zephyreks

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[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

War is irresponsible, but a multipolar world is not. This is the US securing Australian alignment with the West, nothing more, nothing less.

What do Australians get out of it? Fuck if I know. Their largest trading partner is China. They're rather isolated from US support in the event of a hot war. They really benefit the most from peace and non-alignment tbh.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago

FWIW, the video of the attack makes it seem like the missile came from the Ukrainian direction rather than the Russian direction. This could be one of those glide vehicles, but that's rather unlikely...

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

China needs power and they're capped out on renewables manufacturing capacity.

The cleaner option is natural gas, but nobody seems willing to give China access to natural gas and oil reserves for some reason...

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago

Media Bias Fact Check, truly the paragon of reliable news. It directly claims that bias and accuracy are strongly correlated (and thus that centrism is in fact the most accurate), which can't be true sheerly because US media as a whole is biased away from center by the political climate of the US.

Moreover, MBFC considers institutions like VOA and Center for Democracy and Technology to be "least biased" despite them being part of the US Agency for Global Media, which REQUIRES outlets to be consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States.

You're not evaluating media bias, you're evaluating media alignment with US policy.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Would you be surprised if it was true, though? This is right out of the CIA playbook and there's a laundry list of historical evidence that would support that the CIA has the means, motive, and opportunity to do so.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

What? No way!

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

You're finally figuring it out :)

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FWIW a lot of your problems with apartments were fixed in the Soviet Union lol

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

ITT: dude's been living in $200/month flats and wonders why people living in $2000/month luxury apartments are enjoying it so much

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wasn't Ukraine willing to have peace talks last year until our good pal Boris Johnson came in and wrecked it all?

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Who's fault is that? Most of the West got massive emissions reductions on paper by switching from coal to natural gas... A resource that China and India don't have so readily accessible.

I say on paper because methane leakage in the extraction and transportation of natural gas can exceed the GHG emissions of actually burning natural gas for energy.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It doesn't need to be solely offensive, just offensive.

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