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by Yeul 1y ago
Switching Chinese universities to English would be a lot more efficient, no?
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by Yeul 1y ago
Chinese infrastructure is light years ahead of India and frankly a police surveillance state does make the streets safe.
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by Yeul 1y ago
I certainly would! If the foreign competition is now cut off I'd raise prices just below them. To do otherwise would be stupid. This is were tariffs can go horribly wrong: it destroys the incentive for competition between companies.
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by Yeul 1y ago
Apparently my country is technically capable of being self sufficient but people diet would have to change back to the 19th century if we were completely cut off (no coffee, tea, tomatoes, bananas, shiracha sauce).
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by Yeul 1y ago
The way Dutch people combat the admittedly scary process of dying is by treating it as an event. I think the best comparison is a wedding. You do your rehearsals, pick out music and clothes, train the bridesmaids, pick a venue, call the cat
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by Yeul 1y ago
Imagine if you will a situation in which the Palestinians or Ukrainians had a few nukes. At the very least every country including my own should have a way to drag the enemy down to the hell should all else fail.
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by Yeul 1y ago
Amen. This American hatred for the government is very tiresome.
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by Yeul 1y ago
I buy a midrange Samsung phone and I understand that they need to make some money on it. But with Apple you're paying 1000 eurodollars so the least they can do is respect the customer.
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by Yeul 1y ago
I have two browsers on my phone. One is locked down and the other one is vanilla for those rare cases when I absolutely need to experience the internet as intended.
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by Yeul 1y ago
In my country such things are discussed in parliament during endless sessions about the yearly budget. They are not decreed by a god emperor at a whim.
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by Yeul 1y ago
500 million sounds like a lot but that is just a drop in the ocean for first world nation states. The Netherlands has a yearly budget of 300 billion for example.
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by Yeul 1y ago
Aren't Americans always going on about free speech?
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by Yeul 1y ago
I don't think a lot of Americans know this: the EU is China's biggest trade partner. And the EU has free trade in it's DNA.
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by Yeul 1y ago
Its interesting how America is basically run by an elected king. In Europe these kind of decisions take months of meetings and consultations.
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by Yeul 1y ago
Hell is other people.
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by Yeul 1y ago
And yet some people yearn for the return of manufacturing jobs.
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by Yeul 2y ago
In the case of the Netherlands we place humans above god. Ultimately Dutch philosophers came to the conclusion that the individual and their happiness are at the very epicenter of the universe. It broke the chains of mental slavery inherent
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by Yeul 2y ago
George Lucas had to shoot his Star Wars movie in Englandd instead of California and its what gave us the iconic Empire portrayed by British theater actors.
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by Yeul 2y ago
I can understand Apple on this. They make phones for the general public not HN and many people are stupid enough never to run updates.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Reasonable people are boring though. I find the vile people amusing.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Not a lot of reputable advertisers want to associate themselves with 4chan I imagine.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Europe was busy conquering their colonial empire.
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by Yeul 2y ago
That's not how it worked. Armies had the tendency to eat more than the locals could provide. A region that could feed itself suddenly has to provide for thousands of soldiers. This is why war inevitably led to starvation.
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by Yeul 2y ago
I don't think the Rust belt really gives a shit about high tech industry making chips. I have seen this in my own country when mega corps build highly automated data centres that only employ a few local cleaners and security guards.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Isn't that the case for every country? My grandfather lived in a shack. He was a farmhand. In the winter his family almost starved. Our nation's prosperity is a very recent phenomenon.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Last I checked VAT is the same rate regardless if the product is made in China or by pinguins on Antarctica so why anyone in the US gives a damn is beyond me.
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by Yeul 2y ago
And America can't even export any off it because Trump managed to start a trade war with the rest of the world. Apparently the US doesn't need allies anymore against China...
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by Yeul 2y ago
Merit is what allowed women and non whites to attend university. I don't believe for one second that conservatives care much for it.
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by Yeul 2y ago
Normal folks vote for the fascists. How many Americans despise the liberal universities and their students? How many Americans think the US should be a Christian nation? Fascism is popular. Many people will fall for it. Time and time again.
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by Yeul 2y ago
This is why I am actually happy that there are still immigrants coming to the Netherlands. Yeah some of those Syrians and Ukrainians will be bad but the majority will integrate and pay taxes. Without immigration the country would already be

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