I think Xi is counting on the west to be too distracted by Ukraine and Israel to effectively support Taiwan.
Also, speculation on my part - but this feels like the usual posturing/distraction playbook. China’s economy isn’t doing so hot and the government’s bungling of COVID is still fresh in everyone’s minds, so what better way to make people forget about that than to saber rattle?
Maybe it’s just morbid fascination with the slow motion trainwreck that’s Twitter?
What’s funny is Google pushed me to turn off all my targeted ad preferences + watch history on YT. I basically did what you did and they started pushing me PragerU and other weird conservative ads, so I just straight turned everything personalized off. And pretty much stopped using the platform.
Yeah. It’s a joke given their executive comp is higher than the awarded amount.
That’s why they cut off outbound communications. If you don’t photograph or video them doing war crimes, then they’re not committing them, right?
I’m glad this ruling happened. Why was there this law in the first place? The lengths that people go to twist the law to be cruel to other people is awful.
The problem here is that people often conflate Israel and Judaism as one and the same, when that’s absolutely not the case. You can have problems with how Israel operates as a nation without being antisemitic. It’s hard to have any nuanced conversations about Israel and Palestine if you don’t grok this.
This is giving me “how do you do, fellow kids” vibes.
I don’t think China has ever even tried to pretend it’s the land of the free.
Given that they make >$30B a quarter in revenue, probably not. They probably count the fine of $100k/day as a cost of doing business.
I love this so much. I need all tech to be explained to me this way
Might just be me looking at the game with rose colored glasses and the game may not have aged well - but I remember having a blast playing Golden Sun as a kid. I think you’d enjoy it if you like JRPGs.