Our heros fought and died for 8-hour working days and when we stop fighting, we go back to 12-hour working days! That is why you need to search for theinternationalism.org
With declining birth rates big corporations might get the idea that "you know, child labour isn't really a big problem today with the extra precautions we take"
At the same time having these large companies that operate in emerging economies where they hide under the rug all child work exploitation.
> The number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass legislation that rolls back protections or regulations for workers under the age of 18.
Random anecdote: I worked for years in the digital agency space and we basically just sold billable hours. Hours worked was everything. When crunch time hit, you worked until you were done. I once clocked 110 hours after working straight through two weekends on a remote work site to finish a huge project and when it was done, I was just there by myself. No one said a word. Boss didn't say anything, account manager didn't say anything, client didn't say anything. I never felt more alienated from a job than that moment.
Gulags were the worst kind of exploitation; that is why we always were anti-Stalinist and always identified the USSR as 'state capitalism'! The fact that a state 'claims' socialism does not mean it 'is' socialist, just as North Korea claiming 'democratic' people's republic does not mean it is 'democratic'. Clear?
What about the millions killed in China and Cambodia? When do you look at the system you are proposing and understand it has been a disaster during its slow and inevitable economic implosion?
We are close to treating PTSD of people who we sent to massacre other people, and we justified their massacre as heroic act. Great achievement for humanity!
Or it can be: people who went to protect us, and as it's an act which often requires serious sacrifice we praise them. And in any case treating PTSD is good in general.
I think if you support Netanyahu, you are not in a position to condemn these atrocities. The problem is that Iranian pro-democracy opposition is demolished by far-right sometimes neo-Nazi monarchists!
I bought the latest Intel MacBook Air and after few months they released M1 MacBook Air. Then they release an update, I did as I should, and it broke my laptop! I lost all my data! They fixed it for me in a couple of weeks without providing me a substitute! And they were arrogant enough to behave like they did a favor to not charge me for the repair! It was 2020! My MacBook Air never became like before, and it died a couple of times in a year, which it recovered by itself. And some months ago it died, and it didn't recover! I lost lots of data I spent thousands of hours and I trusted that I can have them even if my laptop dies. Now, I have no way to recover my data!
Speaking of data loss, it's fucked up that Apple doesn't give a shit about your data.
Ages ago I shipped my iMac to them and it came back with a new HD. Hello? Maybe include the old drive so I can attempt to recover the data? I lost a year's worth of photos and a bunch of personal documents. This is when I started doing backups.
That really sucks, but they absolutely do tell you to back up all your data before sending your machine in for service. Involuntary hard drive replacements aside, your package could get lost or damaged in the mail.
Kinda difficult to do when the Mac does not turn on. Actually a technician came over to attempt to fix it, then just took it with him to ship it to Apple.
This exact thing happened to me with the update to Catalina. Had to send to fix, they were pricky arses over the ordeal. Sent back, it was never the same. Actually started seeing rainbow loaders.
The most damning permanent damage was that the wifi card never worked properly again and I had to connect an adapter, then a usb to ethernet adapter and use that. Which meant I had to sit in a specific disk at work if I wanted to use that computer.
We still do not have a standardized way to represent Machine Learning concepts. For example in vision model, I see lots of papers confused about the "skip connections" and "residual connection" and when they concatenate channels they call them "residual connection" while it shows that they haven't understood why we call them "residual" in the first place. In my humble opinion, each conference, and better be a confederation of conferences, work together to provide a glossary, a technical guideline, and also a special machine translation tool, to correct a non-clear-with-lots-of-grammatical-error-English like mine!
In his second term, Donald Trump launched a sweeping overhaul of U.S. economic and political strategy, marked by historic tariff hikes, aggressive fossil fuel expansion, and a dramatic shift toward cryptocurrency deregulation. His executive orders dismantle climate commitments, target federal spending, and centralize power through new institutions like the Department of Government Efficiency. With the appointment of an AI & Crypto Czar and rejection of central bank digital currencies, Trump pushes for private control over digital assets, raising concerns about deregulation and monetary instability. These moves signal a sharp break from past policies, reshaping inter-imperialist relations and global economic dynamics.
BYD's leap forward is impressive, comparable to that of Ford Motors after the First World War, when with the Model T, introduced in 1908, it revolutionised the auto industry and ushered in the motorisation of the 20th century. In just five years, from 1920 to 1924, Ford's sales quadrupled from 460,000 to 1.9 million. Tesla Motors made a comparable leap forward in 2020-24, more than tripling its sales from 500,000 to 1.7 million.
The «Communes» campaign has posed a fundamental problem for the Marxist interpretation of the development from a semi-feudal economy to a capitalist economy. First of all, we need to grasp clearly that in China, as in every other country with a feudal or semi-feudal economy, the historical problem is that of creating a capitalist economy, since it is impossible to skip a whole stage of economic development. Only when the material bases are created – and the creation of these bases is the task of capitalism, in this case of state capitalism – will Chinese society, and for it the new revolutionary class created by industrialisation, i.e. the proletariat, be mature enough to raise the problem of the socialist management of its economy.
Paralysed man of spinal cord injury, once considered incurable, walked again in Shanghai’s Zhongshan Hospital. The “three in one” brain-spine interface uses electronic implants wirelessly transmit patient’s thoughts to his legs and feet via newly-created “neural bridge” on his spine.
Professor Jia’s team spent nearly three years developing a lightweight AI model to decode brain signals in real time and simulate right electrical stimulation to achieve muscle movement.
This is the first time such a complete system has been achieved worldwide. Early this year, the research officially entered the clinical concept validation phase.
