You’ll have to explain that to the NGOs and legislators who continue to segregate it from the mainland for reporting and trade policy purposes.

Tianpin Investment Management Ltd

The full name of the firm is actually Hongkong Tianpin Investment Group Co Limited. And its primary stakeholder is Keppel Ltd. a Singaporean company headquartered in Keppel Bay Tower founded and largely still owned by British commercial stakeholders.

Always curious to see how Hong Kong gets counted as an independent country when we talk about the Fraser Institute Freedom Index or discuss US foreign policy.

But then there’s an environmental disaster for which the holding company is held responsible, and suddenly all that talk about Hong Kong independence and the glory days of British colonial rule fall away. And it’s Beijing’s fault that a company with a Mandarin name is being run by Captain Planet villains.

We’re trying pretty hard to slow down EV and green energy adoption as much as possible in my country, that count?

Well, on the one hand, we’re trying some very heavy-handed bureaucratic strategies to prop up O&G and to undermine domestic green alternatives.

But, on the other hand, we’re fucking up all the major international suppliers of O&G while incentivizing the world’s manufacturing powerhouse to spam green energy grids across the underdeveloped world at below-cost in order to build out a 21st century trade network.

So it’s a double-edged sword, and we’re just pinwheeling around with that thing.

“it’ll cause a negative feedback loop” technically they’re referring to a positive feedback loop

I’ve heard the terms “vicious”/“virtuous” cycle kicked around.

We need that for wealth as well, ie, wealth caps.

The perpetual struggle of any human-administered system is in how you keep the agents of the system (those implementing the policy) aligned with the principles (those setting the policy). Because we did have high tax rates and nationalization plans and even outright communist manifestos floating around the country eighty years ago. And then they were systematically sabotaged and dismantled by bureaucrats more aligned with the monied interests than the voting public.

In the modern day, you can’t even get a ballot amendment passed on majority (even super-majority) vote without a court casually overturning it, a legislature refusing to implement it, or the executive to enforce it.

Even something overwhelmingly popular, like high-speed mass transit or national health care or the policing of pedophile super-predators, is neglected on a bipartisan basis time and time and time again.

Who Watches Taxes the Watchmen Taxmen, so to speak? What kind of social organizing principle gets a large bureaucracy of people committed to redistributing wealth suited up and on the ground to do what must be done?

there definitely should be US on the list.

Gotta read the actual article

Cyberspace as the main battlefield

The European Parliament also calls for improved intelligence sharing, a stronger response to disinformation and cyberattacks, and closer cooperation with partner countries.

The anonymous author is just a cutout for the Americanized Techbro military surveillance state.

It continues to floor me every time I see Europe locked in a miserable quagmire war with Russia, only for some padagonia vest dweeb to insist on picking a fight with China ASAP.

It really does feel like some Europeans want a third world war.

The joke of Reddit is that it’s been decimating its real human userbase while it gobbles up investor cash and sells out wholesale to AI data harvesters.

For whatever reason, the folks with all the money don’t seem to care that they’re throwing enormous sums into a labyrinth of bot-farms. Tens of billions of dollars being pissed away on the Ur-case for Empty Internet Theory.

Tale as old as time

Song as old as rhyme

Fuck /u/spez

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Exciting news for Rolls Royce shareholders

Beginning to wonder if the justification of Zionism - namely, that nowhere else in the world is safe for the Jewish ethnicity except Israel - has produced some really gnarly second order effects.

India simply doesn’t have enough nukes to feel safe from its next-door neighbors.

When you’ve got nothing to print, but a deadline to hit, you go with the classics

Is It Time To Invade North Korea?

Eh. Think about how Ayn Rand hated Libertarians.

It would be really hard to make the movie today without making the main character MAGA

That’s one angle. I could just as easily see him as a scratched-liberal. Someone akin to Bradley Whitford in Get Out, who brags about having voted for Obama (twice!) and spouts indignation at corporate greed and military policing. But as the movie progresses, he becomes increasingly callous towards equally put-upon neighbors, family, and his working-class peers.

By the end, he’s demonstrating sneering contempt for a litany of people whom he blames for the current state of the nation - prideful gays, immigrants who won’t assimilate properly, minorities he repeatedly accuses of being anti-white, ungrateful young people, worthless civil bureaucrats, the homeless who refuse to get a job, the middle managers who refuse to give him a job, the vile foreigners who are stealing all the jobs - until he’s expressing all the same grievances as MAGA, but still reserving open contempt for anyone in a red hat.

A man driven to the point of ultimate alienation and self-destruction, because he cannot get off his high horse long enough to show compassion or comradery with anyone else.

You can read “Falling Down” as this tragic story of a normal guy pushed too far. Or you can read it as an entitled Boomer gone off his rocker over trivial consumerist bullshit.

So much of the movie is couched in racist/classist undertones - Douglas losing his temper with Korean and Hispanic immigrants, retail service and blue-collar workers - while presenting the main character as this righteous force of white masculinity that can only be defeated by an even more righteous agent of Law & Order.

Describing William Foster in the same terms as Redditors describe upper-class middle aged white women is pretty on-the-nose.

I guess now that the Iran War is over (again) and the Ukraine/Russia war isn’t exciting anymore, Steve Miller has Trump back on this old hobby horse.

Wonder what they’re planning to do with all that new hardware