Tankiedesantski

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but friendly fire is always on.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

"gamer" colleges

Imagining the Harvard emblem but instead of "Veritas" it spells out the Gamer slur.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago

If porky owns all the houses he can raise rent to much higher than "market" rates due to having a monopoly on an inelastic good.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago

"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Hahaha I get it. It's funny because the people you don't like are implied to be women.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

That’s all it would take to get me on their side, and I doubt I’m the only westerner!

Why the fuck do we need or want you on our side?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Crows are self-aware just like humans

"Oh no, is my plumage too dark? Were the other crows laughing with me or at me? Is my crowing too high pitched? Was that raven offended when I mistook him for a crow?"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Love MarKKK SSeddon's implication that Kenya should just not have hospitals.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

In theory if the plaintiff's case is really stupid and meritless, you can ask the court for costs from the plaintiff, or even get them labelled as a vexatious litigant and forbidden from suing you again for the same complaint.

Usually plaintiffs are supposed to be dissuaded from pulling meritless stunts by court fees.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Fighting game loading screen energy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

In theory I agree with you but in practice I think many Western leftists need to develop some humility and willingness to engage as equals rather than talking down to non-Westerners.

 

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heartbreaking

When Communists hold power, too often we still let libs get away with their petty obstructions and wrecking.

 
 

Let's fucking GOOOOO! Unlimited findings of Genocide against WeSSt Germany.

The global south has listened and doubted for decades to the West claiming that international institutions served all equally. Now even they are forcing these institutions to back their empty words with action or be revealed as hypocrites.

 

Or am I just seeing things?

 

Saw this while scrolling Taobao. Don't want to come off like a shill so won't post the link here, but it was too good not to share.

 

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What's the US gonna do? Slink away in the middle of the night again?

 
 

The article is still biased as hell and couched in the usual "China had" scare language, but here's a few good quotes.

China’s carbon emissions have either peaked already or will do this winter, seven years ahead of schedule. They may plateau for a year or two but will then go into exponential decline for mechanical and unstoppable reasons.

The country’s target of net zero by 2060 is likely to be achieved a decade earlier than previously assumed, and perhaps earlier than in Europe.

Lauri Myllyvirta, co-founder of the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, says China has reached a structural tipping point where the roll-out of renewables is outpacing the rise in electricity demand.

“A drop in power-sector emissions in 2024 is essentially locked in. We’re likely to see a fall in total CO2 emitted in the first half of next year,” he said.

At the risk of overtaxing the reader’s appetite for figures, it is worth spelling out the enormity of what China is doing. The China Electricity Council says the country will add 210 GW of solar this year, twice the entire solar capacity installed in the US to date.

It is not going to stop there. Carbon Brief says China’s output of solar panels was 310 GW in 2022; it will be 500 GW in 2023; and 1000 GW in 2025 – four times the total installation of new solar worldwide last year.

Regarding the scare point of new Chinese coal plants:

The regime is approving two new coal plants a week. It does not mean what many in the West think it means. China is adding one GW of coal power on average as back-up for every six GW of new renewable power. The two go hand in hand.

“The more renewable energy used, the more the need for coal peaking capacity. A large number of coal power units will be idle,” says Chinese coal expert Li Ting.

Obligatory Westoid nonsense about how Xi is evil and he just wants to take over the world with his sinister measures to protect the environment.

Xi seeks global supremacy. He was never going to let climate worries alone hold back China’s rise. But today the two are in perfect alignment. Clean-tech has become the spearhead of China’s global economic conquest, and this changes the thrust of Beijing’s climate diplomacy.

It is no longer possible for foot-draggers to hide behind China. As Chinese emissions roll over and go into free-fall, Xi will become an even bigger problem for them than Western preachers.

 

I'm sure Xi is beyond having his feelings hurt by Biden, but just look at Bilken's reaction lmao.

Inviting a head of state to your country to publicly insult them is unacceptable anywhere, so this is only going to further tarnish the shitty reputation of American diplomacy.

 

The dunk is on the account, not the majority of people voting for the objectively good and correct answer.

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