99 out of 100 times if it’s good for China it’s bad for the rest of us. Behind only Iran, NK, and Russia, their closest military allies, they’re one of the most malicious and aggressive nations on earth. When a Tankie supports something, I approach that thing with a newfound sense of skepticism.
Mamdani said “As proud Democrats and elected officials and New Yorkers,” Mamdani declared, “we endorse the Leave it Blank campaign.”
Yeah, as much as Mamdani’s former statements about the 2024 election and overt support from tankies makes me apprehensive to him, it’s good to remind ourselves that the alternative is people like Cuomo and Sliwa.
“His opponents have cast him as a liberal boogeyman, meanwhile his former supporters have cast him as a liberal boogeyman.” /s
He can’t do worse than the last guy, so no issues here I say.
Jokes on you, I use those sentences interchangeably.
Chinese Nationalists are probably feeling more powerful than ever before. Imagine MAGA but worse, because their supreme leader has been around for longer and their party has been around for lifetimes.
People who leave and get citizenship elsewhere are never allowed to return. It’s a single party dictatorship with no sign of civil rights, some minorities are actively being sterilized and eradicated.
If you’re a wealthy Han Chinese then I bet it’s great.
They actually had massive overpopulation after industrialization and then limited it with the One Child Policy, then later the Two Child Policy, but one of the repercussions of the One Child Policy and the inability of women to inherit wealth was that female babies were murdered at birth and a large gender ratio disparity formed. Now that the population has started to decline while average lifespan rises due to improved medical science, two new problems have formed:
The ratio of elderly to young is skewed, meaning one young has to take care of more elderly or do their equivalent of work.
The dictatorship’s most recent leader has realized he personally benefits from more manpower regardless of the consequences and suffering that increased population will cause.
Hopefully this is about as effective as the war on drugs, because the world needs less children.
I recognize that fish, that’s an exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Haven’t been there in a long time.
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Communists love Anarchists (in the west).
For me it’s 4 paragraphs, it was the top search result, and it cites BBC which is a much longer article quoting multiple other sources.
It’s assumed that all jugs from a mould hold the same volume, but not every mould holds the same volume, so by aiming high for the initial design of the mould and then adding spacers to the side of the mould as needed you can achieve a modified mould that stores the correct amount.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a milk jug engineer, that’s just how I interpreted it.
I had a fun time once where a character of mine twisted a cursed blade to promote human welfare. You see, the blade was made to cause suffering and pain. Suffering is measurable. By helping people live longer and fuller lives, it creates the maximum amount of suffering.
At first I read that as [2 year long blades] in the [Dark Campaign] and my response was “yes, yes, we’ve all seen the time knife.”
By assuming that person will be human and have human needs and wants based on the instincts crafted from hundreds of millions of years of evolution, with about 8 billion living examples to work with and the tangible results of about 110 billion past examples.
All humans are assholes, they all have selfish desires, the key here is to plan around that so that the most beneficial thing for the individual is what is beneficial for all of us, and that is already almost always the case even though it’s not always obvious to them.
For the uninitiated, there used to be a meme post where some teenage girls unironically reposted an image with the caption “S(he) Be(lie)ve(d)” which is to say She Believed / He Lied, and they’d title it something like “omg thats so deep”.
It became a meme template where people make different word combinations and talk about how deep they are, such as this one which is She Believed / EEEEEE.