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- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
China has literally stated “we want to merge peacefully but war is not off the table.” Taiwan has said “we want to maintain the status quo.” business-standard.com/…/over-80-of-taiwanese-favo…
Annihilation is maybe the wrong word, but they risk an unwinnable war against the highest population country. They have 0 chance if China decides to strike, and China is likely kept at bay from other countries “interference.” China doesn’t want to destroy Taiwan, it just wants them to rejoin, and will threaten war if they do not comply.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
That’s surprising they would wait when almost all Taiwanese people do not want to rejoin China. business-standard.com/…/over-80-of-taiwanese-favo…
This seems to support the idea that they are afraid China will take military action against them. Even this article states that the reason many do not want an independent country is for fear of retaliation by China.
I suppose we’ll see if you’re right about China not attacking Taiwan, and I have friends there so I really do hope you’re right.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
None of this is false but that doesn’t mean China isn’t threatening military action and waiting for their chance to strike. Being peaceful with the threat of force is not the same as just being peaceful, if a mobster says “pay me off if you don’t want any trouble” they’re not peacefully negotiating. To be honest I’m surprised they haven’t taken more action against Taiwan, when trump would probably say “it’s their country, it’s their territory, its rightfully theirs.”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The person they’re arguing with linked a state owned Chinese tabloid as evidence for their points. I don’t blame for not engaging.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
First off it’s the opposition leader, not the president, who is vocal about Taiwan remaining sovereign. Second, if I threaten someone with annihilation, and they say “hey we can negotiate peacefully,” and I say sure I’ll negotiate but (in that article) “war is not off the table,” I as the person threatening them with annihilation am not being peaceful here.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I mean is it though :> 1/3rd of Americans think the election was stolen because of the right wing media network. I would guess it’s probably the same percent in China who blindly believe what the ccp tells them.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Funny that you say that, since the report literally uses those exact words to describe what China is doing to the uyghurs, but yes you are correct it doesn’t say it’s a genocide.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You are most likely responding to an astroturf agent 😬 they linked a Chinese (state owned) tabloid as a source on the uyghur genocide being fake. I can link you to the comment if you want I would just warn that they are cleary not trying to convince for the sake of informing people.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’m just impressed with how long you must’ve spent researching to make that response, we need more people like this when debating tankies.
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 5 weeks ago:
I am saying I sucked it up and voted for kamala despite hassan explicity saying it was okay to not vote for the lesser of 2 evils “especially this time.” If there was ever a time in history to vote for the lesser of 2 evils, this was it. Hassan either pretends to or actually doesn’t realize how much America got shafted by trump, and how much WORSE trump would be for hamas.
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 5 weeks ago:
youtu.be/GIIQQqnPVuw?t=3m49s He said democrats have to earn your vote, so the harm reduction argument isn’t valid. The democrats didn’t earn my vote so I didn’t vote. Now Trump killed 2 people, started a war, cut all solar programs, ruined our trade negotiations, destroyed the fda, destroyed usaid, destroyed the department of education, pulled out of the climate accord, destroyed research for being “woke,” but I mean hey the democrats didn’t earn my vote so I was fully justified not voting I think.
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 5 weeks ago:
Taking care of my family by having a multi million dollar mansion fancy clothes a sports car and a Rolex, amen brother. I don’t expect someone to live like a pauper but wtf give 2 million to red cross and you’ve literally saved like 1000 peoples lives.
- Comment on Orthopedics 5 weeks ago:
You have to sit pretty strangely, like leaned back with your arm fully against your side so the weight of your forearm pushes into you rather than pulling on your shoulder. It does trade a LOT of hand strain for a slight bit of shoulder strain though.
- Comment on 🥀🥀🥀 1 month ago:
I think he was trying to do what guy #1 did but guy #1 was already there again and one upped him with like 6 roses
- Comment on Sitting in traffic 1 month ago:
Bus drivers are magicians, I always think “where is he even going to go there’s not even close to enough space” and they just magic the bus smaller to fit while I’m panicking the whole time thinking we’re about to crash.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 months ago:
Theres something called “morally lucky” where they didn’t really think things through that much but just ended up in the “more correct” group anyway. Some more common examples than what you gave would be things like “omg Ben Shapiro is so short what a gnome,” or “trump has a tiny dick lol!!” while saying body shaming is not okay and isn’t ever acceptable.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 months ago:
I think it just attracts the terminally onlines, I think most people on the fediverse are pretty cool and willing to argue stuff reasonably, but the insane people are so loud that’s what you’ll see very often.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 2 months ago:
It’s like any addiction really, easy to slip into even if everything is fine, and when 1 thing goes wrong you turn to it. It literally makes you feel better in the short term and your brain tells you to do it.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 2 months ago:
Companies also try to make foods as addictive as possible and as flashy as possible. It’s like avoiding the constant casino ads as a gambling addict, but like if you had to keep stepping into a casino every week forever and only doing low bets.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 2 months ago:
California I believe has the statistically worst drivers. New York id say has the most insane but skillful enough to somehow not die drivers.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 2 months ago:
It was some random place in ny, I believe it’s nutritional yeast with some breading, it has a really nice texture if you use it right.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 2 months ago:
I’m really not sure, I think it was like nutritional yeast with a little bit of breading
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 2 months ago:
Video of me after I found an actually good vegan wing place
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 months ago:
Lol this is great
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 3 months ago:
This is literally called nostupidquestions and people are saying it’s a stupid question…??? some people just didn’t experience the same things. xkcd.com/1053/
A big reason is different texture, with the semisphere shape the middle can be fluffy while the outside is crunchy, for baguettes it’s basically a sandwich that the whole thing fits in your mouth in one orientation, so it’s a different way to eat it.
- Comment on Tankie 4 months ago:
So I did some more research, and evidently if you’re going to use AI at all, you’re probably increasing your energy usage by using it offline if you use it often (unless you are using renewables), since the data centers generally have cards specifically designed for AI. I think it might just be a case of everyone needs to use it significantly less, it’s like if 4k gaming was something the average joe was doing. If everyone was doing that 10 hours a day, we would have a big problem.
It’s kinda like saying it’s not immoral to go for a pleasure drive, but if you’re driving around 10 hours a day that’s probably not good and you should minimize it as much as you can.
- Comment on Tankie 4 months ago:
90% of people do not use offline models, especially for everyone doing ai code and video. The offline models are undeniably worse and slower. These ai companies didn’t just magic billions out of thin air, most people are using the massive data farms. Also people are generally not playing 14 hours a day maxed out gaming, where for ai they might use it all day during work.
- Comment on but like seriously do try it 4 months ago:
I’ve tried this and part of the problem is if you’re already tired, being bored doesn’t suddenly make you capable of doing more, now you’re just tired and bored. It’s better in the long term because the times you might not be tired you’ll be more willing to do things instead of the instant dopamine activities, but I’m not sure if that’s worth all the time spent being super bored.
- Comment on Anon remembers 4 months ago:
I kinda agree just not fully, for instance for something like adhd you might get bored of something you really wanted to get good at, and your brain will just not allow you to do it. A regular person might get bored, an adhd person will be incapable of doing it for almost any reason. It’s a different and valuable way of seeing the world, but you would still be “disabled” in some ways, even in a perfect world.
- Comment on The build-up of circling what you wanted in the little paper catalogs. Hnnng. 5 months ago:
That they managed to create an actual real feeling of excitement around books and followed through with exciting fun books is actually really impressive.