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by maxglute 1y ago
Glad you listed, because that data shows apart from Sino Vietnamese almost half a century ago, PRC launched basically no wars of aggression, i.e. everything including SCS was territorial defense, i.e just. And if it was in chart form, the p
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by maxglute 1y ago
There are studies of AIS disabling events, highest proportion of ships/time. IIRC, avg worst is Spain, ~15% obscure. Then US, ~8%, then TW ~5% then PRC slightly less. US gets pass since US fishing happens in North West Atlantic - US ha
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by maxglute 1y ago
Where's the whataboutism? It is, in fact, super dooper helpful to remind people that US lawfare/propaganda has it's limits and in many domains, geopolitical reality has a PRC bias. Maybe it'll help some people understand
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by maxglute 1y ago
Good thing it's not their food then. Again most of fishing done legally in high seas, international waters, where commercial fishing at industrial scales now sufficient to alter coastal state ecology. And that sucks for them. But UNCLO
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by maxglute 1y ago
Because they are different goods that can't be aquacultured locally. Because PRC fisherman gets to make a living selling higher value wild fish like everyone else. Because it's simply not a problem when PRC decides to fish in inte
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by maxglute 1y ago
A nice steamed white fish is pretty indistinguishable for me. But again I'm not a fresh fish enthusiast, and ultimately aquaculture makes adequate inputs for fish products like fish balls or fish pattys.
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by maxglute 1y ago
>very edge of Argentina's territorial waters The edge of EEZs, aka the high seas, aka fucking international waters. There's lots of documentation of PRC DWF legally fishing where they're entitled that useful idiots think i
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by maxglute 1y ago
A few years ago google blocked my youtube red / premium account for spam even though the account was only used to watch videos. Not only did they wipe the account the wiped access to the payment page so I couldn't even cancel memb
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by maxglute 1y ago
Not every country has economically extractable heavy rare earths, resource =/= reserve. X discovers rare earth is the same as X discovers plants, and then assume every country can build a robust biofuel economy. Reminder PRC has the MO
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by maxglute 1y ago
Between futurama pneumatic tube, and walkalators, are there any other proposals for infra scale "pedestrian" mobilitiy. Faster/less walking seemed like one of those things futurist urbanists use to waste time speculativing no
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by maxglute 1y ago
PRC fishing mostly on international waters is an act of war now? NVM PRC DWF about as well behaved as other distant fishing fleet in terms of clipping EEZs and they're still underfishing per capita relative other large fishing powers,
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by maxglute 1y ago
It's been 20 years, what cheap Chinese goods have raised in prices? The china dump accusation is retarded at this point, the reality is PRC is manufacturing superpower who permanently reduces costs for the simple reason they need affor
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by maxglute 1y ago
I use different accounts for different subjects, well I use siloed account for PRC geopolitics, precisely because people challenged on PRC literacy likes to dig through accounts and be wierd about it.
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by maxglute 1y ago
> now that its citizens are being impacted PRC citizens were always impacted, these scam centers literally started (by twnese org crime) to target mainland retirees. PRC would love for Junta to dismantle Kokang / northern scam cente
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by maxglute 1y ago
>PRC Chinese organized crime (triads) Well it's a sinosphere (insert one china joke) organized crime thing. TLDR Taiwanese organized pioneered telco fraud 20 years ago, started third country scam call centers, primarily targetting t
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by maxglute 1y ago
Most of these conversations boil down to disconnect between 1) weight managemennt is 100% solved process 2) that process is trivial for some or borderline impossible for some depending on genetic of enviroment factors IN BOTH DIRECTIONs, mo
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by maxglute 1y ago
TBF Trump1 had consistently positive manufacturing PMI until covid. A lot of that didn't workout. Biden sustained that for 1st half of his term, but manufacturing PMI negative since 2023 and hasn't recovered. Some of that was resh
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by maxglute 1y ago
Well question is how long the structure that enables that life can be sustained. A lot of it is simply inertial from being tech hegemon which makes west price setters, i.e. FX fixers able to leverage indispensable technology to drive up wes
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by maxglute 1y ago
PRC roboticizing more than RoW combined to PLUG bluecollar workforce gap, they're already short on manufacturing labour supply. Well rather kids don't want to assemble widgets. The goal is always to maintain current industrial bas
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by maxglute 1y ago
I think it's pretty peak neoliberalism to discover and double down on collecting rents and trading make believe financial instruments in air conditioned offices than do dirty work making commodity widgets. Peak neolibralism seems like
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by maxglute 1y ago
Retarded finance bro demonstrating why PRC will win.
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by maxglute 1y ago
lol retarded finance bros like this is why PRC is going to win.
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by maxglute 1y ago
Track as in find carriers (then cue other assets to fix), not eyes on deck / line of sight / provide weapons grade track at all times. Movement as in we know carrier can only be in this small geographic area. Nothing that states i
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by maxglute 1y ago
Autonomy is still prospective but high priority, US+PRC (even PRC) both have manning issues. Less total crew + different crew - cheaper to train mission specialists on software in office than actual exercises. The problem is NATO subsurface
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by maxglute 1y ago
There's some in Brazil so I assume it can be found in appropriate conditions globally. I'm pretty sure AU will have some, because AU always seen have some. The issue still is going to be process/seperation, where main point i
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by maxglute 1y ago
Strategic REEs, i.e. heavyREE (Dysprosium, Terbium) are infact exceptionally rare, as in GEOLOGICALLY RARE. They are produced in China, because China (and Myanmar deposits controlled by China) are where ionic clays containing strategic HREE
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by maxglute 1y ago
It's substantially cheaper after skipping personel + operational costs of training and associated maintenance etc. Keeping the human bits trained involves flight hours, platform wear and tear etc. Unmanned = do more with less, i.e. sam
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by maxglute 1y ago
See PRC recently revealed XXLUUVs (US will be building them too I imagine), large submarine drones, long endurance, no crew, i.e. expendable blue water one way munition launchers. Space ISR means all movement of carrier groups at any given
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by maxglute 1y ago
More of a generalized comment, not limited to article. IMO even less point worrying about ASW lessons from 20 years ago vs peer threats with A2D2 that pushes carriers outside their strike distance while being able to hit them outside of it.
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by maxglute 1y ago
Wonder if US/USN is even institutionally capable of moving away from carrier expeditionary model if on paper it's borderly demonsntratbly not survivable. Feel like too much of US national prestige is tied to muh 11+10 carrier+lhd

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