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  • Clickbait.

    And the most annoying type of clickbait is, I’m not sure what their official names are, but I’ll call them smudge dots.

    It’s those little red dots Android/iOS puts on apps whose function is to get you to click on their apps so that you must use the apps the way they want you to, just so that you can remove the smudge off your phone which they’ll add back anyway.

    It’s what prevented me from returning to these OSes at all cost.


  • I don’t know, but what I **can **tell you is that
    I have noticed that there had been an awful lot of Iranian in European media in Europe flying pro-monarchy flags and by awful lot, I mean all protests in at least four Western countries outside of Iran, and that it’s presented by EU media as normal or semi-normal when it should not be.
    We live in the 21st century, not the middle ages or renaissance times.
    Then, there’s ‘the Iranian flag replacement on X’ by Elon Musk.
    I guess he likes seeing the return of monarchies too.











  • Several countries have overlapping claims, but for some reason Westerners are only interested in China’s claims, because Western media has one specific narrative it wants to tell. Maybe Westerners should mind their own business and let countries on the other side of the world sort out their own disputes.

    You’re forgetting to tell the commenter previously, these islands were previously occupied by France and Japan,
    one colonizer kicked out of Asia and the other being the loser of world war II.



  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlThey do be like that
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    No. You need lots of energy/electricity to economically grow and the US has fossil fuels in abundance,
    especially coal, but it’s very high in the other two sectors as well.
    Despite that, the Soviet Union managed to grow much faster with much less, same with China.
    But the Soviet Union doesn’t have much coal and natural gas didn’t become big and cheap
    until the turn of the millennium.
    And coal has been very important in the 20th century as that provides cheap electricity, while oil mainly provides cheap transportation. The problem with oil is that it’s also easy to transport itself, so as a country like Saudi Arabia which has no coal and only oil, there’s a large chance that it will get stolen from any countries with massive coal deposits and even a larger chance for the oil to be sold by a tiny group of elites of that country to countries with massive coal deposits.

    The US, despite its absolutely massive fossil fuel deposits compared to the rest of the world,
    started to falter in the early 1970s as they had an internal oil peak, crashing their economy.
    The Soviet Union was thriving, but still had a long way to catch up as it had been a monarchy up until the early 20th century,
    plus setbacks from invasions by Germany who put all their weight on the Soviet Union and still lost.
    The US then blackmailed Saudi Arabia just in time and was able to prop up their system and even thrive
    by forcing Saudi Arabia to invest into the US or be invaded. It allowed the US to go into massive debts without worry.
    The same happened to other oil producing nations.

    It’s the US whose underlying institutional failures are showing right now.
    China has risen in the 20th century because it’s expensive coal became cheap enough over time, as all the cheaper coal had been used up. Russia managed to regain some of its power with natural gas.

    But since the early 2020s solar power has become the energy/electricity rising star and solar power is far more evenly distributed than fossil fuels.
    There’s no blackmail scheme stopping this and we’re already seeing China haven taken a giant lead in solar power, wind power and battery storage, while the US is trying to instigate a civil war while trying to ban wind power and attempting to go from blackmail to direct oil theft.