I have been rehabbing my shoulder and speaking to friends with similar shoulder issues.

One of the better guides we have found was this guy: https://youtu.be/4Gli-tybcyw?si=6NwRkgrxFOXRZ641

His general approach is very cautious. His big issue is giving the tear better conditions to heal. Putting the arm in a sling whenever you can immobilizes joint and takes the pressure off the tear. Then strengthening the traps will fix things more than rotating the arms under load - because the ball of the joint will sit higher and more centred in the socket putting less stress on the tendons.

On the inside, Joe is twerking his ass off.

Biden brain: "If someone else lost more than me, I am reclassifying myself as a winner. This is what peak bullshit looks like."

It's pretty obvious I would have thought : Organise with other comrades to collectively own and run productive stuff that helps your standards of living. By pooling your resources with others, you get better outcomes. Those who only can contribute their labour will be more productive if they have access to collectively owned tools. They can still trade their labour even if the currency has gone to shit.

Gamers : "I am being exploited by Chinese capitalism!" (Buys another Funko Pop to keep on the shelf still in original packaging)

A call with Tesla confirmed that the truck had needed a complete reboot which took over five hours of sitting to complete.

I consider this as a second deal-breaker problem with the truck. How does 5 hour reboot time make sense? That seems as quick as the punch card computers great-granddad reminisced about.

"condensation can fry the electronics inside the vehicle"

Electronics defeated by rain. They've basically described it as an expensive piece of shit.

Nostalgia is partly an indicator that current environment is so shit that it can't just be reformed or tweaked to get to a better place. Instead the best solution that people want is to time travel back to before it all took a nosedive and restart from there.

The frog boils itself now?

Cheap solar and semiconductors will reduce the cost of manufacturing in US. Energy and chips are inputs to actually producing stuff that companies charge a lot more for.

Car tariffs is somewhat understandable.

Keep turning...

I believe experts have pointed out the vulnerability is how complex and hence expensive it is to keep these tanks running. It needs a crew of mechanics to regularly service a gas turbine engine which also guzzles jet fuel. They are very heavy which means they can't be driven on any roads or bridges that are too soft or weak without destroying them.

The tank crew themselves need a lot of skill and teamwork to be effective. They still manually load the main gun. Ukrainian troops would have no training on American tanks. So that time and labour for training up the crew to competency is another cost.

They are less of a resource drain just sitting in storage with the engine off.

"Hi TSMC. Could you build a massive pseudo village/factory where you indoctrinate the locals with your toxic work culture, sending your managers to act as overlords for our under-educated workers? We will pay you."

"You want us to basically colonize a town in Arizona?"

"Ummm... Yeah"

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.

I originally said the book gives an alternative view.

From the Preface:

The importance of this work by Han Dongping is that it brings into focus the lives of villagers during a dynamic period of great positive change in the countryside. This is a very significant work—a counterweight to the conventional writings about the Cultural Revolution.

IMO it's actually relevant to the situation in the West right now where inequality is increasing and the masses have less and less political representation.

I might have to start a Fact Check for this book if this keeps up.

Please do. You would be actually reading the book which was a study of one typical county.

In your previous takedown, you quoted CENSUS figures for literacy throughout China when RedQuestionAsker2 specifically said literacy rates in rural areas where they built schools. Those would be two different figures obviously.

You make it seem like Han has done something wrong. You have a bias against the CR so you are dismissing his research before reading it. It's titled Unknown Cultural Revolution for a reason.

Well no offense, but you are quoting 2 data points 1949 and 1965 in very broad statement saying 'line went up" in the context of singing the praises of China's economy. Han has a full table and yields are very up and down per year.

(Not that the pre CR work in agriculture was ever even presented as bad things in Han's book)

The point Han was making is : the idea that the CR years hurt economic development is refuted by stats.

For a different perspective on the Cultural Revolution, checkout the book Unknown Cultural Revolution by Dongping Han. It's a reminder that at the time the rural peasant class were still living in poverty and subjugated by the party and village leaders that were supposed to improve their lives.

The vast majority of the population was rural ~80%. Those rural kids who qualified to study at university in cities never returned after graduation. Instead they became office workers. The CR changed that : Rural schools were built and run by qualified teachers. Kids actually went beyond primary school. Education levels rose under the CR for the vast majority so characterising CR as anti intellectualist is actually wrong.

Despite years of collective organisation, grain yields did not increase prior to CR. The CR empowered peasants to take part in the actual decision making and hold leaders accountable for their performance. Combining that reorganisation with greater investment in rural infrastructure, agricultural output increased greatly due to the CR.

In summary, the CR was about empowering and investing in the majority of the population - rural peasants. That backbone of China needed a systemic change to prioritise their prosperity over urban elites.

He's not old enough to remember CR that well. He was born in 1963.