I am glad your friends and family are more technically literate than mine or the people I meet.

Asking for someones email when they ask for your whatsapp is weird.

It would be nice if I didnt need a dozen chat apps,each with their own faults, but being able to communicate with friends and family is more important than software evangelizing.

SMS has issues if youre traveling a lot or want to send large files. Nobody has Signal and Im not going to ask someone I just met to install a new app.

Half of them are boomers or have the tech literacy of boomers.

When I tried to move my family to Telegram, only 2 managed to successfully install and verify a client.

Do you have WhatsApp?

No Telegram?

I dont have that one, none of the clients seem to work on my phone… Wechat?

Cant verify, SMS doesnt get through. LINE?

lol I dont have a japanese number. Kakaotalk?

No… …discord?

Sure!

Shit he’s 30 seconds from finding out Im a furry.

That exists, you can get switch form factor hall effect joysticks on aliexpress.

450 USD and they won’t spend an extra 40 cents on hall effect sticks?

Alternately: I can cook 4 iems at once and have a weeks worth of food!

Day 2 update: I ate it all.

Also all their examples of non-violent successes had violent factions demonstrating the alternative.

Even if they could, they wouldn’t get the resources as cheaply as theyre getting them now. Also China has recall elections, if Xi went mad and unilaterally decided to go to war with a country so important to Chinas economy, he’d be booted so fast.

France was forcing Niger to give up its resources for a fraction of market value while keeping them from developing industry. Buy their product at a fair market value, or even better: follow China’s mutual development strategy and provide funds and experts to build a refinery.

China doesnt mine much uranium, but they do fabricated fuel pellets with ore from Kazakhstan.

Nuclear energy was the answer between like 1950 and 2010. But the fact that China isnt going all in on nuclear despite having optimal conditions; central planning allows them to predict maximum prices for materials and labor available 5-10 years in advance, the scale allows them to produce reactors more efficiently with better investment in tooling than any other country, and being the workshop of the world ensures higher demand than any other country. They are at <5% nuclear right now and expect <10% by 2035.

Not when coal and gas fill the void. They can get fuel rods from France, Canada, China. Hell Germany could just refine their own, Niger is looking for trading partners.

China has absolutely no reason to invade the pile of self-extracting resources that currently can only sell to them.

No, the pregnancy is accelerated, but I think it takes longr than a day, but it might be faster in some circumstances. Even if you get 3 billion dollars, it doesnt really matter if you’re going to die giving birth to a hermaphroditic hybrid of homosapian and smallpox days later.

As far as mpreg goes; we dont know. Do you want to take that risk?

So theres a lot in the books that never comes up in the film. She can impregnate you and make you give birth to a clone of her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_ferry

Sure, they can work with the Hong Kong protesters, Lamas, and Cuban patriots. Maybe some Free Syra Army guys can help too.

No, even in 1776, there were contemporaries who mocked a bunch of rich slave owners talking about freedom while stealing land from native americans. American freedom had always been the freedom for the ruling class to exploit the underclass.