I agree but I dont think its much to be worried about. Frankly messing with Nepal is just gonna piss India off even more, and if there was ever an actual war with China and India on the same side or even neutral to eachother and China fighting the US then a US backed Nepal would fall in hours. And their base in Afghanistan would be destroyed rapidly too.

It shows the US is thinking of a long term containment plan for China, but its like trying to build a picket fence to keep in a Tiger. The more China grows the more obvious itll be this containment shit isnt gonna work.

I don’t think its about a strength of belief. I think their material conditions were comfortable, and they realized that in order to actually do a revolution it would require dismantling the systems that currently provide them with comfort, and so they didn’t want to do that.

You can categorize this under, “Sure socialism would be nice, but I’m not willing to do anything to actually make it a reality.”

This is simply a result of people not wanting to rock the boat, and taking the path of least resistance. Were their material conditions more dire I am sure they would have been a lot less reluctant to take action.

Pls everyone be aware this is not saying to not use a VPN. It’s just saying a VPN is one part of a secure setup. You should use a VPN and also use seperate browsers for different online “identities”. For example a browser for any mainstream social media(which i wouldnt use but u do u), banking apps, and anything else attached to your real ID. A seperate one for anything you want to have anonymous. VPNs do help significantly it’s just not a one click solution to privacy.

True for Android, iOS, and Windows. Linux is pretty good to go though with good opsec. Something like Debian with full disk encryption, and only FOSS software installed using DNSCrypt, and an encrypted VPN that blocks all non-VPN traffic is about as good as you’ll ever need. And is still a very functional computer. For a browser just make sure to use something like Librewolf, and not Google Chrome.

On a phone your best bet is gonna be Graphene OS and for messaging you can use Briar, or Matrix. Don’t put a SIM card in it, and keep a seperate phone to do calls and texts. At that point your more secure than most high profile people even.

With wind turbines being so thin at the bottom and most of the size being up above i wonder why it isn’t more common to have them built in the middle of farmland. Like you could use the space for multiple uses.

Russia is a bit different I think because India is actually like on the rise. They’ll likely be the next upcoming major world power in 20 years or so. I was always worried about them and thinking like India might be the deciding factor in a WW3 scenario.

Sometimes i wonder how parents do it tbh. Like i guess the economy wasnt as bad as it is now 20 years ago but imagining trying to feed like 3 kids plus yourself on just your own income… and they wonder why we arent having as many kids.

Yeah 11$ a day on lunch is crazy expensive. That’s more than all the food i eat in a day costs.

Anyone else notice the “graffiti” and the paint hes using to cover it are perfectly color matched?

the moat egregious part is that despite being literally AI generated the white border around the image isnt properly spaced. The top and bottom are different thicknesses.

I fully believe that the pushing of India into the arms of Russia/China by the US will go down as the single largest strategic blunder of the early 21st century. India was literally the only chance the US had to have any significant presence on the Asian continent going forward.

Have you ever gone grocery shopping with someone who was well off? It’s jarring. I’ll be reading the price tags, and comparing weights to see what the best deal is meanwhile they just grab w/e. I have a list and actively talley what im spending as i shop to make sure my card doesnt decline at the register. If potatoes are 2$ more expensive than i expected i dont buy them. Meanwhile it’s common for people to pay 2x as much for the same thing because it has a different logo on it. It’s mind boggling.

Edit: I want to be clear I’m not even exaggerating. I have less than 3$ in my checking account, and my CC are maxed. I’ll be rationing my food until payday next week. Sure is a blast living in the richest country that has ever existed in human history.

Well if you made it you own the copyright so just dont enforce it. Do you mean like someone else trying to say you copied them?

For software use FOSS wherever you can, and people just not enforcing their copyright. Groups like this act on behalf of copyright holders. You cant just go “Oh thats copyrighted so take it down.” you have to be the copyright holder. So if you dont enforce your copyright its functionally open for use.

You fan even selectively use copyright. Like just have people who wanna use it email you for permission first and refuse to allow any big companies to use it but let piracy groups and small orgs use it as much as they want.

The Dollar being used for international trade is literally the only reason the US economy doesn’t immediately collapse. China doing this is a good thing. It weakens the US.

“Obviously the DPRK is just killing all of it’s citizens left and right how else would you explain their… checks notes wait their population has increased by how much since the ceasefire? No…No… this can’t be- OH MY GOD THE DPRK HAS CLONING TECHNOLOGY!!” - Some liberal probably (Hint: It has more than doubled, and thats even during the famine after the USSR collapsed. Growth slowed down, but didn’t stop during it. They grew in population slightly more than the south, 2.58x vs 2.6x since the war ended, and while they are slowing down they are still growing even now. Meanwhile Occupied Korea is facing demographic collapse.)

Maybe I’m weird for it but the “moral issue” of piracy never bothered me anyway. Digital goods are infinitely reproducible for basically no cost. Any value assigned to them is artificial and hyper inflated. I don’t think people are entitled to infinitely rake in profits just because they helped make something. I can put an mp3 on my hard drive and make 500 copies of it in seconds. Its material value at the point is basically 0. Once the cost it took to produce it the first time is recouped any extra sales are just printing free money. That’s more of a theft than piracy ever could be.

In fact you could argue that IP laws are actively making many medias worse, and harder to make. Look at video games for example. Super complex digital goods. Thousands of people have worked tirelessly to recreate the exact same functionality in hundreds of games indepedently. They could have all saved themselves a lot of time by simply doing it once, and slightly altering the code that was already written for their own needs. Imagine if for example indie devs could legally take Bethesdas creation engine, and all the assets in it, and use it to build their own game, and- Oh wait that’s what Fallout: London was and it was great. We need more stuff like that.

Have a little stuffed cat get pulled by you on stage by a string, and chase after it with grasping hands then once it’s gone apologize, and say “I just can’t help my self folks! When i see a beautiful little pussy like that I just have to grab it.”

XHS was called before the CPC recently to answer to concerns about them not fostering a healthy online community actually.

I dont see any reason these couldn’t be used as a horrifyingly effective weapon too. Something this small? It could fly right into a nostril or ear canal, and detonate. Or deliver toxins. Im glad China has it and not the US.