yogthos

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Iran seizes cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz after threats to close waterway

Iran’s move against the tanker is a masterstroke of strategy. It’s a clever response that manages to seize an Israeli asset without resorting to violence, making it difficult for Israel to escalate the situation further. This move keeps the U.S. out of the conflict and plays to Iran’s strengths, while minimizing Israel’s advantages. It’s a subtle yet effective move that highlights the potential consequences of Israeli aggression and showcases Iran’s patience and strategic prowess. This isn’t a sexy, headline-grabbing move, but it’s a strategic one that could have far-reaching implications for the region.

It’s also exposing the hypocrisy in the west because all of a sudden the same western companies that failed to condemn Israel bombing an embassy started caring about international law.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed.

The fact that you think that genocidal scumbag had good ideas means your opinion can be safely discarded.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed.

If you’re failing to see how China is preferable then you should spend the time educating yourself on what China has achieved instead of trolling here. Here’s one example that you can educate yourself on worldbank.org/…/lifting-800-million-people-out-of…

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to science in the aliens will not be silicon

yeah she does a great job explaining stuff

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed.

If you can’t see that the west is failing then you need to start engaging with reality. China is running circles around you losers.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed.

thanks for letting us know that you’re a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed.

This is demonstrably false because in the real world Chinese system has proven itself to be far more flexible and adaptable than any western regime. That’s the reality. In fact, it’s obvious that multiparty parliamentary systems are the ones that have hard time changing course. They’re literally designed to prevent that. It’s not possible to do any sort of long term planning when governments keep changing and people keep pulling in different directions. The horizons for planning become very small. And of course, it’s pretty clear that western systems do a great job silencing opinions that fallout of the Overton window. Entire books have been written on the mechanics of this.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to worldnews in Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed.

consider yourself enlightened en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_centralism

edit: love how you can state basic facts and libs start seething

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed.

It’s demonstrably not, but westerners just keep clinging to their failed system lacking the courage and imagination to try anything different.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Meloni Seeks China Reset After Italy Ditches Belt and Road Pact

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yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in China Supports the Addition of the Palestinian State to the UN

that must’ve sounded so clever in your head 😂

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to programmerhumor in Perfect Exit

an absolute classic

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Left-wing political parties from Arab countries thank China for its support of Palestinian national rights

yes, please do read what the resolution actually said responsiblestatecraft.org/us-ceasefire-gaza-un/

yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in Vietnam tycoon given death for $12.5bn fraud

Your typical victim of communism.

yogthos , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Do you believe in Aliens?

I definitely believe that aliens exist, but I very much doubt that they have any interest in contacting us. I find that lot of the discussions around aliens fail to take into account the sheer vastness of the Universe.

• Universe has been around for close to 14 billion years
• Milky Way in its current form has been around for about 8~9 billion years
• Life on Earth appears around 4280 million years ago
• Humans start evolving around 2.8 million years ago.
• Use of language appears around 100,000 years ago
• Writing is invented around 5500 years ago

Inventions of language and writing are the landmark moment here. Before language was invented the only way information could be passed down from ancestors to offspring was via mutations in our DNA. If an individual learned some new idea it would be lost with them when they died. Language allowed humans to communicate ideas to future generations and start accumulating knowledge beyond what a single individual could hold in their head. Writing made this process even more efficient.

So, after millions of years of life on Earth nothing interesting happened. Then when language was invented humans started creating technology, and in a blink of an eye on cosmological scale we went from living in caves to visiting space in our rocket ships. It’s worth taking a moment to really appreciate just how fast our technology evolved once we were able to start accumulating knowledge using language and writing.

Now let’s take a look at how technology itself has been evolving. Once we discovered radio communication we went through a noisy period where we were leaking a lot of our broadcasts into space, and within a span of a 100 years we started using more efficient communication, and encryption. If somebody intercepted our broadcasts today they would look like noise because they’re designed to look like noise.

Our society today is utterly and completely unrecognizable to somebody from even a 100 years ago. If we don’t go extinct, I imagine that in another thousand years future humans will be completely alien to us as well.

So the period during which intelligent life would be recognizable to us during its course of evolution is infinitesimally small! The time between creating language and becoming an advanced technological society is measured in thousands of years, while evolution of life is measured in millions of years. The chance of two different intelligences finding each other at exact same stage of development where they might be able to communicate is incredibly unlikely.

I would also imagine that the biological phase for intelligent life is rather short. We’re likely to develop human style AIs within a century, and they will be the ones to go out and explore the universe. Meat did not evolve to live in space because we’re adapted to gravity wells. An artificial life form could be engineered to thrive in space without ever needing to visit planets. This is the kind of life that’s most likely to be prolific in space.

Furthermore, post biological intelligences would likely be running at much faster speeds than our mental processes operate on. What we consider real-time would be what we consider to be geological scales.

For all we know the Universe may be teeming with intelligent life and we just don’t recognize it as such. We might be like an ant hill next to a highway looking to see if there are other ant hills around.

I really can’t imagine that advanced civilizations would have much they could learn from us. We might be a curiosity at best to them, but it’s more likely that they would give as much consideration to us as we do to an ant when we pass it by.