There are many reasons you would be against china.

1. Not a democracy
2. Helping Russia in the invasion of Ukraine
3. Aims to invade Taiwan
4. You always want some amount of local manufacturing. Relying on a single supplier is never a good idea in any context if you can avoid it.
5. Helps north Korea
6. Claims international and other countries waters for itself
7. Uyghurs
8. Tibet
9. Many active border disputes due to territorial expansion aims.
10. Secret police stations to enforce it’s laws outside china
11. Hong Kong

Low prices doesn’t justify any of that.

And that (non-exclusive) list (except the 1st point) is only what affects people outside of china. There’s many other reasons to dislike the CCP that only affects the Chinese. Like mass surveillance and censorship.

I would still be programming. Just that it would be the projects I want to do, instead of the ones my employer wants to do.

Whatever makes your genes more likely to spread goes into the definition of “fit” in this context.

Evolution doesn’t care how you managed to spread your genes. It only cares if you did it or not.

If you have great social skills, which ends up in you working together, which ends up in you being better than if you didn’t work together, which ends up in you spreading your genes, that counts towards your fitness.

I read the entire frontpage and I don’t know the answer to these questions:

1. What problem is this product trying to solve?
2. How does this product solve the problem?
3. What makes this product better than the alternatives?

I would not use this product, because of marketing reasons. I believe (I don’t remember if it’s mentioned in the frontpage) that it is free, however, I haven’t tried using it because I don’t have an answer to those questions. I’m not a marketing person, but the front page is pretty important. Specially the start of it.

Also, I don’t know what it’s supposed to look like, but I believe that the front page is broken. I’m on Android using Firefox mobile on a 2400x1080 screen.

I hope that this helps.

You got lucky. Last time for me I waited 1hour+. Why? Because I ordered inside the restaurant instead of the drive-through. Apparently they have incentives to keep the drive-through queue small and fast.

And I’m not even in car land (America). It was in Spain. I cannot even imagine what ordering in car land from inside the restaurant will take.

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Fast food still exists though, it just doesn’t come in the form of the usual American corporations. My local kebab fulfills the order in 5-10 minutes.

Well. In that case we have to either move on to argue why I believe that a stateless society is bad and you believe it is good. Or just call it here and agree to disagree. Whatever you prefer. Since I don’t think I can change your mind (on the basis of past experience about this topic, not something personal about you) or that you can change mine about that topic.

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Or you could provide a different definition for “xenophobia”. But I don’t think I’ll agree to any other definition.

This specific technicality is important for your point though.

I’m gonna explain my reasoning so you can choose whatever you want have a conversation about.

Your claim was that putting citizens above non-citizens is xenophobic.

My point is that putting citizens above non-citizens is a natural consequence of a state. And furthermore, that it is a good thing.

Xenophobia is widely regarded to be a bad thing and that we should avoid it.

If both of our statements are true. The natural conclusion is that we should have a stateless society. I don’t think that a stateless society is a good thing. Therefore I’m trying to find a flaw in the argument. I think that the flaw is that you are wrong. So I have to have a conversation with you about why I think you are wrong.

If you are wrong, it must mean one of these statements are wrong:

• Putting citizens above non-citizens is xenophobic.
• Putting citizens above non-citizens is a natural consequence of the state.
• Xenophobia is widely regarded to be a bad thing and we should avoid it.

Since 2/3 statements are made by me, of course I think they are true. So I’m going to argue about why the first one is wrong.

The only way to proof your statement to be wrong is by first defining what xenophobia is. Which you might call a technicality, but I don’t think it’s possible to have a conversation if we don’t first agree what the meaning of the words we use is.

After defining what xenophobia is, we have to figure out if the “equation” is true: “putting citizens above non-citizens” = “xenophobia”.

How were they absent for the vote? They better have a good reason.

If the doctor has to double-check the entire recording. Just give the recording to the patient. And due to this policy doctors might be scared into even triple-checking it.

What a waste of time from the people we* need most as our population grows older.

*I’m not a patient of the NHS. I say this as humanity in general.

To be fair, cornfields consume resources other than solar energy. Like CO2. However the benefits of consuming CO2 goes away if you’re just gonna burn the corn, which releases CO2 again.

The results of an action being done for a reason being discriminatory does not make the reason invalid.

Almost any policy is discriminatory.

Taxing the rich more is discriminatory against the rich. Helping women out is discriminatory against the men. Ending segregation is discriminatory against people that don’t want be near people different to them. The list is endless.

I assume you agree with all 3 of those policies. Yet they are discriminatory. Those 3 policies are done because of very valid reasons.

There are very few policies that I’d say are not desceiminatory. Like universal basic income or universal healthcare. And even then, by your definition of discriminatory, those would be discriminatory. Since they would still discriminate against non-citizens.

There is no world where a person born in X country that has never left X country to receive income from a UBI policy of Y country. Unless X and Y countries have some sort of deal where that happens.

Ask any trump voter why they voted for trump. They will say “because I like his policies more”. Ask them which policy do they think will benefit them, they will have no answer.

Anti British empire people:

The Brits are horrible! Look how they divided the world in countries with straight line borders without care about the local population’s culture!

Also anti British empire people:

The Brits are horrible! They made 2 separated countries due to their culture being different!

You can’t blame the British on this. Countries are supposed to be groups of people that are geographically connected and have similar cultures. Religion is a big part of culture.

Of course leaving I think leaving Kashmir to decide their own fate was a mistake. In retrospect, they probably should have divided them in 2 and give part to Pakistan and part to india. Or alternatively force them to become a separate state with a constitution that doesn’t rule out the idea of separating in 2, and each part could decide independence or join their culturally-similar country.

Putting citizens over non-citizens is called being a government.

Xenophobia is the irrational fear of foreign. And fear in this context usually shows up in the form of hate.

Putting citizens first does not mean hating the rest. Being a citizen of a country means that your government should represent you and your interests. It’s only natural that it develops into benefits for citizens.

Xenophobia on a person level is when you see a person that you think is not part of your same origin, do you cross the street, or attack him or whatever. Of course this is not even close to being an exhaustive list.

Xenophobia on a country level is when you punish foreigners irrationally. Not letting foreigners into your country because you have a housing crisis is not irrational, it is a valid reason.

I find it hard to find examples of country-level xenophobia. Even if the act itself may seem xenophobic, the government may want to gain popular support of their xenophobic population, which would be a reason and thus non-xenophonic.

Of course, not being xenophobic does not mean it is good. For example Israel genociding Palestinians is horrible. But their reason is that having a neighbor that claims the same land as you do is problematic, and they figured if they just kill everyone the world will forget in 100-200 years (or less) while the land will be theirs for longer than that with no revels, since they genocided them. Of course, having a reason does not mean that it’s not many other bad things (in this case, genocidal, which is worse than xenophobic).

Don’t need to enter conspiracy theory land. Elon musk bought votes out in the open. It was as public as it gets. 2024 US elections were not fair and democratic.

I don’t know what the rules are on public transit near you. But the ones I use don’t allow food/drinks.

Many editors can read config files from a file in the repository itself. And oftentimes it has the highest priority. Just gotta know the IDE of your target and they have to click “trust this project”.

That’s not what happened in the entirety of Spain. I’m from one of the least affected areas (basque country) where the blackout only lasted ~2h. My cellphone had 4g connection the entire time.

IMAP is an incredibly simple protocol compared to the sum of all the protocols that are needed to implement a web browser.

A web browser also has to be way more performant.

Both an IMAP client and a web browser have to be reliable and secure. However achieving so in a system as complex as a web browser is incredibly expensive.

Web browsers are almost as complex as operating systems.

Complexity, performance, reliability and security on that level are expensive. You would be delusional to think a web browser should be worth as much as an IMAP client.