@Ross__Hendricks look at a fact, there was a president with dementia, which was for about two years a conspiracy theory. thats the level we are at. add to that, that we fight wars in name of democrcy. it's mocking the electorat. hard to imagine a bigger insult than that. so, yes, anything goes.
@EvaVlaar@goddek One frequently overlooked item: crime correlates with wealth. Wealth correlates with education. Well, to lift people out of poverty and darkness might be a good idea. Maybe ai will be able to help. Universal respect. Curious on social science on that correlations and causations.
"Historically, direct warfare between China and Japan was actually quite rare before the late 19th century. Because they are separated by the East China Sea, their early conflicts were almost entirely proxy wars fought on the Korean peninsula." (AI prompted on history). Korean proxy wars also were rare.
@RnaudBertrand@nuanced_nl Aweking Richard is one choice to see what - some - chinese think. He takes chines content and translates and comments it for his audience
I found the section about China and it's neighbour's inaccurate. Over the last 2000 thousands years things have been comperarively peaceful and wars infrequent. Arrival of Europeans and Americans stirred things up. Whether that will continue or the countries will go back to their previous a war each about 400 years only is not clear to me. I hope the latter (China Korea and China Japan)
@RnaudBertrand I read a few books on Taiwan and in the first couple of decades or so, objectively the kmt treated the population worse than the Japanese did. That including a massacre and degraded industry, smaller share of participating in wealth creation for local elites.
@jojjeols@grok, please provide economic data for Taiwan vs china mainland. GDP per capita ppp. Gini coefficient. and respective trends, how are things evolving?
@tlarson95425@AngelicaOung@kajakallas@Natsecjeff I guess they actually destabilize the middle east since 5000years plus... "Determining the age of Iran depends on how you define a "nation." Because Iran is one of the world's few "civilization-states," its age can range from 45 years to over 5,000 years."
The Lancet recently published a study which found that sanctions from the US have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.
Even in the west you can't criticize. You can if you are a nobody. If you are someone, you'll be canceled. Plus some of the things are really crimes. You to some extent may criticize, when the real consequence of these things should be prison. 'we don't enforce law, but hey, you can criticize'. Devious setup and poor karma.
And just on the day of this post I used Google maps in California, a rural ware. Choose on a 1hr trip the 3 min loger route assuming it will be more scenic. Welll... Ended up in closed dirt roads and lost an hour. @googlemaps team, I am sure I am not the only one, dm me. My thought on this is, when competition works, you end up with better products. The next experience was android car in a Mercedes (very bad, and the native one you can't find or maybe can't use without register an account.. Well, it's a rental car and you are busy driving...) There is only Google maps and apple for the apple system. It's quasi monopolies. Competition somebow does not work.