For what it’s worth, a government can absolutely subsidized an industry in an attempt to capture a foreign market.

There’s a reason Japan and Korea have their own auto industries despite being next door to the largest manufacturing nation on earth, and it isn’t because they’re somehow making and distributing them for even less than China.

That being said, several automakers have blindfolded themselves about the type of cars people want. I do hope this threat is significant enough that automakers actually shift to mini-electric transportation options.

If not, I’d be happy enough buying a small Chinese electric even if the taxes made it equivalent to a larger “western” vehicle. Because it’s what I want to have available to me and it’s nice to fuck capitalists with capitalism.

The consequence of arresting political opponents?

A lifetime without consequences for your actions.

Paying workers more is inflationary, but raising the cost of goods because you control the supply chain is “business”

Basically, raising product costs to cover increased labour costs are bad because actual workers are getting that money instead of the wealthy capital class.

I wish people understood boycotting more. Sure 6 companies own everything, but remember when the cost of a barrel of oil went significantly negative because people weren’t driving for 2 weeks?

If people collectively decided they didn’t want to buy anything but the absolute necessary staples for a few months there would be an absolute catastrophe in the supply chain and they’d be forced to lower prices significantly.

They may not lower prices forever, but modern business is built entirely on supply chain logistics. If people stop buying anything, or buy things exclusively to return them we would see some serious changes

Samurai champloo is a classic and contributed a ton to anime style, but maybe doesn’t hit as hard with plot as more recent creations. Fun and campy meets dark and gritty

Inuyasha is another classic feudal Japan and magic environment

May as well mention Afro Samurai if I’m gonna have a string of feudal Japan anime

Most people look like they mentioned Cowboy bebop already

I’m a huge Neon Genesis Evangelion fan, but originally watched it in the early 2000’s as a teenager with divorced parents so there’s probably a big nostalgia factor

I absolutely loved cyberpunk edgerunners, but it’s only 10 episodes (watched this probably 5x already)

The animated witcher movie + Castlevania (not nocturne though) were really good.

Arcane + DOTA I found to be really enjoyable as well.

My dystopian expectation is we’ll probably settle on all plastic should be white so it can reflect light back into space, replacing albedo effect we got from all the snow we used to have

This is my first time seeing them in meme format, and I’m happy it’s for LOTR

Fun fact, in South Africa they are often referred to as a Dassie

I’ve heard rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle works great for killing most bugs, but I’ve never tried it on a hive so they might get big mad before they’re immobilized/die

Adding one or two drops of dish soap to a large spray bottle of rubbing alcohol can make it stick to bugs better, making it more effective. Far safer than poison based pest control too!

How dare you! They are not hypocrites!! Democrats are always wrong about everything, so who cares if you have to abandon logic, reality, and consistency in order for the world to make sense?!

Being objectively wrong is an insignificant price to pay when it still feels like you’re right!

/s

Yet some people want to see it over and over.

Absolute monsters.

The Martian when the main airlock blows up.

He ends up taping a plastic sheet over the hole with what I assume is super strong space tape and plastic and then continues to live in the station for 550 more days.

We spend the first half of the movie learning how unforgiving the environment is, and how delicate his ecosystem for life is, but you can also blow half the place up and just tape some plastic over the hole.

They did a much better job of explaining it in the book, but the movie literally went “just tape that bitch up with plastic, then we’ll throw a wind storm at it to prove it’s good forever”

Canadian tradition would be nationalize them, improve them greatly at taxpayer expense, and then sell it back to private interests for a song

I totally feel this.

So many videogames I enjoyed just ended before last boss

Decent job with lots of down time, and I desperately want to want to learn more things and give myself potential for career advancement and some job flexibility. Like I really want to be able to do it, but I just can’t bring myself to start because I don’t need to, even though I like learning new things.

Even when I complete a home project, or accomplish a life goal, it’s just kind of… Meh? Well that’s done I guess?

There’s also a constant battle of feeling anxious in most social settings, but feeling guilty/lonely without them. Almost like juggling two things you don’t particularly like, trying to find the balance where you’re least mentally uncomfortable.

It’s great having videogames, but you can only do something so much before everything starts to feel formulaic and unfulfilling.

There is always a feeling or sensation that I should/could be doing something else unless I’m hyper fixated on something

I can almost understand the idea when applied to extremely dangerous individuals. There should absolutely be some kind of separate system for people who are too dangerous to be able to reintegrate into society.

A one size fits all justice system is a terrible way to run a society

Because people don’t hate getting scammed by their scam artist.

Conservatives also tend to make politics a core part of their identity, which allows conservative governments to get away with doing everything they accuse Liberals of doing mostly without consequences.

Canada has some of the most apathetic voters in the world, so I don’t expect anything in this country to improve anytime soon.

People will simply trade getting screwed by the letters L/C and be certain they are one election away from all of their problems going away.

Wake up sheeple, here’s the real history of the moon

Neon Genesis Evangelion History

First Impact (also known as the “Giant Impact”) is an Impact which occurred in prehistoric times when the Black Moon, a giant spherical object, collided with the Earth in what is now the Hakone region of Japan. The collision caused an explosion that launched a massive amount of material from Earth into orbit. This orbiting debris eventually coalesced into Earth’s only moon. The Black Moon is the vessel that carried Lilith, one of the members of the Seeds of Life sent out into the universe by the First Ancestral Race.

Edit: Well that wasn’t well received, guess this instance doesn’t have a lot of evangelion fans 💀

“Decades”, “More snow”

Next time axe the executives and keep the staff.

Most executives I’ve met can’t read emails and just point to one of two numbers and say “higher/lower!” while dreaming of KPI’s that don’t improve anything and solely exist to stagnate wages

While I agree with you about half measures that divide the workforce/classes I am still all about “raising the basement”.

Too many policies will only meaningfully impact the wealthy, so seeing lower pay bands receive specific attention is always great to see.

There are still far too many loopholes, lack of enforcement/consequences, and creative schedules that actively repress workers, but this policy sounds pretty great and it is affecting a lot of workers in less than a year which is fantastic momentum.

It’s also more difficult to pass sweeping legislation when Republicans + Conservative supreme Court do absolutely everything in their power to resist any kind of improvement to American life they possibly can.

Poor guy thought lighting himself on fire at something to do with Trump wouldn’t make everyone think it’s about Trump.

He had a bunch of flyers that he threw in the air before setting himself on fire outside a Trump trial, but unfortunately none of them mentioned Trump. Maybe something about billionaires which is kinda Trumpy, but we won’t actually show you any of them because we’re here for Trump. Anyhow, Trump Trump Trump

Shame we never considered bringing in construction workers as we process over a million new immigrants a year.

Edit

I’ll provide some links since I am coming off as racist/anti immigrant

here’s a gov of Canada link to a pilot program for construction immigration strategies

Another article

“Despite this program’s utility, it excludes applicants with experience as construction trades helpers and labourers, which is one of the top two residential construction occupations most in need of workers.”

Both of these articles are from the worst priced housing markets (BC and Toronto) and both talk about temporary pilot programs/completely ignored labor skills resulting in continued construction labor shortages, which should be nearly impossible when bringing in a million people with favorable entry to construction workers.

I’m on mobile and I don’t really feel like pumping out tons of articles to prove everything I say, but essentially the marketing on immigration has been “we’re bringing homebuilders to Canada to relieve the housing crush” and the reality is “we’re using immigration to prop up housing and suppress wages, with little actual home builders coming in who then require training anyhow.”

Another comment mentioned that it’s hard to ensure training and knowledge/understanding of trade skills, and language barriers can prevent people with construction experience from being able to work. So instead of enticing Canadians to get educated in jobs we need, we import them and make them take training anyhow to keep wages down.

I’m not trying to say immigration is bad, but what’s happening in Canada is in reality far far away from the wave of homebuilding immigrants that was promised