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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh I absolutely loved it, don’t get me wrong. I lived through that decade as my own political awakening, so every single event described was something I watched super closely and posted about and participated in as part of the online activist space (and sometimes in person!)
Your observation that the social media companies can leverage and benefit from these protest movements (and perhaps even create them) is important, I think. It’s probably why Musk bought Twitter, he wanted to wield that kind of power over the masses and their ability to organize. It seems to have worked, too. We don’t see anything like what we saw in the 2010s these days.
I read another book along similar lines called If We Burn, which was a broader look at the 2010s protest movements that sprung up from online activism. What I took away from it is that most of that activism was hollow and didn’t have a political vision or party program, it was just the masses shouting “No!” at their shitty governments. It was also easily put down once people in power got used to it.
Pagers are civilian objects, they’re categorically different from radio equipment because they can be used by civilians.
Furthermore, these exploded in civilian structures among the civilian population. Pagers blew up inside people’s cars while driving down the highway. They blew up on grocery stores. They blew up children.
It’s terrorism.
The water isn’t really consumed. It’s not like the servers are digesting it or boiling it away or something. Doesn’t the water just cycle through the system and then come out warm on the other side? There’s no reason for that water to go to waste!
Seems like these data centers are just dumping perfectly potable drinking water because it’s slightly cheaper than having their own water supply and cooling ponds.
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.