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BRICS is never going to happen with its member countries basically in opposition of one another.

Can you lay out precisely how its member countries are in opposition of one another?

Yeah, it's not out of character unfortunately. It's just an extension of the "strikers/unionizers are greedy bastards" rhetoric that's common in the USA. They've done a good job of painting advocating for your rights as a laborer as being "greedy".

CNN is already planting the seeds to blame workers for the upcoming recession.

Of course they are. Even the title of the article does that: they put the blame of the economic impact on the strike(rs), not on UPS. An honest title would read something like: UPS could cost the USA economy $7.1B. An even more honest one would hint at the actual reason for such greed, but I'd settle for getting the blame properly assigned.

Hmm fair enough. I suppose by looking at the encoding and container formats I can probably narrow it down to a couple choices for each one.

Awesome thank you so much. I'm glad it is going to be easy to fix then.

Now, one thing I'm not sure of is: how do I find the exact torrent to use? By now there's no way I have a magnet link or torrent file, and due to file renaming for my media library I doubt I'd be able to identify an exact release anyway.

Oh cool! I had considered that as maybe being an option but I wasn't sure if it would actually work or not. I can't afford a VPN right now so I wasn't going to try, I figured I'd go ahead and ask so when I can get one running I can jump right in.

Now, will it know the difference between "missing" and "corrupt"?

Yeah it's disingenous as a headline. UPS is costing the economy $7B, not the strikers.

Liberalism is a right-wing ideology.

In general I agree, it's just from the specific comment I replied to it isn't immediately obvious if they're saying "China is suffering from the same problems as capitalist states (despite not being one)" or if they're saying "China is suffering from the same problems because it's also capitalist".

While I agree that per capita emissions is a useful metric, perhaps even more useful than raw emissions numbers, where are you getting that the USA has the highest production per capita?

This table shows data from 2018 so things change, but the per capita emissions would have had to double in five years to put the USA on top.

If you look at the non-per capita numbers, the USA is the second largest emitter behind China (using data from 2018).

Seems a bit silly to decide that “capitalism” is the majority contributor to climate change when the country that produces the most greenhouse gases is only “pretty capitalist” doesn’t it? If capitalism is the major contributor, why don’t more capitalist country produce more greenhouse gases?

That's not necessarily the case. The pollution comes from where manufacturing is, not necessarily where consumption is. The demand is coming from capitalist countries.

Edit: To account for this, we can look at per-capita consumption-based emissions (thanks to @boonhet@lemm.ee for the data link).

You can't simultaneously call Russia an authoritarian dictatorship and say that its people have the power to change the country's trajectory.

Because the only way to force change in a country, is to push it’s people to make that change.

The correct way to say this is: "the only way to force change in a country, is to push the people who can make change to make that change".