The developers for Lemmy are also leftist; that the original Lemmy was lemmy.ml speaks to their politics.

ChapoTrapHouse likely moved here because it was already leftist.

Yes. Just because I can imagine a book brought to life doesn't mean I don't like watching movies.

I'm not that surprised. Since Trump moved to Florida, he couldn't pick anyone there. I also feel like Vance is probably a lot closer to Trump's style.

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The Chinese subsidies are different than most other countries.

It is a collection of city and province leaders whose performance is reviewed on a variety of metrics, including economic growth. So, a lot of local governments invested in a ton of manufacturing capacity.

They are significantly overinvesting to the point it is a known bubble. However, it isn't exactly known what the national government is going to do to handle the aftermath of this, especially as most local government finances are a mess. At minimum, the national government has recognized that it should try to sell what it can.

Well, duh.

Both parties are getting ready for their national conventions heavily changed after the January 6 massacre of Congress and the subsequent installation of the military "transitional executive" Mark Milley.

For Democrats, this meant rebuilding a national party that lost its entire congressional delegation. Gavin Newsom has won the nomination, but conceded that a lot of his time would be spent on reasserting civilian control of government.

For Republicans, there will also be rebuilding as the conspiracy military tribunals have also gutted their ranks. While Mitt Romney was cleared of any involvement and has been considered the conscience of the Republican Party, it is an open secret that the deTrumpification of the party hasn't been successful.

Probably travel, preferably with friends.

Plan some alone time. You don't need to be together the entire time and it is ok to plan to do different things.

Don't try to make this trip perfect. Mistakes and bad things will happen on the trip; this is fine. It is better to focus on the good. If anything bad happens, it makes for a good story.

Don't talk to random people coming up to you on the street, especially if they are speaking in your language.

Take something to help with the jet lag.

Get in decent walking shape. If you or your girlfriend have a sedentary life, it is going to be a big change when you are walking around everywhere. If you don't do 10,000 steps a day on average now, start walking more while you have time to train.

Probably due to the average age of a lot of people on Lemmy. I've found that a lot of people who are middle aged or older have a preference for text over video.

It is also the time in people's lives where they have the most responsibility. Even if you've made the right choices in life, that's when people are their busiest.

even though she never was my supervisor, she acted like it.

Did you clear this up with your actual supervisor? I've had plenty of cases where I've been given work by people not my supervisor, but my supervisor wanted me to help the other person out. And that no one wanted to hear your side of the story seems to suggest that this could be the case. You seem to be focusing on the popularity of your coworker rather than giving information on the reporting structure of your company.

It sounds like you aren't happy in your given role at work, so you might as well leave. However, it seems like there may have been a different understanding to what your job is than what you thought it was.