Sharing another longer comic I made for The Nib back in 2016, since they’ll be shutting up shop at the end of this year. This piece was such a great excuse to dig deep into the world of sail-powered cargo! I particularly loved talking to the team behind Ceiba, who are now years into their build and documenting the entire shipbuilding process along the way.
1,500 drones light up the sky over Shenzhen on June 22 with a flying dragon
this amazing display kicked off China’s Dragon Boat Festival, taking place on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese calendar, commemorating the ancient poet Qu Yuan
Biggest indicator of US decline: You could buy 6 BigMacs with 1 hour of minimum wage in 1980, but today you can’t even buy one, despite minimum wage more than doubling.
It’s over.
Fs for the USA
explaining purchasing power collapse to an american: imagine no burger
Seriously, think about this for a moment. Nothing technological or ecological happened to make producing burgers more expensive. If anything, burgers should be wildly cheaper today than they once were.
What has happened is just theft. Theft through monopoly and vertical market integration destroying any semblance of competition, so prices can just go up and up and up without any connection to actual value of labor. And without rewarding labor.
The people making the extra money from this rise in cost of a Big Mac did not improve its quality. They did not contribute anything to the world. They just seized control of the supply and are now extorting you as surely as a group of armed bandits who steal six out of seven of your Big Macs on the way home and leave you one to split with your whole family.
[Republican debate] Trump: backstage, I saw Ron pick an M&M off the floor and eat it. One of the woke colors too. *Booing* Desantis: it’s not true (to moderator) he’s lying! Trump: he ate it like a dog folks *laughter* Desantis: (voice trembling) the blue ones aren’t woke!
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