Because neoliberalism cannot improve things. The US has two effective choices because Americans are too stupid and too lazy to vote third party; if one is a fascist, and the other is the reason fascism flourishes, one will be ‘overly critical’ of both possible choices.

People will not vote for more of the same when they’ve been suffering. People will vote for change and chaos long before they vote for ‘hurr durr every thing’s fine the fact your life is worse is fox news misinformation your experiences don’t matter I will just keep doing what’s made your life this way.’

This means, if you run a campaign like that, you are implicitly supporting fascism. This isn’t a surprising or new strategy, it’s the exclusive reason why Obama, a junior senator with a conservative if not far-right voting track record, was able to win the presidency under the democratic ticket. He promised change. It is why Trump won. It is every single analysts’ reason for why Trump won. He promised change. He promised to be an outsider. He promised to not do the same thing as any of his predecessors.

It is why Biden won, on the campaign promise of changing from Trump’s nonsense.

Harris lost for the same reason Clinton lost for the same reason Romney lost for the same reason Kerry lost for the same reason Gore lost for the same reason… you get where I’m going with this.

If the next democratic presidential candidate promises to “return to normalcy” or “return to the biden era” or “bring back civility to politics” or anything that suggests they are not going to bring radical change, they will lose. It does not matter if they have tits or not. It does not matter if they are Chinese Black Mixed with a cock on their forehead and a literal conjoined twin that looks like a demon baby growing out of their stomach. It does not matter if they are a white rich peodphile (gavin Newsom).

Every single honest political analyst has been screaming at the democratic party since before Clinton became the nominee in 2015. Just promise change and be as visible as possible in trying to follow through. Do not pretend things are fine when they’re not. Do not cater to culture war nonsense. Mention how fucked people are economically, and how you’re going to fix it, and why you ARE NOT A “NORMAL” POLITICIAN. If ANY candidate does that this next election, D or R, they will win. Period. Regardless of race, religion, sex, or whether or not they ‘appeal’ to voters tastes.

I mean do you even have reasons for thinking Harris was so bad?

Multiple endorsements of Israeli genocide.

A couple million dollars from AIPAC, and that’s before her VP run. We don’t know how many digits above 8 she received from israel to ‘promise no change from the Biden administration.’

Absolutely no acknowledgement of the failures of the Biden admin. Every single demographic under 400k income was worse off under Biden. Every single one. White, black, high school dropouts, PhD holders in the middle class, all of them were objectively worse off.

Absolutely no foreign policy experience besides the Biden admin, who also had no foreign policy experience and soft launched the war in Iran. There was no world where we didn’t enter a war with Iran with either candidate, hence why every single DNC power player has endorsed Trump’s war, but ‘has issues with how it was done.’

Her entire political career prior to her VP, including the entirety of her time as California AG.

The same progressives encouraging her to run despite her problematic ideology?

Nearly all military targets btw.

Everything updates faster than apt, and AppImages just work if that’s the standard we’re going with.

White is a bloat colour, it takes more energy for your monitor to display white than any other colour since white is all parts of the LED on.

0/10, you’re worse than a ai data center.

It’s less that and just the absolute ridiculous scope creep of systemd. Again it was meant to just replace init. All it needs to do is boot the kernel and run at launch services, and people disagree on that last part.

It shouldn’t be basically a second layer to the kernel in both application and necessity.

Why are people using flatpak again?

It’s impossible to ‘hurt the climate’ using non-ancient non-sequestered sources.

Reread try again. I’m not commenting on animal agriculture; and rice fields are the least problematic mass produced crop for biodiversity given they act as wetlands and use no chemical pesticides or herbicides.

If more vegans used a rice based diet instead of corn, potatoes, lentils, or chickpeas we’d actually have fewer animal deaths given the ridiculous amount of pesticides needed for monocultures of those plants.

How is it a false equivalency? The Workers produce, among many other things, cotton, which is not a luxury good. There is no claim that they made labubus, but that some of the cotton involved came from some of the work camps in Xinjiang.

China’s “forced labor camps” are part of the prison reform initiative. Nearly every East Asian country has a version of this, wherein workers learn a trade and produce goods; the sale of which to the general market subsidizes their wages which they build up during their sentence which allows them to have savings when they exit back to society, with state-guaranteed experience in a specific job. Farming is popular because, you know, it’s China. Making those that go against society do the most basic and necessary work in society to understand what they are harming has been their modus operandi since the revolution.

Your problem with ‘trivial luxury goods’ being made by prisoners though just means you have more of a problem with the US than with China; as in the US ‘prisoners’ are leased to private corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Starbucks, Sprint, Verizon, Avis, AT&T, and Aramark.

China uses ‘forced labor’ to ‘produce cheap materials’ that need to be used in some way since they’re the by product of teaching prisoners a trade. The US has never even thought about abolishing slavery and every fortune 100 corporation in the US uses slavery to produce final products that you directly buy and consume.

We’re talking about the Earth, not some fictional hellscape of drop bears, made up plants like Eucalyptus, and giant flamethrower wielding spiders.

Substantial is severely overstated as any crop you would replace rice with where rice is grown in water would objectively destroy all local water cycles if not the entire local ecosystem. That would have a much greater impact on climate change than if rice accounted for 100% of all calories eaten globally.

A) Rice paddies are generally in wetlands and swamps, protecting these areas, any other grain you would grow here would destroy that wetland biome. Corn especially would essentially render the entire area sterile because

B) Domesticated rice grown in water does not use any pesticides or herbicides whatsoever. There’s no need for it. Occasionally, in specific areas, you’ll need scare crows, frequent human activity, or crabs/ducks depending on the exact pest you’re getting rid of, but you don’t need glyphosate. This has massive knock on effects for climate, fewer herbicides and pesticides means more carbon being sequestered. Fewer herbicides and pesticides in water means more microorganisms turning CO2 back into oxygen and sequestering the carbon in tasty tasty microscopic corpses. Which brings us to

C) Methane and the GHG cycle: While methane is a much more effective greenhouse gas than CO2, it also has practically no shelf life in the atmosphere. It is a natural part of the GHG cycle and even if all grains everywhere were converted to rice, we could not generate enough methane to effect the climate. It would decay to hydrogen within ten years in the upper atmosphere (versus 50 or more for CO2) but more importantly every single type of forest sequesters it more efficiently than CO2. Saying a natural source of CH4 that is easily accounted for by growing it upwind of a forest, like it almost always is, is a serious driver of climate change or even a risk for it is silly doomerism.

The truth is climate change is 100% a matter of fossil fuels. If we stop using fossil fuels, we will immediately stall climate change. Nothing else we can realistically do except burning fossil fuels will cause climate change, and even if we go full net zero on every other thing we do, without stopping fossil fuels, we will not make any progress whatsoever. Even if we used 100% ethanol fuel in ICE vehicles, we would stop climate change. Because we would not be introducing ancient sequestered energy back into the system, we would be taking energy from the system one year, and putting it back in the next.

Rice is the same. All methane renewed by growing rice will be sequestered or decayed in less time than it will take for properly dried and stored rice to decay, and none of whats generated would effect the total amount of methane circulating in the system.

A) Labubu’s are awful, and already so far out of fashion this is kinda a weird article to put out.

B) The ‘forced labor’ in the Xinjiang region of China is about equal to how every single license plate in the US is made, except prisoners are compensated better in China.

C) Just a reminder no international organization has said anything about Xinjiang other than ‘China’s response to US and Turkish terror groups were a bit harsh, and the racial profiling done in the 1990s that was stopped in 2006 was a bad thing. Also that one turkish family that was deported to indonesia should have been deported to turkey.’

D) Every single Uyghur organization in the US and Turkey has been linked to multiple attacks on civilians, is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (or was until Trump unwittingly cut their funding, marking a hilarious turning point in US propaganda production), and has been funneled weapons the same way Kurds have publicly been funneled weapons.

E) The US hates muslims. Literally hates the entire religion and all adherents. Believes they are monkeys that aren’t capable of thought like Zionists are. The US has hated China since the 1800s. The exclusive reason the US has immigration laws is because Chinese workers out worked American workers but sent all their earnings to their families back home. Until the Chinese exclusion act any person could come to the US and do whatever, as long as they could sustain themselves.

The US does not care about Chinese Muslims. At all. They are tools.

And I replied telling you you were wrong.

Rice is one of the most environmentally friendly carb sources, and in its native environments is an essential plant. Corn takes up more space and the production and refining creates more CO2 than rice. Potatoes are much more vulnerable to rot and much more likely to fail, not to mention the much higher fertilizer requirements.

Climate change is not one thing. Methane isn’t the enemy. Hell CO2 isn’t the enemy. It is taking out things out of balance. If we were to eliminate rice and just grow corn, yes, we’d drop 10% of methane production… except we wouldn’t because corn requires 5x the fertilizer and fertilizer production is a larger contributor to GHG emissions than aviation and shipping.

Corn is also horribly space inefficient outside the US. Not just outside the Americas, but outside specifically the midwest in the US. Despite it now being attempted to be grown on every continent there is no place on Earth besides the US and Canada that corn becomes more productive per hectacre than rice. It simply cannot replace rice, which is more productive on every single other continent.

So that’s 5x the fertilizer, at least 1.5x the space (up to 3x the space) which then logarithmically increase the amount of CO2 produced for transportation and production, all while destroying native ecosystems (or at least ecosystems that have adapted to rice farming over the last few thousand years), oh and we can’t forget water management systems would need to change drastically so add 50 years of construction to any CO2 calcs.

‘Methane bad’ is true, sure, but we can’t look at one single source, which provides HALF OF ALL CALORIES CONSUMED BY HUMANS, and say that’s a thing that needs to switch. If we replaced corn with rice tomorrow the world would have a net negative GHG production from where we started. The same is not true in reverse, despite rice causing a minor amount of separate methane production.

Given the number of calories per tonne of methane produced, no, no it’s not hurting the climate.

This kinda complain is the same as ‘well if we just eliminate humans we’ll solve climate change,’ like yeah, no shit. But the point is keeping humans alive and rice is uniquely good at just that.

To anyone wondering, no, rice is not hurting the climate. Unlike many water-intense crops, people are not trying to grow rice in the middle of the American desert.

It being ‘bad’ is kinda the point. It is a critique of capitalism, even in its current neutered form. It is a simple intuitive proof that if everyone started out on the same fair playing field; which is impossible in capitalism but would be the ‘idealized’ state that anarchocapitalists, Laissez-faire capitalists, and neoliberals would love to pretend the world has ever had or can ever had, capitalism will still end in an absolute collapsed state of a brutalist monopoly.

You have to add random cheat rules to even have a little fun with it, but there is no effective way to make capitalism have an end state that isn’t a total monopoly.

Parker Bros (and the various companies that bought it out after parker bros did) just didn’t really care that it criticized them as much as any other capitalist entity, because they made money.

That’s generally just the mold itself. While you can have competing cultures the nature of the Penicilium genus means you don’t have to really worry about bacterial growth and other mold growth would have competing colours in almost all cases for dairy products. With bread and fatty meats where you might see penicilium you are right to worry a lot more, but the nature of modern dairy means whatever spoils it tends to be monoculture as it’s generally a ‘whichever infects first has too much of a headstart to allow competition,’ when with bread and meat mold has a harder time penetrating the substance (giggity) and has much more competition respectively.

Pasteurized dairy is only vulnerable to so many pathogens that you can kinda guess what spoilage you’ll get based on sight and smell (at least down to the genus, it’s impossible to get much more specific without a full lab test).

Intel Arc has been out for a while and while it technically competes it’s not good enough or stable enough to handle the high end.