yeah, I’m pretty sure that as a westerner you have zero agency over either government in practice

If I have to choose which government I’m going to share my secrets with it’s going to be the one that doesn’t have agency over me.

The only good Russia is one that’s Balakanized and exploited by western oligarchs.

There’s some truth to that, but realistically speaking I think the window of opportunity on that has closed now. The US has lost every one of their own war games against China in South China Sea. So, if China decided to take military action there’s little the US can do short of starting a nuclear war.

TSMC doesn’t care about preserving anything. The chips being made in Taiwan is their ace card in getting western support. If they ever started making cutting edge fabs elsewhere then their importance to the west would fizzle.

unfortunately looks that way

yeah sadly

lol right

Every society is three hot meals away from chaos.

I very much agree. The key part at this moment in time is to craft an appealing narrative that’s at least as palatable as what the right is peddling. What’s happening is that people in the mainstream are increasingly becoming disillusioned with the system, and they’re starting to become open to new ideas as a result. They’re going to start shopping around and settle on a narrative that makes sense to them as an explanation of what’s going on and what needs to be done to make their lives better.

The right has been doing a really good job convincing people of their narrative because a lot of it builds on the existing tropes, small government, more personal freedoms, etc.

The really challenging part for the left at this time is to come up with a narrative that’s easy to digest, that inspires people, and gives them a long term vision for the future. It has to be a long term vision, something people feel that’s worth fighting for, even if there’s no quick reward on the table.

Black Heart from Nine Treasures for expanding horizons :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TRPCPoVhw&list=OLAK5uy_ki7KfC9keEcJRL5bnPdpa_M_aedfAXFSE

the best thing about memes is that anybody can take it and remix it to make it better :)

A reminder that wordle started life as a free, vanilla javascript website with no DRM and not owned by the NYT, you can download and run it as a single self contained HTML file from there https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/local_wordle

Yup, we tend to take our world for granted, but there’s so much to see even in things that normally seem mundane. Learning to stop and appreciate things has been a really eye opening experience for me as well.

I’m sorry to inform you, but Burgerland is not technologically advanced enough to tally the results in a day.

haha nice work, that is an improvement :)

haha can’t believe I forgot that gem

Any problem that’s not repeatable is incredibly frustrating, and you’re rarely sure if you’ve truly fixed it in the end.

oh haha oops

one’s not sure why and the other is don’t know