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Mahjong soul is Riichi Mahjong (the most popular in Japan), and has slightly modified rules to most of the Chinese rulesets.

To play official Chinese Mahjong rules you can play against AI on "Mahjong 13 tiles" on the playstore/app store on mobile. On PC you can play online on https://playmahjong.io/login as a guest if you don't want to log in. None of these options are as slick as Mahjong Soul in presentation or have a ranked mode, so you'll miss out on that.

For Chinese Official Rules you can find them here: https://playmahjong.io/chinese-official-rules

And here as a picture guide (plus other popular rulesets): https://www.mahjongpictureguide.com/

Riichi is fun but I much prefer Chinese Official in person as scoring is way easier and you need less shit to just get started.

I think it's less purposeful than direct discrimination, the application should have no sign I've ticked the box for the disability scheme, but I think that their screening process is just really poor.

I reckon they're either using AI to batch shortlist and don't really care about when it makes mistakes, or their shortlisters are having to wade through so many applications they're not giving enough attention to each one and incorrectly scoring them. This then has the downstream effect of being indirectly discriminating, because they actually have to justify what essential criteria I have missed to deny me an interview, but for anyone else accidentally missed during shortlisting they can just lie and say they didn't make the cut because there were so many strong candidates.

Having chatted with people recruiting in this area before, they're getting like 500-1000 applicants for each role so their shortlisting has had to speed up to keep the process to a sane timeline. This has pushed them to make far more mistakes than I've ever had to deal with during the shortlisting phase. I used to get an interview almost every single time I applied for a role, and would perform well enough to be in the top 2 or 3 candidates if I failed to get the role. Now I'm just being screened out at the application phase.

George Galloway and the Workers Party are transphobic and kind of aggressively so, GG has been weirdly ethnonationalist to former Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf, GG is anti-abortion, and GG and the WP are probably too pro-China and pro-Russia as well for the soft left, trots, and "anti-imperialists" in Your Party.

There's probably even more lurking around the WPGB that I can't remember right now but there's a decent starter.

Got rejected from a job I applied for in a field I've worked in for years, asked for feedback and was told I missed a piece of essential criteria which I had definitely covered twice in my application.

Immediately responded with the excerpts and am awaiting their excuses about why the two examples I gave were not good enough evidence.

The kicker is this is a gov adjacent role in the UK and we have the "Disability Confident" scheme that lets disabled candidates get a guaranteed interview when you hit all the essential criteria. I opted in for that as a disabled person and conveniently (and this happens a lot!! At least 3 other times to me) I apparently don't hit the essential criteria for a role I've done for like 7 years at a higher level than what I'm applying for, with examples that have gotten me jobs for roles at a higher level than the ones I'm applying for.

I love this period of economic stagnancy it's great fun 🫠

Cockshott's transphobia blinds him to the real reasons why Your Party and the Workers Party haven't merged.

The 2010 remake of Hunter x Hunter is also awesome and gets two more seasons of content that were made after the 1999 one came out.

The Chimera Ant arc in the 2010 series is one of my favourite seasons of any show. Anti- DPRK in hindsight but I watched it pre-radicalisation, and if you just ignore the liberalism of it the story is still peak.

Hasan has always openly been a reformist when it comes to American politics, despite happily platforming MLs and doing theory sessions. He has mentioned many times in the past that this has always been a sticking point with people further to his left with him.

This isn't a new thing.

Isn't this broadly Marx's original position on the organic spontaneous working class energy?

I.e. what you want and are fighting for is correct and just, but here are the limitations of doing it in the way you're trying to - you should do it this way instead because of x y z.

Platner is an unashamed imperialist and by personal accounts loved being a mercenary in Iraq. He doesn't seem regretful at all and made no real attempt at asking for forgiveness.

ADHD symptoms are well proven to be treatable in most cases by proper medication. They also help children with ADHD have their brain develop to be far closer to a neurotypical brain, causing a cessation in distressing ADHD symptoms in adulthood sometimes allowing them to be able to come off medication entirely.

ADHD medication, prescribed properly and titrated onto under guidance of a specialist doctor also is not addictive and easily weaned off of.

ADHD is a disability under capitalism, and even under socialism can cause massive issues and certainly can be disabling even under a fairer economic system. We will need to move to a much more accommodating system of work that might still only get an unmedicated person with ADHD up to like 80% as efficient over long stretches of time (short term analysis is pointless because most people with ADHD can completely outperform neurotypical people while a task is novel and interesting to them). It is a tiring neurotype to have as you desperately want constant stimulation and newness that is just impractical to provide in most cases. Not to mention its higher likelihood of co-occurence with Autism that also makes the person crave structure and routine as well as novelty in the right doses, which just throws a big spanner in the works for accommodating them.

Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker are reactionary pseudo-leftists, cloaking their rhetoric in a Marxist garb while vying for social democracy at best. As the founders they have a strong say in the company's editorial line and output, colouring much of what is published by them. They are solidly on the Jacobin left and if there were a Platner style candidate in the UK I'm sure they would be right there in the same way the Jacobin left are there in the US. See their generally uncritical support of the Green Party of England and Wales.

Michael Walker did recently have a holiday in China that majorly softened their output on the country, but they still have that western left anti-Chinese anti-AES veil even when "Chinamaxxxing".

Most of their interviews are with soft-left darlings in the media sphere in the UK, and they happily signal boost their imperialist left positions with little to no pushback.

I'll watch and read their stuff as they're still probably one of the better outlets in the UK. Basically you have the transphobic CPB aligned Morningstar newspaper that is mostly good and not anti-AES (generally, but they do publish opinion pieces that will happily be anti-AES because they are so heavily aligned with the reactionary British trade union movement); and you have the pro-trans but reformist and imperialist left covered by Novara media.

China is still a developing nation, and its countryside is still being modernised and connected into the wider infrastructure framework of the urban centres. This requires constant expansion of the electricity grid and output. It is not a mature, developed nation with little need to expand energy production like vast chunks of Europe and the US.