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Plant based cheese is god awful, its congealed oil textured. Milks have been great though

We need to up our game on many many fronts. We need more investment and harder turn toward deomcratic socialism to fully reap what is being sown.

Apple is delaying new features for everyone...new siri anyone?

This just tells me these featuers are anti-user

Yeah but canucks in the EU means Europe now has a border with the US which raises concerns also

We are not circling the drain and our defense spending wont be enough to stabilisie his economy.

What you need to be wary of is how thr EU takes big tech contracts like Palantir into everyday lives.

That they can directly put ads into the carousel.

Ads they dont have to split revenue on.

Every app is the same now, so boring

That guy is a fool man, I gave him enough time.

Then what's this

Show me the youth unemployment figures.

spreading the contact of Chinese people with westerners through for example XiaoHongShu (RedNote) or TikTok, which is why the US wants to ban access to these apps

You missed the part where China hurried through a tiktok like curtain to silo users.

You must have also missed the social credit scoring. The HK protests.

You may or may not think that this is justified, but it's quite literally the definition of "closing up", and China is engaging in exactly the opposite.

This is textbook tolerance paradox stuff, either accept propaganda or you ae against free speech. Oligarchical authoritarian cunts should not have access into a foreign population, that is why Trump is in power. Are you telling me the EU has less press freedoms than Russia or China? Because closing the gap doesnt mean much if its by a tenth of a degree.

I beg you tell the same to a Ukrainian or to a Vietnamese

Its clear you are passionate and refusing to take on board an alternative view. There is nothing in what I have said that should lead you to reply with this. Understand proxy wars and realise that military spending kept the direct warfare cold.

Ukraine is atrocity that is only tied to the cold war by way of Russia continuing fighting it while the US got complacent and allowed their government to fall which lead to a lack of support/tacit support for Russia.

The trend is toward openness in China? Just off the top of my head didnt Xi consolidate more power over the last 12 months and stop issuing economic statistics as a resukt of their trend?

I am not American, they are a shit hole country, they have never been much more but the veneer is wiped off now.

Those proxy wars are the example of it not getting hot. Russia and the US had so much military power no one risked direct attacks.

I do not support the US, Israel or any such shite but dont tell half a story and sum up with china is opening up.

They manufacture everything, they are just people chilling in their country. Say what you will about their form of government but BYD havent invested in hurting people for no reason.

I agree until the last part. Democracies have more freedoms allowing for more accurate polling. There is also less fear of consequences for being open. Countries should be able to defend themselves, 5% is a step toward peace. The cold war never became hot because of the investment in defence.