Also he did manage to dismantle federal government, so no more oversight and regulations for corporations. That is a pretty huge win for oligarchs and a catastrophy for basically everybody else, which everybody seems to have forgotten about in the general avalanche of shitshows which has been occurring.

In 2002 they would all have anti-skip, even the cheap knock offs. The skipping was just in the early 90s.

Yeah, the vision during the procedure was not an issue at all. The smell of burnt eye as the laser works away was a bit off putting though. I can attest that burnt eye smells a lot similar to burnt hair.

I had my done over 20 years ago, and only needed glasses again this year (and that is only for a very slight correction, I can see fine without them, while 20 years ago I was basically blind without my glasses). I can’t recommend lasik enough, especially for people with very bad eyesight.

You should also learn that those parties are subsidiaries of CCP, the governing party. They are not actual alternatives.

And all of those parties are listed as being under the control of CCP. So it is a one party state.

The term state capitalism cover a lot of the basics of the Chinese system.

You didnd’t purchase their artwork though. The fact that you still haven’t figured that out says a lot about what kind of customerbase was needed to get NFTs off the ground.

Bitcoin is still fucking shit. That just amounts to “I wish I was there first in this this pyramid scheme”. It doesn’t change what it is.

Of course it would have lasted long. It had lasted basically the entire existence of human populated India up until then.

*175 years. But yeah, if museums exists in 175 years they definitely will do that.

Where is Mythbusters when we need them the most?

That is just such a useless relativisation of the issue. There are problems all over the world sure, but there are also varying degrees of these problems. The US is facing a lot of different problems than the EU for example. So just saying “that is just human nature” is self-defeating and wrong, because obviously some of the problems the US faces have been fixed, or at least mitigated, to a varying degree elsewhere.

Fascists loves when people just sit back and let themselves be exploited because they think that is the natural order of things.