Some people still don’t believe the veneer of democracy has fallen just because they themselves aren’t currently in the camps. It’s adorably naive, if unintentionally deadly.

I mean, he didn’t. Even Adams likes money more than trump and there’s no consequences for refusing to follow the presidents orders.

He explicitly supports Israel and has stated one of his goals is to make Ukraine a larger Israel.

That requires genocide, as all ethnostates do.

You’d have to distinguish drag from others using drag neopronouns for fun and or profit. Drag thinks this would be fun for a while, if only to prove drags point dragself.

Did they ever use dragself? I bet they did. We’ll never know now.

That’s effectively impossible as a part of the nature of the fediverse. You could try banning alts on site but it’s really not that hard to have a dozen alts waiting across host of instances.

The image says 16.7 for Taipei, not 6.7. neither my comment nor the image contains a 6.7.

Now you can argue all western and Eastern sources are undercounting nk and China, that’s why I didn’t even include nk given the natural mistrust of information from a country with less than 10k tourists a year; but any search of this info online shows the same trend: Chinese nationals dont commit suicide as often as their oppressed neighbors.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/CHN/china/suicide-rate 8.2

https://www.statista.com/statistics/860970/taiwan-suicide-mortality-rate/ 16

https://www.statista.com/topics/8622/suicide-in-south-korea/#topicOverview 27…

What was that again?

Except, you know, the secret service already let one shooter try.

You’re almost definitely thinking of xiaomi, which almost always sell as unlockable carrier independent models.

Eliminating the US economy is indeed a good thing for the rest of the world but it’s not that great of an action.

If you think that’s amazing there was this guy in the mid 1800s that was a penpal of president Lincoln that predicted the hell we currently live in.

Not a lie, neither the US or EU can compare, https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-renewable-energy

So clearly they’re not replacing the capacity with renewables. Or they’re actively reducing their total energy capacity. That’s also an explanation for those numbers.

But hey, anything to excuse the West deciding on lng for their power.

And yet they’re not replacing them with green energy. Seems like they’re not doing much at all.

Hey it’s the bi-quarterly "China is collapsing’ article from random western business media. They’ve been wrong a hundred quarters in a row but this time I’m sure they’re on to something.

It is more than literally every other country is doing, is my retort to that point. That and unlike western governments, they actually accomplish their goals.

Everyone could be doing more, China is doing the most. If the US especially didn’t spend the last century and a half ignoring climate change while most of the world was still pre industrial agricultural societies, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

And they’re easier to set up securely than either renewable or the nuclear plants they’ll likely later become.

Yes, it’d be great if they weren’t sanctioned every other week and threatened with war and could dedicate all of their resources to leap frogging dirty tech… But that’s not the world we live in, the world we live in has people that are rising in quality of life and expecting all the benefits. And they simply have more people than the US and Europe combined while only having the GDP of just the US.

It’s not ideal, they’ve admitted as such, but it’s a necessary step that all western nations took even when better options were on the table, it’s unfair to criticize China when they’re also producing more green energy than the rest of the world.

Except China operates and so far has executed multi year long plans that have been incredibly successful. On top of this they’re the reason green energy is cheap at all, given they’re the world’s producer.

And yet they own large farms that are tax free that they can earn money off of. The few low industrialized parts (currently representing less than 200 million) don’t have schools or massive infrastructure, but also have guarantees their way of life and making money is secure until they do have access to those things. And Xinjiang alone shows it’s not an empty promise; going from one of those regions you’re referring to, to a region that rivals Vietnam or Malaysia by itself.

Yeah, mao fucked up, like the US fucked up during its great famine, sorry dust bowl. And then no famine ever again.

To your second point, of course you can’t leave if you’re a criminal (every nation on earth has this policy) or in severe debt to the government (most nations have this policy), but you can leave under pretty much any other circumstances. I didn’t click your link but even you wouldn’t be spreading the conspiracy theory of secret global police that kidnap random yellow people for the cpc, right?

To your third point, coal plants and any other steam generators are easy to convert over to each other once built. A nuclear plant and a coal plant share 70% of their equipment. Building one lays the foundation for the other. If you need quick base load expansion, you can’t really beat coal or diesel, and continually expanding the quality of life for 1.4 billion people requires constant base load expansion… Even better if it can later be converted into near infinite power sources like nuclear.