And yet they never catch up. Why do you think that is?

The goal is to keep them weak and dependent, not help them stand as equals with France and Germany.

It isn’t to help them catch up, it’s to keep them limping along without collapsing entirely, while at the same time keeping them dependent so they don’t think of trying to escape. It has the same function as the IMF/World Bank.

In terms of larger countries, it has been beneficial for France and Germany, less so for Italy

It’s just a way for the wealthy metropoles to turn poorer members of the EU into neocolonies. Yeah, it’s great for rich Europeans! Not so much for everyone else. Without the ability to deficit spend (because they lack currency sovereignity) they are forced to do austerity and privatization. It’s just financial imperialism.

It’s a bad system and it will collapse.

Ask Greece or the other Mediterranean nations if they are better off without their own currency (hint: they absolutely aren’t)

Death to US is a basic statement of understanding that the US empire is the primary contradiction.

The EU as a whole is an interesting project, but the Eurozone currency bloc was a mistake. All it did was surrender everyone else’s currency sovereignty to Germany and France.

And death to the US.

Don’t give up sovereignity, even to allies! Alliances change, but even ignoring that, it’s akin to letting allies run your infrastructure or make your policies or own your water. It’s giving part of yourself away.

Data sovereignty is going to be key to maintaining any sovereignity going forward, it’s so vital to the function of society and the economy that outsourcing it to another country is just giving part of yourself away.

Deepseek, Huawei, Tencent - China isn’t just a factory for the West anymore. They’re not the go-to for advanced tech, but they’ve become a go-to for advanced tech.

I think it’s too late to slow down their growth.

This is classic underdevelopment, like how Europe and the US deliberately withheld vital equipment and machinery from Africa to prevent them from building their own industrial base.

It’s obviously way too late for this tactic to make any sense, though. China can’t be underdeveloped, they’re becoming a tech leader at this point.

I think you’re in trouble if you swallow or inhale any batteries.

As if Google isn’t already crammed with Israeli spies. In fact, that’s probably why an Israeli company just got a sweetheart buy out from Google! This is just a continuation of a pre-existing issue Google already had.

Right, it doesn’t matter if automation is less productive if it’s cheaper. Sure, the robots keep causing damage, but they don’t ask for wages.

Meanwhile here in Iowa our automated materials towing robots keep dumping shit on the floor, running into sensitive equipment, and injuring people.

(pst. they misjudged because of racism)

It certainly increases the legitimacy of Bitcoin and other crypto assets as investment vehicles, I won’t argue with that.

But the original point seemed to be that these are legitimate currencies, and I just don’t see it.

Yes, but even if the US started militarily enforcing bitcoin mining, is the US trying to control the value of Bitcoin, or is it trying to control the value of Bitcoin in USD? Is the US treating bitcoin like a commodity that it needs to control (oil, gas) or like a currency?

Not exactly?

The US uses its military to enforce the US dollar status as the global reserve currency. Libya tried to sell oil outside the US dollar market and look what happened to them.

Unless Trump starts using the military to enforce Bitcoin value it still won’t have the same status as a currency.

So, what, people won’t be allowed to read offline anymore? I hear the high seas calling…

Is it important for humanoid robots to be able to push buttons? That seems like a redundant task imo

Surely it’d be cheaper to just replace the control interface with a computerized one than to install a robot to push the buttons.

lol will they try to pass legislation against this one too? 🤡

Pretty sure there already is one and it’s called BRICS.

Have you ever heard of “political events”?

That’s not true at all

The vast majority of people won’t check at all. They’ll either agree or disagree based on their own preexisting knowledge/biases.

And people keep telling me it isn’t a bubble 😂

They’re starting with a smaller population in Gaza, but the most recent estimate from June had the death toll at more than 186,000 people. They’re not just blowing people up, they’re sniping them with drones, they’re starving them to death by blocking aid, they’re depriving them of medicine and water and sanitation, they’re making hospitals nonfunctional, they’ve made 2+ million people homeless as we’re heading into another winter. It’s a fucking nightmare, easily comparable to the Holocaust.

The methods are similar and the goals are similar.

Not only does Netanyahu deserve to be hung, so do all the Nazis in his army.

Storing hydrogen is also very hard, the molecules are so small that they cavitate through any solid material trying to hold them. I’ve heard loose carbon fiber is good at holding hydrogen but I don’t think they’ve figured out a carbon fuel cell yet.

This sidesteps the problem of cavitation by just breaking hydrogen away from the electrolyte instead of storing it as a pure fuel.

Yeah, fuel cells are very different since they react the hydrogen. I think these batteries only use hydrogen bonds to carry electrons. Or to positively charge the anode and create current? However that works? I’m not a chemist or electrical engineer lol

It sounds like a hydrogen battery rather than just burning hydrogen as a fuel source. If I had to guess, the hydrogen positively charges the anode when it forms a hydrogen bond with TABQ, and the charge differential is what generates current.

My understanding is that hydrogen is a single proton, though, and it sounds like TABQ stores it.

Hydrogen is a proton.

TABQ stores protons.

It sounds like it’s a bunch of hydrogen bonds with the anode.

Is this distinguishable from hydrogen in some way?

It’s not fair that politics are in command! China needs to let the chaos of the market determine everything or else they’ll reveal how fucking stupid and inefficient the market economy is outside of the econ101 classroom.

They don’t sell enough. These companies want endless growth and endless sales so they can milk the whales for endless revenue. Narrative rich, story driven games don’t sell as much as pay to win or gacha trash.

🤡

FYI, China although communist in name, actually functions mostly on capitalist economy, but party authority always comes first.

In a capitalist economy the market comes first, the market dominates politics. In China it is the exact opposite, and that’s why China can build entire cities in the time it takes a capitalist country to build a single bridge or highway. They don’t wait for private investors to provide funding or wait for private contractors to bid for the project. They just decide they’re building a city and then they do it.

In other words, politics are in command.

They’re currently in the process of exterminating 2.2 million people by turning Gaza into a concentration death camp.

The only difference from the Nazis is the Nazis had a larger starting population to exterminate. Other than the gross total, the methods are similar and the goals are similar. People in Gaza are being starved and butchered on a scale eminently comparable to the Holocaust and I don’t know how you can deny this.

Infrared isn’t red, though. Seems like it’s worth making a distinction between different frequencies if the way it interacts with matter is different.

I figured something cool was happening to allow them to use radar from the air. So it’s not even radar, it’s like, ELFdar.

Really weird they went for the “lightspeed” angle tho

… isn’t that just how radar works? A radio emission is sent out, bounces off an object, and then detectors measure the difference?

The fact that this works from the sky is definitely new, but I think all radar is light speed by definition.