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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Source does speak about it more. It’s a question of not only how much work is being done, but what’s the difference of wages for the same work:

    Despite contributing 90–91% of the total labour that goes into global production and the production of traded goods in 2021, including the majority of high-skilled labour, the global South received less than half (44%) of global income, and Southern workers received only 21% of global income in that year. In other words, while global production is overwhelmingly performed in the global South, the yields are disproportionately captured in the global North, indicating a disproportionate command of the global product.

    labour exchange:

    In 2021, the global North imported 906 billion hours of embodied labour from the South while exporting only 80 billion hours in return (a ratio of 11:1). On average across the period, the North imported 15x more labour from the South than it exported in return. In other words, the North net-appropriates large quantities of labour from the South.

    and labour’s share of GDP:

    We find that, globally, labour received, on average, 51.6% of world GDP during the 5-year period 2017–2021. In other words, only half of all value produced in the world economy (that is represented in prices and included in GDP accounts) is captured by workers in the form of wages… Southern workers’ share of Southern GDP is notably lower than the global average, at an average of 47.5% during the 2017–2021 period, while Northern workers’ share of Northern GDP is higher, at an average of 54.7% during the same period.




  • I want to learn more about the LGBT community and since I’m a cis white guy living in a post soviet country, who grew up in a conservative family, I know jack shit.

    So I want to ask this question, is it okay for minors to have an opportunity to make surgeries on themselves? Like, we have age gaps for a reason, is there something that I’m missing here? Should there not be any regulations regarding this?

    Like, minors are notoriously not great at making decisions or being reasonable, I wouldn’t trust myself doing something this big, that’s for sure.






  • Okay, so I wanted to make a comment saying that a shit ton, if not the majority of g*mers (in the triple-A industry) are anti-woke racist fuckers, but I’m not sure how true that sentiment is.

    The reason why I wanted to say that is because the overall narrative that I see among “woke”, sweet baby topics is dominated by these kinds of people. And the other side is represented, maybe, only among the developers and a small portion of not braindead gamers, who don’t play only Sony AAA exclusives.

    But I hesitated because sales numbers don’t usually lie. Those scary “woke” games still made a shit ton of money, so I could probably just be exaggerating the number of people who actually care about this.

    What do you think?


  • Fascism < Territory

    Liberals got their priorities straight, probably why they were giving up Europe to Nazis so easily… Oh wait, well, war could have started, so then peace probably is more important than Territory.

    Fascism < Territory < Peace

    But USSR wanted to help out France and Britain in case of German expansion and they didn’t took this proposal, so it probably looks like this.

    Being allies with Soviets < Fascism < Territory < Peace

    Got it, Soviets are evil, case closed.






  • The US, Japan, South Korea are the best examples

    You know, the US that were so democratic to genocide the native population of the continent, using slave labor to build their economy while being systematically racist for their whole existence. The country that didn’t have a single war on their soil, brought wars, despair and poverty to the other regions of the world.

    Or fucking Japan that was just dumped with money and US control to become their satellite state, just like South Korea. So in order to be a democracy, and not to be the US, you need to totally give up your sovereignty? Is that how it works?

    Is that the price that you need to pay to be a democracy? The one of the best examples of it? What the fuck is this guy thinking.


  • His response is interesting.

    It also leads to racial hatred and division and doesn’t actually address the issues. It’s like Nazis saying that black people commit so much crime because of biology. It’s false, leads needlessly to hate, and nothing gets done.

    He basically created a straw man because I rarely/ever see “woke” media that is genially racist towards white people. But then he’s trying to compare “white struggle” in the MEDIA to a real life struggle of black people, which is really fucked up. And what’s funny, he’s saying that “Nazis” say that, when people that are generally on the right are keen to be racist and make those claims, but he doesn’t want to associate with them, to not seem like he is battling one racism with the other, so he says that exclusively Nazis say this shit.



  • Jesus Christ, that is the most disgusting fucking thread I’ve seen in a while, what the hell is happening.

    I often think that I have put myself into an echo chamber and I need to seek more alternative thoughts, but when THIS is the alternative, I’m sorry, there’s no way I’m gonna listen to those fuckers not even ignoring, but cheering for genocidal actions because they deemed Palestinian people undeserving of even existing.


  • Such idiocy, companies (especially tech companies) artificially slow down the progress to increase their profits, not the other way around.

    From the “Innovation” standpoint there’s no need to release a phone every year, but Apple does it, why? To innovate or make money? Why then every time a new iPhone comes out it’s barely distinguishable from the previous one, aside from a couple of features? iPhones are powerful enough to withstand 10+ years, so why not release a drastically new phone at least once in five years? Wouldn’t giving more time for your engineers to innovate bring even more innovation?