not from the US, but in my country all the talk about 'raising awareness' and 'destigmatizing' mental illness has also been followed by a systematic dismantling of public mental health care treatment services
Sasuke
joined 4 years ago
another sicko to add to our collection
real chance that we get to see him die on camera. fingers crossed!🤞
Argentina lifts wages, welfare in defiance of IMF austerity push
Argentina’s Economy Ministry has announced measures to improve government workers’ salaries and funnel money toward retirees and poorer families, defying an International Monetary Fund appeal earlier this month for the country to spend less.
Economy Minister Sergio Massa, who is running for president, outlined measures that include tax-breaks, higher pension payments, additional money for food programmes for families with kids, and low-interest credit lines. It also includes financing for export products, according to the announcement made on social media Sunday.
[...] The measures could put the government in conflict with the IMF, which approved a cash transfer to the government last week following extensive negotiations over its multi-billion dollar loans, after Argentina failed to meet programme targets amid a drought.
[...] A condition of the IMF’s aid to Fernández’s government was that Argentina step up expenditure controls by limiting public wages and pensions. The lender said in a statement last week that the government would implement a temporary increase in taxes on select goods and services to offset losses from drought-related exports.
China’s top chip designers form RISC-V patent alliance to promote semiconductor self-sufficiency
A group of leading Chinese chip design firms have formed a patent protection alliance for RISC-V, as the country bets on the open-source architecture to help achieve its long-sought goal of semiconductor self-sufficiency.
At a RISC-V industry forum held in Shanghai’s Lingang New Area on Monday, nine chip companies – including Alibaba Group Holding’s chip unit T-Head and Shanghai-listed VeriSilicon Holdings – agreed to form the alliance that includes a condition for members to not sue each other over patent infringement, according to local media The Paper, under the state-run Shanghai United Media Group. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
Members of the alliance will share patents with each other and license them to third parties in the name of the alliance, according to Dai Weimin, chairman of VeriSilicon and head of the China RISC-V Industry Alliance, formed in 2018. The new alliance aims to contribute to a “healthy” open-source chip ecosystem and promote the rapid development of RISC-V technologies.
no, but i've learned how to enjoy the spectacle
French ambassador stays in Niger, defying junta, as Macron defends French policy (AP News)
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that France’s ambassador is staying at his post in Niger despite being asked to leave by the ruling junta, speaking out firmly against the coup leaders while insisting that France is not Niger’s enemy.
“One shouldn’t give in to the narrative used by the coup leaders that consists of saying France has become our enemy,” Macron said Monday.
’’The problem of Nigeriens today is the coup leaders who put them in danger because they are abandoning the fight against terrorism, because they are abandoning a policy that was economically good for (the population) and they are in the process of losing international funding that was helping them emerge from poverty.”
whoever made this is really telling on themselves. peak projection
i'm finally reading the arcades project, and man... benjamin is such an incredible writer. there's just something so captivating about his prose. i'm only about ten pages in (+ the intro) and i think i already have 15+ handwritten a4 pages with notes
this thread show what happens when we try to dial back on use of the volcel police
sorry but...
spoiler
YOU'RE ALL UNDER ARREST
i think the problem with freud is that, outside of some lit studies, he isn't really approached from a sociocultural perspective anymore. all of his most prominent theories, at least in pop culture, has been tossed into this grotesque wellness machine where they're at best treated as tools to achieve personal happiness, and at worst used to erase the web of social relations and material conditions that forms an individual
i 100% support a ban on those mukbang(?) channels or whatever they're called