Crazy that the world’s history was almost changed by some deranged idiot with bad aim. Makes you wonder if he was a time traveler trying to save the ww3 timeline and got brain damaged by the time travel machine or smt. Idk would make a good movie.

tbh despite the idiotic intentions the name does make more sense than “the gulf of mexico”

I think OP might have meant Corning as the “tea company” as there was viral tiktok on this subject of user exploring what their tea cup/glass maker is up to. Though I can’t recall the exact details so take my word with a grain of salt.

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Honestly, not going to continue with this as clearly we’re not going to find any value in this comment thread so have a good day and I hope you feel better :)

Reddit is not federated, not transparent, not open source. Dumb take my dude.

Whatever makes you feel better about your flavor of brain wash my friend. At the end of the day I’d rather have flawed democracy and capitalism than whatever else is on the table. At least there’s a path forward here.

not an american, I grew up in the Soviet empire, don’t care about your dumb walls of propaganda. Try again.

Nope, grew up in Soviet occupied eastern europe. Fuck that, I’ll take flawed capitalism over whatever torture and misery was that thanks. You are free to disagree more politely tho.

Yes, thank god .world exists and a reminder to donate!

literally no one but extremist anti-social tankies were using Lemmy before .world happened.

If .ml didn’t exist Lemmy would be reddit-level huge already.

Survivors bias. People in Russia or China don’t appear to complain about their systems because… they can’t.

One famous example is Corning which mostly does kitchenware and then also huge military contracts for military equipment. But then of course every single US company takes on military contracts from Ford making engines to Singer making sewing machines and guidance systems during cold war lol

So OP is absolutely right. American companies will dip into everything that makes money which is really not a problem tbh and that’s how capitalism is intended to function just a bit funny given that one company makes kitchenware and bullet proof glass for mil vehicles.

Calling Tencent a “web and gaming giant” is really deceiving here.

It’s one of the biggest tech conglomerates in the world. Tencent invest into literally everything: games, social networks, entertainments, cloud computing, finance, AI, other investments… Tencent owns WeChat, Tencent Cloud, Tencent Healthcare just to name a few and helps CCP with surveilance and censorship through these ownings (tbf they don’t really have a choice, they’re based in China)

100% they are involved in military too so this classification is very much justified.

my puppet is in power — everyone be nice now.

The inability to function under duress would be one

My dog had to wear the cone of shame once. He got his face stuck to the fridge door for 10 minutes. Had to work out some other solution lol

That Europe is not ready for many future challenges.

That has been mine a few years ago inspired by the cult of done manifesto and I found it very compelling! Maybe you’ll find this helpful

Get a car. I’ve never actually needed one but I’m staying in Thailand this year and the rainy season will be tough in 2025 so some shelter would be nice. It’s a big learning experience and the 2nd hand market here is really scammy so it’s not that easy to find something without investing a big chunk of time.