@writerofscratch@ScriptingJapan wrt reflexive concerns of japanese becoming english, I recall reading once (maybe kindaichi's iwanami-shinsho 'nihongo'?) the simple observation that there was only one point in history where japanese was utterly changed by a foreign language: when it integrated chinese
@Aerych_@deuceohsixx it's a well established trend that firms prefer capital investment options even when labor is somewhat less expensive; the ultimately moderate wage difference is not a key determinant here driving the kiosk decision
@prem_thakker Factually we *are* a landmass teeming with viciousness. There may be a lot of people against this, but there are also a whole lot of people here who are either all for it or who nonetheless concede the premise that Iran is "bad" so they shrug it off.
@przidnt1 trying to figure out how to set the config.sys and autoexec.bat file right so I could have enough conventional memory to run sim city 2000 with sound all with no Internet and a shitty prepubescent brain
@JavierBlas@slavomir_YU This is the biggest reason why establishment liberals in the US can never forgive Trump; he just goes says the quiet part loud, over and over again
@matth0dge@arXmedes@zerohedge well obviously, since you take things at face-value when they twiddle your ideological dinky
you probably haven't developed object permanance yet
@matth0dge@arXmedes@zerohedge are you a child? they're a geopolitical rival of the US. we made a deal with them not because of a weapons threat; that's window dressing for low information idiots. We did it to fold them into a geopolitical frame would hopefully subjugate them to a broader US-led economic order
@matth0dge@arXmedes@zerohedge maybe you shouldn't take the framing of a routine contributor to the Times of Israel at face value wrt Iran's alleged ambitions for nuclear weapons
the assessment of *US intelligence* is that Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program and did not have such aspirations
@SocDoneLeft the No Kings protests are hyper-liberal, performative, and pose no threat to power, and function primarily as a funnel away from more meaningful action
some non-trivial percentage of the participants are open to more meaningful political action
that's not a contradiction my man
@ClayMich01@Normanjam67 the US first embargoed Cuba in order to coerse the new government away from an economic nationalist agenda and undermine it's economy and domestic political support
this led Cuba to persue right relations with the USSR and adopt similar political and economic structures