changethis

Physician based in the US. Mostly lurk and occasionally shitpost about econ/🌐politics

[changethis @xcanceluser]

@PAstynome This game was a favorite of mine growing up. I played the SNES version with the fan translation. Ran like a charm on emulators.

The entire series (Ogre Battle March of the Black Queen, OB64, TO:KoL) was goated.

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@PAstynome The boomer class that runs this country has never forgiven Iran for the humiliation it suffered in 1979

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@PAstynome @LFriszt Iran is the only country in the region that has the organization and state capacity to threaten Israel. All of Israel's neighbors are failed states or failing states

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@Noahpinion Nvidia stock must go up.

Capitalism beats nationalism every time

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@shaunrein According to the original FT article that broke the news, he had cancer. Absolutely dishonest framing of the title by the FT. Their journalists ought to know better.

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@Zaira583642 Enough said

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@DivaJain2 According to your own article: "Gao had told his friends and colleagues that he discovered he had cancer in January 2025." This is absolutely dishonest framing by the FT.

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@Noahpinion In other words, only high value industries should remain in Europe and the rich parts of East Asia, and Chinese should just be content with making cheap toys and clothing.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

The liberal international order: free trade for all — until the wrong countries win.

[changethis @xcanceluser]

@npunwani I think you should stick to your lane and comment on optimizing transplant regimens for hematolymphoid neoplasms rather than making overly reductive statements on political economic systems

[Phryne Astynome @PAstynome]

From what I can tell, these seem to be the focal points of the nationalists on Twitter:

China: Tech/Supply Chains
Russia: Their weapons/military performance
Turkey: Their weapons
LatAm/MENA: Who is whiter?
India: Caste/Steppe heritage

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@Noahpinion Unlike most countries, the US is an ideological country that was founded on a founding set of principles. Don't be surprised that people stop supporting the country when the country departs from those principles.

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I must have missed the part where Chinese warships showed up at Kiel and Rostock to force Germany to completely dismantle its nuclear energy industry, to become completely addicted to Russian gas which they themselves put sanctions on, and never invest anything into new technologies.

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I missed the part where Chinese warships showed up at Kiel and Rostock to force Germany to completely dismantle its nuclear energy industry, to become completely addicted to Russian gas which they themselves put sanctions on, and never invest anything into new technologies.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

China is forcibly deindustrializing Germany (and all of Europe)

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@Noahpinion How does one "forcibly" deindustrialize a country Noah? I swear you becoming more midwit as you age

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@qquinnsworth Imperial Chinese state capacity has always been handwaved away by Westerners as "oriental despotism." Never mind that when similar political consolidation/centralization occurred in Europe in 17th-19th centuries it was termed as "enlightened absolutism"

[changethis @xcanceluser]

I was referring to 华人 in general, not just Taiwanese, basically this includes those in China, Taiwan, and in the greater diaspora that resides in Southeast Asia.

There are different groups that belong in the one-China camp, from those who believe in a Han supremacist racial ideology to those who view China predominantly in a cultural/civilizational sense and not on an explicit racial one. The former group would be opposed to immigration. The latter group would not be opposed to mass immigration provided the end cultural product still becomes Chinese.

The latter group also stands in contrast to most other forms of East Asian nationalism (ie Korean and Japanese), because the other nationalisms all define their country's identity on an explicit/implicit ethnonationalist lens, due to the homogeneity of those countries.

[Louis-Vincent Gave @gave_vincent]

@JacobShap The further you live from Taipei, the more you worry about a Taiwan invasion. An invasion seems to be much more of a concern in Dallas, Paris or Cape Town than in Taiwan… anyone who lives there (or in Xiamen across the straights) shrugs their shoulder…

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@prbm9 @ChefMiew @PAstynome I would argue India is more westernized than Japan, in terms of societal values and institutions, and yet it is not nearly as accepted as Japan. Nor is Latin America.