Even if US seems like it's acting in bad faith here, I rather the Pope not step into politics of this sort and concentrate more on the religious realm. It seems like the papacy would be stepping backwards if it got more involved in politics/geopolitics again, and not simply looking for peace.
Readit Newshmm37 commented on Pope criticizes US bid to 'break apart' US-Europe alliance apnews.com/article/vatica... · Posted by u/sipofwater
hmm37 commented on Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC geacron.com/home-en/... · Posted by u/not_knuth
> the world maps in both PRC and ROC show one China, not two
That is irrelevant. The map is not the territory. They are two countries in reality; that is, they operate as two separate sovereign countries in every practical way, regardless of what legal fictions are maintained for political reasons.
This atlas is presumably supposed to be about reality, not about legal fictions.
(BTW: North Korea and South Korea officially claimed to be one country until very recently, and South Korea still does. But every map in the outside world shows them as two. Why should China and Taiwan be treated differently?)
Except for a very important one. Taiwan is not internationally recognized as an independent country by almost all nation-states. And those few that recognize Taiwan (or rather ROC) as a country do not recognize PRC as a country.
You may say that ROC is a de facto separate country, although the constitution doesn't imply necessarily so, but simply that there's a different government.
The fact that the international community and even it's own constitution doesn't recognize it as an independent country shows that it's more than legal fiction and simply that de facto China is still under civil war.
This is interesting posturing, but ultimately I think the Ukraine drone war has made an invasion of Taiwan by China virtually impossible.
- Surface naval assets are extremely vulnerable to drones, so a blockade probably can't be maintained
- a marine assault will get utterly obliterated by drones as well as conventional military defenses
- urban warfare with drones is now even more difficult
- wars like this expose governmental corruption on a massive scale, so the mainland military won't want it to happen
- the Malacca Straits will be blockaded by a deep water navy (ours) that can't be reached by Ukraine-style drones, so China's economy collapses without oil for fertilizer, energy, and transportation
The Malacca Straits not being that wide, would make it easier for China's carrier killer missiles to destroy them.
hmm37 commented on Germany to ban Huawei from future 6G network bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/teleforce
ZTE is also under scrutiny. The reason it's only Huawei and ZTE is that other Chinese providers are so insignificant that the telecoms will likely be able to replace the infrastructure themselves with spares or consolidation. However, in an emergency, the government would have to foot the bill for replacing Huawei/ZTE systems quickly, as the telecoms couldn't finance this and lack of capacity would mean very high prices.
Huawei at least is giving their source code to be scrutinized. What can be said of other vendors?
hmm37 commented on China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990 e360.yale.edu/digest/chin... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Chinese CO₂ emissions per capita are only about 60% as much as the USA, but in the past 25 years US per capita emissions have dropped by about a third and Chinese emissions per capita have almost tripled and are still rising rapidly. Considering that China is about 4 times as populous as the US, this is a huge problem for the world. (US emissions are also a huge problem; we all need for them to decrease very quickly.)
Is the per capita still rising rapidly? China's CO2 growth levels have already started leveling off, and actually showed a slight decline as of late.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-just-put-c...
hmm37 commented on Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/hd4
So you'd think they'd be able to build a commercial jet liner, no?
But commercial jet liners aren't as important to China for security. They have high speed railroads for that.
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hmm37 commented on Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/rjknight
> He has made several phonemes that aren’t in the language we speak at home.
No I mean absolutely zero contact with or help from modern (say since the last 10,000 years) human civilization.
I mean literally giving birth in a forest and then raising the baby there without ever speaking a word around it or showing it any tools etc.
(this assumes that it will survive to 1-2 years old without any fatal sickness etc. but let's say that the mother/parents will get just enough "outside" help to make sure it does, but the baby itself is not to come in contact with any tech or language)
I'm pretty sure there were children where the parents basically locked them in cages or chained them to a post in the basement, where they had almost no social contact, etc. And in these cases they were considered effectively mentally disabled by the time they were rescued.
Oh, we saw it before. 1998-2000. Cisco, Sun, et al, "investing" in the dotcoms so those dotcoms could turn around and use the funds to buy servers and routers from them.
It's the opposite here. It's as if the dotcom is investing into Cisco and Sun, so that it can buy servers and routers from them.
It's only fantastic news if there is no bubble.
If there is a bubble, AMD just gave away $160m for nothing in return.
No... because the warrants can only be exercised if the share price is at certain points. If AMD goes down, the warrants can't be exercised at all. E.g. we know at least one share price points is when AMD shares are worth $600/share.