cuban_Pete

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Implants in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
The unseen struggle: Job dissatisfaction and minimal effort among young professionals in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] cuban_Pete@lemy.lol 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because some people's job helps others? Like a nurse does what they do to help save lives, not because they enjoy the workload.

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Poland to temporarily suspend asylum rights amid Belarus border tensions (www.aljazeera.com)
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Choosing to be child-free in an ‘apocalyptic’ South Asia (www.aljazeera.com)
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‘Like we are trapped’: Minorities suffer amid conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine (www.aljazeera.com)
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Over 50,000 illegal foreigners in Myanmar deported (e.vnexpress.net)
Young women are more liberal than they’ve been in decades, a Gallup analysis finds in c/news@lemmy.world
China’s grip on Hong Kong just became a little tighter in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] cuban_Pete@lemy.lol 1 points 8 months ago

There was a period in the early 2000's where China showed genuine signs it might open up and become somewhat democratic, giving its citizens greater rights and representation. Obviously they decided to revert to their authoritarian ways and brutally crack down on dissent to keep control over the people, but there was a time HK might've had a nice future under China.

China’s grip on Hong Kong just became a little tighter in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] cuban_Pete@lemy.lol 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No fucking way, Hong Kong was lost in 2014 after the yellow umbrella movement was brutally crushed. It was death by a thousand cuts ever since. Trump or no Trump, nothing was going to change that.