Yes, that’s pretty much what I meant. In theory, the best brands would rise to the top under capitalism. So the US brands have failed without state intervention.

Which model of redmi did you have? I currently use the Redmi Note 12. It’s… okay. I had a previous Xiaomi (can’t remember which model) that I thought was an excellent price for high quality.

Definitely Chinese phones have better specs for their prices, as compared to US/Korean brands. Still, I’m looking for that special deal of a mid-tier-priced phone with flagship specs. Considering getting the Oneplus 13.

WTAF? The cope of failing at capitalism is real.

They cost waaaaay too much. Most flagship phones do.

Still using my two year old Xiaomi Redmi Note 12. It was super cheap, relatively. Like about 12 times cheaper than the Huawei tri-fold.

The duality of human

I’ve seen it listed on product ingredients as “aqua”.

I prefer to call it “glug”.

Since people are just going to make command line jokes and leave you confused, the spelling is “pseudo”.

The strange thing here is that Marty McFly is using the slang “heavy” and Doc Brown doesn’t understand it. Yet the use of heavy to mean “profound, serious” started in Jazz in 1937. So Doc would have grown up with the word, and by the 80’s I wonder if it was really all that popular anymore. McFly is using 50’s slang in the '50s but the guy from the '50s doesn’t get the slang. Maybe because he’s not hip.

“Knee high to a grasshopper” (short)

“Beyond the pale” (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange)

“Dance maven”

“I’ll just do that in my copious free time…” (sarcastically, because you are too busy)

“Copacetic” (it’s all good)

“Heavy” (meaning important, grave)

I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions.

Just curious, how would someone do that? Pardon my noobiness.

Replies from crush. You just snuck that one in there. I’m dying laughing here

Usually ends in “wheep ni ni grah”. But my universal greeting is rusty. Maybe a regional dialect of universal greeting.

You’re not going to believe this, but Tom Cruise… has identified you as an agent of Xenu.

But you still have to stabilize it with your fingers. If you grate low enough, your fingers will be grated.

There can be enough work. We can build parks, fund art, literature, music. If the needs of society are met with less labour, the free hours can be put to creative work.

But that requires a government for the people.

Like that, but instead of buying a tomato it’s shaping minds.

This is the flaw in the hybrid socialist-capitalist system. Billionaires will sell out national interests.

We’ll see if the government is able to rein in Hutchison.

People are lazy. But I bet more people cut their own fruit now that food is expensive.

How about a dress made of meat?

Jeffrey Goldberg is editor of The Atlantic, a former Israeli prison guard, and very tight with the US security state. He has a history of writing DoD press releases as news.

His invitation was not a mistake.

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