https://xkcd.com/3081/

critical support

Given how dependent US military is on electronics and rare earths from China, there’s little chance of that happening. https://www.niocorp.com/china-launches-new-precision-strike-against-pentagon-rare-earth-supply-chains/

the study https://www.lung.org/media/press-releases/state-of-the-air-2025

I love how when faced with an actual paper showing how life expectancy increased, you counter with wikipedia further highlighting your intellectual prowess. The idiocy of your “argument” is to ignore what life expectancy was like BEFORE the revolution, and the fact that famines were already a common occurrence. If you spend a bit of time actually understanding the subject before opining on it, then you’ll be able to avoid making a clown of yourself in public in the future. Maybe start by actually reading the paper I linked.

great idea, here’s an alternative voting system

I expect the EU is going do fall apart at this point. As European economy continues to crash, countries are going to start pulling up ladders.

This moment will be taught in history books.

Europe in particular managed to paint itself into a corner over the past three years. Now it looks like the US will just walk away and leave them to hang.

It seems that the admin fundamentally misunderstood the level of dependence on China when starting the trade war.

The only surprising part is that they manage to keep the whole thing running as long as they did.

fulfilling his role as the governor of Canada

Meanwhile in the real world

Between 1950 and 1980, China experienced the most rapid sustained increase in life expectancy of any population in documented global history. We know of no study that has quantitatively assessed the relative importance of the various explanations proposed for this gain in survival. We have created and analysed a new, province-level panel data set spanning the decades between 1950 and 1980 by combining historical information from China’s public health archives, official provincial yearbooks, and infant and child mortality records contained in the 1988 National Survey of Fertility and Contraception. Although exploratory, our results suggest that gains in school enrolment and public health campaigns together are associated with 55-70 per cent of China’s dramatic reductions in infant and under-5 mortality during our study period. These results underscore the importance of non-medical determinants of population health, and suggest that, in some circumstances, general education of the population may amplify the effectiveness of public health interventions.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25495509/

Should do an AMA on what it’s like to put those clown shoes on every morning.

what’s that you were bleating about there?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25495509/

Given that China isn’t going to cave, what you’re saying here is that you think the US should tank its economy by doubling down. Sounds like you’re well qualified for a job at the White House.

Pretty much what you’d expect from a carnie in charge of the neoliberal circus in Canada.

OpenAI is going to have no problems maintaining Chromium. I’m talking about maintenance of community forks of Chromium.

How is that even remotely a tough choice. China acts rationally and it has a stable government. Meanwhile, US is disintegrating in real time and unless Canada diversifies its trade then it will be going down with the ship.

Same, it seems like there needs to be a new foundation that’s specifically focused on Firefox and nothing else. The problem with Mozilla is that they keep trying to do all kinds of stuff instead of just focusing on making a good browser.