[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I basically don't buy games anymore lol. It def seems unsustainable af but I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is going to sound like an ad regardless of how I say it but I have both and I basically never use the PS5. I have small children though and game pass has been incredible for giving us a constant stream of entertainment for years now. We did really enjoy PS5 the first year or two but just kinda dropped off after a while.

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I bet they count every time the data was fetched, regardless of whether it showed up on a screen even.

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 77 points 3 months ago

It's good to know we're still living rent free in their heads. I literally never think about those people.

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Does anyone know anything about this platform or these people? I hope they're going to be on every ballot. Seems like a good vehicle to count how much support there is for communism around the country. vote

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Banging my fists on the table and chanting "Viet Nam! Viet Nam!" over and over

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Freighter headed to Italy with 21,000 tons of wheat gets stuck in Detroit River

ever-given

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Thanks Google News (hexbear.net)
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"World's Worst Airline" smuglord

North Korea Flies World’s Worst Airline to Beijing for First Time Since 2020
Jon Herskovitz
Tue, August 22, 2023 at 12:25 AM EDT

(Bloomberg) -- North Korea’s state airline made its first international trip since the start of the Covid pandemic, in a sign of easing border restrictions that could repatriate its stranded nationals abroad and increase trade with its powerful neighbor.

Flight data indicates than an Air Koryo passenger jet flew from Pyongyang to Beijing on Tuesday, which would be the first such commercial flight in more than three years. China’s Foreign Ministry said this week the country had given permission for the flight. Air Koryo is also set to operate flights on Friday and Aug. 28 between Vladivostok and Pyongyang, according to NK News, a specialist service on North Korea.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sealed the border at the start of the pandemic in early 2020. The move slammed the brakes on the little legal trade conducted by his heavily sanctioned state and also left stranded North Korea’s diplomats and thousands of workers sent to places such as Russia and China to earn hard currency for Kim’s regime.

In a sign of opening, North Korea last month allowed in high-level delegations from Russia and China for the first time since the start of the pandemic, and this month sent a group of its taekwondo athletes abroad to take part in a championship in Kazakhstan.

Signs of a resumption of trade with China, historically Pyongyang’s biggest partner, led Fitch Solutions to estimate North Korea’s economy returned to growth after two full years of contraction. Still, it added that significant uncertainties still remain.

Air Koryo has previously been ranked among the worst airlines in the world.

--With assistance from Danny Lee.
©2023 Bloomberg L.P.

Link to article in case anyone cares to see for themselves

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 80 points 10 months ago

Yeah communism is great, or as you call it, "tankieism"

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 78 points 10 months ago

Check out this fed over here

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 94 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I forgot how ignorant and self-righteous Reddit liberals were. The ones I've seen are easily the loudest and dumbest people on this network of federated instances. They have their "conviction" and "is wrong" sliders completely maxed out.

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 84 points 10 months ago

Let's not pretend that your politics aren't inherently authoritarian as well.

Either you support capitalism (or worse), which is grossly authoritarian as it inflicts massive violence not only via warfare but through mass starvation and deprivation, or you support socialism, in which case you have two options:

  1. The violent overthrow of the current system (spoiler alert: that's a very authoritarian thing to do!)

  2. The gradual reform of the current system, meaning maintaining the status quo for an exceptionally long time as we ever so slowly creep our way to a more just economic system while countless people starve, go homeless, die without healthcare, end up in yet-another war and so on (which is a very authoritarian proposition, just throwing away the lives of the poor in your own country-not to mention those in the developing world-just so you can have a neat and tidy reformist approach that doesn't rock the boat.)

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 129 points 10 months ago

Lemmy was built by communists and the audacity of these liberals to come here and demand shelter from exposure to communists is really something

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 103 points 10 months ago

This post appeared on my feed. That's the only reason I'm here. Get used to not being popular. This isn't Reddit. No one is going to protect you from not encountering leftists.

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 114 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We've been around for literally 3 years bro. You're the new kid here.

Also lemmy was literally partially created by our users. You're the one coming into our space.

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 193 points 11 months ago

There's something extremely funny about the president of the US looking at what's going on China and saying out loud, "Their economy is a ticking time bomb." This is almost an onion news story.

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