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Oh yeah, I’m almost certain he’s CIA funded. He does this more sophisticated style propaganda, where the facts he presents are correct, but he adds this subtle framing you have to look for. And if you don’t know the details it all sounds very legit. For example, when he discusses Yemen and Saudi Arabia, he just conveniently leaves out how Saudi Arabia annexed 3 provinces of Yemen in the 30s, and they’ve been trying to do a genocide in Yemen. Kind of important context. Or how he gives numbers through out the video, but then when it comes to the claims of Ukraine knocking out Russian refineries he all of a sudden starts hand waving, and doesn’t mention that Russia isn’t actually a major diesel export globally in the first place.
So, yeah, he’s definitely a sack of shit, but I did learn a bit from the second half of the video, so worth watching.
13·1 day agoyeah exactly
oh it’s gonna get so much worse, this is lib brained, but does identify the structural problems correctly https://youtu.be/OETnuwwsv9U
9·2 days agoProbably going to be some alignment in policy in the Global South and these are the first steps.
Australia looks particularly fucked because vast majority of diesel is imported and there’s barely any refining capacity domestically.
18·3 days agoIt’s because in Mandarin you count in myriads (万 = 10,000) and then 亿 = 10^8 = a hundred million, which is just 万×万. So million-kilowatt is really just a literal calque of 百万千瓦, which is the normal way to describe power capacity in Mandarin since it builds these numbers with 万 and 亿 multipliers (万千瓦, 亿千瓦) rather than reaching for SI prefixes like 吉瓦 (gigawatt), even though 吉瓦 technically exists.
exactly
I imagine the calculus for Russia is that the economic attrition is proving to be more harmful to Europe. Russia is largely self sufficient in terms of essentials having its own food, energy, and industry. Europe has none of these things, and the war on Iran has just dealt a further blow. So, it makes sense for Russia not to escalate and wait for the European regimes to start imploding. We’re already seeing this happening in Germany, and likely in France next.
However, that has to be balanced against Europe becoming more brazen with attacks into Russia. It’s hard to say what Russia’s red lines are here, and at which point the calculus shifts to having to do a demonstration. It seems like the recent statement about nuclear weapon use in regards to Kaliningrad had an effect.
Absolutely, these people care nothing for their countries.
It’s been incredible to watch how Europe allowed the US to cut them off from energy supplies and gut European industry to the core.
Yeah, it’s a really bad situation at this point, and seems like each day is moving us closer to an open conflict between Europe and Russia.
I think the US will have no choice but to cut back on the global force projection. We’re already seeing articles like this from the US think tanks advocating for abandoning Asia. As you note, the collapse of American presence globally will likely have catastrophic effects on the US economy. So, my expectation is that we’ll see the US put a much harder squeeze on the remaining vassals like the EU, Australia, and Canada. Along side that, the US will likely retrench to the western hemisphere and focus on subjugating Latin America. The domestic exploitation will also increase to new heights.
I also expect that most countries will pursue renewables a lot more seriously because now there’s a realization that being dependent on energy imports is a national security concern. The US is doubling down on oil and gas production, but I think the demand will be dropping. The disruption from the Gulf is structural, and it won’t be resolved quickly. This creates both the time and the need to do renewables adoption at scale. There’s also a massive incentive for China to support these efforts as it will boost their economy.
It’s really painful to watch. What’s happening in Europe is such a great study on how mass hysteria leads to catastrophes.
Seems like we’re way closer to a nuclear holocaust than any time since the height of the cold war.
What I particularly liked about Ted Chiang’s analysis is that he treats the corporation as an entity in its own right. It’s not just an aggregate of interests of people working at a company, they are akin to cells living within a larger organism. The corporation represents a qualitatively different type of entity with its own goals shaped by the selection pressures of the capitalist system. And these goals can be highly divergent from those of humanity.
perhaps the most surprising part