West: China is evil and anyone that trades with them is morally bankrupt! We must rid ourselves of reliance on Chinese goods! Doesn’t matter of we’re screwing over our own citizens in the process, they should have put Western pride over their own livelihoods anyway!

China: Cool, we’ll even help you wean yourselves off by restricting exports.

West: That just proves our point of how evil they are! They’re depriving poor us of resources! How dare they!

No, that’s definitely alpha behaviour. Your scheduler is poorly optimised because it’s the first build that managed to compile.

From bird’s eye chile to habanero

Wears fur coat alone is Scumbag Steve worthy.

Japanese because Kanji which is still used everywhere doesn’t give information on how it’s pronounced. Learning to read and especially write them is much more difficult than Spanish spelling rules. Same problem as the language Kanji came from, Chinese. Source: Chinese immigrant who’s fluent in speaking Chinese but can’t read it. Japanese does have an advantage over Chinese in that it actually has character sets that give pronunciation information though. Presumably you can at least just write in one of the two phonetic character sets and people will understand you okay but I’m not quite sure how the combination of character sets work in practice.

Literally kind of term the Ferengi from Star Trek would use.

No, transportation in general is. Cars are by far the least efficient form of transportation and therefore the worst for the economy.

People who say driving is freedom have never lived within walking distance of the amenities they need. You think driving to Costco/Walmart is convenient? I’ve left the house 5 minutes before the grocery store closes. When I want to make a recipe, I don’t check the fridge for what I have until literally right before I need to start making it because forgetting something adds at most 15 minutes to the prep time. I’ve never had to haul ten grocery bags from my car because I never need to buy that much at one time and then watch half of it go bad in the fridge. I can go get snacks when I’m high as a kite on weed without killing someone on the road. True freedom for me is never needing to drive or own a car.

Europeans hate isn’treal more than most places anyway.

Somehow I doubt that’s true. But if it is, it means y’all aren’t as free from State thought control as you think if your governments are using your biggest event as propaganda. Either that or this is exactly what Europeans want.

Wouldn’t intelligence also be a material condition? How your brain is wired plays a significant role in how it interacts with the environment, so if humans evolved with a more intelligent brain it would significantly alter our trajectory from early civilisations, no? Would probably also kick off civilisations much earlier.

I mean sure, but that’s irrelevant to the discussion of intelligence and cognitive faculties.

A paralytic also can’t build anything, does it make Steven Hawking less intelligent than the average redneck?

AFAIK some scientists have argued that some porpoises (dolphins, orcas, etc) are more intelligent than us period. They’re just severely limited in what technology they can develop because of their bodies and where they live.

More specifically I think because it pushes back against the “communism was just like fascism” notion and Western countries can’t have that.

Both Spain and Ireland as far as I know are aggressively liberal/socdem and anticommunist.

So instead of seeing an opportunity to do the same, they burned bridges with one of the only companies not locking down their OS?

You’re welcome 😊

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Kombucha is pretty good.

Everyone asks wherewolf

No one ever asks howwolfdoing

QwQ

From a worldbuilding perspective it fucking sucks. Like if you’re going to build a strawman commie totalitarian state at least make it interesting.

panic! at the disco

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