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  • The Official title of Taiwan is The Republic of China.

    They still allowed the KMT (aka The Chinese Nationalist Party), to participate in their Democracy even though it ran the country as an anti-democracy Authoritarian state for 40 years.

    Taiwan and China do a lot of trade together, a war would be difficult for both of them.

  • Technically he's a Spock stand in: hyper logical but not quite getting humanity.

    This characteristic... In fact lots of characteristics get shared and mix and matched across DS9, TNG, and Voyager.

    In Voyager Seven of Nine and The Doctor are the "not quite understanding humanity" characters. In DS9, it's Odo.

    Ideally newer Trek would do this too, but it might also want to have:

    A quirky or modded engineer: LaForge, O'Brien, Scotty, Be'lana.

    A superior strength character: Spock, Data, Odo, Worf, Seven of Nine, Tuvok.

    ...and maybe a couple of psychic characters, Spock, Kes, Tuvok, Seven of Nine, Benjamin.

    You'll probably also need some mentally brilliant characters, a Klingon, and someone who doesn't fit in due to a negative background and is jaded about it.

    ...a brilliant doctor helps too.

    These characteristics are needed so you can write certain storyline types and stand alone episodes.

  • Why does shitting your pants seem such an American phenomena? I've seen or heard about this activity through reddit a couple of times, and also on "people of walmart".

    Is it a dietary thing? A cultural thing? is it just because most media is American? What's the deal America?

  • Honestly, you don't have to do much to villainize some aspects of industrial farming. It's mostly only possible due to the haber-bosch nitrogenation process, which was invented by the same guy who invented chemical warfare, and the process itself uses lots of petrochemicals and dumps a lot of nitrogen into the natural environment. That's not even getting into the use of migrant workers, or the patenting of dna over some crops, and the food monopolies that exist in some countries.

    I also don't think it's a case of "there can be only one system"... And I don't run into a lot of people saying that.

    For myself, this isn't one of the more pressing issues in the world. I don't really think people have enough land to be able to be self-sufficient, but gardening is a nice hobby.

    Food markets vary from nation to nation, and have political aspects I'm fairly disinterested in, so can't really comment on that.

    Bye!

  • Assuming it used all the same tools and techniques, making only minor replacements of tractors for voluntary domestic labor .. I don't see why it couldn't reach averages in a similar magnitude. Given them larger plots where they could use industrial tools and they should produce about the same on average.

    Eother way there attempts more self sufficiency are to be commended... So the I'm not sure of the point of the post really.

    If we had a socialist style of market economy like Vietnam we'd produce more crops.

    Also in a correctly valued economy we wouldn't have to subsidize farming.

  • Why be a dick about it when you can just ignore them. Seems like they're just trying to communicate in a way that's generally experienced as nice.

    Like I get it, it's easy to get annoyed at people trying to "make" you participate in an imaginary and kinda lame social behaviour... But like, being a dick on purpose probably does you more damage than them

    No one likes someone whose rude for the sake of being rude, or an edgelord, even being a contrarian just for the sake of it isn't the greatest characteristic.

    Better to find a stable calm attitude that doesn't require that... And if it's a way to blow off steam, better to find ways that are more in your own domain of control, rather than having it controlled by an external trigger.

    Something to give thought to next time your driving jeep anyways.

  • Relative to much of the world yes.

    In terms of economics and neoliberalism mostly.

    You're more right than wrong.

    In terms of social liberalism, the differences between the two parties are more noticeable.

    This is because structural politics is defined by undemocratic means, interests, and forces.

    So we vote on more superficial aspects, such as the culture war and social rights.

    Which can be important, but most of the time aren't the real meat of the world's problems.