The US as a country does it to the rest of the world too, not just the immigrants.
ZMoney
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Sometimes I think Lemmy is an echo chamber but then I hear a phrase like I used to show hogs.
It's weird because Xi is a chemical engineer. Putin and Kim I understand being gullible and clueless about scientific matters but I don't expect the same from Xi.
I don't want to type stuff into a command line. Like ever. If this is possible then I'm in.
This might be when I finally jump ship and go to Linux. I should do Mint, right?
There's a whole section in The Art of the Deal devoted to how a Saudi guy had a nicer apartment than him and how he built a whole apartment building so he could have a nicer $50 million penthouse.
The fake reason he gives for this suicidal policy is aesthetics, right? So he prefers the sight of a coal fired power plant to wind turbines? Or should I just give up trying to understand?
The thing all of you militarist posters have in common is you're completely convinced that you have the correct position and you manage to come off as arrogant as well. Enjoy your globe-spanning military industrial complex that wages forever wars and sanctions genocides.
What part of having Japan's military annihilated, their cities firebombed, and their population starving is "letting them roll over us"? The war was won already. Why was it necessary to carry out a land invasion?
There's no false equivalence. There is no equivalence at all. There's absolutely no point trying to figure out the most atrocitiest world power. Atrocities do not justify further atrocities.
In terms of whether the bombings were justified or not, I don't think it's impossible to say. Same with the firebombings, which were carried out under false pretenses of total warfare hypotheses that were later disproven.
There was talk of doing a nuclear demonstration in Tokyo harbor before the decision to annihilate two cities was undertaken. Yes, these were decisions made with limited information and lack of 20:20 hindsight, but that doesn't mean they weren't war crimes or that the people who made them aren't mass murderers. This kind of zero-sum my atrocities vs. your atrocities thinking is an intellectual dead end, but it's great for justifying American exceptionalism.
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Artificial general intelligence built by people who don't have any. Sounds great, give them half a trillion dollars!