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*Africa. It's Africa that produces the vast majority of these materials, and it's the plight of the people here that is most ignored. It's easy to accept an exploitative supplu chain if you can't see those affected most. Out of sight, out of mind.

it's amazing how insular American social values are. outside of America transgenderism and gender dysphoria is seen as a mental illness. From Thailand to India, from Africa to South and Central America, there are a wide variety of hermaphroditic peoples who are culturally and socially accepted without surgical interventions. it's only in the West, driven by the US, that self determination and surgical and hormonal interventions are thought to be a good solution, whereas elsewhere the focus is on mental health support rather than gender "realignment".

if we can't retire in the future, they can't retire now. it's only fair; send them back to work till they fall over.

... by firing thousands of its most capable workers, and making the rest feel super disposable. this is a tried and tested technique to getting the most out of skilled engineers and scientists...

because growth is a company wide mindset, and growth marketers are the product market fit experts, not a PPE specialist. Facebook did growth the best because they used the org to bring product and market together, with data powering the insights.

American whataboutism at it's finest.

Russia and the whole world minus the US voted against Nazism at the UN. Russia beat the Nazis the first time, despite American propaganda claiming a role. In reality America not only funded the Nazis till 1942, but squirreled away the best of them after that, then went on to back Nazis in power wherever they were, across the globe. America has also funded fascist causes and leaders across the globe in their eternal war against communism. so no. there are right wing Russians, but the global cause of white supremacy, Nazism and the promotion of a matter race is a distinctly white, Western, NATO promoted set of fascist organisations that are very much at the ideological heart of what being "Western" is.

This against the backdrop of the growing pool of evidence about operation Celeste, the "vaccination" program in the eighties in Africa distributing HIV as a population control measure.

The witnesses from the documentary "Cold Case Hammerskold" recently gave evidence to the UNHRC I believe.

poor people with cars in the US massively skew the homeless numbers because those living in their cars aren't classified as homeless. fun fact!

for a few thousand years we had religious ideologies. for a few hundred years, political ideologies. Now we have a technical ideology, where the fundamental functionality of the technology is a mind worm that opens the world up to be a place where we DON'T NEED CENTRAL AUTHORITY TO GIVE US PERMISSIONS TO DO ANYTHING. the future is bright once the old hierarchaics are gone.

humans can smell petrichor in air more effectively than great white sharks can smell blood in water. We are genetically predisposed to sniff out fertile soil.

Opera beats both. Always has.

they are right to. wait until the Indonesian Muslims and Cape Coloured community of South Africa get to tell their stories...

reparations should never end, in the same way that Western debt burdens on American aid have enslaved African economies independence from colonialism.

mineral laundering, or the expropriation of African minerals and metals to other countries to disguise their origin, is estimated to account a considerable portion of the global GDP. if accounted for Africa would be a net debitor of the football economy; that is to say Africa would have the value role that the US/West currently holds. poverty, corruption and African war are all useful ways to disrupt sovereignty, undermine local growth, and hide the ill gotten gains from scrutiny. Western firms and govts still consistently do this across Africa to maintain the modern global economy. our technology-driven consumerist world wouldnt exist without this laundering. (copper, gold, cobalt, coltan, rare earths etc).

https://cryptome.org John Young and Deborah Natsios have been tracking the building of Supertalls across Manhattan, and the huge civic issues they create. Their resources are well worth reading to understand some of the consequences of these structures.