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Gsus4 , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to NonCredibleDefense in Well, shit just works

putin - Notice me, senpai!

Kim - Behold, my latest artistic instalation!!!

putin - It's...uh...scrumptious...

Kim - I'll send some your way too, then.

putin - Thank you senpai T~T

Gsus4 , 11 days ago to World News in China threatens death penalty for 'diehard' Taiwan separatists

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Gsus4 , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to Asklemmy in What do you think about adults that are still virgin (never had sex) do you see them as losers?

Nah, some people just have other priorities... and you don't just have to sheeple through life like it's a checklist driven by peer pressure to move onto the next stage... you're fine.

Gsus4 , 11 days ago to World News in Beluga whale pair move from Ukraine's war-torn Kharkiv to Spain's Valencia

Miranda is jubilant that Plombir surprised her with a long holiday in a spanish resort for once 😎😎 🐬 🐬

Gsus4 , 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to World News in Immigration fears are pushing centrists to the right in the US and Europe

Wasn't there a new infrastructure bill recently?

PS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_Jobs_Act but it doesn't mention hospitals specifically.

Gsus4 , 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to World News in Most People on Earth, Even in Petrostates, Want Quick Fossil Fuel Phaseout: Poll

Even in petrostates? But most petrostates are not run by the people or for their people, so petrostates will keep being petrostates until demand for oil in EU/China/India dries up. https://www.worldstopexports.com/crude-oil-imports-by-country/

Gsus4 , 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to World News in Immigration fears are pushing centrists to the right in the US and Europe

Yea, but who builds infrastructure? Where I live, 50% of the workforce in construction is immigrants.

PS: I'm not saying what you say isn't true, it's just weird to see countries that were built by wave after wave of immigrants now say it's not working anymore. What changed from then to now?

PS2: https://www.vox.com/politics/351535/3-theories-for-americas-anti-immigrant-shift probably it's inequality making the majority of people feel like if they don't have enough for themselves, how can new people move in?

also: I was wrong, there's always been some pushback against the wrong kind of immigrants e.g.:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/immigration-history-race-quota-progress/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_immigration_to_the_United_States

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Italianism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment

Fell down a rabbit hole, sorry for the linkdump, this stuff really puts into perspective the stuff happening in american politics today.

Gsus4 , 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to World News in ‘Only Pirates Do This’: China Wields Axes and Knives in South China Sea Fight

Depends on where you live. For a european, african or an american, it's a bit meh. For a japanese, chinese, korean, philippine, taiwanese, vietnamese or an indonesian...it makes front page. And since this is World News and all...

Gsus4 , 12 days ago to Videos in Crow calls friends over to share a snack

Roosters do this too: they call the hens to come share any tasty treats they come upon.

Gsus4 , 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to Videos in Trump’s Second Term: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Democracy, rule of law...none of these are the norm in human history, they are not even intuitive concepts. It takes effort to keep alive against human and historical forces that keep pulling us back into becoming authoritarian shitholes. The great delusion is that since Fukuyama many thought liberal democracy was the inevitable final state whatever stupid shit we do with it...it's not.

Gsus4 , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to World News in Scientists enlist AI to interpret meaning of barks

It's almost like an emotional state. What is complex for dogs is smell, the way they read the local bulletins pissted by all the locals, their health, their fertility, what they have been eating, their emotional state. And then they can leave their own peemail for others to smell and get all the latest community news :)

Gsus4 , 13 days ago to Fuck AI in I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

Joke's on them, because "data scientist" is a confused term too. It's like saying you're a movement dancer :)

Gsus4 , 14 days ago to World News in China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait, report says

Feb. 12 – After another unfruitful phone call between Biden and Putin, U.S. officials warned that a Russian attack on Ukraine could come at any time. A Kremlin aide accused the West of creating “hysteria.” “The Americans are artificially inflating the hysteria around the so-called planned Russian invasion,” Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters after the call between Biden and Putin. “The preconditions for possible provocative actions of the Ukrainian armed forces are being created alongside these allegations.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/02/russian-rhetoric-ahead-of-attack-against-ukraine-deny-deflect-mislead/

Gsus4 , 14 days ago to World News in China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait, report says

It's not a trap, because they were warned beforehand about what would happen if you did it. It's a dare, like in "Jackass!".

Gsus4 , 14 days ago to World News in China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait, report says

October and even then you might get the odd Typhoon https://old.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/jawz01/does_the_taiwan_strait_really_suffer_from/