The US openly discussing the “Mar-a-Lago” plan, which amounts to the US very intentionally defaulting on its debts, so yeah of course.

Naked looting

USA making Ukraine pay it war reparations lmao

If he knew “something” and was willing to die for it, why wouldn’t he post it on twitter too?

China should invite all 18 to a competing conference at the same time.

China should launch the TPP without the US.

I was on the fence about this one since it seemed plausible but oddly unsupported by evidence but ok this settles it.

I still think the question “why no photos of them then?” is a valid one, but I guess the answer is instead that the Ukrainians weren’t taking many prisoners.

Did she also hang herself 3 feet off the ground like Epstein did?

The material basis wasn’t simply capitalism. That’s true but reductive.

Imperialism is integral to capitalism, and US imperialism was seeking to flip Ukraine in an inter-imperialist conflict with Russia (and longer term consequences also for the conflict with china), which presented an existential threat to Russia resulting in war.

Like it’s not nothing but it’s not going to bring the USA to its knees. It might make a few very specific industries non-competitive.

Tbh the rare earths thing is overstated.

The very large fraction of rare earth imports are used to make magnets for stuff like lawn mower motors. Total imports of rare earths are in the hundreds of millions.

Actually peanuts and there are other sources for them that are uneconomical compared to china’s production but if push came to shove the US could easily handle rare earths increasing in price and rarity by an order of magnitude without anyone really noticing.

The real problem would be building the refinement capacity which could easily take years, but critical industries that truly rely on rare earths can survive on stockpiles for years as well.

Rare earths are not a trump card.

He was supposed to have landed at least manned missions to mars by now

It is a meritocracy but the skill that gets rewarded is scamming people

working for the government to get the financial house in order is mostly done.

Just like self driving

Not necessarily. The Russians have been chatting in Saudi Arabia and the Ukrainians are speaking in London / Washington.

It’s like when someone is mad at you so they talk to the person next to and say “please ask whatdoiputhere12 to pass me the salt” and you say “Jesus Christ, Kittin, we’re almost 40” and then I say “please tell whatdoiputhere12 not to use curse words.”

Perhaps if the two worlds are (1) rump western Ukraine with nato forces present as peace keepers and Ukraine de facto part of nato or (2) a demilitarized neutral Ukraine that retains more territory, with Russia not taking as much as they likely could.

Maybe (2) looks more attractive for a long term settlement than going for a maximalist territorial win.

Or because funding for US propaganda outfits got cut?

I think the Fermi paradox is anthropomorphic.

There’s an assumption built into it that “civilization” is the end point of life, the “highest” or “most advanced” form of life. But biology doesn’t work that way.

I’m absolutely certain that the universe is filled with organic chemistry and life but the idea that civilization is inevitable or stable seems anthropomorphic. Civilization has barely existed on earth for 5 or 10 thousand years, and it has only been doing stuff that would be detectable from far away for maybe 1 or 2 centuries.

From a sample size or 1 we can already see that is an uncommon state for life to exist in, and it already seems like an unstable niche to occupy.

Life has existed on earth for what 4 billion years, complex life for 500 to 1000 million, and civilization for 10,000 at most. There’s every reason to suppose that life is inevitable when the planet permits that kind of chemistry but practically no basis to assume civilization is inevitable when life exists.

Are… are they practicing segregation?

Statna spækina undesiphrable patois para kkkunvuse d’Ayiebots

Just an outright nazi commanding a wing of the armed forces, easily dismissible as outlier.

Isn’t deepseek open source? How would banning Americans from using free software hurt that free software?