How the Liberals are eroding workers’ Charter-protected rights
How the Liberals are eroding workers’ Charter-protected rights
Prime Minister Mark Carney is presenting himself as a politician who has a vision of a new, more prosperous and sovereign Canada.canadiandimension.com
Proposal to Sell Gaza Land Via Crypto Tokens Met With Backlash
'Evil' Proposal to Sell Gaza Land Via Crypto Tokens Met With Backlash
Palestinian activists blasted the proposed plan to sell Gaza via crypto tokens and establish “blockchain-trade initiatives.”Ryan S. Gladwin (Decrypt)
U.S. physician groups sue Kennedy over vaccine policy
U.S. physician groups sue Kennedy over vaccine policy
Several medical organizations filed a lawsuit against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arguing that current policies on Covid vaccines pose a threat.Reuters (CNBC)
Gosuki: a privacy friendly, real time, multi-browser, extension-free bookmark manager
GitHub - blob42/gosuki: extension-free, multi-browser, real time, cloudless bookmark manager
extension-free, multi-browser, real time, cloudless bookmark manager - blob42/gosukiGitHub
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Gosuki: a privacy friendly, real time, multi-browser, extension-free bookmark manager
GitHub - blob42/gosuki: no-extension multi-browser real time bookmark manager
no-extension multi-browser real time bookmark manager - blob42/gosukiGitHub
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~~Not yet, it manages snaps but I can add flatpaks as well. I made it so all definitions are in a single file so that people can easily contribute by testing. I will update the documentation to reflect this.~~
Update: the latest v1.2.0 alsow works with snaps and flatpaks
Opensourcing a curated list of AI Agents and LLM Apps you can create with current frameworks
GitHub - rohitg00/awesome-ai-apps: A curated collection of practical AI agents and generative AI applications built with diverse tech stacks, demonstrating real-world implementations using OpenAI, Gemini, local models, and various AI frameworks.
A curated collection of practical AI agents and generative AI applications built with diverse tech stacks, demonstrating real-world implementations using OpenAI, Gemini, local models, and various A...GitHub
Laxen I Östersjön har problem. Det är odiskutabelt. Bestånden återhämtar sig inte trots minskat fiske. Men de förklaringar till problemen som Stiftelsen för Östersjölaxen ger består i huvudsak av lögner. Falska påståenden och påhittade så kallade sanningar.
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Stiftelsen för Östersjölaxen sprider lögner - Svenssons Nyheter - Njord
Stiftelsen för Östersjölaxen.Anders Svensson (Svenssons Nyheter - Njord)
Xbox's 'Golden Handcuffs' Are Screwing Over Laid Off Workers
Xbox's 'Golden Handcuffs' Are Screwing Over Laid Off Workers - Aftermath
'Unvested shares' are something I didn't even understand last week but this week have been floored byaftermath.site
The magic word is prorated.
If getting 99% of the way to something comes out to 0% of the payoff, that's fraud waiting to happen. A promise unfulfilled.
KDE Devs, I Love You, But Please Remove This Feature
KDE Devs, I Love You, But Please Remove This Feature
I cannot explain how much I do not want to see this green dot and “New!” text in my application launcher.KDE Discuss
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"Go edit the source" is starting to look like the new "let them eat cake".
How quickly you trivialize the work of the experienced kde devs that some pedestrian can wander in and mod a large project without fear.
106 kilo heroin beslagtogs under det första halvåret i år. Så mycket heroin har Tullverket aldrig stoppat tidigare år, inte ens under ett helår. Den sammanlagda mängden narkotika som Tullverket beslagtog ökade till 5,5 ton. Samtidigt beslagtogs nästan tre gånger så många explosiva varor. Det visar Tullverkets nya beslagsstatistik som även finns på lokal- och regional nivå.
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Rekordmycket heroin beslagtaget - Svenssons Nyheter
Rekordmycket heroin beslagtaget. 106 kilo heroin beslagtogs under det första halvåret i år. Så mycket heroin har Tullverket aldrig stoppatAnders_S (Svenssons Nyheter)
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mocks person who does know what gdp is
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And it's not that "countries I don't like manipulate their GDP".
It's more that GDP measurements, including the PPP kind, are fundementally flawed and that's by design.
China is around 2.5 times the economy of the US at this moment by looking how much they are manufacturing
and how much electricity they use, surpassing the EU per person.
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GDP is a terrible measure of genuine economic output, especially considering that it doesn't center production, but transaction and currency. A system highly financialized like the US, in reality, produces far less than China does, yet the US GDP is larger due to the dollar.
Plus, people still show up to argue all the time.
Neither system is perfect. Physical goods (except resources, food and medicine) can become obsolete, demand may drop significantly (especially for luxury products), can be boycotted if you piss off citizens of a rival country enough and they are subject to tariffs, which is obviously relevant with the arrogant dickhead in the white house.
Edit: I think it's still fair to say that GDP is certainly good rough indication of how well a country is doing economically. Otherwise what would be the point if everyone thinks it is useless?
Otherwise what would be the point if everyone thinks it is useless?
Capitalism trying to convince people it is still relevant and viable.
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These examples illustrate the disjuncture between GDP and societal well-being and the many ways that GDP fails to be a good measure of economic performance. The growth in GDP before 2008 was not sustainable, and it was not sustained. The increase in bank profits that seemed to fuel GDP in the years before the crisis was not only at the expense of the well-being of the many people whom the financial sector exploited but also at the expense of GDP in later years. The increase in inequality was by any measure hurting our society, but GDP was celebrating the banks' successes. If there ever was an event that drove home the need for new ways of measuring economic performance and societal progress, the 2008 crisis was it.
GDP Is the Wrong Tool for Measuring What Matters
It’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainabilityJoseph E. Stiglitz (Scientific American)
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Political Economy is complex. What GDP aims to measure is overall production, it's an explanation of wealth, however it paints a very uneven picture as it overvalues financial transactions and undervalues raw productive capacity. As a consequence, imperialist countries are overvalued (like the US), while production-focused countries are under-represented.
GDP is often pushed by liberal, western countries as it makes them look good. A more honest look, however, is multi-faceted and takes into account other metrics like social services, which often run into negative "profitability" or break even, as they aren't producing for profit. There's also the fact that the US doesn't outproduce in non-physical goods either. The US certainly has popular media and software, but it doesn't have overwhelming productive capacity in these areas.
The point of focusing on BRICS is because if you remove the financialized, almost ficticious look at capital as displayed by GDP, BRICS is more economically strong and significant, and this better reflects the real world, not just US-based self-perception.
Imperialism - ProleWiki
Imperialism is the highest stage of the capitalist mode of production, in which monopolies and cartels become the prevalent economic force of society. Lenin synthesized...ProleWiki
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Imperialism - ProleWiki
Imperialism is the highest stage of the capitalist mode of production, in which monopolies and cartels become the prevalent economic force of society. Lenin synthesized...ProleWiki
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What facts did I disagree with? Are you operating with a different concept of what imperialism means, ie a semantical difference but not a logical one? Or am I wrong about Russia having relatively small financial capital and thus lacking the capacity to practice imperialism in the same way western countries do? Or am I wrong about China's large and key industries being state owned, and their economy incentivizing multilateralism in order to sell more?
The first would be a semantical difference, not a disagreement with facts, the latter 2 would be if you could provide evidence to the contrary sufficient to outweigh what I said.
Imperialism - ProleWiki
Imperialism is the highest stage of the capitalist mode of production, in which monopolies and cartels become the prevalent economic force of society. Lenin synthesized...ProleWiki
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Maybe, but that would be better than just saying I "disagree with facts" while being cagey about what those "facts" are. That's just ad hominem (and I mean that genuinely, you're trying to discredit me through insult, not just insult me).
Either way, ultimately, this topic has shifted entirely from the base of the conversation, which is trying to find a good measure of economic productivity, and how focusing on financialized capital masked by GDP obscures actual productivity. It's why imperialist countries are declining, and why the PRC is rising. I don't think we disagree that western countries are going downhill and that the PRC is improving, so identifying why is productive.
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You are confidently wrong, pepe the frog is originally from a stoner comic. Besides, I am married, so the whole incel thing doesn't exactly check out.
Edit: Very revealing how absolutely everything I post is downvoted by default, despite this comment being irrefutable fact.
I think that is also a very one-sided view on this issue. The truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle.
Centrism is a religion
No, centrism is the uncritical acceptance of the political extreme that is currently in power. It rejects nuance on and critical questioning, because that might lead to believes other than the current status quo.
It is the certainly not the opposite to being a coward, and it is synonymous with being intellectually lazy; like relying on thought terminating cliches such as "the truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle"
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Once I was crossing a signalised intersection in Canada while the pedestrian light was on, and some jackass turning left on red (which is the most illegal way to run a red light btw) almost hit me and had to slam on the brakes, but what shocked me the most was that the driver behind them, also intending to turn left on red, fucking honked at the first driver for having the audacity to stop and get in their way instead of running me over.
I've also had multiple instances where I was about to cross an uncontrolled intersection and a driver (who's usually speeding to the point where I could tell with just my eyes) honks at me to get back on the sidewalk because they don't intend on stopping for me when the laws require them to. Also seen drivers turning right on red (which is legal here in BC for some reason) honking at pedestrians crossing with the light and demanding to go first when the laws say you're definitely supposed to wait until the cross walk clears.
This is why I hate drivers. They call cyclists and pedestrians entitled while doing shit like this.
Arbetsgivare som inte gjort tillräckliga riskbedömningar av till exempel kemiska ämnen, arbetsutrustning och vibrationsarbete – det var en av de vanligaste bristerna som Arbetsmiljöverket upptäckte i sin inspektionsinsats inom asfaltsläggarbranschen. Samtidigt bedömer de att inspektionerna har gett god effekt och lett till ökad samverkan om arbetsmiljörisker i branschen.
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Brister i asfaltsläggares arbetsmiljö - Svenssons Nyheter
Brister i asfaltsläggares arbetsmiljö. Arbetsgivare som inte gjort tillräckliga riskbedömningar av till exempel kemiska ämnen,Anders_S (Svenssons Nyheter)
U.S.-Installed Regime in Syria is Terrorizing the Country’s Christians - CovertAction Magazine
U.S.-Installed Regime in Syria is Terrorizing the Country’s Christians - CovertAction Magazine
In late June, Syrians experienced the worst attack on a Christian church since 1860 On June 29, 2025, I attended a church service at St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. St.Daniel Kovalik (CovertAction Magazine)
Proven by the OPCW factfinding mission evidence where the report was doctored higher up
Video| Zionist Drone Raids Car in South Lebanon, Claims One Martyr
Video| Two Martyrs in Zionist Drone Raids on South Lebanon
One Lebanese citizen embraced martyrdom after an Israeli drone raided his (Rapid) car with two missi...Al-Manar TV Lebanon
War with Israeli enhanced Iran’s position in region: poll
War with Israeli enhanced Iran’s position in region: poll
TEHRAN, Jul. 07 (MNA) – A new opinion poll indicates that a majority of Iranians believe that the country came out stronger from a recent war of aggression with the Israeli regime.Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (Mehr News Agency)
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in reply to VoxAliorum • • •I'm starting to think maybe I'd prefer Brave New World over the current reality. At least the people are happy and not miserable.
Until I'm reminded we still have some power in numbers, and speech isn't completely censored yet.
Though the future is basically BNW but with no soma. The soma will be UBI. Enough to live, but not enough to afford to rebel.
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