curseofcasandra

The tri-Solarians could have just used this!

Rules-based global order, right?

For those unfamiliar with the history, Taiwan’s (ROC) own constitution says it is part of China. Its dispute is with the CCP, not China itself.

Conflating the PRC vs ROC conflict with a China vs Japan conflict is just ignorant.

Easier to blame a foreign villain than to hold the shareholder class accountable.

I'm not convinced that this is any sort of neutral analysis

Did you actually read the article? Nowhere does it suggest that anyone is claiming that China is the origin of Homo Sapiens. This million old skull discovered in China is not Homo Sapien, but related to Denisoven. It’s scientifically interesting since it suggests two things

1. Homo sapiens have existed longer than we previously thought.

2. Homo Sapiens may have come out of Western Asia, not Africa. But China is not in West Asia…

Please find other articles to fit into your the-Chinese-are-supremacist narrative. This one is not relevant.

I’m guessing it’s something along the lines of this: https://youtu.be/kYiUY07TzS4

why they would feel betrayed

South Korea is essentially a U.S. vassal state, so there’s an expectation that ICE wouldn’t be as brutal to them as say, if they were Venezulans.

if nothing else this unprecedented decision does not appear to have followed the usual standards of due process

On par for this administration.

Or more accurately, the Taiwanese government also believes that mainland China and Taiwan should be unified (ie. a One-China Interpretation). But that this One-China should be under the rule of the Taiwanese government and not the CCP, which they considered an illegitimate government, up until the 1992 Consensus.

After the 1992 Consensus [1], the Taiwanese government still considered the Mainland its territory (again under a One-China Interpretation), but also acknowledges the CCP's interpretation of One-China. In practice, this meant they officially abandoned plans to re-take the Mainland, and focus on maintaining the status quo of peace and stability.

Interestingly, the Taiwanese government also used to lay claim to Mongolia in addition to the Chinese Mainland.[2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Consensus

[2]https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2024/08/25/20...

Chomsky is right about some things and wrong about other things, like every human is.

I’m a big fan of Ryan Holiday and watched all his youtube videos. Shortly after Jimmy Carter’s death, he released a video explaining how Carter exemplified all the great stoic virtues. And in contrast, how Trump doesn’t. I do wonder if this video had anything to do with his cancellation.

“Synecdoche, New York”

Depending on where I am, I get something different from this film.

Read the Reference

don’t ask the LLM

To be fair, you can use LLMs to get to the reference. Gemini is pretty good at that. ie. You can ask it how to do such-and-such in Python and to provide a link to the official documentation.