[-] sartalon@futurology.today 7 points 11 months ago

This article reads like a terrible puff piece. Wired has really fallen low with a headline and article like this.

No real info, just statements from highly paid execs.

No way Chinese cars would be sold in U.S. or Japan, no idea about EU though. So no, not remotely a threat.

Seriously, this article is garbage.

[-] sartalon@futurology.today 22 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I got pinged twice, in one visit because I moved shit around, trying to organize.

Way more false positives, in my opinions.

[-] sartalon@futurology.today 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But I would still rate Michaelangelo's David as the best sculpture today.

Edit... Winged Victory though... looking up at it from the base of the stairs...

[-] sartalon@futurology.today 21 points 11 months ago

The solution is obvious. Hire an auditing firm to audit the auditing firms.

Bonus points if the auditing firm, hired to audit, subcontracts the auditing to the firm they are supposed to audit.

[-] sartalon@futurology.today 3 points 11 months ago

China's subsurface capabilities are laughable at best.

They are decades behind even Russia and pose no real threat to anyone but the same small Asian neighbors they have been bullying for years.

[-] sartalon@futurology.today 3 points 11 months ago

Copy paste that for every continent outside of Europe.

[-] sartalon@futurology.today -2 points 11 months ago

Wait, are you suggesting that a bunch of fundies, praying at a temple, is a reasonable excuse to target high populated civilian areas, to maximize innocent deaths? Oh and add kidnapping to the list too.

Oh noes, they "Stormed the site and prayed."

Better kill them all.

[-] sartalon@futurology.today 0 points 11 months ago

Wait, what!? How would this be a "huge strategic gain for the U.S."?

You could argue that it's a proxy conflict between the West and radicalized Muslim states. Sure. I would even listen to a discussion about rich elites using governments to keep areas destabilized in order to further their own fortunes.

But saying that somehow the U.S. would gain a huge strategic advantage is reaching.

What would the strategic value be? Is there oil there? Would they put a base there that somehow had more capabilities than facilities they already have in the area?

This isn't 5D chess. This is two cultures that refuse to get along, being supported openly, and behind closed doors by larger nations.

Israel hates it's neighboring countries for good reason. Those countries hate Israel for good reasons.

The human rights violations are disgusting and I support the freeing of Palestine.

But when you do shit like what the Hamas just did, you destroy any sort of moral high ground you may have had. Two wrongs don't make a right, no matter what your culture is.

You can't divorce Hamas from Palestine either, like some commentors are trying to do.

Tribalism at its worst.

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