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mobilefriendly commented on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War   anthropic.com/news/statem... · Posted by u/qwertox
cthalupa · 17 days ago
The one we live in, where they have control over a wide swathe of land mass through imperialism and have actively resisted relinquishing it?

The one we live in, where they are constantly surpassing international law in international waters in the South China Sea?

The one we live in, where they are constantly rattling sabers at South Korea and Japan when it comes to military expansion?

The one we live in, where they brutally cracked down on Hong Kong when they did not abide by the 50 year one country two systems deal, not even making it half of the way through the agreed period?

The one we live in, where there is constant threat to Taiwan?

It may have been a lazy post you're responding to, but anyone that is paying attention to this topic enough to talk about it is going to either say 'Of course China is imperialist, the same as every other global power' or take some sort of tankie approach to justify it.

mobilefriendly commented on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War   anthropic.com/news/statem... · Posted by u/qwertox
hrn_frs · 17 days ago
Historically speaking, he's right. China has never had an expansionist foreign policy.
mobilefriendly · 17 days ago
Tibet, the Philippines, and Taiwan would like to have a word, not to mention Chinese military action in support of its North Korea puppet state, and wars with Vietnam and India.
mobilefriendly commented on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War   anthropic.com/news/statem... · Posted by u/qwertox
inigyou · 17 days ago
The chance is zero. This won't be deployed in countries that he'd want to visit anyway and would extradite him to The Hague.
mobilefriendly · 17 days ago
In all seriousness The Hague has no jurisdiction over Americans and Congress has already authorized military use of force against Brussels should they ever attempt to prosecute Americans.
mobilefriendly commented on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War   anthropic.com/news/statem... · Posted by u/qwertox
davidw · 17 days ago
I won't give in to doomerism.

Germany, Italy and Japan are all wealthy, stable democracies right now. Not without their problems and baggage, but pleasant places in a lot of ways.

mobilefriendly · 17 days ago
All three have active US military bases on their soil and enjoy the economic surplus of living under the US defense umbrella.
mobilefriendly commented on Arkansas moves to ban candy, soda from SNAP eligibility   ualrpublicradio.org/local... · Posted by u/geox
mobilefriendly · a year ago
This is progress it is peak idiocracy for the taxpayer to subsidize junk food to a largely obese population
mobilefriendly commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
nightski · a year ago
Trump didn't print $4T, the bi-partisan effort in Congress for COVID relief did.

I think the problem in voters eyes is that Biden did not stop after this. He pushed through multiple trillion dollar bills on top of it.

I'm not saying I agree with that stance, but calling the $4T Trump's doing is a really misleading. It was not part of his economic agenda at all.

mobilefriendly · a year ago
Yeah Trumps spending was bipartisan but Biden unilaterally poured fuel on the fire after Covid.
mobilefriendly commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
lukevp · a year ago
Yes, whatever portion made their decision based on cost of groceries do believe the president influences prices. It’s the same as the old line about “gas prices are too damn high”. Most people aren’t very involved in politics and they don’t understand things like this, or that economic cycles are so long that half the time it’s the result of the previous party’s actions what is happening now.
mobilefriendly · a year ago
Harris played to and reinforced this economic illiteracy by proposing federal price controls for groceries.
mobilefriendly commented on Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined   worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/bswud
slt2021 · 2 years ago
bitcoin is the 21 century's diamond. Same useless string of cryptographically signed bytes, but for some reason the humanity agrees to assign some value just because of scarcity mindset.
mobilefriendly · 2 years ago
At least diamonds are shiny and you don’t have to pay miners literally forever
mobilefriendly commented on Small reactors don't add up as a viable energy source   cosmosmagazine.com/scienc... · Posted by u/tapper
mobilefriendly · 2 years ago
The United States Navy, which operates 83 nuclear-powered ships, demonstrates that small reactors are clearly a viable energy source.
mobilefriendly commented on Vice website is shutting down   writing.exchange/@ernie/1... · Posted by u/colinprince
DamnableNook · 2 years ago
Out of curiosity, what was the argument against it?
mobilefriendly · 2 years ago
The old content can become a liability. Maybe the brand has shifted, or norms have shifted and the old content is off-key.

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KarmaCake day1238February 12, 2016View Original