The person filing the suit, Deborah Howington, is a self-described American ‘Caucasian’. Racism doesn’t really exist for white Americans. Discrimination maybe, racism no.

The US wants this fab up and running fast, but they also want TSMC to waste a bunch of time translating all their operations over into English.

The more time they spend arguing over this stupid shit, the better.

Critical support for any and all these problems to keep popping up.

Among the allegations in the complaint are that TSMC’s HR team in Taiwan sends the U.S. arm of the company the resumes of candidates that have already been vetted and can work in the U.S., and then the U.S. team “simply hire these Asian/Taiwanese candidates without question, even if no open roles have been posted in the U.S.”

I don’t really see how this is a valid complaint, the Taiwanese workers are just easier and more efficient to train into their processes because there’s no language or culture gap.

The suit also claims that a desire for Mandarin or Chinese language skills have been listed

Just learn Mandarin, f**kers. IDK how y’all think learning some Mandarin isn’t necessary to work in a Taiwanese company.

If the USA wants make these inefficient requests of TSMC now, they should have made all these desires clear beforehand. If they did, TSMC may not have been as eager to go through with the US fab. Changing the deal afterwards is a classic American bullshittery.

Will this happen before or after Trump is in office? I feel like if the capitalists initiate the collapse during Biden’s admin, they could get away with a lot more stuff under Trump.

They could also be changing stocks into cash simply because they expect higher interest rates for it under Trump.

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Why the heck do these companies send your period data to their servers? Period trackers are just data entry apps that calculate the average durations of an entered database of period events. There are no ‘advanced functions’ that need to be done on offsite servers.

A good open-source option where period data stays on-device is drip. For those interested in syncing period data to a self-hosted server, this video is a nice guide.

Funnily enough, the Indian Ocean territory is in charge of the .io top level domain. The continued existence of the TLD is in question, since Mauritius wants the Indian Ocean territory back.

My bad, wooshed 😅.

My dude, the person isn’t being called fat 😊, though reading the article that way makes it kinda morbidly hilarious.

The type of cells are adipose cells, which are also called fat cells, because they store fat in them.

The source lists yield in thousand tons. I think you forgot to tack on those three extra zeros.

Raw rice grains are made up of a white grain surrounded by a bran and inedible husk. Rice is milled to remove the husk to make brown rice. It can be milled more to remove the bran to make white rice. Obviously, this process will cause the rice grains to lose ~30% weight, reducing the milled yield weight from the raw yield weight.

I think your choice of 700,000 tons for Russia’s total edible yield makes more sense. If Russia gave the DPRK raw rice, the DPRK would have to mill it all anyways.

Either way, this supposed deal is very silly. Russia barely grows any rice, and this list says the DPRK actually grows more rice than Russia.

Perhaps the propagandist misspelled wheat as rice?

According to the USDA, Russia produced 1,185,000 tons of rice in 2024-2025.

On other words, if this bullshit is true, Russia has promised the DPRK 70% of its annual rice production. Very reasonable /s.

Now this is fucking praxis.

Nah, a coconut pulverized their lib brain before making this post.

The House of the Spirits has characters that fit this description to a tee. The book was written by Isabel Allende, a cousin of Salvador Allende, and is a stylized retelling of life through the transition in Chilean politics post-colonialism through Salvador Allende to Pinochet.

The book ends with the character and narrator Alba saying that, despite previously organizing for Allende’s socialist party, and getting raped by the military coup forces after, she will not seek vengeance on those who have injured her, choosing to believe in the hope that one day the human cycle of hate and revenge will be broken.

Yes, let me lie down and let myself get run over by capitalists because then maybe they won’t also run over my children.

Because of her simplistic writing on ‘cycle of violence bad’ while ignoring Marxist analysis, Isabel Allende seems to be a darling in liberal circles. Obama gave her a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

DPRK Explained’s videos are great! He talks about North Korea like a normal, regular country. The North Korean music he finds (posted on DPRK Explained Music) are always quite relaxing.

I believe he has successfully changed his stance to be more critical of Israel: https://youtu.be/_OlKGD0_19E

Efficiency depends on the actual cost of the ledger to the users, not just the energy costs. The decentralized BRICS ledger will only cost the participating nations servers and energy, which on the nation-level is practically negligible. The current U.S. system requires a percentage cost per transaction from all nations who have to send their money to a U.S. intermediary bank.

This means that overall, the BRICS decentralized system will actually cost participating nations much less than the current US system, not counting the other benefits of not relying on the USA. Calculations covered by Ben Norton here project 15 billion USD in savings from not paying the US transaction fees.

It’s the power of socialism!

This is a sort of chicken-and-egg problem. Oil-producing nations don’t want to join the BRICS financial system if the benefits and usage of the new system are not better than the current system. This wasn’t an issue with the first US-created system because no international financial system existed before.

That’s why BRICS is courting Saudi Arabia as a member, and will definitely have Iran join eventually. Having Russia, one of the world’s largest oil producers, as a member definitely helps this along. Russia, China, and Brazil combined already produce more oil than the USA.

1. Please see my post above on why blockchain is useful in this one specific instance.
2. Rather than being reluctant, China is trialing this already via Project mBridge with central banks of Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. Another term for a multi-nation-backed blockchain system is a multiple central bank digital currency (CBDC) system, so that’s basically what it is.

Please take the effort to understand blockchain before immediately denouncing it. It is useful in extremely specific conditions of low trust between equal peers. The one special thing about blockchain is that all users keep a ledger, a record of all transactions, and cross-verify it with one another.

In most scenarios, this feature is completely useless and a waste of energy because all users have to spend electricity on verifying random transactions by other people. For example, with you and your bank account, there is no reason to use blockchain because your bank is the one trusted entity and already keeps all the records of your money, so they can just use regular server infrastructure for all their customers. Using blockchain here would be unnecessary; if you did, you, your bank, and all the bank’s other customers would waste energy verifying each other’s transactions.

However, for transactions between nations, there is no one trusted entity because all nations are essentially equal in their trust level, or at least would like to be treated as such. The main problem with the current financial system is that the US has positioned itself (and its puppet the IMF) as the one trusted entity and wields its power indiscriminately and with abandon. Thus to fix this, BRICS must ensure there is no need for one trusted entity in the global financial system, so this is where blockchain comes in.

Basically, the BRICS plan is for every participating nation’s central bank to keep a blockchain ledger, such that when they settle debts and do global transactions between each other, all of the transactions are recorded on every other nation’s central bank blockchain ledgers, so that no one nation can insert a bunch of fake transactions into its ledger to steal money. Because there are way fewer nations than people in the world, the system physically cannot suffer from the same kind of blockchain inefficiencies of too many users verifying too many transactions simply because there will never be as many users making transactions on the blockchain. Also, because BRIC’s blockchain system is backed and used by nations, the entire system will obviously have much higher security than a random blockchain made by some scammer in their garage.

No matter the inefficiencies of blockchain, the BRICS blockchain system is vastly more efficient than the current financial system of every nation sending their money to a US bank, paying the US bank a transaction fee, and then the US bank sending it to the final destination nation.

Ben Norton made a great video overviewing the comprehensive new financial system Russia is proposing here.