As a non-american, while the mid-term results make me feel good, and seeing all the various moves to “right the ship” is great, the fact that so much trust, which much of the world treated as foundational in many ways, was so easily broken in the first place, is what I feel gives the rest of the world pause. It’s a basic fact that breaking trust is easy, building it is way harder, and SOOOOO much trust was broken globally by the Trump administration.

I’m hopeful, but I do agree that building trust back is gonna be a multi-generational thing and quite likely, people are going to put more systems in place to never HAVE to trust another nation as much as much of the world used to trust the US. I do believe some things were irevocably broken, but that doesn’t meant things can’t get better.

True, and also more nukes in play is just bad overall

Pakistan is one of nine states that possess nuclear weapons. Pakistan is not party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Pakistan’s arsenal is estimated at 170 nuclear weapons as of 2025. -Wikipedia

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I feel like they’ve been talking about this since I was a kid. I remember reading in school about phytoplankton as a carbon sink and how it can be used to fight climate change back in the early 2000’s, or am I losing my mind?

Edit after reading more carefully. Yes they’ve been working on it, it’s the potential side effects that are the big deal

Researchers have long known that adding iron to the sea leads to blooms of phytoplankton (back in the 1980s, one scientist declared: “Give me a half tanker of iron, and I will give you an ice age”),

Found a 2021 reddit post as well

But I feel like I saw this first on imgur back in the mid 2010’s. Might be getting things mixed up though

It can stand alone I think, but it also is pretty deep in his expanded universe. I’ve only just gotten into act 2 and there’s stuff that ties into other stories, some of which I haven’t read, and I’m still enjoying it. Definitely no worries about missing the short story though as he sprinkles it in as flash backs in act 1 of the story.

Just started Isles of the Emberdark. Just realized that outside of manga I’ve been reading nothing but Sanderson novels for a good bit

I don’t see any sane governments trying to make deals with him going forward. He’s shown that he will just ignore/change any “deals” he makes in all aspects of his life as he sees fit.

I do suspect he’ll go TACO in the end but the fucking chaos in the meantime…

How can anybody with a brain not understand

There’s your answer

At this point it’s kind of entertaining to see him keep raising the stupidity bar. Absolutely fucking terrifying too, but still also kinda entertaining.

TWO international reporters shot in a single day.

Here I thought the article got the nationality of the reporter wrong only to find out they’re just aiming for reporters in general now apparently…

The fact that I’m learning this from your comment enhances this meme

Never used them myself but other videos I found make these seem very much like a children’s PE class / therapeutic kind of thing. Hopefully some kind Germans can enlighten us on the use case of Pedalos

Here you go

Non-American here. There’s a huge market for cheap Chinese goods outside the US. There are a lot of little things where you don’t need quality, just “good enough to get the job done”. There’s a chain of stores all around SEA called Mr. DIY that is basically full of worryingly cheap made in China products and it’s thriving.

Then there’s the various electronics brands that at least have reliable quality with good specs for the costs. Huge market for those despite bloat, spyware etc. outside of the US. As if you don’t get that with practically all mainstream electronics from any country anyway. Plus for non smart electronics, they’re fine. Xioami makes a great and cheap precision electronic screwdriver for example. Then there’s car companies like BYD that is just killing it in the global EV market.

Not saying the Chinese government is great or anything, they’ve got hands as bloody as any other global superpower, but I do think Chinese companies can find plenty of willing customers outside of the US.

Tl;dr A lot of the world is willing to buy “cheap garbage”, and not everything China is producing is seen as “cheap garbage” anymore.

Oh right, and then he said he loves using the laptop now or something like that

I believe he said he started with Mint then moved to Arch, partially because of the memes.

It’s good to consider why these discussions “go nowhere”. I’d argue that influential countries following through with promises would set good examples (not really happening but would be great if it did). Showing complete disdain for climate talks and policy however encourages other governments to do the same.

So no forcing IMO, but just a desperate “Can’t we all do better?”

There was a gigantic one back in March, killed over a thousand. A building in Bangkok, Thailand even collapsed.

Not like Myanmar hadn’t already been bombing their citizens up to and after the quake though .