I highly doubt it's even the world's shortest international bridge. Many nations' borders follow a tiny brook or stream, which will likely be bridged at some point.

I already know and agree with what you've said here. I would happily concede that both of our positions lack good evidence for a wide, systematic effect.

I can only share my experience which is proof that, at least in my tiny part of the world, these protests have worked. You're very welcome to have anecdotal evidence to the contrary, I was just sharing my own and I'm unsure why I'm getting logic'd for it. I think perhaps you're inferring a much larger claim from my words than I was trying to make.

The claim does lack evidence, I agree! I'm only speaking anecdotally - But that's a little more evidence than the claim that the protests don't work.

I know a couple people who outspoken about climate change for scientific or observable reasons.

But I know more who are outspoken because they're polarised against fuddy-duddy conservative anti-climate-protestor attitudes.

The Chinese Communist Party of China

The codec pack was named after the USSR, it was great.

These protests do work. And is suspected to be largely behind why a fair fraction of the population care about climate change. And working class people will be pressed into cleaning up the mess of direct action too, so I don't understand the argument there.

Fucking up rich people's pretty shit is a perfectly valid, if somewhat toothless, response. Yes, direct action is better, but is also more heavily violently cracked down on, the mass movement needed to make it viable isn't there.

As time goes on, I think the capitalist machine just requires more and more sections of the population to "other", to blame for the failing state of the world. Divert attention away to anyone but the richoids.

Some people aren't dear with their personal information, I personally think that's fine.

Sorry, I clearly didn't deliver it well, but the "bourgeois decadence" was honestly just a joke. I agree with all thata you said.

This kind of application for a volunteer position is always the dumbest shit. Volunteers should always be drawn from the community as people who just want to help.

If I have to do more fucking work just to apply for this unpaid shit than my last job interview, then the only reason I'd do it is to get power I'd exploit. I'll eat my hat if they actually get a nice and effective admin from this dumbdumb process.

That might be true if the shirts were made to order in union shops with vaguely fair profit sharing. There's nothing I can see to indicate that's the case here, though, just bourgeois decadence.

I think this feeling is shared by 80-90% of people at minimum.

Personally, I've never found a way to do something meaningful (like, materially help people) that would also keep me and my disabled family members out of debilitating poverty. So I have no choice but to dedicate my working days to unethical profit-making shit.

I feel like trends just be trends, we will probably like something else entirely in 20 years.

Keep seeing libs defend this shit with "but they're training shells!!!!"

The same lib logic would defend celebs signing a nazi Zyklon B canister for display

"Alright scamps, you got me, sanction package 14 was my red line. Go on I'll surrender then"

Why do I so often get the feeling that most sanctions on Russia are carefully chosen to benefit certain western oligarchs?

Thanks, genuinely appreciate the conversion rate. I had no idea if it was a lot until now.

To be honest, it's almost certainly reworded or poorly translated from whatever he originally said.

Getting itchy to send your people to die in a pointless war shortly after giving away your money to the USA is a good thing actually

I know the feature about the truck I talk most about is the wipers. Definitely not it's astounding continued ability to be lethal to its drivers and everyone around it.