Marxist-Leninist. Tankie. Based in the imperial vassal state of Japan.
It’s a good thing the capital flight laws were in place already. Seeing millionaires (and up) fleeing a country is probably one of the most overt signs that China is obviously doing something right.
I mean, there are dozens of other metrics that show that too, but it’s nice to have another one.
One could argue they have…for Russia at least. They’ve been a great impetus at pioneering industries independent of the dollar. A lot need time to reach maturity still, but that may never have happened if the dollar wasn’t being weaponized.
Dang, the Russian disinformation has corrupted the World Bank now too! They must be using their mind-scramble lasers.
Thank god, the last thing we need is to self-cripple ourselves even more. Our economy is hot garbage, the yen has the worst relative buying power in…forever. When our economy still had the appearance of being healthy I think people were more willing to go along with what the US told us to do. Unless you work for some western company paying you in USD, most people feel the strain now.
Chinese EVs do fairly well here (I drive a BYD now) and there seems to in general be less of a kneejerk anti-China sentiment when it comes to business and trade. We don’t explicitly ban most chinese tech. I think a lot of people do still prefer the big domestic brands, but you can go buy a huawei phone or byd car if you want to.
I would love to see Japan adopt a much more pro-China stance. I don’t think it’s off the table from China’s POV either, assuming we can stop getting reactionary assholes in power who insist on antagonizing China at every opportunity. Which is admittedly maybe a big ask.
Just for the fun of it, let’s grant that Russia has some secret mind-scrambling ray that can pinpoint a single person in a crowded studio, undetected. That premise is ridiculous enough, but let’s just run with it.
Where did they deploy it from? Was there a guy in the studio? Building nearby? Biden has security service protection that is going to be screening all those places, nobody would even be able to use a handheld mind ray.
Or does Russia have mind-melting space lasers now? From which satellite are those being beamed down?
Even if they aren’t “show-stoppers”, it’s great to see more alternatives emerging. Shouldn’t the free market love more competition?
People seem to be arguing that $375 is too expensive for a board, but are they just missing the fact that it’s a bundle with the CPU and cooler? The 3A6000 apparently is roughly equivalent to an intel 10100. (which is about $100 MSRP these days). DDR4 is fine for most people’s use cases, and it seems like it has enough PCI and nvme slots that anybody would really need. It also pulls less power than most intel chipsets, which could definitely be of interest to people.
You aren’t building a high end video editing or gaming rig with this, but it seems like it’d be a perfectly respectable every day use machine. Which is exactly the type of chips I would expect them to make first.
I would not be surprised if we see Lonsoon continue to make more and more competitive chips going forward too.
What, you are saying I don’t need a watercooled 7800x3d to check my email!? Next you will be insinuating I don’t need a 4090 for Minecraft.
“Well yes, kicking dogs is bad. But imagine all the horrible things Trump would do to dogs if he got elected. This is far too important a cause if you care about animal rights!”
I could be mistaken, I am not an expert on Estonia by any stretch so please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding was that they were already one of the more fascist leaning EU countries. Which is a…questionably impressive feat.
Very curious how the only Ukrainians we hear say they want to fight are the ones…not fighting. Admittedly, those in the trenches are probably not giving many interviews, but if they were so eager to fight surely the rest should be clamoring to enlist.
Agree, good on the crew for not trying to push through and turning it around. But these planes seriously should not be flying.
He’s busy hosting a celebration for his brave Resistance against the Republican Tankie Fascist Wumaos.
it’s too hard now to tempt people with money.
I mean, when your only real chance of survival hinges on being able to surrender fast enough, money is not really an incentive. There needs to at least be the ghost of a chance of living. The fact that they are fielding marines who can’t swim doesn’t remotely surprise me, they have almost nothing left that resembles a professional soldier.
Can I get that with the puppet dictator bundle?
Puts on lib hat
Well you see, this shows that the war is basically already won and that Zelensky is getting back to governing affaris because they don’t need to pay attention to those (sorry which slur are we using right now? The hordes one again? Got it) asiatic hordes anymore.
Throws off hat in disgust
Is making a mod for a game like Stellaris easier than making a game?
It depends on the scope of the mod and game relatively (and what engine you would be using for the game), but I would say generally yes assuming you are working on a game that has a good framework for mods already. Stellaris definitely does, and you can absolutely find tutorials that will help you with that process.
It depends a bit on what you are setting out to do and your own skillset. Is it just going to change things under the hood, are you adding assets? If you are adding assets, can you do the art or do you have someone else you are talking to for that.
Those are questions you’d have to answer for making a game too of course, but generally you can expect a mod to be a smaller scale.
The advantage of making your own game is you would be a lot less beholden to the rules of the game in realising the vision you have. As an example if you want to make a really indepth ground combat system, that would be a very hard thing to implement into Stellaris because it just doesn’t do much to model that layer.
Seems to be real, he took a plea and left the UK already. He had to admit guilt to sharing state secrets. Plea was about as good as he was going to get, and given existing health issues makes total sense for him to take it.
I am honestly still floored he got that much, but I am pretty stoked about it.
You’re not wrong, there is a LOT of political apathy from folks. Especially younger working age people who are just determined to get a job and keep their head down. If you join politically active groups that is obviously not the case, but those can be smaller.
Do you mind if the resources are in Japanese, or is English preferable? I have more of the former, but some of the latter.
However, there is a really encouraging silver lining here. While the older generations almost uniformly hate China, the younger generations increasingly say they have a positive view/affinity for China. I think a recent survey had something like 10% of the older generations had a positive view of China, while 40% of younger generations did. Especially among anyone that has traveled there. It’s a trend I hope continues.
The Red Purges were so effective that there really isn’t much socialist ideology at a national level right now, even in the socialist and communist parties.
They’ll be too tired from working 6 day weeks.
Is…this sarcasm?
The exact opposite was proven, the west had no intention of honoring any of their previous agreements by their own admission. Any treaty with western powers isn’t worth the paper it is written on, how could Russia (or anyone really) trust them again after that?