it’s their own damn fault.

I disagree, I think you’re looking at it with a Western perspective. Just like with Russia, they’ve never experienced democracy and have been indoctrinated to think that their way of doing things is better. It’s a really big ask for enough Chinese people to risk everything to overthrow their authoritarian regime and, even if they were to do so, there’s no guarantee that whatever would come next would be an improvement.

So they’re promising ARM-beating battery life while just beginning to incorporate the kind of custom silicon that Apple has been integrating for years now?

I’ll believe it when I see it.

The importance of pundits has been diminishing for years now for several reasons:

The world is increasingly complex and opaque. If someone claims to know what’s really going on, don’t believe them.

A pundit’s main talent these days is to be comfortable in front of a camera, and to be able to pontificate at length. This is only loosely connected with any actual expertise or experience they may have.

A successful pundit needs to be aware of the hosting organization’s biases. If they go on a mainstream cable network with an anti-corporate message they will be swiftly shitcanned.

News orgs have been slashing budgets for overseas, on the ground reporting so we get pundits who have access to the same information as everyone else.

I guess the story of the boy who cried wolf was never translated into Russian.

I got you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b7Kp2uBUZg

Yay! I finally made it, I’m calling my mom.

This company - employee owned, right?

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It’ll replace brain dead CEOs before it replaces programmers.

Nuclear doesn’t work that way, it’s not really compatible with renewables because it’s generating as close to 24/7 as possible. You can’t ramp it up and down to accommodate the variable output from renewables because it’s slow to react when compared to battery, pumped hydro, or NG beaker plants and because a nuclear plant is so expensive that having it not generating 24/7 means it’s not making the money it needs to be worth the initial investment.

Guess where plenty of those “settlers” come from?

Russians wouldn’t know what to do with democracy if you gave it to them, there are plenty of older Russians who would be happy to go back to the way things were before 1991.

There’s no trust in leadership, corruption is rife, the people know they’re being lied to, they’re used to it and expect it.

I’d GTFO as soon as humanly possible before I’d try and fix things and just end up making it worse.

Blundstone boots, they look great and last forever.

Literally no one besides Biden would support Israel this hard and this unconditionally

Oh come on.

He helped out with Withnail & I too.

These places have been gouging for a long time. You have a right to your prescription, demand it and order from Zenni or similar and save yourself some money.

Oh, is he stealing land, building illegal settlements and oppressing the people living in the West Bank?

OK. Now do the West Bank.

Now the IPO is done Reddit has to continually feed the investors at the expense of the quality of the thing that’s supposed to make money to feed the investors.

This is gonna be fun.

Do I need to ELI5 for you?

Yes please. Spell it out, why would I be a witness and why would an incomplete recollection of me being seven years old, several decades ago result in me being called to testify?

You aren’t making sense.