Ghost of Christmas Past

Then form a movement and demand reparations from those countries. Just because your ancestors didn’t get justice doesn’t mean others shouldn’t.

The people are long dead but the states and institutions that benefitted from slavery still exist. Like for example the Netherlands, my country, benefited greatly from the slave trade and it started the Dutch Golden Age. The enormous wealth it brought back to the Netherlands made what the country is today. Even the riches of the Dutch royal family is build with spoils from the colonial past. It’s only fair that the Dutch state would use some of those riches to help the former colonies grow their economy where lots of descendants of slaves are living in enormous poverty. And these people are only four to five generations away from ancestors who were born into slavery, it wasn’t that long ago.

American work culture isn’t that different. Long hours and barely any vacation days. Only pay is better in the US.

Also mild case of collateral infant death is much more preferable. Ain’t my kids anyway.

Coding has nothing to do with math yet the entire basis of computing and programming is Boolean algebra.

Yeah for every MGS4 there are hundreds of games on the level of E.T. There was a shit ton of crap flooding the market during the Atari era, because many publishers tried to crank out as many games as possible in a short time.

The Democrats call themselves liberals. Liberalism is considered a centrist ideology across the globe. So not a surprise they are not left wing.

Yep computing was considered secretarial work. That’s why only women did that job since the men got higher ranking jobs.

Xi to Biden: “Be careful, your citizens’ purchasing power relies on us exploiting our poor rural population”

Well yeah it puts food on the table

Still a snapdragon 750. I don’t mind paying a premium for this phone, but I definitely don’t want a hardware downgrade