Username checks out.

Amazing, Trump was right, they were trading in salt rocks.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sP5ElraFHHE (25s)

From where could they get oil and food if there is a naval blockade?

Our entire system needs to be torn the fuck down and be replaced with something entirely free. I don’t even give a fuck about people abusing the system at this point.

Make a lemmy community and make people subscribe who want change.

Make a lemmy community and make people subscribe who want change.

For China, there exists a bigger risk than losing business. The USA could do a naval blockade. China cannot survive that without Russia. They won’t sacrifice their security for short term profits.

I don’t really disagree with you. To me the Polynesian backstory highlights that it is all just politics.

If you like to argue the history of history then there most likely are no records of Polynesians in Taiwan but there could have been.

from migrations out of Taiwan between 3000 and 1000 BC

The oldest attested Chinese writing comprises a body of inscriptions produced during the Late Shang period (c. 1250 – 1050 BCE), with the very earliest examples from the reign of Wu Ding dated between 1250 and 1200 BCE.[

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters

Taiwan is historically Polynesian.

Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean. They trace their early prehistoric origins to Island Southeast Asia and are part of the larger Austronesian ethnolinguistic group, with an Urheimat in Taiwan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesians

Taiwan is not only staging ground but also prevents Chinese access to the Pacific during times of war. It’s the only place for a deep water submarine base for China.

Lol, and you don’t see a way for China to fix this?

There was an older alternative with PS and Tcl from Sun. I don’t know if I would like that more.

From where have you downloaded the script? Was it trustworthy?

China doesn’t need exports for their economy. The Chinese citizens can perfectly consume everything on their own. Countries only have to export to finance imports. In China’s case, it would be enough to export to the countries that deliver the raw materials.

China will be friends with all those countries because Colonialism will make those countries prefer China over Europe. China is even pushing the Monroe Doctrine and becoming friends with countries in South America.

It’s not China that needs friends but Europe. For some reason, we are ignoring Bismark again and are on our way to isolate us in preparation for the next global war. This time not only Germany, but all of Europe.

This sounds impressive without anything that is existential for China. All commodities can be replaced if China pays a small premium for nonwestern sources while the rest of the world buys from western sources.

Airplane parts are inconvenient but China is starting to build their own aircrafts. If sanctions start, they will be able to create knockoffs for all necessary spare parts. But they also have a highspeed rail network, so they won’t be worried too much.

At this point in development, pressuring China will only accellerate the full independence of China. It would be Huawei on a national scale.

The dangerous part is that many former colonies won’t side with their former masters if they get the opportunity to break free.

How would you want to pressure China? China is exporting nuclear power plants to Britain and electric cars to the EU. They are an advanced country that does not need western technologies. Unless you do a naval blockade, China doesn’t need us but we need China.

Is that supoosed to be a good thing or a bad thing ?

I don’t judge. I just care about the mechanisms.

No, they’re just narrowly constrained as to what they can do

It’s turtles all the way down. At some point, somebody makes a decision against public transport.

A good follow on Mastodon who’s an actual traffic expert

Thanks for the link. Frustrating content but good.

You can support their decision making by evicting them once they are out of money. There is no need for social security money once people have other options.

It’s the other way round. Individualism prevents communism. People drive cars to prevent them from voting for those parties.

Downvoters, do you think all that bad urban planning is incompetence of the specialists while every comment section is filled with geniuses who for some reason are enlightened about public transport but never in the position of power to bring it to life?

reduce public bureaucracy,

If you know German, here is an article about reducing bureaucracy by the public prosecutor of the CumEx fraud.

https://feddit.org/post/13098300

Ukraine shut down 266 drones and 45 missiles.

That leaves 24 missile and 32 drone hits.

Even if they target infrastructure, 12 seems to be a very low number of casualities.

I would say that either Russia can’t aim or Ukraine is understating their defence capabilities.

It’s full of mold. Putin won’t be there.