Why are you conflating “peaceful” with either “act of peace” or “good”?
I explicitly said it wasn’t fair, eg that it’s unethical and I don’t support it.

All I’m saying is that China has a clear path to stop the world from getting involved if they do decide to invade, and that China has had recently success taking over countries with little violence.

So your framing this as though I’m a Gretzky supporter is kinda wild.

It’s almost like you intentionally misunderstood my comment to make a point.

Would it be an act of peace? Absolutely not.
Would it be peace_ful_, if you ignore everything else I said in my comment? Absolutely not.

But if OP is looking for the most peaceful (least bloodshed) way of “unifying” Taiwan and mainland China, then this is how. Remove Taiwan’s value to the west, propaganda tf outta the next gen, come in with overwhelming force as the world looks on and does nothing, install pro-china govt officials, ramp up propaganda, withdrawal blantant military force.

I explicitly said this was not fair eg it would be bad and unethical so this isn’t something I support obviously.

Peaceful or fair?

For peaceful, I think that China needs to make it so the world doesn’t depend on them for high end chip manufacturer, so the USA stops caring about them because they’re not a critical strategic national interest.
Then they just invade.

The world isn’t doing shit about Gaza, the world is barely doing anything about Ukraine. I think the world sits by and watches it happen, if they’re not a critical strategic interest.

Naw, I think a few of the original members are still there

So, not “technically” at all (see my user name)

Oh get over yourself

Short form is cool because it’s like constrained writing.

Tiktok was pretty great while it was just silly videos.\ But it’s not short form anymore so it’s full of political essays and propaganda.

I kinda hope that loops is more like vine than tiktok or vertical YouTube. But it’ll probably be up to the instance to govern video length.

I’ll need to look into it a bit more, but I’m skeptical that this will work in practice:

How can they confirm that I’m the owner of the passport? How do you prevent them from selling the fields they requested, that have been uniquely linked to you? How do you prevent the government from keeping track of all the services you’re using?

Thats true for social media, but social media isn’t the only time you want to do age verification.

If you want to see porn or order (legal 😇) drugs for delivery.

And this is just times where the way to “protect kids” is age verification online. There are other times where you want to protect kids too, but doing so is invasive.

How would that work online? How would they confirm it’s your passport, and that it’s a real passport that was really scanned (instead of a browser plugin)?

Is it for downloading illegal content? i can’t tell

I assume some of it is related to torrenting, but I can’t tell which ones and how much. They can’t all be for torrenting, right???

Store a lot of things you never access

Hope that helps 😌

I think I kinda get you, but also I think that it’s just kinda the nature of humans to put people on pedestal. I can’t really answer why (and honestly maybe I’m totally wrong, I’m not a social scientist).

As far as pedestal candidates go, if we had to choose, I’d rank him pretty high. Seems to be a fairly reasonable and ethical guy, pretty smart, willing to listen to experts, loves to learn, self aware, and seems to be pretty ethical. Not as far left as I’d like, but choices are slim lol.
How much is a facade and how much is truly him? We can never know. If it’s a facade, it’s an excellent one.

Ikr like… Give me a docker compose file and tell me what env vars need to be set to what. Why is it so complicated?

Lol yeah for sure, none of that is preachy. You’re totally reading your own words in a totally unbiased way

Hey, I’m coming in and matching your energy.

They didn’t specifically mention children or adult men, for you to assume they meant adult men is a crazy assumption to make.

Not cosmOS, Crunchy. The person who said “that’s why young boys are voiced by women” to which you replied “that’s not really what I’m talking about”

I could have replied directly to that but I didn’t wanna fork the thread, since it’s more or less the same convo. Although in hindsight I should have.

But generally I feel like y’all are talking past each other

By the powers of pedantry, I have been summoned!

That has less to do with longevity compared to casting men as it does their ability to better mimic the higher pitch of children.

What the heck are you talking about?
they were saying “that’s why child characters get voiced by women instead of men”, they said “that’s why child characters get voiced by women instead of children”
Because that choice absolutely does have to do with the longevity of the voice.

That’s a wild way to misunderstand them lol.

I’m afraid you’ve jumped the shark

I won’t understand what you mean 😌