Listen, not all nazi soldiers were particularly bad. I’m sure a chef in the rear guard probably did not do a single war crime. But when the SS existed we know that the chef isn’t what most people refer to when discussing war crimes of the era.

Its the same in this era. Sure, there are bad guys all over the place, but compare to the US there’s really only a handful of entities in the post WWII era that could be equals, and none more evil.

…even with purely home grown american white supremacist fascism, racists can’t help but go ‘this is like them chinamen’ even when the opposite is true.

Every work from home person and every corporate end point will be upgrading; simply due to legal liability for the corporations. That alone is hundreds of millions of pcs and laptops getting thrown out (because anyone in IT knows no corpo is going to pay the extra hours to recycle properly).

Average users with no liability? Plenty will stay on win 10 until their use case no longer works, i.e. when steam dropped win vista compatibility, but plenty will be scared enough to upgrade.

The weird part will be seeing who sidegrades to a tablet in the corporate environment. Many android tablets can do everything needed for office work, and don’t have the same security cross section. Most app front ends are electron anyway these days so its not like x86 is needed.

Given half the references are from the same people that said a gang leader was called barbeque because he was a cannibal instead of the actual reason, I’m going to suggest there might be a bit of a propaganda problem going on there.

The currently largest single source of ewaste in the world should be criticized at every turn.

The gangs formed due to foreign invasion and an illegitimate state seizing power. They aren’t some separate group from the people, they are the people that should decide what state they have. The primary victims of the largest gang, for instance, were politicians and un ‘workers’, the latter of which regularly were caught raping women and children.

The gangs are the security. Against actual evil. These aren’t international cartel members or gun runners or even drug dealers. They’re resistance to occupation.

Maybe, you know, the foreign troops trying to revive a us puppet state that was deeply unpopular with the people is the cause of violence.

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Sir, I get paid less than the price of a big Mac combo per hour to do a job LLMs could do half a decade ago because without a physical body to yell at boomers get confused and start calling people that make less than a McChicken sandwich an hour representing a labyrinthian network of people, algorithms, people pretending to be algorithms, algorithms pretending to be people, all making various multiples of my own sub big Mac combo wage to do far less work in their career than I do in a day. You can wait an extra minute for your fries, or I can swipe your credit card against my square app that I use to sell weed on the side because even drug dealers need apps these days and challenge your inevitable charge back by saying you’re probably too old to remember what you buy in a day.

Your choice old man.

And a load of cars is far less heavy and less dynamically loaded than say, a crane. Or a group of construction equipment.

Again, if this worked, any single barge in existence would work better. A Wylie e coyote bridge made of hundreds of barges is too ridiculous even for the most westoid brain version of China. This is ‘dem Chinese eat Muslim babies to take our jobs’ level of silly.

Something heavy, slow, tread based, with easily controlled variable weight, that’s cheap enough to replace if anything goes wrong and something that’s been rendered useless on modern battlefields so has no further original use?

I wonder why they would use that to test barges that are far more valuable as overwater construction and resupply; rather than the absolutely silly idea of static targets for artillery, which is their only actual military function.

I mean I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. How do you people think this would function as a ‘war bridge’? You’d need hundreds. If one can touch shore then just use a normal barge, not this Wylie e coyote nonsense. If one can’t touch the shore, a hundred of them in an in movable chain that takes hours to align won’t be able to.

He’s insane. See being insane like this isn’t just holding a belief radically different from commonly accepted knowledge, but failing to provide proof or evidence that can be independently verified.

If he could provide proof, even bad proof, it’d be fine. But since he couldn’t even understand why a side character would get paid less than the leading role and fumbled the marvel bag so hard it’s unlikely he’d ever be able to provide proof.

The country that heavily invested in science and technology, much more so than any other nation in history, is going to lead the world in those fields?!

Yes… They share the land. And it worked out great. Jews were safely living in Palestine along side Christians and Muslims for longer than any form of Israel ever existed.

It worked out fantastically, until a British Nazi and a group of white quasi Jewish people came up with Zionism and convinced the German Nazis and US totally not Nazis that it would be better if Jews all were forced back to Israel once and for all.

Until Zionism was invented in the late 1800s, it was unthinkable to have a Jewish state (since that’s against the religion), and unthinkable to oppress the natives of the land of Palestine to make a Jewish state.

If you believe this then you have no idea what the conflict is or what has been happening in the region, pretty much ever.

We’re the Germans genocided to end their genocide?

If you ever find yourself on a side that’s pro genocide, you’re the bad guy. There might be worse guys, but probably not. Being the team of ‘well they’re promising to not genocide me so let them have some genocide as a treat’ does worse than nothing, and historically hasn’t worked out so well.

If two parties are the pro genocide parties, then you logically cannot support either. It’s worth voting third party to register your displeasure, while working towards other goals that will hopefully bring real change when the opportunity arises.

In any case nothing is ever solved or improved by genocide. So any option with genocide is the worst option among the infinite things you can attempt to do.

Are you sure you wouldn’t be more comfortable on reddit.world?

China builds some cool infrastructure/construction tools

The West: Them Chinese are go’n take our chip fabs and war with the world

Going full capitalism. I.e:

Investment: You sponsor another player for xx number of rounds with yy amount of money, resulting in yy/total value amount if shares in that player. The affected player can offer to buy back their shares early or pay a fixed amount with interest (like a loan) at the end of the xx rounds. If multiple players do this and collectively have a controlling share of a player, they get to choose what that player does every other round. Including selling off property or using kept cards.

Theft: like the official ‘break the rules’ version, you can physically steal from other players/the bank. If by the end of your next round no one has called you out, you announced it and can get away with it. Otherwise straight to jail and triple the value of what you stole goes to whoever caught you.

Slums: in exchange for reducing rent owed to you by another player, you can take one of their next dice rolls and add it to your own in your following round, or just trade movement for rent in general i.e. they can’t move their next round in exchange for not paying you rent.

Privately owned utilities: if you own both the utilities you can take a percentage of all rent paid at any point, instead of the rent on landing on the utility.

Just for fun, three card draw: if you land on chance or community chest you can pay an extra two hundred to the bank to pick two additional cards. But you must play or keep all cards.