zephyreks @ zephyreks @lemmy.ml

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The EU wants to keep people buying overpriced garbage instead of cheap garbage.

Why? I have no idea.

Because the EU doesn't really allow large-scale subsidies in the same way. Of course, the US does, which is why Tesla has been so successful and half the chip companies in the world just decided to set up new fabs there, but...

Isn't the Outer Space Treaty ALREADY covering this exact thing? Come on, people.

In case the US has forgotten, China is selling key technology like drones to Ukraine, too. If that's not staying neutral and not picking a side, I don't know what is. The US wants China to pick the US side, not stay neutral. In fact, China currently has a trade deficit with Ukraine.

In February 2024, China exported $221M and imported $477M from Ukraine, resulting in a negative trade balance of $256M.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/31/dji-drones-become-vital-tool-in-ukraine-resistance/?sh=ea4c59879e6c

https://www.wsj.com/world/how-american-drones-failed-to-turn-the-tide-in-ukraine-b0ebbac3

Meanwhile, Canada's support for Israel has no relation to the close economic, cultural, and political relations Canada has with the US and Europe.

If news gets traction and interaction from people around the world, who are you to say it isn't world news?

What's the incentive structure for which China would want people to deploy fewer solar panels?

Myanmar and the PRC have been trying to address the same problem in northern Myanmar. See: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/21/asia-pacific/crime-legal/china-myanmar-civil-war-cyber-scam/

Fugitives from China fled the country following a domestic crackdown on cybercrime and now they're stuck elsewhere. These fugitives kidnap and traffic Chinese citizens and force them to work for cybercrime centers abroad.

This is an extremely reductionist take on Vietnam and ignores, y'know, the Vietnam War.

In fact, it's a completely reductionist view on the entirety of ASEAN. Just as Canada and Mexico are forever coupled to America's industrial gravity, ASEAN is forever coupled to China's industrial gravity. You can have infighting, but you don't piss off both your largest trade partner and the country that simultaneously supplies the market and expertise for your continued economic development. The ex-United States of the Philippines is an exception because of obvious reasons

Israel struck an Iranian embassy. Some things demand a response.

Not everyone can be China and shrug off the US bombing their embassy in Serbia.

Racism, everybody.

What many people don't realize is that Quebec is poor.

In the name of national security, who cares about the rights of a few foreigners living on foreign (allied) soil? This isn't a coincidence, this is literally a core component of US foreign policy.

This entire concept has been studied extensively in China, and the conclusion has been that the yield is vastly overclaimed when solar panels are deployed on productive soil.

See: CCTV exposes 8 million RMB solar farm built on prime farmland, leads to plummeting rice yields

Palestine was relying on some type of pan-Arab response or Arab unity, but now it seems as though the only country that has any influence on Israel in the region is Iran. Everyone else is either beholden to other interests or reeling from decades of conflict.

This is probably the most horrifyingly depressing article I've read in the past decade.

Mod abuse? Impossible.

Copium at it's most refined form

I mean, I appreciate the fact that I'm getting down voted because it means we've moderated this community well enough that nobody thinks this is serious. I take this as a positive.

I acknowledge this.