China should clamp down harder on the rare minerals markets because they have “dual military and civilian uses”.

Yeah, the “universal grammar” aspect seems to have fallen apart. Other parts of his theory about humans being the only animal to demonstrate grammar still hold true. It’s not been demonstrated yet in any nonhuman animal (unfortunately, yes, even Koko).

reminds me of when i read about that one captain that was rescuing refugees and euros were flipping their shit and screaming about the cost. so they stopped that and created their own fleet to stop refugees and also just let them drown. and it ended up costing like 5x as much to do that

edit: to follow up of course they never stopped the later because it was never about the cost

I got VR during the early pandemic when I had a good remote job. There were a few games that hit hard, like Moss and The Climb, where it was implemented well and then there was Beat Saber. And guess what? The headset became a Beat Saber machine and that’s pretty much it. AI is kind of like that. It has become a machine to cheat on school work and to sex chatbot for most people, the only two things outside of translation that it does halfway decently.

how is this going to affect the next re-release of skyrim or oblivion or morrowind? because thats all they fucking make anymore

I HOPE YOU APPRECIATE MY ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

on her channel she has a whole budget setup if someone where to want to do tissue culturing as a cottage business that invlolves that kind of stuff

crack is freebase cocaine and heavy coke users can often turn to crack to chase the rush, but not always. we view it differently in the usa due to racism.

around 2/3 of people who use cocaine will experience psychotic symptoms at some point. about 1 in 6 long term addicts will develop long a long term psychotic disorder.

i worked at a halfway house for many years. the real heavy coke heads pretty much all had mental health issues related to cocaine psychosis. like, some really serious mental health issues in some cases. permanent cognitive disability type stuff. changed how i viewed the drug

long term heavy use also destroys your heart in permanent ways

have fun with coke very sparingly, comrades. if you find you do it every weekend or during the week maybe take a long break and re-evaluate if you are becoming dependent. well, for any recreational drug for that matter.

i love liberals. they have no real principles and it shows

“trump is a fascist and using law enforcement organizations to strip basic human rights from the people in our country and yes, of course ill fund them fully to do this”

hell yeah, comrade. baking has so many little tips like these and im glad to have shared.

I wrote a thought out response and unfortunately a misclick ate it and I can’t be assed to redo it.

Short points:

I stand firm on what I said, China has no responsibility to fix the issues the west has created. They are not your “white savior” and nothing you’ve said here even approaches a mildly convincing point to the contrary.

I have seen how unprepared the USA is in regards to sustaining operations which actually makes their decision not to prevent this more strategically sound. Smart of China to let the USA walk itself into another demoralizing and costly quandary. You’ve made a convincing point that this was a smart decision by them.

Lastly, You’ve pegged me wrong. I actually think China COULD defeat the USA. I’m saying they have no obligation to at this moment. When the USA is openly telling nations that opposition to this is an “act of war” I think it is unethical for westerners demand that China put over a billion of their citizens lives and livelihoods on the line. It’s so juvenile that it in itself is a joke.

And by all means, feel free to be more inactive.

sure, and the constant collaboration with with iran and other entities supplying the anti-zionist forces. they simply do not see this the way you do. hell, chinese drone companies are selling parts to both russia and ukraine at the same time from the same factories.

the only thing ai is good for is translation and being extremely horny and the latter part is problematic except the porn industry is even more problematic so i dunno i think i gotta give a point to ai on that one reluctantly

I think in a very cynical way it could be an advantageous move for them. Let the USA get bogged down in ground operations in the region again against a highly motivated and experienced guerilla force. Not only that but it has the potential to further demoralize the American public of military adventurism. To say it is a “bad move” is only such in regards to the whining of internet leftists and frankly when push comes to shove for China, internet leftists will not provide them with any strategic advantages.

I must repeat: China is not our “white savior” nor should we expect them to be.

If you want to discuss strategy for ultimately defeating the US (which you play with in your reply) then it benefits them to let the USA get bogged down in ground operations in the region once again rather than attempt to prevent it. It isn’t a good moral position for them but it is strategically sound.

Stalin pushed for ‘Socialism in one country’ rather famously. To quote: “The export of revolution is nonsense.”

I don’t necessarily agree, but to say Stalin was confrontational is just false.

Comrades have fallen into a liberal trap once again to blame China for not committing themselves to forever war in order to fix the ongoing hubris of the west. Didn’t you know? If China doesn’t resolve all our issues then actually they are bad and somehow worse than us for not resolving our own issues for ourselves.

I feel like the idea that it is China’s job to run in and save everyone is super cynical. It’s not their job or responsibility because they are still managing the vestiges and threats of western imperialism themselves. Further, all these criticisms of China’s lack of intervention is really insincere by the liberals who try and “call it out.” They don’t want the west to save Gaza and they damn sure don’t want China to do it. They want to point at China and criticize it for doing interventionism should it commit while being smug that they haven’t yet. To this kind of person, no matter what China does, it is wrong.

TLDR: this is the west’s problem. The west created it. The west fueled it. They can’t pawn off the moral responsibility on China.

Oh, plenty. I make a fair amount of curries.