Oh do explain in what way China modifies their currency that’s malicious. Also, hilarious amounts of projection happening there. Only fucked in the head westerners see everything as a zero sum game where they’d rather destroy the world than live with the fact that somebody out there is doing better than them.
The US is about to lose two major wars back to back for the first time since Vietnam.
libs don’t call it New Orc Times for nothing
The threat of secondary sanctions is what’s keeping countries from doing that. Also, when SWIFT was the only game in town for international settlements, it made it very difficult to do business with Cuba. Now that situation is rapidly changing and I expect things will be looking up for Cuba going forward.
It’s difficult to say how this plays out. It certainly could take up to a decade, but we may see a lot of rapid changes early on as well. With regards to the Global South I expect the effects are going to be fairly immediate because China is the country that’s helping Global South develop and build out infrastructure. The west is becoming largely irrelevant to the global majority because it’s not actually producing much of anything that people need.
It’s worth keeping in mind that this was a war of attrition. Everybody who was motivated to fight against Russia signed up to join the army early on. Most of those people are now dead. The AFU is now reduced to grabbing people off the street and forcing them to fight. Most people who are left in Ukraine just want the war to be over and they don’t actually care whether Ukraine is going to be under Russian or western influence going forward. The only option NATO has left at this point is to go directly to war with Russia.
People who have been wrong about absolutely everything over the past two years are sure to be right this time.
Given that Russia is now reindustrializing as the result of the war, seems like the opposite would be happening.
While Russia is unlikely to occupy all of Ukraine, they’re certainly capable of demilitarizing Ukraine and putting in a Russia friendly government in charge of whatever remains of Ukraine in the end. Ultimately, the core motivation for the war was to keep NATO out of Ukraine. Stopping short of that would not solve the underlying problem.
Again, Germany is nowhere close to becoming car free in the foreseeable future. Nobody is arguing against expanding rail networks, what’s being said is that since cars are obviously not going anywhere it is better to use electric cars than gas powered ones.
Electric cars aren’t the solution, but they are a big practical improvement on gas cars, and thus a necessary step in the transition. Getting rid of cars will require major structural changes in society that aren’t even on the horizon.
Boilerplate is bad because it’s fundamentally just noise. When you read the code you want to be able to tell what the purpose of the code is and what the problem it solves. Ideally, code should be expressing that as clearly as possible. Having a lot of boilerplate is typically an indication that the language semantics don’t allow you to express the solution in a clear way and you have to write a lot of incidental code. The more code you have to read the more cognitive overhead there is in understanding it and keeping it all in your head.
don’t let the door hit you on the way out
It’s too bad that absolutely nothing will be learned from this experience in the west.
I find DRY often turns into an antipattern because decoupling is far more important than code reuse in practice. Having a function that supports many different code paths can make it very brittle because any changes to it need to consider all the possible use cases. However, if you have two separate functions that are similar, but can evolve independently then you don’t have that problem. As a rule, it’s better to duplicate code first, and then extract parts that turn out to be general purpose functionality once that’s identified through usage, and to put that code into libraries.
you already have
cry ab it
I mean to say that people who can’t see that the west lost the war against Russia and the obvious repercussions of that for the west will be shocked by what Todd is saying and see it as an aberration.
Not sure what’s malicious about China protecting their economy like everyone else.