I have above average knowledge in a lot of areas due to browsing Wikipedia a lot.

I know more pure maths than most people in the world so there’s that too.

You seem to be in a weird state where every hostile act that both China and the US carry out is a reason to stop doing business with the US but not with China - unless you want to reassess the starting point where you said the Netherlands needs to leave itself open to pressure from China in this instance, every though that won’t cause dependence on the US, only a shift in balance.

Even with the hostile trump regime, China is still more hostile towards EU states than the US is.

New cold war

Litmus test: who bears responsibility for the war in Ukraine?

I dunno about that, but I do know Reeses cups taste bad. Too much sweet and salty.

Europeans don’t eat peanuts? Or chocolate?

1. Identify a problem. (User wants do something and can’t, something that is supposed to work doesn’t, someone wrote shit code that works and we want to fix it)
2. Get more info about it: ask users for more context, find out about their workarounds, assess the impact of the bug, find solutions to similar problems. Get together with others and hash out some design.
3. Do the coding. Often involves a bunch of reading documentation and trial running code to see if it works
4. Come up with a way to confirm the change does what it’s supposed to: write a new automatic test, or a procedure a person can follow to verify it works
5. Write a description of the change and test plan
6. Get someone else to check what I’ve done and make any changes they ask for (as long as I agree)

They exist; do you mean you want other people to choose them instead of SUVs? Me too.

Do you think they will completely stop doing business with someone that steals* their shit

*as much as this can be called theft, something which took place in specific non-arbitrary circumstances, rather than the Dutch government just thinking “I quite fancy that”

The UK undertook a similar action earlier this year when British Steel was threatened with going defunct by its Chinese owners. Business between the UK and China did not collapse as a result.

By realistic: China is continually carrying out low-level hostile actions against other nations - cyberattacks, IP theft, currency manipulation, and also this kind of attempt at industrial subordination. It’s realpolitik, which means that if it gets detected and a credible negative response, their reaction won’t be to cut off all trade; it will be to stop doing deals which they only wanted to do as a way of carrying out this kind of manipulation. If it were to cut off all trade, what you’re saying is that Western countries should roll over and accept abusive practices by China so as to avoid being dependent on the abusive USA. It makes no sense.

If you think that China is not actually doing anything that even deserves a response, then feel free to say so, of course.

No idea, but having read the Bible is not a requirement to be a Christian either, and whether it’s horrendous and insane is certainly neither here nor there.

One of mine learnt in postwar Britain but surpassed such stereotypes. The other did too but then lived in India for a long time and so made great curries.

The tried-and-true method is to get recommendations from people you trust. Or even algorithms you trust.

“The 100 best movies” will be mostly generic with a small amount of rage-bait. If that’s boring to you, then find some less generic resources. https://www.allmovie.com/advanced-search can be useful for films. You can throw some pretty weird search criteria at it and find more off-the-wall stuff.

Starting from something you know you like and looking at the “other people liked…” section is never going to be 100% reliable but better than nothing.

Worse than anything is scrolling through Netflix. They purposefully make their descriptions beyond garbage-tier. Presumably they think that means people will just pick whatever slop is put in front of them and then… turn it off again? I dunno, maybe they want to be able to aggressively cut that new show after two seasons without biasing people’s expectations with a useful description. This is now just a rant about how useless Netflix is.

THIS IS MY ROOM! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!

AND ME!

ME TOO!

Many of their songs are in Icelandic actually, and a couple in English.

Pff nothing can increase sleep inertia in me because it’s already at a maximum

This is what I do, but it’s not about this. The stuff exits the other side because pressure on the top and bottom from biting into it squeezes the contents. It can’t go into your mouth because your teeth are in the way.

Exacerbated when the burger contains slippery stuff e.g. lots of mayo and tomato.

Cool, that’s not what a Christian is. But that’s ok! You learnt something today!

What is causing “complete dependence on the US” here? Taking over one single Chinese company doesn’t do that.

And chipmaking is dominated by the US, China and Taiwan (which is not immune to influence from the other two parties, lol) so how exactly can one avoid dependency on or the other, except by balancing dependency between the two?

If you really think this means “complete dependence” then explain how.

Sure but it’s arrogant to claim that all of these thinkers from ages past were actually doing that. I don’t agree with any of them because I’m not religious but they had serious reasons for the views they held, and there were serious disagreements on matters of religion that caused serious debates with serious arguments put forward.

any counter-arguments that clearly show a contradiction and make “the christian faith is true” impossible to be a true statement

We’re talking about the content of the Bible and its interpretation, not “counter-arguments that clearly show a contradiction.” (And: modern religions are far to flexible to be subject to “clear contradictions”. I’m sure you’ve heard the responses from religious people to your criticisms already - you find those response unsatisfactory, as do I, but they expose a way in which you misunderstood the fundamental character of the religion you were criticising. I can expand if necessary)

So when it comes to scripture like “I didn’t come to change the law” and so on, there are any number of ways of interpreting the language non-literally in a way consistent with modern Christian practice. I’m not going to play devil’s (God’s?) advocate with you but dismissing such things completely and out of hand is ignorant. People with better understanding of Biblical languages than you or I have studied more of the Bible than you or I have and have had long-running arguments it. If you don’t believe the fundamental principles then… just let them have it? Dispute them when they come up against obvious moral or scientific principles, or on their other statements, but claiming with zero argumentation that they don’t do any real thinking is silly.

It’s the 4th largest country of origin for 4chan from what I can find. It doesn’t sound like you’re actually responding to what I said is being missed. Guess you don’t want to.

It is far from clear that dependency on the us is worse than dependency on China. A couple of years ago even suggesting it would be lunacy - it’s only even remotely credible just now.

I remember farming Halloween masks in TF2. My inventory’s still full of them, and I can hear the spooky noise the server played when they dropped.

I don’t care for Halloween though. In contrast, even though I hate LoL, I love Christmas, and I remember the Christmas music and the silly Christmas modes very fondly.