The Martian flower formation is pretty cool.

It should be illegal.

There are two ways sanctions work:

1: They are a negative economic factor. Over the long term, growth will be slower, meaning their army will grow relatively weaker and weaker. Biden tried to use this method of sanctions. The obvious example is North Korea.

2: An outright blockade. This can severely damage the economy, which is what happened in Gaza and Trump is trying to do in Iran (with apparent success, although it's hard to untangle the various factors there).

When the dictator controls the press, there is no way to avoid that.

Packet filtering is a different problem than red team hacking.

While your points are true, they've also committed crimes that have drawn the attention of the FBI. It's reasonable for them to be scared at this point, even if they are using the opportunity to do what they do.

I appreciate the defense of art, and the need for human communication and touch through music, but we're talking about pop music. It doesn't communicate much.

China has attacked most of its neighbors, but can you possibly justify their ongoing military incursion into Bhutan? Do you think it was to protect national security?

You have a very strong emotional opinion for an admitted ignoramus. If you calm down, I'll be happy to discuss this point with you rationally, otherwise I'll just leave you stewing in your emotional ignorance.

China sees taking Taiwan as in their interests, and indeed, controlling the entire first island chain to be in their interests.

Currently the US is involved in two different wars. The US weapon supply is depleted, but it will be rebuilt, stronger than before. If China does not move militarily now, then they will not have another window of opportunity like this one for a long, long time.

The first one you mean? Weird minority opinion, but you're entitled to it.

The one and only thing that matters to the mainstream modern media outlet is reactions, because people don't care about news any more, they just want to feel something.

Why would you doubt it? China has never been reticent to enter war in any way, and certainly has been provoking for the last couple decades.

In the Chinese worldview, peace can only come though the sword of the emperor.

Maybe link to one or several of those channels.

Google set its SEO guidelines to favor longer articles. So that's what we ended up with.

Google is responsible here. The could penalize websites that have too many ads. But they won't because that is how they make money.

It's a clear example of a monopoly making the world worse.

That's not quite true. You only need to offend one person to get modded down. However, if you also provide value, then you will probably not stay modded down. My karma has only been anywhere other than right up against the kap a couple of times in the last... uh, long time.

Yes. And also and.

But bsky is an echo chamber and feceboot is not, and I want both things.

Twitter is too much of a cesspool to care that I got banned for saying mean things about Leon