Wow, what a load of made-up shit!

996 (the 12 h workday 6 days a week), while a stark reality, is only commonplace in the tech sector among young professionals, and it’s actually illegal, just rarely reported and prosecuted.

People being “forced off family farms” is directly bullshit, there were never “family farms” in China, it was an empire with brutal landlords starving the peasants with a life expectancy of less than 30 years of age before Maoism, and by the time Mao died life expectancy had doubled to almost 60 years of age. Land was collectivized and belonged to the state and local communities afterwards. People moving to cities is mostly a consequence of better (while still not good) living conditions in China in early cities. That strategy turned out wonderfully too: 800 million Chinese people have been uplifted from poverty over the past 40 years in what’s become the greatest poverty alleviation exercise in human history, saving hundreds of millions of lives in the process.

Companies in China don’t “dump their waste in the ditch behind the factory” anymore than in any developed country. Environmental regulations in the 80s were bad because the country was underdeveloped, but in mid 2020s they’re comparable to most western countries, while China is the world pioneer in nuclear and solar energy, producing 95% of all solar photovoltaic modules that are produced on Earth every year, and pioneering also electric car development and high speed rail.

Your concern for western capitalist intellectual property reveals your true ideology: you want western capital to dominate, not progress for humanity. If western companies didn’t want to accept Chinese copyright laws, they could have simply chosen not to move their production to China. Otherwise, get fucked. Great job blaming the evil Chinese communists for the lack of union movement in the west, surely nothing to do with a century of anticommunist propaganda and unionbusting.

So you support the Soviet Union, back when the USSR didn’t steal the surplus value within its borders?

Liberation, Libya or Syria style?

Well, we killed both nuclear and solar, that’s my main point.

Definitely not a politically motivated decision, totally nothing to do with Tiktok’s role as the only non-US-based mass social network, absolutely not because of pro-Palestinian views on TikTok! Europe is totally free and there’s no censorship :D

Henry Morgenthau be like

I’m aware, I personally use no shoes at home ever

Well, if you want energy access, don’t live in an off-grid house in a region of the planet without sunlight for 3 months a year

EU for the past 40 years: “yeah let’s destroy all our industry, degrade and defund welfare, and rely on external countries for our energy needs, that will surely work wonderfully!”

Britain industrialized first in history precisely because of its wide colonies. Exploitation of the global south is not a precondition for industrialization (see China, USSR), but it was one of the key factors that kickstarted the industrial revolution.

You’re likely right, my background is physics, I’ll quote you on the comment above!

Tenacitaaaaas!!

Millennial check

Spaniard here. “Shoes-on” is mostly for when you have guests over. You’ll wake up in the morning and use slippers, only put on shoes to go to outside, and when you come back home you’ll remove the shoes typically in your bedroom (unless wet or dirty). But when you have guests over, everyone wears shoes typically, even hosts.

My family is off-grid and there have been extended periods the last two winters when it has simply been too dark for too long to depend on the solar without installing 50x more panels

laughs in ultrahigh-voltage power lines connecting deserts to populated areas

Seriously, China is already implementing this technology, we just need a few socialist revolutions and we can go full solarpunk

Most coal comes from the carbonipherous period, a period in which plants evolved wood but microbes funghi (shutout to Lyrl’s below comment) still hadn’t evolved wood-eating.

You can get new coal in marshes because I think the process to eat wood requires oxygen, and flooded areas don’t allow for wood to decompose totally. That’s why they can pull out wooden ships from 500 years ago from the bottom of the ocean in relatively good condition!

The mirrors on Earth don’t transfer the energy using the air between the mirror and the collector, they just bounce the spicy photons which can travel even better in a vacuum.

This is mainly integrated AFAIK in industrial processes with high amounts of low entropy heat available (i.e. big volumes of not-that-hot liquids), and it allows for electric production from said heat with unprecedented efficiency. Cool shit

But why leave the building initiative in the hands of the market+tax instead of just collectively making political decisions about what gets built where?

Why not remove the concept of landlords altogether then? Collectivizing the lands would be an even more complete version of land tax