I spend all my sick days and a non-negligible number of vacation days on the kind of chores you can only get done during work hours. Back when we had “Work From Home”, I would also squeeze these tasks in during my lunch break.

I don’t want to burn sick time for a doctor’s appointment (I need to save those for when my kid is actually sick), and I sure as hell don’t want to use up a “vacation” day for it.

Well, good luck with that. My retired mother-in-law helps a lot with my son when he’s ill. And we can juggle my son between our individual sick-day allotments such that I haven’t run out yet. But yeah, eventually they’re all just “hours to spend that my boss won’t gripe at me for when I use them”. That’s meant dipping into vacation days when I needed to justify not being on the clock.

This is how you know they’ve fallen to the fucking commies.

How the living fuck do they expect this to work?

Police commit stocastic violence against the underclass, then justify the abuse by saying “we found illegal activity on their cell phones”

I’ve also done reading about what else the CCP does to people it doesn’t like

The US churns out propaganda by the bucket load. I’m sure you’ve heard all sorts of crazy shit.

I do wonder if you’ve noticed how often organs like the Epoch Times and New York Post co-mingle reactionary takes against the Chinese government with Republican talking points.

Being surprised at this is also like being surprised the Nazis used imprisoned Jews as slave labour.

Believing a pro-Nazi media when they tell you who to hate is certainly a vibe

Between Alberta, Greenland, Taiwan, and Israel, I’m excited to see how many new stars we’re going to add to the American Flag during the Glorious MAGA Era.

I mean, I’ve read the article. I don’t know if you’ve done the same. Nothing in it is more than allegations and assumptions by Facebook users yelling at one another.

It’s no different than if someone did an article about Lemmy and reported “Multiple moderators have confirmed that a large Russian-financed anti-American coalition known as ‘Tankies’ have harassed God-fearing Israel-loving American truth-speakers on the platform.”

Germany lost a vote on Wednesday for a temporary seat

You’d be surprised

I remember this line from the Satanic Panic of the 80s

China Bad

But

1. the quality of the shows isn’t necessarily positive

and

2. the free time you have to watch TV isn’t increasingly with the price

China is normalising its military presence in the Indo-Pacific Region

What is “normalizing” supposed to mean within the context of a nation that borders this region and does immense amounts of naval trade through it?

This is another example of China’s familiar tactic of salami slicing, seen also, for example, in its progressive attempts at dominating the South China Sea

Again - the South China Sea - why do you think they call it that?

Also, who has historically dominated the area? And why is this regional hegemon so incapable of playing nicely with it’s neighbors?

Ukraine has a diplomacy window

I’ll believe it when I see it

Over the pandemic, Australian Government gross debt increased from $534.4 billion in March 2019 to $885.5 billion in April 2022 and is now at the highest level relative to GDP (gross domestic product) since the 1950s when debt accrued during the Second World War was still on the Australian Government balance sheet

Add to that, the economy is experiencing a prolonged “per capita recession” (where economic growth falls behind population growth, causing living standards to decline). A headline recession remains a rising risk as high interest rates, inflation, and a softening labor market squeeze households.

The Japanese PM campaigned on rearming the country.

Love a second hand submarine.

I’m sure parts and maintenance won’t drive an already struggling nation further into the red.

I haven’t accepted it. Speak for yourself

It’s more this bit

they obtained the approval from the prison to let Zhao play in the film by saying that they were preparing a “documentary” But what they produced turned out to be a commercial film

And then dressing it up as state censorship

Don’t both the US and China support the PH govt?

No.

What is it with Western Media constantly glazing Chinese scammers?