Well, it’s emblematic of their bitchy stance over shit that doesn’t belong to them generally. If they ever did change their mind about Taiwan, it is likely that they would be changing their mind about the other squabbles too, like the Chinese-Indian border.

Well, it registers on Google’s pain sensors, but it’s still just a bee sting. That should have been 50 billion.

Wow. I gotta say, even though I’d rather be a Murcan living in Murca than a Chinese person living in China, China is certainly looking much more competent, responsible, and friendly to the whole rest of the world right now.

Except Taiwan. If China could stop being such a bitch about Taiwan, maybe we could be friends.

Israel, the US, and Russia oppose his appointment? What a ringing endorsement!

Also, the Chinese people are pretty racist, and not so ashamed of it.

Look, with Taiwan, there are a lot of hypotheticals about invasion, but that isn’t even necessary to prove that China are total dicks over Taiwan, and would like nothing better than to steal the island. Just look at how China treats Taiwan in international relations, and how China forces others to do the same. Taiwan can’t even compete in the olympics as Taiwan. They have to call themselves Chinese Taipei, or else China will throw a hissy fit and refuse to compete in the same olympics. In China’s ideal universe, they steal Taiwan. You are not going to weasel out of this one.

On the other hand, thanks, activitypub, for reminding me why I left Canada for Finland.

The staff suffers the most from the default tip. It puts them permanently on edge, and makes their job needlessly stressful. It is much better for the staff not to have to think about money at all while trying to do their job. In countries without the default tip, staff salaries are commensurately higher.

NOOOOOO!!

This is the dumbest shit. Like the guardian article says, you don’t need to enrich uranium to make nuclear power. Canada has been doing it for decades using the CANDU system.

There are exactly two reasons to enrich uranium:

0. providing starting material for the more efficient U-238 -> Pu reactors, which burn 100% of the uranium instead of less than 1%, or thorium reactors. Both of these require much more pure fuel, just to get going. Probably not this one, because this requires very sophisticated technology that pretty much only France has ever managed to do at scale with Superphénix.

1. bombs

Obviously.

There is this: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/united24-media-bias-and-credibility/

So, probably funded by the Ukrainian government, we don’t really know, because the funding is opaque, but in practice, seems like they don’t overtly lie about anything. Pro-Ukrainian bias, so unlikely to be the bearer of bad news, like Russian advances or victories. In other words, Ukraine probably did hit 105 shadow fleet vessels in 8 days, or at least something like that.

What is this source, united24media.com? It has no wikipedia page. This is triggering bullshit detectors.

Here is your fortnightly reminder that any country that had switched to renewables, like the scientists told them to, wouldn’t have to care about any of this right now.

I was really wondering about that. At the time, I was saying to myself, “This is not the endorsement you think it is, Orban.”, lol.

Don’t edit the title, dipshit.

Any nation that didn’t use fossil fuels anymore wouldn’t have to care anymore.

Didn’t the Supreme Court just say that was illegal?

Hm. Thanks, Iran?!

I see nothing wrong. Just like a panel on AIDS aims to get rid of AIDS, the Board of Peace aims to get rid of peace.