If we're really learning from mistakes in Ukraine then Taiwan should be recognised as an independent country and admitted into a formal alliance. Not admitting Ukraine into NATO was the mistake we made there and it's being repeated in Taiwan.

It looks like it's all orchestrated by Iran. Hezbollah, under Iran control, Hamas and Yemeni rebels. Hamas shooting at Israel in a way that they clearly knew would necessitate a massive response. What I'm wondering is what they gain from this. Perhaps solidarity from other powers in the Middle East, causing hatred of Israel? I'm also wondering if this is all covering action for China to tie down the US while China attempts to take Taiwan. We might be living through what in the future textbooks will be under the heading of factors leading up to.

Joined yesterday coming here from Reddit. My favourite app no longer works (Reddit is fun) and I just can't get myself to use the official app. Lemmy seems pretty cool so far, only missing a few subs that were not super large on Reddit but are not really viable here due to a small number of users. Hopefully that will change if the number of users keeps growing so fast.

China never imposes its will on other countries, nor does it slip any selfish geopolitical agenda into the initiative

Hahahaha. Sure. Except when they cancel trade deals with Australia and bully small European countries. I'm SURE this is just free money out of the goodness of dictator Xi's heart.

Now we just need Reddit is Fun for Lemmy.

Chinese government nowadays is just as fascist as Mussolini was back in the day. Revanchist and extremely nationalistic tendencies are strong. They think they are the future superpower and are salivating at the thought of oppressing the entire world under their yoke. I'll take that they call "US hegemony" over the Chinese oppression any day, don't need to think about it.

If he keeps going like that, Uncle Sam might soon throw in free room and board for him.

We really don't have disdain for the Americans. Most Americans I've met have been great.

He's afraid Prigozhin will run.

Lemmy is Fun? 👍

With the exception of oral instead of written exams and the three year reduction for citizenship, I think the rest is already in place in the UK. Germany has traditionally had more stringent requirements especially when it comes to dual citizenship (which was only allowed for other EU countries).

Nuclear base... Talk about hyperbole. Hope the weather is nice in Beijing this August.

Ahhh right so the information is there publicly available just not in the existing clients. Interesting.

Yeah agree I am not sure that's a feature I'd want either tbh if it wasn't already there. But seems like it is in some form.

Yeah Reddit won but the Reddit users lost. Lost access to awesome apps most of all. I personally think it's fair for Reddit to charge for API access but it seems hardheaded to charge orders or magnitude more per user than they make on their own platform through advertising. I currently only use Reddit on desktop because I'm not going to use their crappy official app. Indeed I lost out, congrats Spez on your victory. In the meantime I'm on Lemmy more than I used to be and I hardly ever comment on Reddit posts anymore.

Sometimes I think driving licenses should require regular revalidation in the form of a driving retest. People acquire bad habits and begin to ignore rules, people age as in this case and their abilities are no longer up to the standard they were when they got the license. Doing this every 5 years and maybe reducing it to every 2 years once over 70 or some such.

He wants to increase the threshold of where you start paying 40%. The title of this article makes it sound like it's 45% but it's not. Currently this threshold is at about £50k. So this would make the biggest difference to exactly the middle classes.

Fitting them with cameras makes it look like another profit protection measure.

I was nodding along till here. Wouldn't fitting employees with body cameras making it easier to prosecute the criminals? Lack of evidence is probably the issue in most cases.

This is almost certainly nothing to do with gaming but rather with preventing China from building up their own chip industry and using US chips in things like AI applications.

Sure I agree when it comes to admitting them to the EU. NATO is only a military defence alliance though. If they'd been in NATO this war would never have happened.