MTGZone
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months ago

I love how the western mind can no longer comprehend the concept of planning for the future

theweek.com

external-link
message-square
37
fedilink
6
external-link

I love how the western mind can no longer comprehend the concept of planning for the future

theweek.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months ago
message-square
37
fedilink
Why is China stockpiling resources?
theweek.com
external-link
The superpower has been amassing huge reserves of commodities at great cost despite its economic downturn
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    10 months ago

    Wisconsin with its secret cheese vaults- side-eye-1

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    10 months ago

    What the fuck ya’ll got all that food in your fridge for?

  • gueybana [any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    10 months ago

    Unrelated but Xi always looks like such a boss. Even on lib central reddit I was reading random discussion about how photogenic the fuy always looks. He always seems to be in such equilibrium

    • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      10 months ago

      xigma-male

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    10 months ago

    Makes you think. thonk

    • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      10 months ago

      When uh was this 🫠🫠🫠 we’re really going to war with China aren’t we?

      • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        10 months ago

        Let me be clear, I used the dev tools in Firefox to manipulate that page, just to flip the script a little if you will.

        • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          10 months ago

          Oh okay ty

  • I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    10 months ago

    Why would anyone want to move away from just-in-time logistics? It’s not like it’s created trade crises on a global scale lol

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      10 months ago

      My brother going through college online during the height of COVID and being taught that JIT is the most efficient and flawless system there is. doubt

      • Wakmrow [he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        10 months ago

        I mean it kind of is provided nothing ever goes wrong.

    • pumpchilienthusiast [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      10 months ago

      JIT logistics is hella resilient in a time of more frequent and severe pandemics and weather too

    • crime [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      10 months ago

      I love systems that can be completely ground to a halt by one thicc ever-given

  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    The actual article is a fair bit more sinister than the idea that westerners don’t know how to plan for the future (which is still pretty funny).

    It basically specilates that China is stockpiling resources to prepare for war and sanctions from the us. If this is true, it is fairly obvious that this is only a natural reaction to the recent belligerent turn of the Americans and their vassals.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      10 months ago

      Right, China would be stupid not to do that given how things unfolded with Russia and US openly talking up war with China now.

  • 0x0520 [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    10 months ago

    It’s only Responsible Foresight if it takes place in the Anglo region of Terra. Otherwise, it’s just oriental inscrutability.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    10 months ago

    Among the materials are stocks of fuel, including crude oil and natural gas, valuable manufacturing metals like copper, iron ore and cobalt, and in particular precious metals like gold, said Newsweek.

    Woah a country stockpiling oil reserves, what an absolutely unprecedented and unnerving development.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      The sinister, unscrupulous, mysterious Chinese are searching for dinosaur remains

      • pumpchilienthusiast [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        don’t forget inscrutable

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      🤣

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    10 months ago

    It’s crazy that super simple stuff requires a nation to be communist. It’s like if ever a political philosophy seeks to centralize wealth then it invariably becomes this autophagic black hole that produces leaders that fucking suck. Directly making life a little better for people instead of worse takes this Herculean effort. You have to fend off the military might of a world spanning global hegemony with enough nuclear payloads to wipe out every city center on Earth in order to build houses for the purpose of letting people live in them.

    “I want to make sure we have enough resources in case something bad happens.”

    “MAHORAGA HELP AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH HELP ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH MAHORAGA!!!”

    • jackmarxist [any]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      Even Mahoraga can’t adapt to the insane efficiency of the Dengist Economy.

  • Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    10 months ago

    If only there were an example of a historical event where global supply systems were disrupted, a situation that would have been smoothed out by this kind of stockpiling of strategic resources.

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      Xi observing the progress of bird flu and the resurgence of COVID and hitting the big “do any kind of preparation at all GOMMULISM” button.

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    10 months ago

    On a similar note, weird how you don’t hear about Chinese Ghost Cities anymore thonk

    • shipwreck [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      deleted by creator

    • jackmarxist [any]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      10 months ago

      Nah you’ll find that shit on most platforms.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      You do. Because they never update reports about it, westerners’ knowledge about them is still exclusively from 2010

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      lol right, I remember how they paraded that one subway station to “nowhere”, and then somebody did video of it a few years later where it’s now in a middle of a bustling metropolis

      • CascadeOfLight [he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        10 months ago
        Got the receipts right here

      • Speaker [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        10 months ago

        What a weird idea to build housing and facilities before you dump a half million people onto a chunk of land.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          10 months ago

          the inscrutable oriental mind at work 🤣

        • Darth_Reagan [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          10 months ago

          Its sooo expensive and labour intensive to build subways underneath existing and occupied city.

  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    10 months ago

    Westerners: “but you could make more PROFITS!?!” [rending of garments, weeping]

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    10 months ago

    So they don’t have to pull 90 year old retirees back to the factory to explain to new employees how to manufacture javelin missiles

  • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    10 months ago

    Xi just doesn’t have enough APM to use it all in time. Common noob mistake

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      Your timing in the early parts of the game is hella important, if you are floating too many resources, you’re never going to get a proper ling rush out in time.

chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.

No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Slop posts go in c/slop. Don’t post low-hanging fruit here.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 628 users / day
  • 1.66K users / week
  • 2.77K users / month
  • 5.23K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 13.8K subscribers
  • 7.82K Posts
  • 110K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.net
  • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
  • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]@hexbear.net
  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
  • ZoomeristLeninist [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
  • sweet_pecan [love/loves, they/them]@hexbear.net
  • a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
  • khizuo [ze/zir]@hexbear.net
  • gaystyleJoker [she/her]@hexbear.net
  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.net
  • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
  • Sulvy [none/use name]@hexbear.net
  • BE: 0.19.5
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org