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This (and the ridiculous, eye gouging price) is why I'd never go to a UFC event. It's bad enough when I'm home and I have to go clean the kitchen or fold my laundry for 30 minutes if a fight finishes even slightly early, but having to stand around waiting for ads to finish on a PPV card would turn me into Ted Kaczynski

I see, appending "emoji [name]" within the parentheses but after the url resizes the image down. Thanks a bunch!

The article doesn't say anything of the kind.

During meetings with European officials in Brussels on Wednesday, King Abdullah reiterated "Jordan's unwavering opinion on the necessity of establishing Palestinians on their land and gaining their legitimate rights, in accordance with the two-state solution."

Air traffic control has the opportunity to do the world a great service

Here you are, blaming the decline of the US empire on evil scheming foreigners and y'all fucking wonder how oh how fascism is so popular lmao

The US economy has become so financialized (and its dollar so overvalued) it cannot hope to compete. Chinese industry has stupidly cheap access to energy, patents on groundbreaking solar technology, an enormous pool of specialized labor and the best supply chain in the world, with quick and cheap access to rare earth minerals, nickel, gold, and a global monopoly on key resources such as antimony and lithium.

What's more, the fact that the state provides cheap public transport, universal healthcare, higher education, retirement benefits, and a litany of social services means that companies have to provide comparatively very little in the way of compensation or training. Don't even get me started on how US companies get one successful product and immediately try to enshittify everything to pump the share prices as high as they can possibly go. Even when the US provides direct funding to companies the process is so corrupt you have no guarantees that they'll do anything with that money other than give a fat bonus to the execs. How is the CHIPS act working out?

I sincerely hope the US tries to compete with Chinese industry internationally because it's gonna get absolutely dogwalked. It has so much catching up to do to even get going while china is accelerating so much one has to wonder if they've even hit their stride yet.

Which would be such a laughable misreading of the economic climate lmao, in 2008 China couldn't decouple from the US and as such couldn't avoid bailing them out (by purchasing a shit ton of insolvent debt) after the bubble popped.

The messaging has been clear, this time there will be no rescue and this bubble is bigger than the one before the great depression. I understand that the bourgeoisie is running out of options in the international stage but surely there was a more subtle way than this lmao.

Factuality meters are at best useless and usually very harmful precisely because they allow you to either affirm or discredit an article without having to engage with its contents in the slightest.

That site is a particularly egregious one but posting one with a less obvious conflict of interest wouldn't have made it much better. These sites almost always act like there is such a thing as unbiased reporting and "left" or "right" leaning are undesirable or unreasonable, like bias has anything to do with how valid sources or interpretations are. Whichever way you cut it, you're asking another site (served to you by a compromised Google result) to tell you who to trust or not, often completely anonymously.

but in online forums, it is rare that someone will even read past the headline before giving their opinion. Expecting everybody to dedicate the time and effort for a thorough inspection of every news provider and their sources is a bit of a high ask,

It really isn't, that's the point. Comments sections don't need more loudly uninformed people speculating on the vibe a headline gave them. There's other communities for casual engagement.

Check the sources jfc. Stop trying to outsource your critical thinking, either you check if there's verifiable evidence for the claims in an article or you stop trying to deny or affirm something you clearly can't be bothered to look into.

No investigation, no right to speak

I can't believe this, but extremely, unbelievably, bigly critical support for agent saboteur par excellence Elon

It's so funny to me that the USSR collapsed in part due to being forced to trade within its bloc, produce everything domestically and having great difficulty in getting tech, cheap goods and foodstuffs from the rest of the world. And here is the US, willingly putting itself in such a position without the benefit of a planned economy and thinking it's s somehow punishing the world.

The second this bubble pops it's all going down the shitter.

These idiots have drank the kool-aid lmao. They're not interested in innovation, they're interested in quarterly returns and they had already planned to squeeze this for a few more quarters. They think walling them off will allow them a monopoly in the US and they're unable to see the forest for the trees.

They still think everyone needs the dollar because it's the most valuable coin, forgetting that it's only the most valuable because everyone had to use it.