Chinese "exports have risen by 6% overall, owing to increased shipments to Europe and South-East Asia. China's currency, meanwhile, is stronger now against the dollar than it was before April 2nd."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Ffina...

This administration is too dumb to even know how to conduct a trade war.

Twitter used to be good for news, and the same is now true for BSky. Plenty of lists that supply me with news on Ukraine, science, technology and other topics that I am interested in.

My engagement there has not declined nor do I perceive a slowdown in posts.

USAID was dismantled overnight, without any opportunity for other aid organisations to step up. This is why it amounts to the deliberate murder of thousands of the world's poorest.

I also suspect that much of USAID wasn't for humanitarian purposes as much as it was for buying influence abroad,

All major nations do this. It's called soft power. And the US pissed it all away.

I don't care, lets kill all mosquitos, all of them, each one. I would personally execute each one of them with a tiny guillotine. Set them up, let me press the button.

If you learn to touch type you can play games like this one https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.typing.com%2Fstudent...

WTF are you yapping about, who is endangering you? Fuck off you little bitch, motherfucking government loving piece of shit who should be treated as any other treasonous cunt. Government is the enemy of any person, if you are on the side of any government you are as well.

Nonsense, the very act of driving does not mean anything, you bought into this nonsense hook, line and sinker. Government shouldn't have any say over how we live our lives, how we drive on our streets, what apps we use, who we trade with.

The only one single, the only one maybe half reasonable thing for government to do is is protection against foreign attacks, that's it.

You are absolutely correct. It is disgusting to see so many people supporting any government intervention in our lives and this is just more of the same. People are supposed to be these automatons the government wants them to be so that they can be fined more and more often, controlled harder and harsher for normal human behavior, which is under a continuous attack by the goons, who have power and occupy government positions.

"I mean just like Trump, media coverage on Putin is biased"

Yes, it's insane how maibstream outlets such as the NYT are normalizing Trump. The guy has his own crypto meme coin for crying out loud. The corruption is so open and brazen it's laughable, but the MSM is still obsessing over Biden's age, while Donnie boy re-truths that Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone.

What an eff'ing joke America turned into.

USSR used nuclear bombs all over the place https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwik... because the money was spent and now they just these bombs, how do they not use them as brute force solutions to every day problems? It seemed like a low effort, high reward way of accomplishing things where otherwise proper engineering and work would be required. It would also somewhat justify the insane expense on the nuclear program outside of the promise of total annihilation.

We moved from Ukraine to Russia, Yakitia in 1985 and lived there for 6 years before going back, We found out that a decade prior a nuclear bomb was blown up underground nearby and it didn't go well, a few thousand people decided to try and walk away from the town towards another town 500km away but they couldn't make it in that winter and came back. Winters there are dark (no Sun at all most of the time, you only see a glimpse of it for a couple of hours) and cold (-50C is normal, sometimes much lower than that).

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwik....

USSR failed many times on many fronts, today criminal murderous morons want to reinstate it and so we have a war where thousands are dying daily and where the victims are getting blamed by the leaders of the most powerful country in the world for the perpetrators attacking them, that is after the victims gave away their nuclear arsenal to the perpetrators after the leaders of the most powerful country in the world promising that this very thing wouldn't happen, because the most powerful country in the world would prevent and or intervene.

So many failures on so many levels, people all around the world are learning lessons that a nuclear arsenal is a must.

Once many will have their nuclear arsenals, they too will use their nuclear bombs all over the place in futile attempts to reverse flow or rivers and for other similar reasons. Not looking forward to it.

You don't nee j2ee, just java itself and a jdk/jvm does the job just fine, this entire crazy stack nonsense, including Spring is garbage not worth using for any purpose where you need clarity, curtness, ease of implementation *and* debugging and maintaining the code. You don't need XML inside your application, it was something forced upon people for the same reasons people later started trading NFTs - the mentality of the sheep, where those, who are selling the idea make all of the money and the rest end up suffering and bleeding.

Java is used by the enterprise, enterprise buys into grandiose promises sold by snake oil salesmen sent by the likes of SAP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon, Adobe, VMWare, etc.etc. these guys know how to take enterprise money and you cannot really fight them once they are done with you, likely they have more money than you do. Everyone's service becomes shittier and for stupid reasons out of all of the things that could be blamed, a computer language takes a huge brunt... silly. I like Java for what it is - a great language to code server side business systems.

Trade deficit and national debt are absolutely tied together. The debt is growing all the time to 'pay' for the unaffordable welfare state, the trade deficit is deficit financing the consumption that isn't paid by production but instead is paid by debt. The funny thing is that the very people who manufacture your products are also debt financing your consumption, they are buying your Treasuries (Debtories really) with the dollars they receive from you that you provide in exchange for the goods they are selling you. You are borrowing / printing the money used to finance the trade deficit and this borrowing / printing adds to your debt.

Don't expect more than one reply from me in a day, given the moderation I can only leave 1-2 comments a day here, cheers.

Seen Youtube lately? I just watched a video on how to make nitroglycerin. Stuff like this has been available for over a decade.

Back in the days that home solar systems still mostly used lead-acid batteries - which in some cases of degradation could be repaired, at least partially, if you had some good strong and reasonably pure sulfuric acid - I viewed a YouTube video on how to make it. (From epsom salts by electrolysis using a flowerpot and some carbon rods from old large dry cells).

For months afterward YouTube "suggested" I'd be interested in videos from a bunch of Islamic religious leaders . (This while people were wondering how Islamic Terrorists were using the Internet to recruit among high-school out-group nerds.)

Software - AI and otherwise - often creates unintended consequences. B-)

Who wouldn't want to pay a subscription for 24/7 surveillance with all your personal data in some corporate cloud storage? /s

All this could have been avoided by buying Trump coins for a couple million $.