Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
1d ago
If things so really out of hand we could be looking at the destruction of vast parts of the world industrial system, not just in Taiwan, but also in China, plus the global disruption of sea trade. They're called World Wars for a reason!
Only if USA goes to war over Taiwan, for which the case is weak. Look - the whole of indochina with india to boot didn't cost the US blood spilled in Vietnam. And 60 k casualties is optimistic in a war near the shores of China.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
There is no invasion that will cause problems. I don't know why everybody has drunk the Kool aid that somehow lack of Taiwan semiconductors is a death blow. Even if we get a couple of nodes back we will be at what - 2016 production nodes. The horror.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
If Xi surrounds himself only with yes men, chances of successful invasion go down dramatically. Putin did the same - and it took three years of war for Russia to get their shit semi together.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
In reality, it's just garden-variety TDS.
Okay let's be honest - having a mild case of TDS now is totally justified without the D. Trump is giving an already shambling world order a serious push. I enjoy it and like it. But for people that think of "to live in interesting times" as a curse - it is stressful moment. And we know where they are located.
I am looking at reddit now - the only thing saving Trump now is how cringe /r/pics is in trying to martyr the guy.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Getting the bum out of your park means that the bum will move to someone else's park. Kicking the can is the reason why we are in this mess. If there were death squads killing them there would be no bums, if there were mental institutions working - there would be no bums, if there was better safety network there would be no bums, if there were plentiful cheap and affordable housing there would be no bums, if there were some form of rehabilitation and reintegration programs there would be no bums. If anyone was willing or capable of taking the full measures anywhere on the compassion/cruelty spectrum there would be no bums. The bums are failed because everyone is taking the half measures - enough to get them out of their park and their sight.
Oh - and in harsh conditions when someone is in what in my country is known as helpless condition - you go and check on them. Because next time it may be you, and you probably wouldn't want your life to depend on whether the single person passing by you can do the heuristic that you are not a bum, but upstanding citizen right while in severe snowstorm.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
Everyone is brave on reddit.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
Couple of thoughts:
- If Trump is going to fulfill the left's dictatorship fantasies - better do the coup soon. After the midterm he will be the lamest duck that ever quacked. Holding to any shreds of power will be miracle even by his standards.
- Do you think that body cameras will be turned off or exonerating?
- The second Trump is way way more outrageous than the first one. And people mostly shrug. This is what happens when you are 10 years with emotional afterburner on.
- I wonder how the things will go down now when there are real consequences to larping or being the resistance - will it put more people on the streets or will it change the calculus?
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
I was all the time on Light side. I just have soft spot for brave, competent women.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Misora Naomi (undercover): I'm Maki Shouko (間木照子). It's written with the kanji for aida* (space) (間), moku (wood) (木) from jiyumoku, the te (照) from terasu (reflection), and ko (子) from kodomo (child).
Ugh... This is up there with Mufasa's death in animation scenes that really get me.
Closest Match: Progressivism
And that kids is the reason you should view those kinds of tests as long jokes with lame punchlines.
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