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So the feud was that Tom Hardy is a diva removed and Theron is a professional and didn’t accept him being a tool and wasting everyone else’s time and money. Sounds like he deserved every minute of what he got and then some.

PS3 is the only Sony console not to have significant backwards compatibility support on newer lines of their product. PS2 played all PS1 games, 3 played all PS2 and PS1 games at first, then all PS1 games after redesign. PS5 plays all PS4 games. There’s no reason to believe PS6 or whatever won’t play PS5 and likely PS4 games also.

No.

Then don’t do it.

That’s funny to think about. I’ve re-franchised quite a few formerly disenfranchised felons by explaining that laws changed and they can vote now and helping them learn how it goes. I never thought about the fact that these people care more about attacking other voters than doing the same. I guess if you’re “too good” to hang with leftists, you’re probably “too good” to hang with felons, but I’m a criminal fuck up too, I don’t really feel comfortable around people without records, so it’s easy for me.

BYD assembly line workers make $40k US on average, where are you getting your numbers? And $40k in China is literally like having over $100k in the US in terms of buying power.

You can buy and have delivered fresh made food for $3 US. You can rent a studio in a large city for $250/mo including Internet (250mbps) and utilities. How do I know? My wife lives and works in China, in a 20m person city center, and pays exactly that.

Min wage varies across provinces, but on average it’s about ¥30/hr, or about $4.15/hr. So no, electric car workers aren’t making $3/hr. They’re making more than my wife, and she’s making more than that. She also has guaranteed sick time built in on a federal level, triple overtime for working on holidays(which they have more of than we do), and they just passed a law mandating workers democracy in all public and private companies that will be implemented soon. I hate when people talk out their ass about things they have no idea about.

To put it as an article I saw the other day said, “who does the dishes after the revolution? Everyone.”

There’s a tendency I see among some leftists, like, “after the revolution I’ll knit for everyone all the time.” Nooo. We don’t need your knitted goods, to be honest. Machines do it better and faster. If you want to knit in your newly liberated free time, that’s fine. You can also help clean the toilets and scrub the floors.

In other words, I don’t really know whether I discount specialization entirely, but I do know that contribution to the various modes of production helps prevent elitism and ensures a comradeship that sitting in an office all the time and relying on others to do the hard work can never bring.

Some people really believe their own kool-aid. One of my good Chinese buddies always calls himself a slave in a feudal state. Dude owns his own house fully, has a wife and three kids, has land that he plants food on, makes frequent trips into the city to have fun with friends, has a new gaming laptop every year. He works hard, for sure. But he has so many privileges that it hurts to see how down he is on his life. He is basically living “the American dream” already. And like Carlin said, it’s called a dream because you’d have to be asleep to believe it. Sometimes he brings up these migrants as if they’d only come here if they could succeed here. I don’t want to show him this article because it’s just too much for him to handle and I know he’d go off on a rant about China again.

I do in a way. I don’t know how to put it, but to be so thoroughly fooled by the fools gold roads that you’d think an undocumented immigrant could do better here than a legal citizen could do there is very sad. I make more than 4x the fed min wage and the only way I could afford to move out is if I put aside all of my hopes of saving and building a better future. Someone working under the table, without a large family to live with also working under the table, is going to have a really hard time here. And without the support networks that prior immigrants provide, it’s no surprise he lives in a tent in the woods.

Had to check with my wife, but yes, that’s exactly it.

There’s this one drink my wife and I tried in Beijing that looks like a coffee but smells and tastes pretty much like raw sewage, they should give that to him.