Oof, right in the ad revenue 😂

Free healthcare is only good when it is actually good, but in the UK & Canada, it ain’t so good anymore.

Presumably they mean they want Assad to be tortured, raped and murdered like Gaddafi.

• Wikipedia: SantaCon
• The Village Voice: Ho, Ho, Bro: How SantaCon Went From Joyful Performance Art to Reviled Bar Crawl

No one is saying it’s a bug. Why not Signal?

You could try Proton’s other domains first, because they might not all be blocked. Another option is to use a different company’s mail aliasing/forwarding or for these rare cases.

Some websites do that. They block at the domain level. It tends to become a escalating game of spinning up new alias domains.

https://proton.me/support/creating-aliases#additional

If you have a paid plan, you can create at least 10 additional addresses (depending on your plan) with any Proton domain (@proton.me, @protonmail.com, @pm.me, or @protonmail.ch) or a custom domain, if you have one.

I have a custom domain, which websites never block, because they have no way of knowing that I use it for aliases.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Homelessness isn’t really a thing, though. As to the recent housing bubble, the Chinese state intentionally popped it and left the capitalists out to dry.

• Reuters: China Evergrande ordered to liquidate in landmark moment for crisis-hit sector
• Bloomberg: China Reiterates Stance That Homes Are Not for Speculation
• CNBC: China’s housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary

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“We will scale up the building and supply of government-subsidized housing and improve the basic systems for commodity housing to meet people’s essential need for a home to live in and their different demands for better housing,” an English-language version of the report said.

Compare that to Obama, who bailed out the private banks at the expense of people with home mortgages, banks that knowingly wrote those bad mortgages. Michael Hudson, 2023: Why the Bank Crisis isn’t Over

The financial sector is the core of Democratic Party support, and the party leadership is loyal to its supporters. As President Obama told the bankers who worried that he might follow through on his campaign promises to write down mortgage debts to realistic market valuations in order to enable exploited junk-mortgage clients to remain in their homes, “I’m the only one between you [the bankers visiting the White House] and the mob with the pitchforks,” that is, his characterization of voters who believed his “hope and change” patter talk.

The Federal Reserve is just the cartel of the US private banks, whereas banking in China is predominantly state owned. The Chinese state both runs these banks and has fiat monetary sovereignty, so it’s not captured by the private finance capitalists like the US state is.

Have you considered that, as an admin, I have access to information about votes and user accounts that you don’t?

• A China misinformation Megathread.

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Thoughtcrime. https://web.archive.org/web/20200727154945/https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/c2b7ma/china_megathread_everything_a_leftist_must_know/

“Who holds power” is very abstract and is not part of definition of socialism or capitalism.

Power isn’t abstract, and who holds it is definitional to socialism and capitalism, and to feudalism before them.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_bourgeoisie
• https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/bourgeois-democracy-what-do-marxists-mean-by-this-term

if workers held all the power, would there be homeless?

Not for the most part, no. In your imagined “capitalist” China, did you just assume that they have a homelessness crisis, without even checking? Because you’re unintentionally making our case for us.

Would there be any poor at all?

You can’t go from one of the poorest, least developed countries in the world to universal wealth overnight. But they have made unprecedented progress.

• Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says [UN] Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• China’s Energy Use Per Person Surpasses Europe’s for First Time
• At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
• China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

Those songs were only five years apart, which is blowing my mind right now.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_(song)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Air_Tonight

In the Air Tonight was ~44 years ago, which means this is no longer a dad joke but a granddad joke.

I usually trace it back to VisiCalc.

I think you’re confusing real life homelessness with a cartoon of a drunk who lies down to sleep it off for the night.

As I just said, whether they already do or not is beside the point.

how do these things make it less [comfortable]?

You already answered your own question:

weird human-shaped things added on top of the vents

It’s hard to believe you’re not trolling.

https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/unpleasant-design-hostile-architecture/

I also came across some inventive designs that I haven’t seen elsewhere, such as metal silhouettes soldered on top of warm ventilation exhausts at a CTrain station (below), a place where you could consider camping for the night.

Metal silhouettes prevent homeless people from sleeping over these CTrain grates in Calgary.

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