Che's Motorcycle

“No, no. That’s different. The settlers we sent there killed and pillaged their way into the majority. Democracy!”

Milton Friedman: some of you may die to prevent inflation, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/non-accelerating-rate-unemployment.asp

GIGACHUD!

the Communist Party rejects gender self-ID as the basis for sex- based entitlements in law to women’s single-sex rights, spaces and facilities. The Party will continue to oppose any proposed legislation – whether at Scottish, Welsh or British level – that seeks to enact such a provision.

We call for ‘sex’ as a protected characteristic under the 2010 Equality Act to be defined as ‘biological sex’.

Killer Kamala: “Choke yourself! Choke yourself with my hand!”

The Economist would like to offer you a job…

They think if they keep singing Rule Britannia long enough and loud enough, their empire will magically reappear.

(The linked video is excellent, unintended self-parody btw.)

I’m cackling in public…

Come back here and I’ll bite your leg!

I mean, it is Laurence Fishburne

Yep. At best they could argue that these decisions come with opportunity costs - China could have made more profit by allocating its money elsewhere.

I always understood it to mean the “cost” is just more capitalist accumulation. “They could be enriching their/our bourgeoisie, but instead they do this?!”

4.2 / 3 = 1.4

4.2 + 1.4 = 5.6

If anything, the screenshot is underestimating the fourth quarter.

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Short photo essay on Guryong Village.

The illegal(!) encampment grew up on private land in 1988, when many people were forced out of their old Seoul homes ahead of the city’s Olympic Games.