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  • US Intelligence Shows Flawed China Missiles Led Xi to Purge Army

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  • Not the least of which being that if they nuke it, they don't get it. At least not in the way they want it.

    But honestly, way theory aside, massive open warfare against Taiwan would be horrific for Taiwan, but outside of the region, it would really doom China as it exists.

    Even if they did manage to take the island, likely with just an overwhelming wave of soldiers, at that point, the entire world, aside from a few exceptions (NK, Iran, Syria, Russia, Belarus, and maybe some African nations) are going to effectively strangle the Chinese economy with sanctions if not an outright embargo.

    It might not change things overnight, but hitting China square in the economy is far more effective than it is for Russia, because China is so much more of a player in the world economy. They depend on the world buying their goods. As long as the rest of the world can keep unfulfilled consumer demand from triggering crippling sustained double digit inflation for years on end, there may not even be a need for large scale, near-peer open warfare.

  • US Intelligence Shows Flawed China Missiles Led Xi to Purge Army

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  • China is a green-water navy with but-water dreams

    Butt-water Dreams. Band name.

  • Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents

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  • edit: i just reread your initial comment. you literally bring up getting a snack and using the restroom. ahaha you can't even keep your own story straight.

    What the fuck are you talking about? I never said that.

    Maybe learn to read a username before you cock off.

  • Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents

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  • Ahhh but you have to remember: if you want anything that an EV doesn't do better than ICE, you're wrong for wanting it and should change your life until that's no longer something you want, at which point you'll see that an EV is perfect for you.

  • Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents

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  • Not to mention, how often are you making these drives?

    This is always the point in the EVangelizing where the person doing it loses me.

    The whole point of the objection, whatever it is, is that it's a way the person uses their car that happens often enough, to them, that it's a concern. A rebuttal based on "well how important is that, really?" isn't an argument against an ICE at that point, it's essentially just an argument saying, "You're wrong for wanting that.", which is basically presuming that one knows better than that person what that person finds to be important.

    Even if they're only making this drive once a year, it's clearly important to them that the vehicle they own is capable of handling it at least as smoothly as an ICE. If an EV can't do that, it's just a shortcoming of EVs for that person, end of story. It doesn't make the EV suddenly immune to that criticism to suggest they just not make that trip or rent a vehicle that can do it when that time comes. It's a way they are currently using their vehicle, and a way in which they want to use whatever vehicle they own in the future. If a certain vehicle can't do that, it's a shortcoming that is worth noting and accepting.

  • Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents

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  • Modern EVs charge in less than 15 minutes so.. it’s really not longer than a gas stop, at least not in any situation I’ve been in and I own two gas vehicles and an ev. Like I literally get 200+ miles of range in 15 minutes. Your numbers are just way way way off.

    I'd say the same about yours.

    Maybe those binders are correct for you in your EV but not for me with my ICE.

    I've never needed 15 minutes to get gas. As long as there's an open pump, if all I'm doing is gassing up, it's 5 minutes, if that.

    And I'm getting 400 miles of range for that time.

    And I can do that literally anywhere in the entire US. If a town is big enough to have a red light, it'll probably have a gas station within 5 miles.

    I like that EVs are a thing, and that they're becoming even more of a thing as time goes on. Someday I'm sure I'll own one too.

    But if I need a new car in the next 5 years, I'm not even considering one, and most of the reasons for that are reasons that proponents are acknowledging, even as they're trying to be patronizing and condescending and shaming anyone who points out valid drawbacks.

    It's not like people are saying EVs are bad, just that the reality of the situation right now is that, for many, deciding to switch over to one from an ICE will mean, in some ways, changing the ways they live around the limitations and necessities that come with the EV, and that for many, these changes tip the scales away from the EV.

    People don't want to accept the changes and added concerns that come with making that switch, and that doesn't make them wrong or stupid or bad.

    When EV infrastructure gets to the point where owning, fueling, and servicing one is as cheap, quick, effective, and ubiquitous as owning, fueling, and servicing an ICE vehicle then I'm sure many, many more people will be convinced. Until then, it's less a matter of needing to dispel rumors and more a matter of the technology needing to catch up to the level of ICE.

  • ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

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  • Shit then, shit now.

    Comments have gotten worse.

  • ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

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  • Look at the quality of content showing up on Lemmy before compared to now and you will agree it is night and day different.

    I haven't seen much of a content quality change at all since I've been here, so no, I wouldn't agree.

  • ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

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  • what was Lemmy before this?

    A microscopic collective few had ever heard of.

    And what is it now?

    That same thing, just slightly less microscopic.

    Honestly while I'm obviously still here, anyone pretending this is any sort of apples-to-apples replacement of the overall Reddit community is only engaging in so much wishful thinking.

    Not that it's impossible for Lemmy to get there eventually, but it's not even close to it, and honestly I really don't see it happening.

  • You'll never guess the most popular internet country code

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  • "It's the viewer's fault the creator gave their video a shitty title!"

  • It's too hot outside

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  • That's not a cloud, it's plasma.

  • US Senate Republicans block assault-style weapons ban as mass shootings rise

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  • It's also a lightning rod issue that turns more voters away than it attracts.

    Sure there are staunch anti-gun people under the Democrats' tent but they're not the kind of people who will vote Republican if the party suddenly scaled back or ended its decades long futile efforts at gun bans.

    On the other hand there are a ton of white working class voters on the suburban-rural fringes of swing states who would absolutely at least consider a Democrat if the party wasn't so easily cast as "gun grabbers and job killers who only care about minorities".

    You get a pro-union, pro-legal-gun Democrat on a ticket who speaks on issues affecting rural whites as much as they do urban non-white voters (who are equally important), and you'd have a winner in many of these areas where they've been quite red, but not so rabidly Trumpy as other areas.

    Even moreso if that's a change that happened at the party/platform level.

    I feel like from a campaign strategy standpoint, guns are just a lose-lose for the Democratic party. Playing to a base that would be loyal anyway for other reasons, even if the party dropped that position completely (which would not only eliminate a deal breaker issue for rural Democrats but also eliminate a cornerstone of the GOP platform in "protecting the second amendment"). Unless they did a complete about face and suddenly became as cozy with the NRA as Republicans, anti-gun voters might be upset, but they're still voting blue.

    After all there's still abortion, electoral reform, racial justice, the environment, education, foreign policy, infrastructure, legal weed, LGBT rights, healthcare, and a host of other issues where the Dems are still their people.

  • Intellectual Rule

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  • We are the Dontgiveashiteriat.

  • Putin is urging women to have as many as 8 children after so many Russians died in his war with Ukraine

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  • I mean, with Russia, it seems like it's just been constant: WW1, revolution, WW2, Stalin's reign, now this.

    If anything, rather than WW2 and this being "in a row", that time frame includes probably the biggest gap in the past century without a grievous population loss.

    For as much as we (Americans) regard Russia (as a state) with an adversarial eye, as far as Russians (the actual common people) are concerned, I kinda feel for them. Seems like their entire history is dominated by difficulty, hardship, and death.

    Then again maybe that impression is precisely the impression that the American education system has very carefully cultivated...

  • 92% of the reason why it sucks to be brazilian

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  • "Be happy about your horrible situation because there are more horrible situations out there" is such a shitty take.

    Basically you're saying "unless you're the single most unfortunate person on the planet, maybe even throughout all of human history, you should be happy", which is obviously nonsense.

  • Founding Fathers Rule

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  • Now is all that smoke obscuring or revealing?!

    Make up your damn mind!

  • Privacy = no free speech

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  • While I agree with you in principle, I'm not sure the newspaper example supports your position, although it is an apt analogy.

    I would imagine that the counter argument would take the form of something like, "Yes, you don't have to read the whole paper, but you can't just buy the comics. You buy the whole paper, get access to the whole thing, and the ads come with it. Similarly, with our web presence, in order to access everything, whether you choose to consume it all or not, the ads must come as a part of it."

    Personally, I don't fully agree with either that argument or yours, can see the merits and flaws of both, and fall somewhere in the middle.

    I'd argue that while they're within their rights to create, distribute, bundle, and price their content as they see fit, just like the current debate with social media companies, your monitor is your own personal, privately owned platform, and you shouldn't/can't be forced to offer a platform to any content you don't wish to publish (to your audience of one). So you're perfectly within your rights to want and attempt to only view the content you wish to see, while they're also perfectly within their rights to want and attempt to package their content in such a way that links their articles with the advertisements of their sponsors.

    So at that point, it's just an arms race between the producer doing their best to force ads onto screens and consumers doing their best to avoid same. Neither side is morally right or wrong, and while there likely is a middle ground that wild be acceptable to both parties, there's zero good faith between the two sides which would be necessary to establish that middle ground.

  • Matthew Perry dead at 54 in apparent drowning

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  • They are saying no drugs or alcohol involved, so I'm guessing a few hours of strenuous exercise followed by jacuzzi = a heart attack while in the jacuzzi alone leading to drowning as the immediate cause of death, but triggered by the heart attack.

  • Denver experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. It reduced homelessness and increased full-time employment, a study found.

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  • Also 17 year old kids, the vast majority of which have never taken on significant debt and have no frame of reference for the scale of obligation they're taking on.

    It blows my mind that we look at an 17 year old and, as a government, we say, "Alcohol? Too young and immature. Handguns? Too young and immature. Tobacco products? Too young and immature. Voting? Too young and immature. Enlisting in the military or want to take on 5 or 6 figures of debt that will drive your major life decisions for the next few decades? Sign here."