It’s making an image of someone that portrays them in an unrealistic and offensive context.

Yeah, but only one of degree.

Upvote because that sounds about right. I don’t think we actually disagree.

You do know Hamas (and most other similar organisations) claims the Holocaust never happened, right? They’re not above spreading lies they find convenient. As often happens in geopolitics, everyone sucks.

I don’t know, maybe you think Palestine has had such a rough time they’re justified, and they have had a very rough time, but it’s still lies.

I mean, that’s a kind of stereotypical view of China’s history. There absolutely was just as much dysfunction and disunity over there as in Europe. Feudal societies gonna feudal.

If you read the article, it’s has more to do with Chinese people not understanding US politics for obvious reasons, and the Chinese government being somewhat okay with errors that make the US look bad.

I am beyond tired of this thoughtless take. “You can’t murder me, that’s illegal!” “You can’t harass me for being homosexual, that’s illegal!” “You can’t slam me into the ground and arrest me for nothing, that’s illegal!” Just. Fucking. Watch them. It was illegal the first time they did it too.

My #1 issue with the Democrats. I’m not sure how they talk about unprecedented times so much without actually acting on it.

It’s a bit oversimplified, actually. Sound bounces off of discontinuities in the medium, which is why foam works. You just have to control the scattering somehow.

The big problem with using oobleck or whatever is it responds to shear, and shear can’t travel through air. You could use it for earthquake protection, though, or if you could channel compressive waves from the air into shear form using a fancy bridge like in OP.

Also, shear-thinning fluid is a thing too.

Probably bad. There’s no reports I’ve heard the guy isn’t good at his job. It seems to be a political decision, maybe partly motivated by unrealistic ideas Zelensky has about where the conflict is now, which he’s publicly contradicted.

Let’s be real, both sides do. One just does it in English.

Yep, that will fix the underlying weakness! /s

This and things like banning short sells are bad news on two fronts, in that they both reveal a problem and will be ineffective at solving it.

I’m guessing nobody checks anything at this point. They hear a rumour, they bomb it. And, of course, there’s going to be a small but significant number of people on the Israeli side fabricating rumours whole-cloth.

It’s a relative thing. Right now, what war there is is mostly within the internationally recognised borders, as opposed to across them. If shit really pops off we could see, like, Dubai being leveled by Iranian rockets and most of the survivors dying of thirst with no desalination plants.

Also, since we’re doing nitpicks, the Middle east wasn’t necessarily more warlike than every other civilisational region. It’s just that China or the Himalayas aren’t in the Bible, so Anglos don’t think about them as much.

Nah, it’s the Middle East. “America” is reason enough to be embarrassed about it.

At this point, it feels more likely than not the Middle East is going to explode.

Thanks, subbed.

Crops in western America might fail, but the whole world isn’t America. Yields move, and 2023-2024 was a record harvest globally.

Don’t take my word for it, there’s an actual scientist elsewhere in the thread.

Humans are fucking stupid.

Well, we can agree on that. The human reaction to “the world is ending” is usually giving up. Which is why we shouldn’t say that unless the science supports that, which it doesn’t quite.

Exactly. Those are puppets. Nobody’s expecting the puppeteer to fight the puppets.

The problem is, once the country is out of the EU’s protection, daddy Russia will be happy to raise him an alcoholic, racist scumbag.

Oh no, Hungary could do so much damage on their own! /s

And honestly, it’s a question how long Putinism is even going to survive. If the West can keep it’s shit together the answer is not very long.

The OG white Middle Eastern country.

It’s not environment-killing either, at least as far as growing wheat and tomatoes is concerned. Environment-damaging, sure, but we could potentially starve a lot of people and keep going (though we shouldn’t!), and it’s not even clear agricultural output will go down rather than just relocating.

Don’t get me wrong, I like having wild animals besides rats and flies, and I don’t love the idea of a giant global mass-migration crisis as Bangladesh sinks into the sea and we fight over farmland in what used to be an icecap, so I still think we need to crack down on fossil fuels a lot harder. We’re pretty adaptable, though, and some sad little human world will exist on the other side if that’s all.