I wouldn’t even say that live in a world of communist theory because a lot of their egregious takes are contrary to actual theory, Marxist-Leninist slant or not.

I’d just say they live in alternate reality land.

Sucks for glasses wearers who are about to be having a lot of blurry conversations when everyone starts to tell everyone to take off their glasses before they talk.

I didn’t say they were going to save the world, no more than the USA did or any nation state turned empire.

I do think China will eclipse America when it comes to being in a position of strong global leadership and the hegemonic power on the world stage. The USA seems to be shirking our duties, reshaping and destroying our society’s moral fabric, racing towards worse and worse education results and hellbent on making sure our healthcare is broken and our people are fat and dumb.

It’s not a winning recipe, even with a military that can dominate.

Every country has its problems and its demons, China is no different and certainly their problems are complex and grand. As far as greater or lesser evils - I’d put the USA and China about on par for all the fucked up stuff we have done the past hundred years and keep doing now.

I’d love to at least visit China sometime - honestly there’s so much fascinating history and getting to see a different approach to community building and infrastructure planning would be neat.

This is the dawn of the new Chinese century. I have no doubt in 20 more years China will be in an even stronger position as the USA continues to decline.

We, the USA, could do all the stuff that would make us competitive. That would require more socialism, more taxing of billionaires, more spending in green energy, education, transportation, healthcare becoming affordable and an actual human right for all in our borders, a real plan to transition off fossil fuels and shore up our domestic energy production and electric grid.

Idk more than that of course but that’s the elevator pitch.

We won’t do it though because corrupt capitalism and the oligarchy.

Maybe we will if at some point enough of us are struggling but we’re pretty fat and have plenty of entertainment to distract us even if we are being fucked. So … Yeah … Desperately hoping I’m wrong about most of my predictions, devastated as I keep seeing them come true.

Having gone from 10 to 11 - it’s pretty much windows 10, at least to an average user like myself … I’m tech savvy enough for Linux but I prefer windows for gaming.

Have to say so far I’m pretty happy with windows 11 but I’m just a random guy who uses it to play video games and that’s about it on that PC so if you’re doing anything crazy under the hood I’m sure there’s some noticeable differences.

And somehow this thread thinks that’s harsh or petty?

Is literally any person complaining about this guy setting reasonable boundaries paying him money to do this work?

No they’re a bunch of entitled assholes who need a fucking wake up call.

just gather up some hydrogen/helium from space and transmute it into whatever you need. food, fuel, structures, etc.

Tea, earl gray, hot.

Your comment was on top for me in my app, so I was like “oh how bad could it be.”. Holy shit you’re not wrong, there’s some disgusting comments that are getting voted up.

I’m low-key disappointed and appalled by these community members who believe these women “deserve” it for … Trying to help each other be safer?

If by “personal information” you mean sharing their experiences with certain people … Yeah I guess.

They weren’t sharing addresses and social security numbers or drivers license numbers or other things that would lead to identity theft.

How can you not have sympathy for these women getting doxxed because they wanted to help create a safer space for one another and to help each other out? That’s wild.

This is far from turnabout, this is abuse.

The article has more info than the excerpt from OP but sure.

Tl;Dr - Cambodia and Thailand share a border that each side thinks isn’t drawn how it should be. They mostly coexist peacefully. A Thai soldier got killed by a landmine going down a path the Thai govt claims was not supposed to be mined and they’re alleging Cambodia mined it. Cambodia says otherwise. It escalated from there with Thailand retaliating and then Cambodia retaliating against that and so it goes.

There’s not like … A good reason for the fighting that I can discern but I’m not an expert on the two countries history.

I mean I don’t think 25 women would lie about stuff that would be slander or libel when it comes to someone as litigious and thin skinned as Trump.

Not much evidence you can provide when it’s one person’s word over another. Only thing I can say is he never won a libel suit against his accusers as far as I know.

o7 good luck soldier

Watch the most recent episode. I, like you, don’t really watch South Park anymore but holy shit was it funny.

The Trump stuff killed it. The callback to Saddam, the absurdity of everything going on, the show really hit the nail on the head of how it feels in America right now.

Probably a similar reason as to why we don’t hear about the other potential hundreds of competing products or solutions to the same problem (in general).

Luck.

It’s just not fair in our world.

I always forget the syntax

Me with literally everything code I touch always and forever.

I will say I’ve found LLM useful for code writing but I’m not coding anything real at work. Just bullshit like SQL queries or Excel macro scripts or Power Automate crap.

It still fucks up but if you can read code and have a feel for it you can walk it where it needs to be (and see where it screwed up)

We’re about to lock people up outside of the EU for processing

Stop copying our homework!!

Signed,

USA

I live in the UK and see nothing of this promised land, on the contrary my life is quite shitty, I’m barely making the ends meet

I think the point missed by a lot of people is that the immigrants are experiencing even worse lives and living conditions. Even after they immigrate.

Also, the whole “they took err jerbs” thing, really just spits in the face of economic theory and …idk… Reality? Jobs exist because of demand for them and that demand goes up as more people join your society. Jobs aren’t being "taken " from anyone. It’s not like there’s some imaginary pool of jobs that once they’re gone they’re gone.

Now, caveat, it’s more complex than that but this whole notion of jobs being “stolen” is just a false narrative used to stoke the fires of infighting amongst us proles while the rich laugh at the top.

When people say shit like that I really want to just piss on them and tell them I don’t believe I’m pissing on them so it’s obviously not happening.

It’s mind boggling how many people exist that insist reality is wrong. As if just wishing or believing something hard enough will magically make that the truth.

Unfortunately, stupid breeds too fast for nature to fix it.