most anti-state power ancap

China’s road infrastructure is all much newer than most other developed nations. And since it was built later I imagine the materials and civil engineering undergirding them is better.

However, the bill always comes due eventually for reinforced concrete. It’s currently coming due in most of the west now from all the freeway building that happened in the 50s.

China still has a long time til they’re in the same place, and it will be interesting to see if they learned the lessons of not deferring maintenance.

I assume this increase in men being single has led to increases in male loneliness and subsequently the massive chauvinist backlash and rightward shift that’s been happening in S. Korea.

What’s needed here is to sell off the lamp posts to a private corporation and then to rent them back from that same company!

did they install it via an electric car?

Damn maybe we shouldn’t be giving Israel bombs.

sorry. spent all the aid money on pontoons

Berkeley has had an encampment on campus since April 22nd and hasn’t sent in the cops.

As always, with protests like this, the violence always begins with cops.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/berkeley-takes-hands-off-approach-gaza-campus-protests-columbia-called-police-2024-05-02/

but y’all his brain is totally good dw about it

What do Japanese homophobes even thump as the basis of their hate, if they’re not christian? Is there some foundational Buddhist or Shinto text I don’t know about that says gay sex is gross?

Israel already did their strike, and it actually had casualties!

Iran’s strike was the symbolic one.

If 6200 property sales over ten years are contributing in a significant way to your housing affordability crisis, perhaps you have not built enough housing.

You say that, but Republican legislators all over the US are fighting against universal free school lunch programs.

But their goal isn’t an educated workforce, it’s to cynically destroy the public school system so that they can funnel taxpayer money to dubious christian private schools via voucher programs.

Would be cool if it were true.

It’s a top down problem. The universities didn’t invent it. For years, candidates have campaigned on “lrn2code” so much so that we make fun of it here. They weren’t saying that to bring new perspectives or art to the discipline. They were saying it because tech jobs have basically become the only path to the middle class. Small wonder, then that enrollment situations are what they are.

I graduated from UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering with a CS degree right as the recession hit. Even then, I could see the demographics of my classmates trending away from your typical nerds who just like being on the computer into guys who were just after a paycheck.

Point being, like everything, this is a systemic issue. Give people one path out and they’ll take it. The US economy is basically just giant business conglomerates and tech companies. Myopic capitalism has led us to this.

Everyone should read The Jakarta Method. The history of the Suharto regime is barely ever discussed in the West, but it was probably the most brutal and murderous American-supported dictatorship excepting maybe Pol Pot.

waow

no shit

It’s pretty much just called “questions”, and the shouts are typically not questions either.

that’s not what OP alleged