❤️

[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Interesting note. That is the 2 maggots, where famous artists in the 1930-1960's would have afternoon coffee and discuss politics, paintings, and everything of the day .

[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This would be a tie in to Amazon Amp.

[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ask about her Sodium blood levels. Many lower cost brands have high sodium.

[-] Savvy95@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What? Lack of access to nutrious food leads to lack of nutrition? Amazing, the statistical non-causal link between the two. Common sense is proven again.

Fuck the people who starve kids and families in need. I hope that they feel the impact of their choices so hard that they rethink their choices.

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