The country with the most scientists and engineers in the world, and a decades-long policy of investimg in education and public infrastructure, is outcompeting everyone else at manufacturing? I’m shocked!

Eswar Prassad, a former head of the China division at the International Monetary Fund

Maybe your advise to poor countries to cut all public services and sell everything to Western companies was wrong, IMF shill? Maybe countries should instead invest in their people and their infrastructure? Radical, I know. Heresy, even.

Do they send in the tanks?

You don’t use tanks in a city. You use machine guns.

Do they kill 1,000,000 people?

If they can, probably

Would republican civilians see empathy for the dead americans who were democrats?

Ask yourself how many people in the US showed empathy for the Gazans.

Or would it unite the nation like 9/11 did, except this time against the government?

Lol no, the US is a terminally propagandised country. Iraq has WMDs, Venezuela has drugs, free healthcare is bad somehow, Israel is not genociding the Palestinians, etc. etc.

Cuba is a threat to the United States?

???

Yeah, this is most likely about oil.

In principle yes, but isn’t a relatively neutral authority that includes countries like Russia and Qatar better than Israel being allowed to bomb Gazans as they like?

Yeah I find GPL to be ironically non-free because it removes the right for anybody to use the code as they see fit, basically adding a restriction on the developer.

Sometimes, in order to protect everyone’s freedom, you have to put some restrictions on freedom. Like ‘you should not stab people’, or ‘don’t drive on the wrong side of the road’. I guess this is similar.

But also check who legally ‘owns’ your work. It could be the government, your university, or whoever funds your work. They might have rules on licencing.

Cute

‘Surely the leopards wouldn’t eat my face?’

India is ‘stamp limit’?

Maybe Xuanzang was annoyed by how expensive it was to send letters home.

The country that loses a war is the one that is forced to make concessions. Right and wrong have nothing to do with it.

To translate from one language to another, you need to know both languages very well, including puns, idioms, etc., and have a deep understanding of both cultures involved. A word for word translation will rarely do; you may even have to come up with new jokes / references to replace ones that don’t work in the target language.

If you have read translations of manga by, say, Rumiko Takahashi, you might have seen footnotes explaining all the puns and references. And even this is not ideal, since it breaks the reader’s flow.

The ecological impact of an pre-industrial community is generally much smaller than that of an industrial one.

they’ve only been there since the 1300s

So? Please finish that thought.

Or the fact that they are not white gives them special privileges.

You know what, YES! It does! Now go cry about it.

human habitation on New Zealand has a history of less than a thousand years

I know. My point is that cats (or the Maori) have a minuscule impact on the environment when compared to settlers.

the word “aborigines” in that part of the world carries a potentially problematic connotation.

I see. What would be a more respectful alternative?

The ruling class will makes sure they are insulated from the consequences of war. It’s always the poor who are sent out to die.

Yes, but I think we need to distinguish between the native population, which has proven capable of co-existing with the local ecosystem, and the settlers, who’ll need to be culled.

Maybe we can be a little animale and let the aborigines adopt the more tame settlers. Find them nice, loving homes, you know? The rest will unfortunately need to be euthanised.

You know, I can think of one species that’s a lot more harmful to the environment. Maybe the cats of NZ should start hunting non-native members of that species.

That’s the real reason. All the talk of drug smuggling is just a distraction.

I think it’s a lot simpler than that. Venezuela has oil.