[-] cyd@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago

Ukraine drank the kool-aid, and fooled themselves into thinking that if you slap a "freedom and democracy" sticker on and cozy up to the West, they'll always back you no matter what.

In reality, countries behave as paranoid amoral assholes for a good reason.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Russia already has vastly more resources than Ukraine, it's not going to make any difference.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

An important point that isn't mentioned in this article is that when the US targets third countries in their efforts to kneecap Chinese companies, it is hurting its own geostrategic interests. The US has been working hard to draw countries like Vietnam and Indonesia into its orbit as part of its containment strategy against China, but when it slaps tariffs on exports from these countries, years of diplomatic goodwill get instantly cancelled out. Especially since the US nowadays has no economic carrots to offer suitors, thanks to its bipartisan anti-trade turn. It's all sticks.

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He claims Trump would act immediately upon winning the election, before taking office. Which sounds legally dubious, but not that that's ever stopped Trump....

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[-] cyd@lemmy.world 83 points 4 months ago

This is the one that's partly funded by Mihoyo, using the absurd amounts of money they made with Genshin Impact.

The power of the anime waifu, in the palm of your hand...

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 96 points 4 months ago

It's nothing to do with stopping pedos. The people pushing this year-in and year-out don't care THAT much about pedos. It's not a cause that's motivating enough for them to be putting in so much effort, trying to sneak in legislation after being repeatedly rebuffed.

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Always weird to me how France is so insistent on clinging to its colonial empire, two decades into the 21st century, despite the headaches that causes.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 84 points 5 months ago

Sympathies to whoever it was at the pension fund that had to work with Google's "customer service".

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Guess which country is doing the alleged interference...

"Mr Chan, the managing director of several real estate investment firms, was invited to attend China’s annual Two Sessions parliamentary meetings in March 2023 as an “overseas Chinese representative”."

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I'm somewhat surprised that Singapore chose to stick its neck out with a statement, since you-know-who won't like this...

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 89 points 9 months ago

"EV winter" is a silly framing. Many Chinese EV companies are on a roll, with BYD just surpassing Tesla in EV shipments in the last quarter. EVs are now mainstream in China and the car markets in other countries won't be far behind. Obviously, Tesla faces more challenges from the fact that it no longer has the market to itself, but competition is a good thing.

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These laws will ban rewards for spending money within a game for the first time, ban rewards for buying consecutive microtransactions, and ban rewards for daily log-ins.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 82 points 11 months ago

At the same time, the gravity systems are designed by the best engineers in the Federation because they never, ever, give out, even when the rest of the ship is disintegrating.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 176 points 1 year ago

The rest of the developed world has had this for decades.

So I fully expect this initiative to be lobbied out of existence by Intuit and the rest of the tax filing industry.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 177 points 1 year ago

He's not wrong. But it's worth remembering that when China faced a far smaller provocation from their own restive Muslims, in Xinjiang, they responded by locking up a large fraction of the population in vast reeducation camps...

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 174 points 1 year ago

"Enhanced Ad Privacy." That's the technology that, unless switched off, allows websites to target the user with adverts tuned to their online activities

That's some Orwellian shit right there.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 111 points 1 year ago

Even more horrifyingly, children addicted to books stayed up late, reading under their bed covers using flashlights...

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