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blackwateragent
·hace 6 meses·discuss
Trends and perceptions can change fast in China's market.

(NYTimes - Why Porsche Is No Longer a ‘Premium’ Sports Car in China)[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/business/porsche-china-ge...]
blackwateragent
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Its almost 2026 and you still believe the uyghur propaganda...?
blackwateragent
·hace 2 años·discuss
> - help load and unload the checked luggage for extra loyalty points

I would legitimately want this; I have a big fear of my luggage going missing (so as much as possible, I try to do only carry-on if I can cram everything in), so being able to personally load the luggage in the plane I'm flying in would actually be extremely anxiety reducing for me.
blackwateragent
·hace 2 años·discuss
> Warren Buffet would never spend such a ridiculous amount of money on a watch.

He has apparently at least a 40k+ watch. [1]

[1] https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/luxury/article/3215841/...
blackwateragent
·hace 2 años·discuss
> Night shift/2nd shift is a thing.

Yes, of course and definitely I considered as I mention if he/she meant 2nd job, etc. Just the phrasing threw me off as it says 'day', then '10pm' and it's written as if it is a normal occurrence for the majority of the population (which would imply night shift/2nd shift is normal working times for the majority). Just wanted to get clarification from OP on exactly what was meant to satisfy my own curiosity.
blackwateragent
·hace 2 años·discuss
A little ignorant here, could you explain a little more on this part.

> the highlight of the day was going to a cafe at 10 pm in middle of work

Is it 'normal' to have to work late to 10pm, or does it mean second job, etc.? Or was that just a typo and you meant 10am?

My gut instinct is 10am, but wanted to ask directly out of curiosity if I was wrong and get a better cultural understanding.
blackwateragent
·hace 2 años·discuss
OP's original statement of "The death rate in the United States per 1000 male adults as of 2022 is 163." comes from [1]. That statistic is defined as, "Adult mortality rate, male, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old male dying before reaching age 60, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year between those ages." [2]

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.AMRT.MA?end=2022...

[2] https://databank.worldbank.org/metadataglossary/health-nutri...
blackwateragent
·hace 3 años·discuss
I've read this article before that seems to offer some additional information on the topic you raised. [1]

> When the practice was brought to the United States in the 19th century, the American public was deeply uncomfortable with it. Many saw tipping as undemocratic and therefore un-American. A powerful anti-tipping movement erupted, fueled by the argument that employers, not customers, should be paying workers. But American restaurants and railway companies fought particularly hard to keep tipping, because it meant they didn’t have to pay recently freed black slaves who were now employed by those industries. Europe eventually did away with tipping. But in America, pressure from powerful corporate interests resulted in a two-tiered wage system for tipped and non-tipped workers, institutionalizing a highly racialized system of economic exclusion.

[1] https://www.fordfoundation.org/news-and-stories/stories/amer...
blackwateragent
·hace 3 años·discuss
> Thailand has a PPP of 3x China.

Where are you getting this? I'm no economist, but based on a simple search and data from wikipedia [1], your number seems wildly incorrect.

> However, the Chinese GDP number is widely known to be inflated

And BIS (Bank of International settlements) notes [2] "There are studies that contradict these results and find that the official data is roughly correct and may even understate the "true" economic growth (e.g. Holz, 2006a, 2006b; Clark et al., 2017a, 2017b; Perkins and Rawski, 2008)."

GDP is just one number that is inaccurate everywhere, it's more of a 'pulse'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)... [2] https://www.bis.org/publ/work925.htm