A bottle of kombucha doesn’t have to cost 5 euro

I make my own!

For Australia, it will be a long slog. The land rights acts getting through parliament that previously were making progress started to dry up about 15 years ago. IMO it was a sign Australian politics was going down the toilet.

Previous acts granted ownership of particular areas to various indigenous land councils. The councils would manage the land and it’s effectively a perpetual lease owned by the indigenous community. So post-revolution, those land rights concepts would have to come back and get expanded further to make decolonization work.

Another aspect is that cheaper solar panels means cheaper energy: something that Europe is having trouble with right now.

Cheaper energy means lower costs to produce stuff - Making their economy more competitive not less. E.g. Certain foods need refrigeration. Factory equipment. Server farms. Offices have lighting and aircon etc.

If Europe allows their own solar panel industry to gouge themselves, the initial investment in solar will be more of a cost and they are going to have less future growth.

My theory in that is that the West is experiencing late stage capitalism: the majority of capital is sitting in finance and assets. China is just another destination that does allow capital to directly flow in, within certain rules.

For example, major international hotel chains are all in China. This is a form of property investment even though it does employ people who provide services. It is assessed as property by capitalists. While the Chinese property market is deflating, that just means capital may leave. That’s not a threat that requires any concessions to everyday Americans or Westerners.

I chuckle at the idea that capitalists can’t afford concessions. They can. They choose not to.

There’s no concessions because there is no THREAT to capitalism.

Flying cars in China: “Breathe some of this!”

America’s version of a flying car is when it free falls into the water driving on a Baltimore bridge.

“Chinese aren’t human.”

The stone stopped bleeding. You can’t squeeze indefinitely.

Work on your health. I suggest Yoga. Follow-along routines of whatever length you like can be found on YouTube.

Aside from what everyone else has said, the book advice itself is really bad also.

US government won’t build tech manufacturing facilities. It is ideological.

Private industry also doesn’t want to build tech manufacturing in US - not at a level that competes with China or other places in Asia.

Passive systems like this fog collecting tower save on energy but are large for the amount of water they collect : https://youtu.be/THJVuinPbc0?si=EHnQ_XQvQFvca3VG

Those towers use plastic mesh to collect the fog.

Researchers are working on new materials to collect more water : https://youtu.be/UlTbZ658eWM?si=6Ld8xemTOnAN7L43

There are still many anti-capitalist expressions from gamers and the like, but there are not enough leftist voices to frame them as such inside those communities.

I think another aspect that has occurred recently is capital corporations have cloned the socially progressive talking points of the left.

These concessions to progressive politics to court younger consumers are no challenge to the power of capitalism. Throwing corporate sponsorship at BLM, LGBTQ or environmental organisations still keeps real power in corporate hands. Allowing an amount of dissent and protest in non disruptive forms poses no threat to them (Don’t block a motorway and they’ll let you protest as much as you like).

However it does allow the far right to radicalize the geeks. They can be convinced that the SJWs are their enemy rather than the bosses who adopted some SJW points in the name of progress so business can run as usual. Both “sides” are still just an internal contradiction within capitalism.

I think the main issue is that the theorists aren’t ever the ones actually executing the organizational work needed to manage an incredibly complex economic system. Without that experience, they don’t know how to analyze China’s performance. They have theories that they never had to put into practice. It’s very academic.

Fuck your ignorance and wikipedia. You wouldn’t know shit about Tibet or give a fuck.

Bullshit white supremacists dog whistle their asshole attitudes towards colored people by characterizing the “bad” countries as dangerous uncivilized inhumane societies. They always claim it’s only the government being criticized. Doesn’t take much for a racist to slip up and shit on the entire population: the slightest 30 sec tiktok vid will set them off.

Whatever. Enjoy your racist tropes.

What is this lib shit? If they write unironically about organ harvesting, FLG and Tibet in the second paragraph of the intro, they’re a bunch of racist white edgelords.

But I am afraid of the future. I am afraid that if I start dating her now I end up regretting it later in life.

I suggest enjoy the relationship as it is now rather than imagining how it will be in the future. It’s not like you have proposed so it’s way too early to think about your combined incomes and stuff.

Interesting that you picked up the micro tonal aspects of Non-Western music. Another aspect that’s very complex in Indian music is the rhythmic system.

On Chinese music I think you have oversimplified it somewhat. While it often uses the pentatonic scale, you do see 6 and seven note scales. Plus it actually has 5 different pentatonic scales. Similarly to Indian music there’s ornaments in Chinese musical notation to describe microtones and other effects. And another feature is Chinese traditional music is very elastic in the tempo speeding up or slowing to add emotions. A quick overview :https://youtu.be/sJdUugXLfWs?si=-GfHi0F1bn8b6SyC.

Concerning commodifiable modernization of traditional culture:

I don’t think the West has anything quite like the tv show Pili which is based on Chinese hand puppets but with a crap tonne of camerawork and special effects to added. The show has been around for decades. Only thing close is the Thunderbirds which never looked as crazy as this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGLKJ_S-iDU

I get what you’re saying but I don’t see how American mass media being dominant is a good thing.

A lot of it is just pumped out like widgets, created by a few big corporations, because of a modern appetite for shoving stuff in our eyeballs.

It places people into the role of just being passive consumers but they only have a few big fast food chains to pick from. Then it’s like just looking at the menu, seeing if they introduced a twist on their regular offering or a different sauce you can add to the same shit. An illusion of variety. They’ve gotten good at polishing the glass and wiping down the plastic furniture.

Then your life gets divided into portions that suit the mass media: movie duration, hourish long tv show, half hour show, 3 min pop song. These are formats they have worked out for you.

It’s all formulaic. I would hope that other cultures go BACK to before the formulas were so standardized and start developing from there. Change the formats so people aren’t so passive.

China is just copying the formula because the “demand for bland” is so pervasive.

I really hope they look to other countries for better inspiration. India for example has incredible music and movies.

After you buy a train ticket, you push the train the whole way to your destination.

then comes over to me, opens the bag, closes it, then leaves

That little brat boomed her good. Trolling IRL at its finest.