Rinox

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[–] Rinox@feddit.it 51 points 5 months ago (18 children)

It's not that they will run out of people. They have people, but to keep recruitment levels so high and equipment manufacturing so high they are overcharging their economy. Right now in Russia there are three types of jobs if you want to make money afaik, work in the military complex (arms manufacturing), in the gas extraction industry or directly in the military.

It's Dutch disease x100, if the state at some point stops being able to fund the war machine, their economy collapses.

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but that's beside the point. Most people use Steam not because of Linux support or because of BPM.

Valve hasn't revolutionized their business once Ubisoft, EA, Amazon, CDPR and Epic started to compete with them. They just kept doing what they were doing and eventually saw the bodies passing in the river

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 7 points 5 months ago

There's always someone in the world archiving stuff, and with GOG the installers can be shared freely if they ever close shop, since they don't have DRM. With Steam that can be a lot harder, depending on the DRM they have

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 2 points 5 months ago

Tell that to Unicode

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 1 points 6 months ago

Wasn't china in the 19th century a literal empire?

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nine dash line

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

European workers didn't get their rights from being imperialist, they fought hard against the imperialist elites to get where they are now, and China's elites are being just as imperialist today as any European or American elite has been since forever.

China and India is apples to oranges. There are a myriad of reasons why their paths diverged. There are other East Asian countries that did better than China way before China, while starting from a much more similar point (or even a worse point).

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 1 points 6 months ago (6 children)

You could say the same about every developed nation. It took a bit more for most nations, but these nations had to literally invent concepts like public health and education, welfare and even socialism.

But yeah, every western European country has already eliminated the worst kind of poverty and on average European citizens are better off than Chinese citizens. Working conditions, working hours and safety laws in Europe are much better than the Chinese average.

The US is doing its own thing with extreme capitalism, and I'm against that, but let's not kid ourselves, China has taken a lot of pages from the US's economic model

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 12 points 6 months ago

One of these is not like the others

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 3 points 6 months ago

🤌 means "what the fuck" or "the fuck", as in "what the fuck do you want" or "the fuck do I know" and stuff like this.

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Once upon a time Coca cola used to sell coke in glass bottles that you would then give back to them, they'd wash them, sanitize them and sell them again. You'd pay a small deposit on the bottle that they'd then give back to you. They had bottling centers all over the place.

They switched to plastic bottles because it was much cheaper to let the government handle the garbage problem

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The US night of the long knives has come

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