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  • Europe edges away from China as Beijing's campaign against Japan backfires

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  • It's textbook sea lioning: asking for information you can easily find yourself as a civil question and now backing out of it to some other tangential sticking point.

    The missile comment was a tongue in cheek reference to the third Taiwan strait missile crisis. Even worse than accidental, they just straight up said "[the missile tests] attacked the power of the 'Taiwan separatists'". There's no way to reconcile that with your imagined warm and fuzzy peaceful-reunification world super power.

    previous, highly oppressive, government to and is currently a vassal ...

    Ah there it is. Does an oppressive government give you free reign to attack the sovereignty of a neighbor? That sure smells a lot like America-style "liberation". But of course when America does it we call it imperialist.

    And spare me this cold war era quid pro quo defense. No superpower in history has ever been in such desperate straits that aggressive action against a minor power was critical to their security. It's just a convenient excuse to play international power games.

  • Europe edges away from China as Beijing's campaign against Japan backfires

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  • Which neighbors is it threatening to invade?

    "It's not threatening to invade, we're just coincidentally running an amphibious assault war game right across the strai-- oops don't mind those missiles, shot those a little too far 🤭"

    If you're going to be a disingenuous sea lion at least skip to claiming "it's a valid casus belli and blah blah blah". It'd save us all a lot of time.

  • Anaesthesia

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  • The danger varies based on patient history and type of operation. General is sometimes more dangerous, especially in older individuals. Both are pretty safe in the right circumstances, but spinal anesthesia has a way bigger "yuck" factor

  • Anaesthesia

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  • Pretty sure they can also fuck up general anesthesia and give you brain damage or kill you 🤷

  • Mike Johnson Sends Entire House Home Ahead of Epstein Files Deadline

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  • I've never quite understood why the speaker of the house can do this. Say (hypothetically, not that this would happen) a majority of members wanted to bring it back in session. Could they just form a quorum and do it? Or would that require appointing a new speaker?

  • The long game

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  • ...???

    Most games on steam are drm-free or have a very weak DRM which is easily removed.

    Blatantly false. Take a glance at all the novice/low budget devs who tightly couple their game to Steam's proprietary multiplayer api.

    Lootboxes kinda suck, but at least they only use them for cosmetic items

    That doesn't mean they weren't trailblazers for one of the most parasitic features of the 21st century.

    Steam has parental controls implemented

    The controls don't even work for this. Even if you scrutinize every game before white listing, the devs can patch in loot boxes (or any toxic mechanic) at any time without your knowledge.

    And putting that aside, "bad parenting" is such a shit cop out when Steam's main page is devoted to high revenue [toxic] games. This is like blaming parents when cigarette companies made ads specifically appealing to children, as if the inability to legally buy their product absolves them from the damage done.

  • U.S. military willing to attack “designated terrorist organizations” within America, general says

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  • It's a group of people concentrated in a small area

    Uhhhh.... What? What groups in what area? The US is massive, has a low population density and popular opinion is incredibly geographically fragmented. There aren't really organized militant communes and certainly none that would be hostile to the admin...

    I seriously doubt that even in the high density, mostly blue areas people would kowtow to drones glassing city blocks just to kill one or two insurgents that might statistically live there. When the penalty for merely existing near a suspect is death or getting your house leveled there's not an option to lay down. You either move out (and take your anger with you) or buckle down and start hiding your neighborhood insurgents so (hopefully) the bombs don't get dropped at all.

    They don't give two shits about the general public

    About their safety? No. But they still need to maintain some order so the social machine functions. The USA just doesn't have the political mechanisms or generational fealty to allow military policing of domestic life. And as we've learned 1000x over from history, a hostile occupying force doesn't work as a long term strategy.

    If a population decides they're not gonna put up with it then that's the end of it, one way or another. Grooming a populace to accept military policing would mean drastically overhauling social + political structures and unwinding 400 years of law enforcement precedent. There isn't any project 20XX that could possibly do that, these idiots just lack the patience and foresight to realize that.

  • Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"

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  • I feel like you can both be right, the sheer number of videos can have years of educational content while still being mostly SEO influencers and money leeching junk. If you go on it with a completely fresh account you're going to see a bunch of brain rot before you tune your algorithm into good content.

  • There's ads on an apple

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  • Kind of a philosophical question from your response: is any type of advertising OK? I don't doubt that advertisers can and will continue to pollute every inch of our lives, but in a vacuum this is basically an ideal ad. Its minimal, clever, untargeted, temporary, for a decent show, and not massively over produced or jarring. To me, those aspects make it OK and I won't complain.

    However, there's simply not enough opportunities like this for advertising to exist as an ethical profession. There's no point cheering it on or "voting with your wallet", it's not possible for 90% of products to have this serendipity. But I can't say "fuck all advertising" when it does technically serve a purpose and can very occasionally be done in an ethical and interesting way. I'd rather see this specific post than the majority of banal memes on my feed.

  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • Receiver of Wrecks is a pretty metal title tho. If he's telling me to do something I might listen

  • Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

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  • Sure, if you go in with the idea that the ban won't impact their social media usage then it obviously follows that it won't impact their usage. And that might be true for a while, but:

    • Declining usage compounds and any barrier to entry drops users. Reddit wouldn't be suing to stop this if they didn't think it was a major threat to their platform.
    • The single largest factor in platform membership is peer membership, and the most influential peers in adolescent development will always be real life friends
    • A cohort aging up doesn't mean that the next cohorts will automatically follow. Late millennials weren't tied to Facebook, Gen Z wasn't married to Snapchat, a drop in TikTok usage will eventually precipitate a need to migrate somewhere else
    • Global social media usage, by human screen time, has been declining from its 2022 peak (excluding a North American exception), with the largest drop among younger users

    Putting all of this together, it seems very plausible that child bans could hasten this decline. It would probably work twice as well if more public money was directed to alternatives (third spaces, clubs, etc...).

  • Would you rather glow in the dark, or slowly get bigger when in water, and then shrink back to normal when dry?

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  • But imagine that you get stuck in a water pipe or wedged somewhere in a rain storm. Glowing is annoying but not nearly as bad as potentially drowning because your car crashed into a lake and you can no longer escape through the window.

  • Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

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  • You can covertly buy and take illicit drugs all by yourself and have a good time. Bypassing a ban to get on a social platform with very few of your social peers is... pointless?

    So what if you get to watch a tiktok from the other side of the world, none of the kids in your class are sharing that experience and building the peer pressure.

  • Linux 6.19 Gets Rid Of The Kernel's "Genocide" Function

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  • IIRC master was the normal ass English word for your superior in any type of subservient role (employees, servants, indentured, school children, etc...). In the "Master Bedroom" instance, master makes sense as the title of a household patriarch.

    As soon as they started forcing non-whites into new world chattel slavery, all tiers of white classes suddenly thought it was degrading to use the same word they forced on the lesser races. This is where English started adapting new words for the old usage of master, such as boss from the Dutch baas.

    If anything, refusing to use master in any context is far more racist than normal usage. You're perpetuating the idea that a word's use by slaves automatically (and retroactively) sullies it for all time.

  • Soda

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  • The fixed version isn't even right.

    Please drink the soda [located] in the fridge

    There's no ambiguity unless the sign had an arrow pointing to "the" soda as the subject. It obviously doesn't because the soda isn't visible while it's in the fridge. It could be ambiguous as:

    Please drink soda in[side] the fridge

    But then pink highlighter wouldn't get to feel clever 🥸👎

  • ‘I love when my enemies hate me’: how Hasan Piker became one of the biggest voices on the US left

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  • The controversy over his public presence (both real and contrived) has convinced me that if you want to be any kind of serious public figure you should never-ever-ever put anything off-hand in text or on video. Let alone stream yourself for hours at a time.

    Take some time to compile your thoughts and don't just spit out hot takes. It'll get you attention for sure, but it's not worth the scrutiny and drama hunting. For real, look at the people in this thread latched onto a single clip of a dog yelping weeks (months?) ago. Is that such a core and defining feature that I should completely discredit him? Doesn't seem like it, but I also don't want to dig through hours of content to find out.

  • Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

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  • Sorry, wording was unclear. Their methodology was pulling everything in pubmed on “social media” or “social network”, “health”, and “pediatrics”. Nothing particularly biasing in either direction.

  • Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

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  • something you potentially have no sufficient alternative for should be denied.

    Not having an obvious alternative ready doesn't change the cost/benefit weight for society at large. Just because cars are the only way we have to navigate suburban sprawl doesn't absolve them of being one of the worst modes of transport for safety, the climate, passenger efficiency, etc... We should be talking about radically restricting their use, not shrugging and trying a driver education bandaid.

    For a laugh, a scoping review of social media and adolescent risks through 2022. Sure, plenty of questions on causality, but also quantitative articles on direct impacts to physical health and harmful exposure to constant ads. In dozens of articles, just 1 (one) article finding a positive socializing impact... I'm certainly leaning towards denial by default...

  • Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

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  • I'm trying to "use my damn brain", I want genuine research showing this as a benefit that outweighs the numerous and well documented negatives that social media causes in children and young adults (depression, social isolation, body image issues, extremist and regressive worldviews, sleep and concentration issues, and on and on...).

    If you can actually show me that it saves queer kids from oppression in a way that couldn't be done via other methods (school programs, library funding, safe and child friendly neighborhoods, media representation, etc.) then maybe we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. Otherwise this is keeping the baby by voluntarily flooding your house with sewage.