Ya, that's separate though.

Apple's transition to x86 was not revolutionary. Apple Silicon is.
It quite literally changed the face of the laptop market.

Where previously, the more powerful the computer you had, the less portable it was, now you could have a laptop as powerful as the most powerful PC laptops, that lasted as long as the most battery-conservative netbooks.
Changes to Apple Silicon since, and throwing it in iPads- not revolutionary. Just iterative upgrades. But Apple Silicon laptops broke the laptop mold.

Police. They would be breaking the law.
If you are asking who would stop them if they decided to overthrow lawful authorities? That's a different, and frankly stupid question.

Na.
If we start losing one bad enough, in that it results in mass destruction of our domestic capacity- then ya, I'd agree with that.
That's uhhh, well the end stage of us losing WW3, though.

I'm not sure looking at the battlefield between two crumbling post-soviet republics tells us a lot about ourselves.

How many drones has it taken the Houthis to hit an Israeli or US target? 1000? More?

No, the military cannot take a US citizen out and threaten to shoot them as a traitor.
That would involve a lot of people going to jail.

4 years ago, I would have agreed with you.
But today? Pretending like teh other half hasn't swallowed the same liquid rabies just means you have too.

Apple Silicon Macs.

No, they are literally impossible.

What you describe is a seemingly-infinite-money-machine.

Worse. This is a nerd forum. You should know your powers of 2 to at least 4294967296.

I have *always* been a political realist.
You said:

If the Taiwanese had that viewpoint, and acted upon it, Taiwan would be a province of China again. Fortunately, Taiwanese people are smarter than you.

Not everyone agrees with you that what we are referencing can be described as, "handing someone a tool to manipulate you with."
The PRC is Taiwan's largest trading partner, and responsible for just about all of their tourism.
The relations between those two entities is very close. I know that doesn't fit your worldview, but that's your worldview's problem, not reality's.

I didn't attack your stupid opinion, I attacked your stupid reasoning.
So yes, please cut it the fuck out. The world is getting dumber at an already upsetting rate, it doesn't need your contribution.
I'd love to meditate, unfortunately people like you who think everything in life is fucking Team A and Team B vote.

Breaking is something you do to something you don't like.
Braking is when you apply brakes to slow something down.

Every little bit does not, in fact, help.
In fact, if we look at the problem correctly, focusing on insignificant things is in fact a detriment.
Bandwidth for change is limited. Wasting it on shit that will never fucking matter only aids the avoidance of changing things that do.

I'm not interested in your advice, your gaslighting, or your worries. Injustice makes me emotional. This is a good and healthy thing. Unfortunately, I can't block people on here, but please don't ever respond to me again. End of conversation.

Couldn't have provided a better example if I had tried- thank you AC, lol

Incorrect.
It is neither of those things.

Are you holding that in order to have a criticism of the rule making process of the Catholic church, one must be Catholic?

That's almost stunningly wrong.

The KMT (Republican Forces) weren't good guys, either.
In fact, I'd argue it's not really clear that they wouldn't have had their own Cultural Revolution. They certainly tried their best on Formosa, and on the Chinese mainland, to do so. Though the reason would have been ...different... than the hatred of sparrows- Chiang Kai-shek was just an evil motherfucker who got his rocks off murdering his political opponents.

Not everyone knows this, but Taiwan was a military dictatorship- and a pretty fucking evil one- until 1987.
The big portrait of Mao over Tiananmen? That replaced a big picture of Chiang Kai-shek.