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The situation could be more nuanced. Putin lost in Syria and Europe is split from Russia and massively spending on weapons. That's already a huge win, maybe big enough to accept a bleeding face.

Thank you.

After Tiananmen they can't believe in #1. The party showed that they were in control.

#2 is possible but requires that the elite mistakes money for power. I cannot imagine that old money makes such a rooky mistake.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_steel_production

China is producing so much steel that the USA cannot believe that they can contain the Chinese navy in a prolonged war.

I cannot pin it down but things don't fully add up.

Downvoters, for #1? Jelzin was corrupt. Was there something similar in China?

South Africa had a nuclear program and gave it up. Left alone.

How do nukes help South Africa? They don't have rockets. What do they threaten to bomb that is a deterrent?

Where are those informations diskussed? If the information was out in March then Lemmy as a whole is not good at filtering the relevant news.

About one hour in, he is talking about a three front war against China, Russia and Iran that was predicted in the 1990ies.

Why has the USA allowed China to become powerful? That war could have been fought earlier with a much bigger technological lead.

It's still possible to ask if Germany could have prevented it.

hadn’t been held back by lazy MS et al.

MS is not lazy but working hard to maintain their lead.

edit: Just noticed that my phrasing is bad and could be seen as praise. OP is right, MS is holding everybody back.

I meant to say that they abuse their market domination to maintain their lead.

Look at MS Teams. It was free until Slack was done as a competitor.

MS did things but that's inevitable. The crucial part are the things that they prevented.

It's increadible that OP is even downvoted.

It's two quotes. Miners don't throw coal into furnaces.

My liberal friends were saying, ‘You can’t expect them to be able to do that,’” Biden told his New Hampshire audience. "Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in a mine, sure in hell can learn to program as well, but we don't think of it that way," he said.

“Gimme a break! Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program for God’s sake.”

However, the only strategically significant rival we have that utilizes those shopping lanes are Russia, whom the administration wants to buddy up too.

If that doesn't play out, Putin will be dropped like Saddam.

Better than being a hopeless doomer about everything.

How can any change happen if there is only a limited willingness to perveive reality and analyze it?

They’re clearly referring to when it became easily accessible to the masses.

When have you been to the moon?

Only if the summary is included in the training data.

After all, it’d be much easier to press on a button that’d kill 10 000 people living 10 000 km away from you than to stab one person to death.

That could be the result of our training. After all, people die for our way of life and we have to cope.

Don't use the Zimbardo prison experiment. From your link:

Certain critics have described the study as unscientific and fraudulent.[6][7] In particular, Thibault Le Texier has established that the guards were asked directly to behave in certain ways in order to confirm Zimbardo's conclusions, which were largely written in advance of the experiment.

I know the UK banned women’s orgasms

Why? To prevent British women from having expectations?

Yes, it's not black and white. E.g. small shop owners don't receive wages so they are not included.

Overall I think it shows that the rich don't take everything so that a motivation for change should't try to earn more but to improve other problems of society.

The countries look darker but if you mark a western country, the shown numbers are slightly bigger than 60%.

If a country has 66% of GDP in form of wages, and you increase the wages by 50%, you need 33% of the GDP which leads to 99% of the GDP being used for wages. Obviously there can't be more.

If only Musk would use LSD or whichever drug helps to resolve those issues instead of ketamine.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-share-of-gdp

60% of GDP are wages. People can earn 50% more if all profits would be handed out as wages.