[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

Anyone who thinks China will be pleased for a more chaotic global situation doesn't really understand the Chinese strategic situation.

China borders 14 countries. Four of those states are nuclear-armed: India, North Korea, Pakistan and Russia. Of those four, only Russia and North Korea are its allies (but it remains to be seen how loyal they are, considering their subordinate status.) Three of the four, Pakistan, Russia and North Korea are one crisis away from total collapse, a nuclear nightmare scenario for China.

China shares a border with Afghanistan and Pakistan, both hotbeds for extremist activity and both teetering on the edge of chaos themselves. Further chaos in the Middle East makes this situation less predictable for China.

Russia's war in Ukraine has turned Kazakhstan and many other Central Asian powers towards the West just as China was making big inroads into those countries.

China needs the West to be stable because China does not have the consumer base to sustain its own economy, and finding new markets has been borderline impossible.

If you want to know who is responsible for the chaos, look to who it benefits: Vladimir Putin, who is losing his disastrous war in Ukraine and desperately needs the West to reduce its support; Iran who are facing unprecedented social unrest with no sign of abatement; and Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been stoking the flames of this conflagration with the desperation of a man whose only path away from prison and disgrace is a "justified" war that might get his next election over the line.

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago

Is it contractually obligatory for UE5 devs to blame the people buying their product for the shit performance?

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

It was to put them in the constitution as the original inhabitants of Australia and give them the right to a mostly powerless advisory body to the Commonwealth government called "the Voice".

It was a pretty conservative idea but unfortunately the conservative opposition leader is the arch-racist piece of shit who will never win a real election, but in his desperation to make a name for himself he campaigned against the referendum, and referendums traditionally only succeed with bipartisan support. So now all that's really been accomplished is to disenfranchise our indigenous population even more.

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

This is literally illegal in most developed countries. Only in the US and with Satan can you sign a contract that removes your rights under law.

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago

These drones are the best representation of Australia bar none.

Bastardised Nordic ideas filtered through a lens of redneck ingenuity and aggression that somehow, defying all reason, is very effective.

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

Yeah there really needs to be a rethink of how the Fediverse works.

I don't want to have to subscribe to 8 different "Games" subs each with under 3000 users.

It really should be like "topics" more than "sublemmys" (or whatever) where every post on the Fediverse tagged "games" will appear on your feed when you subscribe to the topic.

The topics still get moderated by the local instance topic moderators and instances can defederate from troubled instances, but discoverability would improve exponentially.

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

$20k isn't going to make you rich anyway

If Tesla offered me $200k over maybe I'd think about it

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

Wealth inequality won't stop these discoveries making people's lives better, it will just ensure that the 1% live forever in perfect health and the 99% get to watch their kids and grandkids get sicker as the environment, living standards and employment situation deteriorate, until automation gets to a point where the working class are no longer required and can be safely left to starve or killed off.

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Death threats are the background noise of the internet, always have been. It's just part of the PR manual now.

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Chinese EVs absolutely have quality problems, but they are half the price. Tesla's are sold at luxury prices with third rate QA.

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

If streaming is the future of gaming I think I'll just stop gaming.

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

Blockchain is also good for solving the Ship of Theseus problem. You can encode the entire history of the object into the object.

Blockchain has many cool uses and none of them are currency.

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