pennomi

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Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing (apnews.com)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s tapioca balls or computer chips, Taiwan is stretching toward the United States and away from China — the world’s No. 2 economy that threatens to take the democratically ruled island by force if necessary....

pennomi,

The trade with China is a a big part why they haven’t been invaded yet. This may speed up the timeline for China’s invasion.

pennomi,

Only works if the liquidated assets are worth more than the money spent acquiring them, which usually is not the case.

pennomi,

If your boyfriend expects sex in exchange for flowers, get a different boyfriend. (Unless you’re into that dynamic I guess. You do you.)

pennomi,

The main thing we need to do to fix journalism is crowdsource the titles. But how to make that happen? I dunno.

pennomi,

You can tactically vote for Biden to avoid Trump and still take actions to dismantle the system.

pennomi,

No, I’m saying that your analogy breaks down.

pennomi,

You’re free to do nothing, but smart people choose to minimize harm when there are only bad choices in front of them.

pennomi,

You can still do both. The only viable path to election reform comes from downballot state elections anyway.

pennomi,

When entire civilian populations are bombed or starved, then yes. The US is not free of war crimes. They’re merely immune from the consequences.

pennomi,

Absolutely, there were millions of civilian casualties in WWII. The difference here is that there have been, according to Israel, only 273 soldiers killed in ground operation combat vs the 13,000 civilians killed on Gaza’s side. (According to the new, lower estimates.) This is not so much a war as a one-sided beatdown.

pennomi,

No, I’m saying that if a nation has such a huge advantage they also have more responsibility to select targets carefully so as to not kill noncombatants.

pennomi,

I tend to agree though, by 2040ish we could feasibly be putting boots on Mars instead of an automated sample return.

pennomi,

I love how the economic threat of cheap electric vehicles dramatically outweighs the existential threat of climate change. Nice priorities, everyone!

pennomi,

Wow this is some serious vintage memery. Nice work.

pennomi,

God this reads extremely pro-Israel.

“Hey everyone, Hamas lied about 70% of casualties being women and children. The actual number is 50%, so that makes Israel the good guys!”

Fuck no, it doesn’t matter what the ratio is, the fact is that noncombatants are being slaughtered by the thousands.

pennomi,

Because it’s being used as a weapon to justify Israel’s actions.

pennomi,

You can condemn both Hamas and Israel for killing civilians. It’s not either or.

pennomi,

Lying about casualties is standard propaganda in every conflict. Everybody does it (for another comparison, look at the discrepancy between Ukraine and Russia’s published numbers). That’s why third party assessments are important.

It’s been hard to get people into Gaza safely to do accurate analysis however.

pennomi,

Misleading title more than simply fake, but arguably there’s no difference in the propaganda wars.

pennomi,

Hell, I should be able to upload an economic playbook with hundreds of rules like the one you described, and load it on game start. Then all I have to do is the actual unit movements.

pennomi,

If they somehow kill D&D, Pathfinder will just take its place again.

pennomi,

I want my remains spread at the happiest place on Earth, Disneyland.

Also, I don’t want to be cremated.

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