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Buddy, that’s literally what US state department claims on their official website:

The United States approach to Taiwan has remained consistent across decades and administrations. The United States has a longstanding one China policy, which is guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the three U.S.-China Joint Communiques, and the Six Assurances.

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This is also the position of the UN, and vast majority of countries in the world. Taiwan is part of China, get over it.

yogthos , (edited )
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What you’re doing here is called sophistry. Taiwan being part of China is a fact that’s recognized by international law. It’s really that simple. The reality is that China could remove US sponsored regime in the rogue province any time they want. However, they realize that it’s much better to remove burgerland influence in a peaceful way, and that’s what will happen. It’s incredible how people have trouble grasping such basic things.

edit: I aboslutely love how utterly enraged lemmy radlibs get when faced with reality

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https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/093/912/918/931/616/original/8b765745f3686ade.mp4

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Last I checked, China hasn’t been at war since the 70s, and allocates a tiny fraction of the resources that US allocates to military spending. If you don’t understand why China needs to be able to defend itself against a rabid empire that constantly invades countries, then it’s pretty clear who the actual clown here is. This is what China’s military protects:

Household savings hit major highs across China www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/315229

90% of families in the country own their home, giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. forbes.com/…/how-people-in-china-afford-their-out…

Chinese workers enjoy basic form of the democratic corporate governance system via assemblies of employee representatives. taylorwessing.com/…/employees-participation-in-co…

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. www.nber.org/system/files/…/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) semanticscholar.org/…/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b…

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2…

By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. www.nytimes.com/…/china-poverty-xi-jinping.html

Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8SvK0E5dI

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The rhetoric that both political parties use is intentionally polarizing because they have no intention of actually solving the underlying problems. The mainstream is split across political lines, with democrats and republicans blaming the other side for all the ills in the country.

Most people in US lack the political or economic education to understand what’s happening leading to public lashing out in random and irrational ways. People understand that they’re being hurt, but they don’t understand who is responsible or why it’s happening. This creates a political climate that’s ripe for opportunists like Trump and Biden to game leading to further deterioration of living conditions. The country ends up in a worse state after each successive election cycle, and the sectarian tensions continue to become more prominent. Violent outbreaks are starting to happen already, and I expect these will only get worse going forward.

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I can’t see it being an actual war in a traditional sense. I would imagine it more like civil unrest, perhaps along the lines of the Rwandan civil war where armed right wing militias are going to start roaming around murdering people. It’s possible this could lead to Balkanization of US too.

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kebab case for the win xml-http-request

yogthos ,
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4 in particular I think is more open to interpretation based on ones existing biases than people seem to think

I mean yeah, people with fascist views obviously wouldn’t see fascist propaganda as being ironic.

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fixed, seems like the url field doesn’t like the link, just put it in the body instead

yogthos ,
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Why do people in the west have the need to keep pretending that communism doesn’t work at scale when there’s plenty of evidence that it does?

yogthos ,
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wait until you find out what this tech is used for under capitalism

yogthos ,
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Seems like the opposite is the case with a blatantly false statement getting massive upvotes from the radlibs of lemmy.

yogthos ,
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Software development here. Never, ever, connect your appliances to the internet, and check whether appliances you buy have an offline mode as some are now aggressively forcing users to connect in order to use them.

yogthos ,
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As the other reply mentions, aside from these devices representing a security vulnerability, there have been numerous cases where the devices themselves got hijacked. In some cases they can even get bricked via updates. There’s also a privacy concern with these companies collecting data on how you use the device.

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The itself app isn’t typically the issue. It’s the remote server that the appliance and the app connect to that’s the problem. What happens is that the appliance uses your wifi to talk to the company server, and that server pushes updates to it, does tracking, and so on. As long as the appliance can’t connect to the internet there’s no danger from it. Typically, the best approach is to avoid configuring the connection in the first place.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/dc150b95-f517-43eb-944d-10f3a209de7a.png

yogthos OP ,
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Oo why’d US ships leave the gulf and the captain of the carrier post a video that turned out to be a month old as “proof” that the carrier was fine?

yogthos OP ,
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So what you’re saying is that we need a proletarian dictatorship?

yogthos OP ,
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Indeed, if people can figure out how to get LLMs to produce stable outputs and create ways to verify them, then this tech would be a lot more powerful.

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lmao tens of millions of people are starving in US right now, but the priority is to build more nukes 🤡

yogthos ,
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They have high energy content!

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here’s an article, basically they’re orders of magnitude faster and more energy efficient, photonic chips have the potential to make silicon look like vacuum tubes singularityhub.com/…/researchers-created-an-optic…

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Right, the first generations likely won’t have a huge advantage over silicon, but it’s the growth potential that’s key. We’re basically hitting the limits of what you can do on the current substrate. There’s really nowhere left to go past 1nm chips.

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I understand that this is the narrative NATO propagandists like to sell. The reality is that the governments are captured by US politically, and largely don’t represent the interests of the people. This is why there’s massive political unrest all across Europe now, including the Baltics.

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I must’ve missed the referendums in Finland and Sweden where the opinion of the public was considered. In fact, I distinctly remember how Swedish government said this was too important to put up for the referendum. Thanks for making my point for me there.

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Basically, the reality of the situation is that Ukraine ends up in a worse position with each and every day. If Ukraine took the peace deal back in 2022 it would’ve been immeasurably better than any deal it can hope for now. Western support peaked during the time of 2023 offensive, and it’s been rapidly declining since. The west pouring in money and weapons into Ukraine has been the only reason it was able to keep fighting this long. As the available resources dry up, the situation will continue to decline at an accelerating pace.

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I’m not spouting that at all, try engage with what’s actually being said to you. Are you claiming Stoltenberg was lying when he said NATO expansionism was the reason, why do you think he would lie about that? Why was Russia fine with Ukraine doing its thing until the coup happened? At least try to come up with a narrative that make a bit of sense here.

yogthos OP ,
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It’s not what I claim to believe it’s what the head of NATO openly admits, and what western media has been reporting on in great detail. Meanwhile, what you’re doing by equating Russia with fascism is a form of holocaust denial. Claiming that Ukraine is simply defender here requires ignoring all the context for the conflict and what the regime in Ukraine has been doing to people of Donbas. Seeing how comfortable you are with ethnic cleansing, seems to me that it’s clear who the actual fascist is.

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When you definitely understand what fascism is.

yogthos OP ,
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I find most of these discussions tend to follow the same script. People just regurgitate the same set of talking points over and over like a broken record. I think we see this a lot because it’s a very effective tactic back on reddit where they end up piling on on anybody who says anything different.

yogthos ,
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I think a lot of this is basically culture shock of people realizing that their views aren’t dominant on the platform and having their deeply held biases questioned.

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