naturalgasbad @ naturalgasbad @lemmy.ca

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This is... Absurd? It seems like as time has gone on, NASA has progressively shifted towards an outsourcing model for more and more of its programs.

This model obviously explodes costs, which don't help NASA's shoestring budget. But even in that context, this sounds absurd.

Slovakia does not consider Ukraine to be an independent country anymore.

See it's only bad when they do it

Japan's current capabilities are officially better than the US and Russia, but worse than China and India.

Hm.

Edit: for anyone who questions this, answer me: when was the last Russian moon landing? The last American moon landing? How many people who worked on those missions do you think still work for Roscosmos/NASA today?

Mexico and Chile taking action while China sits idle. Ffs

Yes

If you want to look at how too resolve an Islamist extremism issue, look no further than Xinjiang.

Regardless of what you think happened at the "camps," they're almost entirely dismantled now and yet Xinjiang's Uyghur population has only grown. Kashgar has only grown. If anything, Urumqi's ethnic dynamics are changing as the Han population leaves for greener pastures along the Eastern coast.

He's right. Netanyahu is literally the one who did it. That's why he's been so rabidly for this war.

Yes, but see, the hospital was clearly Hamas because it's in Gaza and the Gaza Health Ministry is Hamas.

Don't bother. "Mixed credibility" only matters if it doesn't align with the mods' personal political beliefs. It's even enshrined in the rules list.

So... 2023 is still way below 2019? Makes a good headline, I guess

Ships were broadcasting "CHNS VSL N CREW" on AIS a few days ago lol

It's been terrifyingly cold this year in parts of Canada. I imagine it's been a similar phenomenon in Russia?

Why does the US constantly support regimes that abuse, threaten, and/or kill journalists? It's just an odd coincidence, that's all.

It's only genocidal when they say it

Compared to 2022? What about 2019?

Unlikely if they also ban Chinese EV imports tbh

European car manufacturers are slacking so hard

What are the odds China actually extracts from it? Seems like lithium batteries are soon going to become a dead tech with the rise of sodium-ion batteries.

Ok, maybe I wasn't clear enough for you.

80% of Japan's oil was from the US. Similar numbers held for steel, iron, bauxite, etc. The US wasn't a war profiteerer in a sea of war profiteers, but the sole reason Japan was able to invade mainland China in the first place. If the US had not supplied Japan, the Pacific Theatre would not exist. 20 million Chinese civilians need not have died.

It's absurd the level of apologism some people have for what was plainly genocidal foreign policy. If the war had ended in November of 1941, America would have been remembered as the key foundation of the Axis Powers in the Pacific.

There's a theory that the US, UK, and France were in fact not perturbed by the rise of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The primary geopolitical foe of Germany was the Soviet Union, and of Japan was China. Both these countries were, if not governed by communists, seeing communism rise rapidly. They were also clear targets, given their richness of resources and geographical proximity. That's why the UK and France signed the Munich Agreement and the US supplied Japan to such a degree - the hope being that the fighting would stamp out the communist threat and allow the "civilized" powers to sweep in and subjugate a battered Germany and Japan. In fact, this isn't really a theory: French and British leaders at the time basically admitted as much.

International law like "do no genocide"