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by SllX 9mo ago
Like I said, I think your position is defensible but I think it falls short so I still disagree. If the people who bought into this contract can get it in front of a judge though, the judge might agree with you. I am prepared to be wrong on
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by SllX 9mo ago
I understand that he made that claim, but until we see something that effectively substantiates that claim, it’s just words. Right now Maduro is in custody and being tried for the charges, but the regime he built is still in place, and as f
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by SllX 9mo ago
What the military actually did was a raid which captured Maduro and his wife, and likely took out some of Venezuela’s anti-air capabilities—for all the good they did them—in the process. As far as we know, that was the intent. Actually es
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by SllX 9mo ago
There is nothing both public and credible to substantiate the claim by the POTUS. It’s possible we have de facto control of the regime through some backroom that only the Trump Administration knows about, but that’s just speculative on my
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by SllX 9mo ago
There was also the fact that Microsoft introduced it 3 months before Apple announced the product that would kill the iPod, leading with the HDD model (a direct competitor to what would become known as the iPod Classic line) when Apple’s rea
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by SllX 10mo ago
The insular part was a very small, maybe too subtle of, joke. That’s also not a viable option for the EU, or more specifically: the constituent nations of the EU. They’re as dependent on trade as we are, maybe even more so, and so we are st
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by SllX 10mo ago
That trade dynamic isn’t going to shift unless the EU becomes a lot more insular. The War in Ukraine is dampening trade with Russia. The EU is struggling in their trade relations with the PRC even more than with America right now, and fears
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by SllX 10mo ago
They do but that is a digital store & rental service you cited, basically like iTunes. The streaming service they own is the entirely anime-focused Crunchyroll and it’s not managed specifically as an outlet for Sony Pictures because tha
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by SllX 11mo ago
Your nitpick doesn’t even stick though. The EU does not have a monopoly on the “European” moniker. There’s a lot of Europe outside the EU that is still “European”.
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by SllX 11mo ago
Nobody is giving them more deference than the other. In a perfect world, the ROC would be the one and only surviving entity from this mess and the PRC would be a relic of history. That isn’t what the facts on the ground are though. The ROC
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by SllX 11mo ago
The PRC and Japan is not a remotely comparable situation to the PRC and Taiwan. The most the PRC could do is potentially sabotage production in Hokkaido, but if they can sabotage production in Hokkaido, they can sabotage it in Arizona.
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by SllX 11mo ago
There is no respect due to Beijing or the Chairman Winnie the Pooh regime on this issue. Taiwan is an independent country.
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by SllX 11mo ago
In practice, they are both sovereign over separate territories.
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by SllX 11mo ago
Agreed.
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by SllX 11mo ago
Given Korea hasn’t been a Japanese colony since the War, and they want to build in their territory, options are limited.
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by SllX 11mo ago
Right now there is no non-violent path to achieving that because Taiwan intends to violently and militarily resist if it comes to that. Probably with the aid of America, although I’m a lot less certain of that than 5 year ago, and it’s look
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by SllX 11mo ago
There’s a whole genre of websites out there that are a ToC and a series of ChatGPT responses. I take it to mean they’re targeting that shit specifically and anything else that becomes similarly prevalent and a plague upon search results.
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by SllX 11mo ago
Given the overwhelming amounts of slop that have been plaguing search results, it’s about damn time. It’s bad enough that I don’t even down rank all of them, just the worst ones that are most prevalent in the search results and skip over th
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by SllX 11mo ago
That and the design misattributions. Even going in blind, if you actually read the Newsroom post and find the Store page, you can figure out that this isn’t even an Apple product. It’s an ISSEY MIYAKE product. If you end up finding any of t
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by SllX 11mo ago
A note to the author: if you’re going to translate the word “shini gami ”, do it right: it’s not “death” but “Death God ”. He still showing disrespect. smdh
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by SllX 11mo ago
Doing that little is effectively the same as doing nothing at all, and they wouldn’t actually be insulated.
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by SllX 11mo ago
That approach is also insane. You’re always going to be vulnerable somewhere and there isn’t a better country to be if you’re in software, cloud services or AI. Not to mention it’s not like Microsoft Execs want to pickup and leave the State
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by SllX 1y ago
It’s mean if the next CEO is fucking stupid and replaces everyone at the top with literal slugs, it could happen. Short of that, it’s a consistent $35B-40B segment of their operations that makes the iPhone, iPad and everything else they do
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by SllX 1y ago
That’ll be a good day for the iPad but take over? Not a chance in hell.
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by SllX 1y ago
If anything, they're the iPhone company and they are massively understating how much of their revenue is directly attributable to the iPhone. Take "Services" for example: most of their services are things like App Store reven
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by SllX 1y ago
They’re the “Anglo” in “Angloamerican culture” that the parent is talking about.
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by SllX 1y ago
> But I am no expert on EU bureaucracy and politics! I’d be shocked if anyone alive is. A couple of weeks ago the Council of the EU authorized both the Commission and members to sign onto this convention. That’s the best I’ve got and it
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by SllX 1y ago
All better company than the countries listed as signatories. I’m actually not sure about Germany though. I almost posted a similar list above but then I noticed the European Union is listed as a signatory, so not sure where that puts the EU
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by SllX 1y ago
Out of curiosity, can you give me an example of a presently extant culture that does view itself as evil?
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by SllX 1y ago
Solid question. Related, but here is a list of governments that did support this: https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mt...

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