HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
14hr ago
They don't make it easy, that's for sure. On top of that, if you have a lot to grab, it's better to use a bulk downloader/scraper program.
HalloweenSnarry
17hr ago
Louis Vuitton does not have any military value.
In mild fairness, there are like a few luxury brands that have had crossover with military procurement in WWII (e.g. Hugo Boss), though some did deal in metallic products to begin with (Rolls-Royce).
HalloweenSnarry
17hr ago
Their job is no more 'fake' than an independent cobbler or carpenter just because the good they sell isn't durable
Hell, if you know how to wrangle certain command-line apps, you can also grab stuff from OF and the like and save it to your hard drive, greatly increasing the durability of said goods.
HalloweenSnarry
18hr ago
Either pure "never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake," or "absorbed too much leftist radiation about economics." Or a bit of both. There was this tweet, for example.
HalloweenSnarry
1d ago
Presumably, GBRK is imagining something along the lines of straight-up unlicensed serious productions based on Western IP. Imagine a Chinese Batman that is functionally identical to the actual thing, but they just didn't pay Warner Bros. for any rights.
This source I found on China's options for retaliation only mentions banning the import of Hollywood films. Now, that will create a gap in their market, but they likely do have enough of their own industry to fill the void and won't need to resort to industrial-scale infringement to get their fix.
HalloweenSnarry
2d ago
but I swear to god if I see one more twitter account with a greek statue profile picture complaining about how degenerate the modern world is, with its homos and pedophiles, I'm going to have an aneurysm.
Worth remembering that some or all of those kinds of posters are secretly women (allegedly).
HalloweenSnarry
2d ago
Requiring French, in this instance, presumably disallows English; ergo, this is a speech restriction.
HalloweenSnarry
3d ago
Huh, where was this?
HalloweenSnarry
3d ago
Hell, I think a small genre of argument here on The Motte is "intelligence is no guard against foolishness; in fact, it only lets you rationalize your idiocy better."
HalloweenSnarry
3d ago
Iran is not a very feminist place but it does the same thing with pushing more education than really needed.
At least in Iran's case, they have the excuses of "semi-isolated nation that has been building a nuclear program for decades" and "ran by an Islamic theocracy, which requires rigorous study of religious text."
That being said, I agree that it's...weird how much societies around the world have commoditized(?) education.
HalloweenSnarry
3d ago
Laptop cart? Is this literally just a cart with laptops piled onto it, and the teacher goes and hands them out to the students at the start of class?
HalloweenSnarry
4d ago
That's probably the truth of it, yeah.
HalloweenSnarry
4d ago
What is this in reference to?
HalloweenSnarry
4d ago
Russia has put in tons of work to bypass the sanctions and has constantly made it a major goal of theirs to get them lowered. If ending trade was so useful then we would expect countries to embrace the sanctions on them, a "Haha all you're doing is bolstering our local economy idiots" response, instead of trying to circumvent those restrictions.
If the pro-Russian posters here and the vatniks are to be believed, Russia's economy has in fact been pretty strengthened post-2022. I don't believe them, personally, but that is a claim that is often made.
HalloweenSnarry
4d ago
Hey, Self-Made Human would probably talk about the modal Indian child being raised in less-than-acceptably-hygenic conditions.
HalloweenSnarry
5d ago
I can acknowledge that, yes, obviously, it still really beats slavery, but I can see that it still seems unfair and quite uneven.
HalloweenSnarry
5d ago
The other parent presumably believes that going without butter will force the first parent to work towards actualizing responsibility instead of whinging when told to do what they need to do.
Do I think this is realistic or practical? Not really, but that is the framing you are fighting.
HalloweenSnarry
5d ago
I do like the odd RPG here and there, and I would like to play more, but I do find it hard to stick with some of those kinds of games for some reason. I must have like a half-dozen RPGs that I've picked up and never finished. I promise I love world-building and characters! I just don't consume every game that focuses on that, I guess.
I do like action games, but out of the ones you've listed, I've only really played Doom and Halo. My tastes tend towards more of the older generations of games of that ilk.
I think you're thinking of Generals for that voice line, but yeah.
HalloweenSnarry
5d ago
I think there is a sort of religious-revival component to Trump 2. Now, that sounds lazy and snide, I admit, but I don't mean for that to be the case. I've stated before that the new direction from the administration, the current motivation, seems to be from the values-aesthetics angle. The package offered by MAGA does indeed seem to be "America has grown soft and complacent, we must make it great again by reaffirming our values and rejecting the soft-power view of American greatness."
HalloweenSnarry
5d ago
Destroying the prosperity rather than reinforcing those values is madness.
The dissidents already believe that half of the political spectrum has effectively forbade the American public from ever reinforcing those values, what is your solution to that?
HalloweenSnarry
5d ago
If they can not support a semiconductor production chain, they shall not have computers.
We have already produced and imported so many electronics, there is most likely a decent amount of perfectly-good computing power that is just rotting away in landfills right now. If we lost the ability to make more microchips, it would certainly suck, but also, we're probably already drowning in chips that are powerful enough to run Half-Life 2. Your smartphone is powerful enough to run at least 50 copies of Microsoft Excel. It won't be the end of the world.
HalloweenSnarry
5d ago
After democrats have restricted demand and subsidized supply right into the toilet
Did you mean this the other way around?
The issue is if conflict leads to piracy or a global world war, particularly if some actors decide to egg it on to stick it to the West (e.g. Iran, Russia).
Whatever happened with those Somali pirates, incidentally?
EDIT: I think another way to think about the challenge with globalization is that the term "globalization" implies a sense of motivated cooperation, the world literally coming together as one. Maybe I'm just speaking from the 90's liberalism worldview I knew as a child, but I imagine that that is what was always intended with globalization. The reality seems to be that the various world powers will only cooperate as far as they absolutely have to, and past that point, we are back to conflict.
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