World News Trudge • 6 months ago • 100%

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Nikkei average stock price hit 39,098 yen per share, a high that hasn't been seen in 34 years Hokkaido resident interviews below regarding the phenomena >When the stock prices go up abnormally, there are repercussions so I'm cautious >Hourly wage nor salaries will rise up and we cannot go on living like this. Only (stock) prices that are unrelated to daily living are rising. >No one feels that the economy's doing well. The rich gets richer while the poor stays poor.

Be sure to read the rule before you leave Trudge • 6 months ago • 66%

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main Trudge • 6 months ago • 87%

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ausmemes Trudge • 6 months ago • 0%

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Moving to: m/AskMbin! Trudge • 6 months ago • 0%

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Star Trek Trudge • 6 months ago • 25%

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Blahaj Lemmy Meta Trudge • 6 months ago • 0%

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Meta Trudge • 6 months ago • 100%

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Community Meta Discussion Trudge • 6 months ago • 100%

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chat Trudge • 6 months ago • 0%

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chapotraphouse Trudge • 6 months ago • 100%

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GenZedong Trudge • 6 months ago • 80%

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Late Stage Capitalism Trudge • 7 months ago • 98%

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GenZedong Trudge • 7 months ago • 97%

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>The car starts at just over US$11,000, lower than bestselling petrol-powered cars like Volkswagen’s Lavida and Toyota’s Corolla >The world’s largest EV maker, BYD has been ramping up efforts to make its mass-market electric cars more affordable for Chinese consumers >BYD, the world’s largest electric-vehicle (EV) maker, has launched a new version of its plug-in hybrid model the Qin Plus DM-i, pricing it lower than bestselling petrol-powered cars like Volkswagen’s Lavida and Toyota’s Corolla. >The company, backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, said on Monday that the new variant, known as the Glory Edition, aims to accelerate customers’ conversion from fossil fuel-powered vehicles to EVs amid a slowing economy. >The new version starts at 79,800 yuan (US$11,086), lower than the previous edition by 20,000 yuan or 20 per cent. Its battery-only driving range is 55 kilometres. >“The price will make petrol car assemblers tremble,” BYD said in a statement on the microblogging site Weibo. “The Glory Edition will become a benchmark for the Class-A [compact] car segment.” >The new edition is 15 per cent cheaper than the entry-level Lavida and nearly 40 per cent less than the basic Corolla.

US News Trudge • 7 months ago • 100%

www.cnn.com

>Capital One announced it’s acquiring Discover Financial Services for $35.3 billion in an all-stock deal, giving the bank a leg up in the competitive credit card market. >If the deal is finalized, current Capital One shareholders will own a 60% stake in the combined company, while Discover shareholders will own the remaining 40%. >With a market valuation of almost $28 billion, Discover is considerably smaller than the other three major credit card networks in the US — Visa (V), Mastercard (MA) and American Express (AXP). Credit card networks are the liaison between card issuers and merchants, for whom they set fees. >Getting Discover, which also issues its own credit cards, under the same roof as Capital One would give the bank a major leg up against competing credit card-issuing banks such as JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C), which don’t process transactions themselves. >A marriage between Capital One and Discover, if approved by regulators, would also give Capital One a new source of revenue from the merchant fees it collects. >Currently, Capital One issues credit cards with Mastercard, Visa and Discover. The deal would likely result in more of its cards getting switched to the Discover network, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Monday before the deal was officially announced.

GenZedong Trudge • 7 months ago • 100%

www.vogue.com

>Prada likes the word useful; she dislikes the word luxury, which she finds vulgar. And here is the rub, the nub, the dichotomy that runs through her life and her work: Miuccia Prada is an extraordinarily successful fashion designer selling beautiful, expensive clothes and accessories. She is also—something confirmed with a nod when I asked—politically left of center, with a doctorate in political science (she also studied mime for five years), a former member of the Italian Communist Party who marched for women’s rights. “I always thought there were only two noble professions: politicians or doctors,” she told me. “Doing clothes [while coming from] a group of very important intellectuals—for me it was like a nightmare. I was so ashamed, but anyway I did it…. The love of beautiful objects prevailed.” Her political opinions have mostly had to be kept private. “I work for a luxury company,” she said, laughing at the irony. “It’s not perfect for a political position like mine—this was always the biggest contradiction in my life.” >Miuccia Prada was born Maria Bianchi into a well-heeled bourgeois Milanese family in 1949. Her grandfather Mario Prada had founded Fratelli Prada (“Prada Brothers”), a leather-goods shop, in 1913; her mother took over the family business in the 1950s. >“When I was young,” Prada told me, “I always wanted to be different.” She immersed herself in the activist generation of the 1960s, but she always loved clothes—while everyone else was wearing jeans at demonstrations, she famously wore Yves Saint Laurent. >And while she rebelled against the bourgeois assumptions of her upbringing, she joined the family business, taking it over from her mother in 1978. >It comes as little surprise, given her youthful background in agitprop and protest, that Prada remains very much aware of the wider world far outside fashion—its wars and suffering, its array of crises and injustices. “That’s why I am always ashamed,” she told me. Publicly but quietly, as well as personally, Prada supports a myriad of causes, including cancer research, but she tends to be discomfited by showy fundraising galas, preferring engagement to mere charity.

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>Denmark is sending its “entire artillery” to Ukraine, the Danish prime minister has said. >“They are asking us for ammunition now. Artillery now. From the Danish side, we decided to donate our entire artillery,” she said.

Late Stage Capitalism Trudge • 7 months ago • 91%

news.sky.com

>Thailand's prime minister Srettha Thavisin added that he had long been wondering why Swift had not performed in the country - until the promoter AEG helped him understand more. >Srettha Thavisin said promoter AEG informed him of the agreement that Swift will not do any other The Eras Tour shows in the Association of South East Asian Nations. >Speaking at the iBusiness Forum 2024 in Bangkok, he claimed that he was told the Singapore government offered $2m to $3m (£1.6m to £2.4m) per show in exchange for exclusivity on the island.

Comradeship // Freechat Trudge • 7 months ago • 96%

It's super weird that a niche communist forum with like 100 active users is getting spammed in the first place. Does anyone know why this is happening? Did we ban some lib who is super mad now?

games Trudge • 7 months ago • 100%

I enjoyed the first one very much, but the second installation is not a top-down shooter anymore. Does anyone have thoughts on this game?

Late Stage Capitalism Trudge • 9 months ago • 95%

While some decry Canada's MAID (Medically Assistance In Dying) program as the biggest existential threat to disabled people since Nazi Germany, others point to budgetary savings that the program is offering.\ \ The program continues to expand at an accelerated rate. People who were not dying were eligible for the treatment starting 2021, and those suffering from mental health conditions are eligible for the program starting April 2024. The Parliament is investigating whether children ("mature minors") deserve the right to MAID as well. Initial reports suggest that it may be our moral imperative to offer them the gift of choice. (p.54-p61)[https://www.parl.ca/Content/Committee/441/AMAD/Reports/RP12234766/amadrp02/amadrp02-e.pdf] \ \ 4.1% of all deaths in Canada were attributed to the program in 2022 and the expansion only continues.

China Trudge • 9 months ago • 100%

>China is upending how the international financial system handles debt crises in the developing world. Wall Street isn’t happy. >Large bond fund managers cried foul last month when China blocked their deal to salvage investments in defaulted Zambian debt. The smackdown came just weeks after Chinese officials brokered a private debt restructuring with Sri Lanka, outmaneuvering Western governments that were trying to do the same. >Debt restructurings have historically followed a pattern. Countries in default typically asked the IMF how much debt reduction was needed to fix their economies, then haggled with lenders for the concessions. > China, in contrast, mostly negotiated on its own with debtor countries. It differed in other ways, too. China offered debt extensions to borrowers, but not debt reductions that the Paris Club and bondholders sometimes agreed to. It also resumed lending faster after default than Western countries. >Sri Lanka borrowed billions from China in the 2010s to build projects before the government defaulted and collapsed last year. The IMF has agreed to provide a $3 billion bailout as long as other lenders agreed to debt relief. >The day before the planned announcement, Sri Lanka revealed that China had already negotiated its own restructuring of $4 billion of debt, without revealing the terms. The official committee canceled its scheduled announcement and sought to find out whether the Chinese deal was comparable to what Japan, India and their cohort had agreed to, the people familiar said. >Six days after Beijing’s announcement, the Sri Lankan government made another unexpected disclosure: two state-owned Chinese companies were investing $1.6 billion to help jump-start construction at the Port City Colombo, a project whose progress had stalled since the country defaulted. >“What the Chinese are offering is exactly what the Sri Lankan authorities want: new money and investment," said Brad Parks, the executive director of William & Mary’s AidData research lab. “It might not be in the interest of the country in the long run, but in the short run, it’s almost too good to pass up on."

World News Trudge • 9 months ago • 100%

They sold their $200 million USD factory for $70 dollars, joining the ranks of other auto manufacturers such as Nissan and Renault who sold their assets for the price of a KFC family bucket.

GenZedong Trudge • 11 months ago • 97%

>Only a third of Hongkongers who have moved to the UK in recent years have found full-time jobs, even though most are highly educated, according to a British university survey targeting BN(O) visa holders. >Despite coming from a strong educational background, many migrants struggled to make full use of their professional expertise after relocating, according to the online survey carried out by the University of Liverpool. The university polled 1,310 Hongkongers, most of whom had moved to the United Kingdom after the imposition of the national security law in 2020. >Only 30 per cent had found full-time jobs, while 18 per cent were working part time or as freelancers. About 18 per cent were unemployed and 15 per cent described themselves as homemakers. >The survey found 78.4 per cent of all respondents had received a tertiary education, with 30 per cent holding a master’s degree or higher academic qualifications. >Ricci Yue Pak-hong, the author of the study, said the results showed a “significant” number of migrants from the city might have had to switch from professional or managerial roles to primary industry or elementary work. >Jobs that fall under the category include unskilled or semi-skilled work such as cashiers, retail associates and goods delivery.

Comradeship // Freechat Trudge • 11 months ago • 97%

Just agree with them about the election initially. This is the biggest election of our lives. Our very democracy, sacred founding father Greco-Roman democracy^tm^, is at stake. I don't like Biden either but he has to be elected or the soul of our nation's doomed.\ \ But wait, we don't live in one of the 5 battleground states. Our votes don't matter due to the electoral college. The only reason to vote for Biden is to show our approval since the results won't be affected. \ \ The only righteous thing to do would be to vote third party or spoil the vote to show disapproval at the government. You don't really like Biden, do you?\ \ Substitute Biden for Trump when talking to red liberals.

World News Trudge • 11 months ago • 96%

www.aljazeera.com

>“We have offered to hand over those captives who are in severe humanitarian condition for solely humanitarian reasons. We wanted to hand them over to their families but the government is not serious. Unfortunately, the government of Israel refused to take them.” >Al-Qaddoumi said Israel provided no reason for not accepting the offer.

GenZedong Trudge • 1 year ago • 98%

This is a big moment for me everybody. I have been kicked off of reddit almost instantly due to the spell, but I've been forced to wander the fediverse for a long time since my CCP handlers normally don't allow me to stop posting. However, I found a cure while mindlessly scrolling through the front page.\ \ I'm making this very quick post to thank all of you before the Great Fire Wall swoops in to prevent me from reading the spell in full, allowing me to realize my inner liberal self and *deprogram* from the Chinese propaganda.\ \ As a thanks, I will reveal the real COVID agend

Comradeship // Freechat Trudge • 1 year ago • 95%

We all know that the west uses two different words for the same thing depending on where it is happening. e.g. Secret Police vs Plainclothes Officer\ Regime vs Government Can we have a compilation thread of these words? I am probably using many of them unconsciously without critical examination.