Being an utter ignoramus is sort of a prerequisite for being a liberal. Once a person learns a modicum of history, then it quickly becomes impossible to reconcile reality with liberal ideology.

it’s the result of the selection pressures inherent in the capitalist system because profitability is the sole fitness function that the company is evaluated on. Capitalism rewards psychopathic behaviour since people have to be willing to exploit others to become successful. Anybody who would try to run an ethical company would quickly find it impossible to compete with business owners who are willing to brutally exploit their workers.

Yes, quality of life, have you seen any videos of what life is like in a modern Chinese city? It’s like travelling to the future.

And there is nothing remarkable about that, the surprise is that any countries in the west are starting to have significant amounts of people who are not going along with the mainstream narrative.

truly

😁

the relationship between Poland and Ukraine is very weird right now

yeah it’s kinda gross to see how current oligarchs in Russia try to shamelessly appropriate Soviet legacy they helped destroy, fuck those guys

A great read, the point regarding lack of meaningful organization around common goals can’t be stressed enough. Liberal world view convinced majority of the people to view everything from an individualist perspective, and this is at odds with building actual political power.

yup

stay mad

What’s really wild is that two-thirds of Americans who file for bankruptcy cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall. The “richest” country in the world.

What’s even more wild is that many Americans are convinced that they have the best healthcare in the world.

I often wonder what I’d be doing if I wasn’t forced to choose a career that’s marketable. I’m good at what I do, but I don’t find it’s really my passion.

That’s a really good observation, China is much more willing to actually share their technology with the world.

lol

I got into nature photography a few years ago, and it’s been a really fun hobby. It gets me out of the house, and I’ve discovered a lot of local wild life that I didn’t know about. I post some pictures here.

touché

lol yeah

There would have been no invasions. The war was started in response to NATO expansion towards Russia, which itself included invasions such as Yugoslavia. This a well documented fact that you continue to ignore. Russia tried to resolve this problem peacefully for 8 years, and it was perfectly happy if Ukraine implemented Minsk which the west now tells was never meant to be implemented. Now thanks to the genius of western diplomacy, the west got itself into a proxy war with Russia that the west is currently losing.

Meanwhile, it’s pretty rich for you to moan about waves of more country invasions when it’s the west that’s been invading countries for decades. Learn a bit about what happened to Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, or Iraq and who invaded them. Of course, I understand that westerners don’t consider people who don’t have blond hair and blue eyes to be human, so I get why you wouldn’t care about those invasions.

All the west has accomplished so far is to ensure that countless thousands of people died, and that Ukraine has been devastated. Ukraine lost millions of people who fled the war, much of its industry has been destroyed, and its economy is in shambles. There is absolutely no evidence that Ukraine will be able to reverse the gains Russia has made, and western support is now starting to run dry because the west lacks the industrial base to keep this conflict going indefinitely.

If not for western interference, then the whole war could have been avoided. All Russia demanded before the war was that Ukraine stays neutral and honors the Minsk accords that it and its western sponsors agreed to. It is absolutely surreal that anybody can look at what happen to Ukraine over the past year and a half and claim that this was done for the good of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the sanctions have had little effect on Russia which was able to reorient its economy towards the east and are now they’re dealing with friendly countries that aren’t seeking to undermine them. Russia’s economy is actually projected by the IMF to have over 1% growth this year.

On the other hand, the sanctions have had a catastrophic effect on the European economy, and it’s not clear how Europe will be able to recover from that going forward.

It takes stunning amounts of historical illiteracy for people to believe that capitalism is a beneficial system for humanity. Most people who promote capitalism have absolutely no idea what the actual effects of this system are.

Absolutely, this is hoarded space that would be far better utilized as parks or community centres.

Nobody complained when Huawei was banned with zero proof of wrongdoing.

Basically it’s saying that Yoon it driving Korea towards war on the encouragement of Biden admin.

I mean capitalism has to be abolished regardless of how we tackle housing. :)

Completely agree, and it’s important to note that there are lots of quality of life benefits to well designed microdistricts where you can have parks, shops, entertainment venues, and so on, all within walking distance.

It will never cease to amaze me how much people in North America despise apartment living. Getting a house seems to be a life goal here.

I expect this is gonna be an interesting year

yup

basically if you want to do something privately then don’t use a computer

similar sort of thing from the sound of it

I’m just glad I practically never have to print anything these days, all printers are terrible in my experience. I find laser printers are the least worst though since the toner tends to last forever.

The main issue is that the approach is too naive. Organic tissue has blood vessels that bring nutrients and oxygen to the cells while removing waste. This is what allows tissue to grow in three dimensions. When you just have a bunch of cells in a vat, then cells in the middle of the mass have no way to get nutrients or dispose of waste. The other big problem is the lack of an immune system, so any contaminant can quickly grow in this substrate.

A better approach could be to try growing a more complex organic system that includes muscle tissue and maybe even organs such as heart and kidneys. I imagine this is a solvable problem, but it might not be the best approach.

A different approach I saw was to modify plants to produce meat like tissue. People have been playing around with this approach as seen here. That seems a lot more promising to me because growing plants is a lot easier than trying to culture cells in a vat.

It’s almost certain that all telecom companies do this.

We’d be told how this is definitive proof that Chinese system is a failure.

big if true

Turns out people don’t actually like having their countries invaded and getting massacred in their homes.

indeed

US sells weapons to countries with shared values.