Turns out they only reap consequences

My biggest regret is my biggest regret. Duh.

West: China is evil and anyone that trades with them is morally bankrupt! We must rid ourselves of reliance on Chinese goods! Doesn’t matter of we’re screwing over our own citizens in the process, they should have put Western pride over their own livelihoods anyway!

China: Cool, we’ll even help you wean yourselves off by restricting exports.

West: That just proves our point of how evil they are! They’re depriving poor us of resources! How dare they!

Wouldn’t intelligence also be a material condition? How your brain is wired plays a significant role in how it interacts with the environment, so if humans evolved with a more intelligent brain it would significantly alter our trajectory from early civilisations, no? Would probably also kick off civilisations much earlier.

I mean sure, but that’s irrelevant to the discussion of intelligence and cognitive faculties.

A paralytic also can’t build anything, does it make Steven Hawking less intelligent than the average redneck?

AFAIK some scientists have argued that some porpoises (dolphins, orcas, etc) are more intelligent than us period. They’re just severely limited in what technology they can develop because of their bodies and where they live.

More specifically I think because it pushes back against the “communism was just like fascism” notion and Western countries can’t have that.

Both Spain and Ireland as far as I know are aggressively liberal/socdem and anticommunist.

Kombucha is pretty good.

panic! at the disco

If you’re a Rust developer

I don’t use make I use msbuild /s

Any of the classic Disney animated movies. First movie is a ripoff of classic fairy tales so most of the heavy lifting writing wise was done for them, the instant Disney has to write the whole thing is when it goes to shit. If it’s “Disney presents [insert fairy tale here] 2” you know it’ll suck.

China is one of the oldest civilisations and has so much history and culture to offer. You can be born and raised in China and still not have seen it all.

Those “rent a e-bike/scooter for your commute” apps. Doesn’t take that many rides to exceed the cost of getting your own. If you find yourself using those regularly just save up to buy an e-bike/scooter.

Neo implies the original version went out of fashion at some point.

Gonna assume it’s like the Mafia where you never truly “pay off” your debt even when the required amount of money is transferred.

Hey remember when they accuse Hamas of this? They’re a terrorist group by their own criteria.

If there’s one silver lining from this horrific situation it’s showing the world just how vulnerable petroleum infrastructure is. Not sure if the lesson will stick though, I suspect most people/companies/governments will get right back to putting all their eggs in the oil basket the instant this blows over.

After renewing it “one last time” though. Real junkie that will “go to rehab after I use one last time” energy.

Hate to tell you this, but there is definitely already an influx of Americans immigrating to Mexico. They needed that wall yesterday.

https://www.visaverge.com/news/mexicans-protest-gentrification-and-us-migration-in-mexico-city/

EU is truly backwards. Speak out against genocide? Sanctioned, bank account frozen, arrested. Lay waste to a country without provocation? Polite warning, it’s okay if you don’t heed us actually we’re sorry for bothering you in that case.