The Chinese ship actively blocking a rescue operation until they fully understood the potential blowback.

It depends on my clients. For some, I’m presenting the state of the art. For others, I’m dragging them decades into the future. For the other others, they are making me learn and it is a good feeling.

Good. It should be part of OSHA.

I saw this movie. Did it involve bringing kids to outer space and an AI robot that just wanted to help?

Part of the discussion with US rail is that American rail carries some freight service and it would be better environmentally to maintain that service than go all passenger.

For profit companies have shown themselves as being bad at running freight rail, but the solution to public rail needs to include freight.

Yes. The MAGA group probably wouldn’t be as large, but they would still be there and very angry.

China didn’t want to get caught with proof killing Filipinos in Filipino claimed waters.

Part of the problem is that, while Marx writes well regarding the economic flaws of capitalism, he isn’t as good at writing about the politics of change.

When induced by the body politic, we see that some of the economic surplus can be reallocated to the workers provided there is political pressure. It can come in the form of state backed rights, progressive taxation, and even direct welfare payments.

It probably isn’t the perfect system Marx envisioned, but enlightened liberalism is able to make subtle shifts over time in a way that absolute monarchies can’t.

This is a fundamental sticking point between people who believe in any form of capitalism and communism. If someone develops a method of creating a surplus of labor, under communism, they have no right to that surplus beyond the surplus they would get as a worker.

Yeah. I’ve seen great designers get noticeably frustrated when they can’t optimize the project to the level they could in school because there is a budget and maintenance factors that keep it from happening.

You also start getting into issues where that staff can vastly outperform other staff and it creates tension in compensation.

Thank you. I don’t hate you either.

Hooker Chemical sold for $1 and a list of conditions because the local government was threatening eminent domain after the company gave several warnings.

And I’m not going to defend Hooker in other locations.

The problem with using the Love Canal was that it was the local government that really fucked up.

For the time, Hooker Chemical Company disposed of the chemical waste in a somewhat responsible way; a clay lined canal that they later topped with clay to prevent water infiltration. If the turn wasn’t dead set in developing the land, we likely would have never heard of Love Canal.

I think people hate me more online than here, especially on Lemmy compared to Reddit. However, I find the people here who hate me are looking to hate in general.

China is definitely pumping money into its manufacturing capabilities, but I don’t think cornering the international market is why.

What appears to be happening is that local officials pushed an industrial development policy to make economic numbers go up. Some provinces got to the point of building factories and leasing them out to companies for that sweet economic growth.

The Chinese national government is trying to find a market for this since it can’t afford for all Chinese local investment to be bad. Developing countries don’t have the funds for the cheap solar output and the other industrialized nations are putting up trade barriers since they are running massive trade deficits with China already.

He’s expecting the far right to do a shit job at governing while he is still President and hopes this kills their popularity.

Or we could see a reimagining of the EU as it transitions from a national led organization to a supernational one. We are already seeing some national heads make moves to support their party over nation in EU politics. It is possible that this continues as politics in the EU becomes more important than member nations, especially as the EU starts gaining increasing budgetary and policy power.

Germany also has an economy that is most threatened by China’s increasing manufacturing prowess, both within the EU and outside of it.

It is also becoming apparent that Merkel’s leadership was in just being able to maintain the status quo, something that Germany can’t do now.

Not really. I don’t call people not can I read in my dreams.

Generally yes. If I didn’t want it, I wouldn’t post it.