Orcocracy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Yeah a dam will wreck a valley. But a nuclear station can irradiate a whole region and coal ruins the planet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Every modern law of economics? marx

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Tidal, hydroelectric dams, and geothermal should all together be able to cover a pretty significant part of the Earth, shouldn't they?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Also when you go online not everyone is American. My domestic issue is your international issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, also the TikTok clones on YouTube and Instagram, and Musk's plan to make Twitter/X a WeChat clone. The Americans have been stealing tech from China for a long time now.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I’ve heard from multiple old dads who read books about war that Churchill knew about Pearl Harbour in advance and said nothing so that the Americans would enter the war. But I have no idea if that’s true or just silly old stories passed down from dad to dad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Halloween needs to conduct a defensive first strike on November to put an end to the continuing provocation of Christmas’ aggressive expansion across the calendar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

No, but back then some planes had payphones on the seat back where the touch screen entertainment systems are now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Seriously. They could have done the photoshoot in front of the Sun Yat-sen memorial or Taipei 101 or just, like, any other of the various notable photo-taking spots in Taipei. But no, they picked this one with all of its connotations. You have to assume it’s deliberate.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

That building the girl with the Ukrainian flag is walking towards is the Chiang Kai-shek memorial, a monument to Taiwan’s brutal Cold War era US-backed fascist dictator. There’s a huge statue of him sitting on a throne like the Lincoln memorial through the arch in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I remember thinking all of these terms were strange and creepy back when I first learnt them as a kid for goodness' sake. They've always been bad and I'm very glad they're finally going away.

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