I don’t think we’re contradicting each other. Sometimes the manufacturer themselves (or other Chinese entities) will be the ones creating the spec.

It also makes sense that the trash products, which compete exclusively on price, will mostly be coming from the area able to manufacture products for the lowest price. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t also able to manufacture higher quality things when requested to.

At least for Norway, this is not technically true, but it also doesn’t matter.

Unions will run surveys across their members every year, and as long as they have enough members to have bargaining power, they also have the data. So they don’t really need all wages to be public in order to negotiate.

What is public in Norway, is the total taxable income of individuals. This is meant as a measure against tax fraud, and also an annual source of entertainment as you look up local and national rankings of who paid the most taxes, check that you’re still making more than your middle school bully, and so forth. But total taxable income can contain more than wages, so that is not really the number you’re referring to, and as mentioned the union has better data anyway.

From what I’ve heard, Norwegian unions are actively against a national minimum wage, because they believe that would act as a low anchor harming their negotiations.

Although there is no national minimum wage in Norway, certain industries or specific groups do have a specific minimum wage. For example, there is a legally mandated minimum wage for minors, to avoid them being exploited in summer jobs.

In other cases, unions have negotiated fixed levels for their focus areas (e.g. engineers working government jobs), and everyone working those jobs, whether they’re members of the union or not, will get paid those levels. Sometimes everyone in the group gets a raise simultaneously as a result of annual union negotiations.

It doesn’t matter where it’s produced, what matters is who designed it and for what market. Things tailored for the mass US market are usually designed to minimize the cost of manufacturing above all else. Things tailored for Europe are a little earlier in the enshittification process.

There are tons of high quality products manufactured in China, the only difference is that the specs for those asked for high quality, while the things you associate with Chinese manufacturing are when they were asked to make trash.

Is that a typo, or is it really chicken and not beef?

That is unfortunately the only one I’ve seen.

I’ve watched The Man Without a Past several times, and I find it really interesting how the experience varies depending on the setting.

The first time I saw it in a packed theater, and we were all laughing the whole time. As soon as someone let out a chuckle we were all laughing out loud, like a real life laugh track.

Watching it with two friends at home was less laughing out loud and more chuckling and talking about how weird a movie this is.

Both experiences were enjoyable in their own ways, just different.

If I was to name a polar opposite of a Chris Tucker comedy it would be this film.

If you want to hear Finnish you could try Rare Exports or The Man Without a Past

Yeah, at least explain the physics of some advanced fucking.

Yes, these are social norms, and those are taught.

I don’t think we’re using the same definition of stigma.

Stigma is a profound, unfair negative belief or stereotype attached to a person or group, causing shame, social rejection, and discrimination.

I’m having a hard time making any of the stuff you’re saying make sense with that definition, and the whole word is inherently social.

The fact is that a lot of people think it’s nasty to fuck your brother, and that you should stop fucking him when you realize you’re related to him. I see the nuance in this situation, but a lot of people don’t, and if they maintain the relationship they will have to deal with those people. It’s already hard enough to deal with homophobia without this on top.

I’m not sure what biological stigma is supposed to mean. Sexual relations between siblings gives most people the ick regardless of technicalities, and that is a social stigma, the only kind of stigma I’m aware of.

While the medical concerns with incest don’t apply here, the stigma of having sexual relations with a relative usually doesn’t take such technicalities into account.

If you just run the command you ran initially it will print out the packages it wants to pull in. You can then cancel it and install whichever subset you choose manually.

I kind of miss Perl, and still write it sometimes. More often than not I end up with python, though, due to the built-in json parser. Everything is json or yaml these days.

Maybe I didn’t scroll far enough, but it looks a lot like all the top lemmy posts are about Lemmy or about how Reddit sucks.

Just don’t promise a pizza party and fail to deliver! That happened at my job once, and people did not like it.

Either of those within earshot from my desk and I’m not taking the job.

All PR is good PR I guess. He did successfully promote Subnautica 2, judging by the reactions in this thread. Without this scandal I would have never known a sequel was on the way.

Well, yeah. The Russian idea of peace is “Ukraine surrenders and is annexed by Russia”. The EU is definitely hindering that.