Anyone have an archived link?

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I’ll let you know when I see one!

What’s the deal with that instance? Linux stuff?

The U.S. does something much more brazen – sailing through the Taiwan straight despite formally recognizing the island as part of China.

If you don’t generate enough revenue to cover any other business expense, you don’t have a workable business plan (unless you’re a tech grifter gorging on VC money, but that’s another story).

If you don’t generate enough revenue to cover decent wages, you don’t have a workable business plan.

…Nothing in that article says Russia supports the coup government. It doesn’t mention a Russian stance at all; it just says the coup government has asked Wagner for support (which it does not say has been given).

You’ve now ignored for a second time how stupid it is to think Russia engineered this, then simultaneously tried to hide it/paid locals to wave Russian flags around.

It’s astounding how much ground he covers while still being concise.

This attitude is wildly out of step with how AES states view the working class in the imperial core.

Xi Jinping:

Fourth, we must foster friendly sentiments among the peoples. People-to-people relations underpin state-to-state relations…

We will never forget the moral support and invaluable assistance the American people gave to our just resistance against aggression and our struggle for freedom and independence. The Chinese people have always held American entrepreneurship and creativity in high regards…

The foundation of the China-U.S. friendship has its roots in the people and its future rests with the youth. I want to announce here that China supports the initiative of sending a total of 50,000 Chinese and American students to study in each others’ countries over the next three years. China and the U.S. will launch a year of tourism in 2016. China on its part will create more favorable conditions for closer people-to-people exchanges.

I asked you what your theory is on the situation and you responded by putting words in my mouth.

Again, do you think Russia engineered this, only to deny it, only to pay people to waive Russian flags around?

That can be fixed with restrictions on what corporations can get away with

The problem is that capital can and does react to this. Companies will bribe and lobby until they can erode whatever meager guardrails you managed to install, and in the meantime they’ll carefully calculate how much they can break the law before the consequences outweigh the benefits.

As long as capital is the main driver of politics this will keep happening. “Take money out of politics” doesn’t work, either, because capital will erode or evade those laws, too. You do have to look at moving on from capitalism if you want anything more than a small, temporary change.

I was talking to someone the other day about how hard it would be to raise kids with technology. Do you take the slot machine out of their pockets until they’re some arbitrary age? Will the good that does outweigh the harm of not being as socially connected as their peers?

The return of dumbphones might be a solution, but smartphones do so much (think GPS) and are required for so much that this has its own problems.

A kinder version of a company town is still a company town, in the same way high-paying wage labor is still wage labor.

This is not Google being charitable and caring about housing prices in the surrounding area. These are the people most able to work remotely; Google is bringing them back to their expensive office to justify its existence and saying “this time I’ll be your landlord, too.”

Trump did worse, and did it more blatantly, but this is bad, too.

In response to questions from Congressman Goldman about the [Joe Biden] brand’s alleged impact, Archer said that it appeared to shield Burisma “because people would be intimidated to mess with them…”

Republicans on the committee asked Archer about two dinners, one in 2014 and another in 2015 at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., with Hunter Biden’s foreign business associates, both of which the then-vice president attended…

Archer, according to the transcript, also testified that the elder Biden was put on speaker phone with business contacts, potential business associates including foreign national “maybe 20 times” during the course of Archer’s and Hunter Biden’s business relationship. Joe Biden was put on the phone to sell “the brand,” Archer said.

It looks like a conscious effort to imply favoritism without being stupid enough to say it out loud. It’s not normal to invite your dad to dinner with your business associates, especially when your dad is VP. It’s not normal to loop your dad in on a bunch of business calls, especially when your dad is VP.

Is anyone seriously suggesting Hunter Biden got on the board of a Ukranian energy company on his own merits? There’s one reason you have that guy in a plush job.

“The paper for British millionaires”

On attempting to enter Russia on July 29, the group of Chinese citizens was “repeatedly” questioned for “up to 4 hours,” according to the statement. They had their tourist visas canceled and were refused entry, it said.

Yawn

So your theory is:

1. Russia sponsors a coup, but
2. Denies involvement, only to
3. Supply locals with Russia flags and presumably pay them to wave them around?

Even Russia has shown itself to be more of a minnow than we thought…

Russia is currently stalemated in a limited war against a substantial (but similarly limited) chunk of the NATO arsenal. As a point of comparison, in the last 20 years the U.S. has lost two wars against non-state actors where it used everything but nukes.

The U.S. hasn’t fought a war like the Russian-Ukranian War since Vietnam or Korea, and the results there weren’t a lot better than what Russia is seeing now (despite the U.S. doing far more indiscriminate strategic bombing).

Not to mention, the reasoning for the war has changed dramatically

• Refuses to read Russia’s official justification for war
• Claims not only to know Russia’s justification, but that it’s repeatedly changed

Is this sarcasm or an honest question?