China has a long-declared no first strike policy, and maintains a relatively small nuclear arsenal because of it. They promise not to use nuclear weapons unless you use them on them first. That doesn't take an AI, it's a pretty simple IF-THEN.

If the USA believes China's no first strike policy, then calling for a no AI policy is pointless. If the USA doesn't believe China's no first strike policy, then calling for a no AI policy is senseless. Which goes to show what this is all about: a transparent propaganda play, trying to portray the USA as responsible than evil enemies without regard for facts.

North Korean prisoners don't do animation work. These are regular employees, it's only illegal because of sanctions. They don't get paid much, but it's more than most people in their country make so they're happy with their pay. That isn't slavery any more than Victorian factories with 16 hour shifts and lax safety were slavery.

I don't understand how after so many decades, so many people are unable to comprehend that betting on your team sporadically is nearly as damaging as betting against your team. If Rose had bet on the Reds every day it would've been better, but he didn't. "Winning hard" once a week at the expense of not using your best pitchers in the other 80% of games, or making a guy play hurt on bet day at the cost of not having him later, is obviously fatally damaging to a sport.

The way R&D works is that if you start the R&D on developing a rocket with the capabilities of Starship today, it might be ready in 20 years. Nobody is starting that process today. The mission is scheduled for the early 2030s -- less than a decade from now. Even with a sudden Apollo-sized investment of the whole country working together for it and bypassing all procedures and safety laws (which is absurd), there still might not be enough time.

How dare they ban the 24/7 giant bonfire I like to keep in my yard for aesthetic reasons! If they come for that, they're bound to ban your landscape debris burn pile next and then you won't be able to keep your yard safe!

Neither China nor Huawei lied about this, and the fact that you think they did shows how badly you're being misled. You fell for American media's juxtaposition of two different things meant to trick lazy readers into believing there'd been a lie and that fears of China making progress were unfounded. If you read carefully, it states that the 7nm phone that prompted the fears and talk was truly made in mainland China -- and that this 5nm laptop chip which Huawei had never made any claims about being from the mainland was shown to be from Taiwan to nobody's surprise.

And yes, our media does this sort of thing all the time -- technically telling the truth, but presenting it in a way that fools people into thinking something happened that the article never claimed. That's how spin works, and it's especially prevalent in anti-China spin. (Which is mostly not at the direction of our government, but because it's profitable and gets clicks when you've got an anti-China spin.)

Bragging that as an American you can say "free Ukraine/Tibet/Taiwan" is like an Iranian bragging that in Iran you can shout "Death to America!" without consequences. A better actual test of American freedom of speech is people who wave confederate flags and shout "the south will rise again!" without consequences. A direct parallel to what Russia arrested this man for would be an American's curtains reading "glory to the Taliban, god is great" during that war.

If you don't understand what the actual tests of freedom of speech are, you'll lose it.

It doesn't matter how efficient a car can be made if everybody buys the less efficient ones instead. My '98 Ford Escort got 35 MPG. But Americans have been buying larger and heavier vehicles every year. So even with all the hybrids and electrics factored in, the average new passenger vehicle sold in the USA in 2021 got 25 MPG.

Your Jiffy Lube seems to work exactly opposite mine. Mine charges $65 for the cheapest oil change, but sells me wipers with installation for $14, which is less than it costs me to buy them without service at a store.

There's a huge difference between being pushy about a browser when visiting that company's website, compared to a browser being pushy via injected ads/polls when you visit their competitor's website. I just checked the Edge download page in Chrome and I see no google ads there.

The only part I dislike is when they seem to imply that finding water molecules somewhere (that isn't hot) is surprising and exciting. Water is literally the third most common molecule in the universe, not something unique about Earth.

This is more like shooting your own foot, then aiming your gun at your friend's foot, and just as you fire your friend pushes the gun away so that it shoots your other foot instead of theirs.

Now not only has China been gifted an inevitable eventual dominance in the industry (because the US forced China to massively invest in chip fab innovation as a national security issue and China has way more people and plenty of money to catch up with), but now South Korea gets to rake in profits in the interim while China no longer experiences a temporary inconvenience before their long-term victory.

Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe, just as Columbus discovered the Americas. It doesn't matter if Hubble didn't believe his evidence or that Columbus insisted to his dying day that he'd gone to Asia. They found the proof.

Are flights at 30,000 feet relevant to the ozone layer at 66,000-130,000 feet? Planes fly close to the level where there's already lots of water in the form of clouds and rain which I'd think would dwarf any water emissions.

Any flash drive I've stuck into any of my computers has not done anything until I click "mount and open". I can see a "mount and open" prompt for a USB device on my PC right now. And this is Kubuntu, not known for being a security-conscious distro. Devices don't mount until I tell them to, so no, they're not automatically trusted.