www.nzherald.co.nz Act of treason: Kim Jong-un's bizarre new ban for North Koreans
It's one of the most popular items around the world. Now it's banned in North Korea.
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I want to play it. I haven't yet (so I skipped your spoiler section, thanks for that), because I heard the gameplay is fun but the story is depressing as hell, and I just haven't been I the right mood for a story like that in awhile. I replayed the first one recently and it's dark, but has hopeful moments that I heard are much rarer to nonexistent in the second, especially since the game is a also a lot longer apparently.
Wtf? They don't even try to understand how other people think and their motivations.
Haven't we already proved that doesn't work with things like food, where we already have more than enough but people still go hungry? I'm sure there's tons of other examples, too, that show that capitalism encourages artificial scarcity.
What is their solution? I'm not watching an hour long Ezra Klein video lol.
EDIT: Saw someone mention abundance liberalism in a comment below so I'm guessing it's that.
I really want to learn Spanish, too, for a similar reason. I want to help my local immigrants. People think I can speak it often because of the way I look, which just makes me want to learn it even more. Know any good resources? I've heard of something called italki but other than that, not sure. Maybe look at a local community college course or something.
Sewing is another one I'd love to learn.
Oh damn. Saving this video to watch later.
Damn, imagine if the U$ had military bases based in countries they had invaded or forced through other coercive means.
Figured that would be either Cambodia or North Korea, but it's hard to keep track sometimes. America drops so many bombs.
Thoughts on Laos Communist Government Historically?
Tried to cross-Post from Hexbear. Doesn't work well with Jerboa.
I don't really have a specific question, I'm just wondering how Laos is. Do people have any thoughts, interesting facts, or information about it?
So the context is that I've been doing a re-watch of King of the Hill, where Hank's neighbor is Laotian, at the same time I've been listening to the latest season of Blowback, which is about the area formerly known as French Indochina, but more specifically Cambodia and Vietnam. They don't really talk about Laos much, which makes sense.
In King of the Hill though, there's a couple references to a communist dictatorship in Laos. I just finished an episode where a former guerilla veteran is trying to recruit Laotians in the US to go back and fight this government. One of the funny parts to me, is that whether that government is bad or good but poor as a result of historical conditions, I see Kahn as the kind of person who would
How is the Laos Communist Government Historically?
I don't really have a specific question, I'm just wondering how Laos is. Do people have any thoughts, interesting facts, or information about it?
So the context is that I've been doing a re-watch of King of the Hill, where Hank's neighbor is Laotian, at the same time I've been listening to the latest season of Blowback, which is about the area formerly known as French Indochina, but more specifically Cambodia and Vietnam. They don't really talk about Laos much, which makes sense.
In King of the Hill though, there's a couple references to a communist dictatorship in Laos. I just finished an episode where a former guerilla veteran is trying to recruit Laotians in the US to go back and fight this government. One of the funny parts to me, is that whether that government is bad, or good but poor as a result of historical conditions, I see Kahn as the kind of person who would be wooed away to the USA with Hollywood images of the American Dream. He seems to work hard, but is obsessed w
It is interesting that liberalization hurt the USSR, but not China. At least, not yet. I wonder why that is.
It's a little hard to do that in CS because the technology is always changing but no one wants to pay to train employees during work hours.
See, that all sounds awesome lol
This makes me want to play GTA games. I never finished one and last played Vice City back when I would rent games in the age of that being a thing.
But this makes it sound like San Andreas is actually pretty based.
Nice!! Hope people reacted well to it.
There was a good summary of events I saw once going back to 2014 or earlier that I will have to see if I can find again. It was a lot of history and I don't remember the details offhand anymore.
NK Bans Corn Dogs - Saw This on/r/worldnews
North Korea wants to ban corn dogs because of western decadence or something?! That's horrible!
Let's check out the sources.
According to reports, Kim has banned North Koreans from eating hotdogs as part of a crackdown on Western culture slowly oozing its way into the hermit nation.
"Reports". Well, not super convincing so far...
According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), North Korea has also banned steamed rice cakes tteokbokki which is a popular street food in South Korea.
Oh hey, there we go, Radio Free Asia! What a great unbiased source/CIA front propaganda operation. Aren't they the same people who said something like everyone in NK has to have their leader's haircut? Or was forbidden to have his haircut? I think they said leather jackets were banned there once? Or that someone was executed for smuggling in Squid Game?
Food isn’t the only thing the hermit nation
What propaganda is lemm.ee spreading? Are you thinking of lemmy.world?
It's too bad Mastadon can't take advantage of this. Not sure why federation is so confusing to people, but people don't like having to make choices about which server to pick.
Took them long enough. The government is still too stupid to deal with technology if it took them this long to start realizing back doors are bad for security.
It's perfect lol
Is Argentina Getting Better? Counterpropaganda Request
Someone in Lemmy.world is constantly posting pro-Milei propaganda, but I find it hard to believe this is the one time in the world Libertarian policies actually work after we've tried it before and it's backfired every time. Not sure if this is the right community, but I could use some counter propaganda help.
Can anyone explain what's happening in Argentina? Are things improving? Is he actually a secret genius? If not, why? If so, is it because of their economic policies or something else?
Some excerpts from the comments (seems to be two guys who love him in there) that sound convincing as someone who doesn't know enough about their economy:
After a 49% poverty left by the previous government. So a tick of 4% after that is almost nothing
People voted him for a reason
Argentina only has 32% inflation, what a success! Indeed, from 211% annual inflation to 107%? Astonishing success
It's 2.7% a month, which puts the inflation at 32%.
Thanks for answering. That's a great reply and I'm going to save this comment.
Sci-fi With an Interesting Vision of Society
What's some books with an interesting vision of the future? I don't just mean more advanced technology, I mean the way it's organized.
I find often people can't envision past the society we have now. There's that quote, "It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism", and it seems more and more true, but sci-fi authors seem best equipped to actually imagine beyond that.
I've heard some sci-fi authors mentioned in this category before, like Heinlen, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.
I haven't read any of them lol. Would have no idea where to start within them that fits this category, or what other choices there are that people would suggest.
Has There Ever Been a Socialist Revolution in a Liberal Country?
I'm watching the DNC, and it's made me even more aware of the power of liberal bourgeois democracies to let out a little revolutionary energy whenever it gets close to the edge, through concessional policies, like New Deal policies or whatever Kamala might do if she wins, or even the act of voting and campaigning itself. Do they have to go through a fascism phase first, or has there been a liberal bourgeois democracy that has successfully had a socialist revolution? Will it take new theory to figure it out?