These people have much to lose and will carefully toe our line on these serious topics.

Addressing Climate change and being protectionist are not antagonistic to each other.

What's best? Doing both.

- Rare earth elements
- Other minerals should be strategic assets too
- Clean tech - solar panels and battery tech
- Patent rules that favour local businesses
- Seafood - stop getting cheap frozen seafood harvested by China's fleet - who aims to flood the market with unsustainable seafood rather than to feed their own people

What difference does it make to global warming? Are they counting leaked methane?

Long term, it is what needs to change.

When I shop for seafood, I intentionally avoid buying a product of a certain country with the largest fleet of fishing vessels aiming to flood the market with cheap frozen seafood and try to monopolize supply. This country also has a record of unsustainable fishing practices, including target Galapagos.

This grave offender will remain unnamed - I'll leave it as an exercise for you to find out.

Scalpers price out the poor.

What's your point?

That's effectively what happened in this case. The only difference is that the scalpers made the extra money, not Taylor Swift.

> You were persecute for being an asshole

In a civil society, people are prosecuted instead of persecuted.

Great to hear! I'm so assured.

I would not be surprised if all of these are orchestrated by national adversaries of USA to strip its next generation in STEM.

I'll believe Meta if they stop forcing in-app browser down our throats. External links should open in the user's browser of choice by default.

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1h57x02/facebook_forces_you_to_use_the_inapp_browser/#:~:text=It's%20intentional%20as%20it's%20getting,use%20external%20browser%20for%20everything

The motivation is 100% greed and control.

radioactive waste is overrated. carbon output vs energy output should be *all* we care right now. tens of thousands of years? quite sure global warming will eradicate humanity first before we get close to 1000 years.

Whoever submitted the topic is absolutely not an American if you ask him.

It is strange. When advancements are made by entities in other countries, it's often said "University of AAA" or "BBB Company" invented something.

However, when advancements are made by entities in China, it's almost always said "China" did X.

I wonder why.