Kidnapping is an emotionally loaded term which isn’t used in journalism. Makes sense. Edit: nah I’m wrong. They’d use it for the actual crime of kidnapping.

I hate this shit. We need media to call a spoon a spoon.

Call lies, lies. “Misinformation”, “inaccuracies” “incorrectly said…” Nah fuck that. Trump lied.

What have I started lol.

Dehulling rice is way harder than processing wheat…

Also eating boiled wheat grains was a thing long before bread was figured out.

You can make bread with rice flour too if that’s your thing.

Of course not, you can’t see very far below the surface.

This. Especially reporters. They should all call out lies and abuse without hesitation. Access to the Whitehouse press office isn’t worth it. Don’t even cover that shit. Make Trump have to step outside if he wants an audience.

True, good points.

Interesting. Didn’t think of the military applications. I think both countries care about cutting edge technology markets in general, and not creating economic chaos by shutting down TSMC. But once TSMC in Taiwan itself is no longer essential, all bets are off. Given both US and China want to get away from relying on TSMC, it’s only a matter of time.

With the US currently only caring about money and power, all interest in Taiwan’s defence will evaporate. I hope for Taiwan’s sake politics change before that day comes.

Taiwan will scuttle their microchip fabs before letting China take over. Unless China have infiltrated and taken over the fabs and secured them from destruction, there’s far less economic value in invading Taiwan.

Chinas chip fabrication is advancing quickly. So assuming Taiwan remains strong and doesn’t get infiltrated, we won’t see an invasion until China is confident it doesn’t need Taiwanese chips for its own technology. Then, it’ll just be about politics and having more of the coast line and trade routes secured, not the fabs.

I reckon there’s at least a few more years before they will take Taiwan by force. Time for international relationships to change for the better…

Yeah, I have no idea how I misread that as “blew up on the internet”.

Explain the meme for me. I may just have a synical mind that goes to dark places.

Just a small loan of some God given bodily assets, a touch of charisma, and probably not at risk of being homeless if drops out of education and becomes an adult with no other tangible skills. Also we only see the 1% of the 1% who succeed. For all of them I expect many ended up in actual porn or at least OnlyFans.

I’m fun at parties.

Knows…

I’m not sure about him baking, but word is he got baked on the regular.

The work I do is more important than bureaucratic bullshit. Basically the opposite of this meme, for which I’m very thankful. It’s the executives and board members whose turnover is comparatively absurd.

When cornered though something something excesses of ism.

Trans issues is the big one because the reality is so counterintuitive that even renoun internet celebrity scientists utterly fail to engage with the actual research.

I even feel compelled to stress that yes the science supports the need for unequivocal acceptance of trans people.

He has three lives to dodge the lasers then. No continues.

Maybe, if he can get past my Dad’s armed security.

I’ve never experienced less angst than here on Lemmy honestly, and mostly good faith disagreement.

Reddit is still bad faith capital of the internet, at least where people first sound like they’re worth arguing with. I haven’t touched a conversation anywhere else in years though.

Zaphod’s just this guy you know.

How can it be good for the world if everyone is spending more money on their militaries?