https://youtu.be/0l_za2Zmsyc Russia doesn't trust China, China is living up to the mistrust, apparently.
@union @adiz @Moon @zaitcev Yeah, you're right about that, there's many cases where just because the businesses are used to doing things with globalization, that they think it's the best way when it may not necessarily be so.
There's many cases where doing business that way leads you to being reliant on one country for something, and you don't notice when they slowly start raising prices and lowering quality, the inertia keeps them in place even when it could be better and cheaper elsewhere because the costs of switching are high.
There's many cases where doing business that way leads you to being reliant on one country for something, and you don't notice when they slowly start raising prices and lowering quality, the inertia keeps them in place even when it could be better and cheaper elsewhere because the costs of switching are high.
@zaitcev @adiz @Moon Zeihan makes some points about free trade when he talks about how it's falling apart. That instead of having everyone trading with everyone else, it will probably go back to a mercantilist system or a regional hegemony type system where many things like bricks or cat food would be produced within a system of a few countries easily.
You have blocks of countries dominated by one central one that basically controls and colonizes the rest. The US has already built up their group of several countries to weather this breakdown, and that group doesn't include China. (Some countries it will probably include are UK, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, etc. Some other european countries will probably continue to trade, though be not entirely within the bloc, still to be determined, and we might still trade with other south-eastern asian countries.) You're right that a lot of those deals were actually brokered by Trump at pretty big disadvantages for the other countries.
There gets to be more problems when you want to build electric cars or smart phones, you need minerals and resources from all over the world for that stuff.
You have blocks of countries dominated by one central one that basically controls and colonizes the rest. The US has already built up their group of several countries to weather this breakdown, and that group doesn't include China. (Some countries it will probably include are UK, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, etc. Some other european countries will probably continue to trade, though be not entirely within the bloc, still to be determined, and we might still trade with other south-eastern asian countries.) You're right that a lot of those deals were actually brokered by Trump at pretty big disadvantages for the other countries.
There gets to be more problems when you want to build electric cars or smart phones, you need minerals and resources from all over the world for that stuff.
@union @creamqueen @Moon @animeirl I think the Grilled Club is pretty good too. That's what I get when I want to go lower-sodium.
Two LN/Manga Series
I've been reading a ton of LN and Manga lately, and two that I've been thinking about are Eminence in Shadow, and Tearmoon Empire. They're totally different genres, Shonen vs Shoujo, Isekai vs Time Reversion, but both are very similar in feel.
In one, the main character's a total Chunni, but has reincarnated into a world where his delusions always prove to be either accurate, or at least helpful to those around him. His main abilities are focused on fighting and making magic tools, and building up his organization. He thinks that he's just making stuff up, but his organization knows that everything he's doing and saying is actually accurate, and they're going out into the world and fighting the evil organization. He's completely selfish, but his selfishness ends up backfiring on him and helping others.
Tearmoon on the other hand, the main character dies and is sent back, but this time has knowledge from the prior life, as well as a copy of her future diary that tells her how she changed the timeline. What she does in response to those events end up getting her a reputation as a knowledgeable sage, so when her future diary suddenly stops working, or doesn't have enough information to solve a problem, she ends up giving platitudes or saying random things, and all the smart people she gathered around her are trying to figure out how to twist it into wisdom without realizing it, and end up solving a lot of problems. Like the other series, she's completely selfish and largely vapid, but that future knowledge lets her self preservation kick in and has her doing good things for others to save herself.
Interesting how such parallel ideas can emerge in different genres.
In one, the main character's a total Chunni, but has reincarnated into a world where his delusions always prove to be either accurate, or at least helpful to those around him. His main abilities are focused on fighting and making magic tools, and building up his organization. He thinks that he's just making stuff up, but his organization knows that everything he's doing and saying is actually accurate, and they're going out into the world and fighting the evil organization. He's completely selfish, but his selfishness ends up backfiring on him and helping others.
Tearmoon on the other hand, the main character dies and is sent back, but this time has knowledge from the prior life, as well as a copy of her future diary that tells her how she changed the timeline. What she does in response to those events end up getting her a reputation as a knowledgeable sage, so when her future diary suddenly stops working, or doesn't have enough information to solve a problem, she ends up giving platitudes or saying random things, and all the smart people she gathered around her are trying to figure out how to twist it into wisdom without realizing it, and end up solving a lot of problems. Like the other series, she's completely selfish and largely vapid, but that future knowledge lets her self preservation kick in and has her doing good things for others to save herself.
Interesting how such parallel ideas can emerge in different genres.
@tsugumi @union https://reason.com/2023/02/20/brickbats-march-2023/ "Christine Gauthier, a paraplegic former member of the Canadian Army, told members of the House of Commons in December that she contacted Veterans Affairs Canada trying to find out why it was taking so long to get a wheelchair ramp in her home. She said she got a letter back offering her assisted suicide instead. "I have a letter saying that if you're so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAID, medical assistance in dying," said Gauthier. Gauthier said she has been trying to get the ramp for five years."
@pro @bagder 6502, and 65816 are commonly used like that. Ben Eater on youtube did a series with the 6502, and the 8-bit guy made his computer with the 65816, IIRC. Both are still manufactured as far as I know. I think there's still people building computers with Z80's as well. I follow one person at @rc2014
@union True, recycling is quite advanced in the steel industry. We don't make much of the input iron ourselves, so that little bit of new iron we use ends up being largely imported, even if it's far less than our steel output totals.
@union US makes a lot of steel, but the US imports most of the raw materials, we don't make enough of the pig iron that goes into the steel and we have to compete with the rest of the world for that.
US also tends to make the high value, high quality steel and import the lower quality stuff for tasks that don't need higher quality.
US also tends to make the high value, high quality steel and import the lower quality stuff for tasks that don't need higher quality.
@TechConnectify Yeah, It's probably entirely fine to do that. It's still one of those things that would get me to go to the "if you have 2 of something, you only have 1" school of planning for disasters. I'd probably go ahead and plug the refrigerator and freezer into it even if it was the only transportation form, but I'd probably live off something that didn't need cooking if it was my only car. I kept my old car in working order just to have a backup for emergencies.
@TechConnectify Interesting, but it really tweaks my fears of using up too much of a vital battery resource. This is why I don't play games on my phone as well and instead use dedicated gaming handhelds, I'd be too worried about running it out of batteries and not being able to contact people. If I wanted to use electric cooking appliances in a power outage, I'd probably want to get a separate battery bank for the house. Though, if I had two cars I might consider it.
@pro Maybe it's trying to tile some window to that side and hasn't completed the task.
@pro That's usually by convention of the people using it, the one used to reply there is officially labeled as "tired" by the emoji system, but a lot of them are used for purposes other than their label, like the "pray/bless" one is used in a discord server I'm in as a "high five" icon in that server.
@zaitcev They probably came from places like Discord, where it's an easy way to just respond to a post without actually making a formal response. They don't get notifications over there either.