Yeah, I’ve just got the book “Enemy of All Mankind” which is about the period of time when the East India Co. was just getting going. Apparently that time intersects with three big shifts: the first international pirate manhunts, the start of the British Empire, and the creation of the corporation. It tells a crazy story and I absolutely loved it

Every American should learn about the so called zoot suit “riots”

White American sailors got in a fight with Mexican Americans. It’s unclear what started it but the following actions of American sailors provides good context. After the initial fight, sailors started to randomly target Mexican-Americans and jumping them. Of course, there was retaliation and it got really crazy - I won’t spoil it for anyone interested.

The reason I mention it is because it’s fascinating to see how media organizations like the LA Times covered it. They unanimously blamed “gangs” of Mexicans and didn’t blame demonstrably racist American sailors whatsoever - they were obviously brave patriots, and not you know fuckin fascists

Have you spent any time trying to understand the recent events that happened in Amsterdam? It seems like Israelis were the instigators and participating in despicable behavior, according to first-hand reports, but I’m absolutely open to being corrected - this is a developing story, afaik

I’ll admit I find comments blindly defending authoritarian racists advocating for an ongoing genocide deeply concerning, myself.

My inclination has always been to not call myself a Dem, avoid affiliating with the party, and geneeally shit on them. However, I’ve been thinking, we should be trying to learn how the tea party took over the Republican party and doing that. They did an absolutely remarkable job

That said, there’s a lot of differences, they’re white in a white supremacist nation, for one

Hasan Poker ain’t for everyone but he’s super knowledgeable and provides great context for ongoing issues. I mainly watch on YouTube so the clips are edited down and even more context (charts, sources, etc) are added.

I didn’t think any of those companies did any manufacturing. Are we talking about the same thing? My understanding was there was only three names in manufacturing (the ones I mentioned)

What do you mean by it would force us not to tiptoe around China?

On that note, what do you think about Trump’s policy against Huawei when he was president? I’m inclined to think it’s a good thing despite it not being something Obama (or Clinton or Biden/Harris) would do

Is it really a good idea to let Taiwan and Samsung control all semiconductor manufacturing?

Old people: huh? What’s a wifi

Have you/Has anyone seen the r/worldnews subreddit lately? Shit’s wild! Can’t imagine how hard it would be to join/leave that community and learn the truth

You can/should try to understand how that’s logically sound

For example, if you never exercise and eat terrible shit your entire life, you can expect every doctor’s visit to be worse than the last. Same with the dentist or going to the mechanic when you fail to do required maintenance.

Isn’t she more of a neo-liberal? What makes her con vs lib to you/y’all

Right… but she’s not gonna do that.

We have to force her and well we’re probably not gonna do that either, but that’s def more likely to work

Still kinda makes a lot of sense though. Pretty easy to see how the Simpsons, back to the future, etc could see it coming

Tbf that is helpful info

I remember being surprised to realize/remember that there are (were?) totally kids that will knock on a new neighbor’s door to ask their parents if they could come out to meet them and play

Imagine… taking action to put yourself out there and meet friends. That’s kinda wild

Why are your bars unequally divided?

It doesn’t make sense for chocolate bars to be divided into equal-sized chunks when there is so much inequality in the chocolate industry! The unequally-sized chunks of our 180g bars are a palatable way of reminding Choco Fans and Serious Friends that the profits in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.

And in case you haven’t noticed, the bottom of our bars depicts the West African coastline. The chunks just above it represent the Gulf of Guinea. From left to right, you have Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin (terribly politically incorrect, we know, but we had to combine them to create enough space for a hazelnut), Nigeria and part of Cameroon.

That’s awesome!

I don’t mean any disrespect, but the graphics look a little dated. What’s the reason for that? Is this game built on a version from the early 2000s or is it just an intentional design choice like those 2d indie games

What the hell I need to learn to shoot for?

F that! I’m following my dreams

Oh no…I’m in danger! lol

/Cries on my S10

The statement confirms that the latest version of the SmartThings app is the root cause of these bootloops. It further confirms that the update is no longer rolling out to devices, so you need not worry about accepting an update on your device.

Right… I’ma just go ahead and disable auto-updating, thanks

You’re probably right. I just worry uninformed angry people are ripe for being taken advantage of.

And for sure I totally don’t mean absolutely everyone in either gen - that’s never the case. I guess i just look at my older bro and he looks way beyond capacity (44 w/ a 1+2 yr olds) to expect him to do stuff like read and educate himself. Idk, maybe that’s just not his thing regardless.

I absolutely salute parents out there, doing the whole thing though. I’m still just barely trying to take care of myself

There’s a link under the post linking to info on the Sri Lanka election.

All good! It’s easy to miss