at a much better company after this one died chasing the crypto/AI/whatever magical tech comes next trend

frequency does help a lot with a customer actually going through with a purchase, but really this is just another way for advertisers to spend more on the same ad spot, because now your competitors can screw you out of multiple opportunities instead of just one

with a tiny investment of $2k, a couple seminars and private meetings I will let you sign on 10 people who you are allowed to take surplus value from, and all I want in exchange is half of it.

I don’t think you need to be so black and white. you can pick and choose what goes into your faith, and still remain 95% christian. I guess to me the label just doesn’t matter very much. also if the Pope claims that to accept all faith is christian, then that is very much what Catholic Christianity is. the Pope also plays a guiding and interpreting role, and you can choose to go with his interpretation or not.

I’ve seen a lot of conservative (the American Republican model) Christians but I have also seen what I consider to be “true” Christians, with a strong faith and love for everyone, and part of that faith often involves confronting reality, thinking about solutions to problems, helping the poor and weak. I agree with you that it’s not all black and white. A lot of Christians don’t believe in the literal text of the Bible for its supernatural claims, but instead they read it (and other religious texts, there are a lot of religious people who do some multi-track drifting) for its morals and guiding principles, which can all be interpreted in different ways, and there is a lot of discourse in religious circles about the meaning and morals of texts, about finding ancient wisdom or reinterpreting old texts to better suit modern standards. It can be a very research intensive way of life to be religious and have faith. I’d argue that if you have any principles at all that you stick to, that counts as faith.

I doubt AI can replicate that German calligraphy

well you might just slowly brush away your enamel

I just meant some big name brand toothpastes being very abrasive to (imo) a point of detriment

https://www.test.de/Zahnpasta-im-Test-4607097-0/ german and 5€ for the data, but newspapers often share snippets of it for free

Last year I learned from independent consumer product testing agencies that at least here in germany the best dental care is provided using the most basic and cheap toothpaste from discounter chains, so now I use those. So much cheaper, so much more toothpaste in the tube and actually doesn’t secretly fuck your teeth up.

I’m not promoting or supporting anything. All I’ve said is that while China has done a lot of evil things, they have also increased the standard of living for their own people massively. They’re doing good things to keep life liveable. I’m not being intolerant of detractors, I myself was a detractor of China as a whole until last night. I will research myself to find my opinions about China instead of being force fed one by western liberal media. This is called learning.

I never said any of that. That’s a huge emotional reaction to a very minor argument from me. Maybe you should take a deep breath and think about things first.

My belief right now is merely that China is much more complex than I previously thought. I don’t think you’re necessarily arguing in good faith here.

I’m genuinely not a tankie. I’d actually consider myself anarchist, but I’m also interested in actually learning about things. Roland Boer has actual experience in China as well as in a Chinese school for Marxism, so who am I to immediately disregard his opinion because the whole idea is unpopular here?

Right now your response is very shallow and ignorant, and thus easily manipulated by people with big wallets. I mean it truly is a kneejerk reaction from you. Those are the most easily exploited.

I’ll get back to you on that. I’m currently reading Roland Boer’s “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” (with “The basic economic system of china” queued up afterwards) and it sort of overthrows my entire perspective on marxism, socialism, communism, etc. I’m in favor of equity and equality, human rights and well-being for everyone, but so it seems are the Chinese, and it seems there’s actually a lot of work to that end happening in China. It’s just being obscured by western liberalism. Who knows what I’ll see on the other side. I don’t mean to say that atrocities didn’t or don’t happen, they obviously do. What’s interesting to me and what other books on China kept from me is that actually Chinese do know about those atrocities. They’re fully aware and critize them just as much as we do, just with their own lens instead of a western liberal lens.

It remains to be seen how I’ll think about China, but I can already tell you the situation is much more complex than you might see from a western perspective.

I’m a communist

A measurement from the human rights campaign (hrc.org) it looks like. I assume it’s a survey where lgbtq+ employees are kindly encouraged to answer “correctly” or they get mystery fired, but maybe the office jobs at Tesla were genuinely pretty good before elon came out as a nazi, who knows

EDIT: https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporations/tesla-inc. here are the current ratings, 55/100

That’s just surprise seasoning

Well, shit.

National parks are kind of hard to monetize for VCs if private capital isn’t allowed to own them