If it did, the heater wouldn’t look like this.

Nah, blinking when done. It’s a call to action of sorts.

How about we just kill everyone you, personally, find annoying, would that work?

You know, all things aside, it’s kinda sad people don’t even remember anymore that the Nazis weren’t just after Jews.

Power grids are very interlinked, it helps with grid stability. It would be weird if they weren’t.

This is a fun map: app.electricitymaps.com

Funny thing, I made the same question in reverse once, and the crowd on here descended on me for “whataboutism”.

I get the distinct impression that some people are simply unable to concieve of a perspective different from their own. For lack of a better comparison, it’s like those Christian movies where everyone, including the atheist, openly believes God exists, but the atheist chooses to be an atheist out of spite or malice or whatever. So for some, disagreement is at best you being a troll or shill or bot, and at worst a frontal attack at their entire conception of the world.

I kinda wanna see Israel start weapons development with China. Just to see people lose their shit.

Initially, at least.

Good/Bad isn’t the point. The point is if you do something that shouldn’t even be on the table and get away with it, it’s now on the table for everyone.

Honestly, kind of impressive.

This isn’t a new idea, it’s been around sinde Reagan, and the consensus is that it’s just non-viable.

have a negative view of the US which in itself means they are very biased.

Man, if I wrote a character saying this, I’d be rightfully called a hack…

Taking out a large swarm of (presumably, nuclear armed) bombers quickly.

The belief is the solid structure. It’s science, almost: instead of taking experimental results, and work out a theory to explain it, you take what should be true, and therefore must be true, and therefore is true, and work out something, anything, to prop it up.

It does make sense, but if you start down that road, would the rest of the world be justified in seizing US assets to give to Sadam or the Taliban? After all, the invasion of Georgia practically copied the justification for bombing Yugoslavia. Or, where do you draw the line? Remember the last Venezuelan elections, when they declared the other guy the winner and handed him a bunch of gold that was a loan collateral?

But beyond that, the only reason there are any assets to seize is because it’s understood they won’t be seized. Anyone not part of the west is an idiot if they keep relying on anything that depends on being in the west’s good graces. And anyone not an idiot will seek to decouple and construct fallbacks and alternatives, and then any leverage over them is lost.

The problem isn’t “it’s right/wrong to do this”, it’s “will doing this come back to bite me in the ass at a later date?”

More like, what’s gonna stop the US from seizing Chinese assets? Or, rather, why would anyone trust the US with their assets if they can just be seized when your country becomes politically problematic? The core point is that the only reason the west has so many foreign assets and investments is because the rest of the world trusts them not to be seized and sold off. It would be less damaging long term to just print more money.

…NGL that kinda sounds fun

Dunbar’s number is 150, I believe. But that’s the limit for ““real”” people, with names and addresses and birthdays. The magic is, however, they don’t need to all be real: a nation is a tribe, and nations can hold millions. You just need a few real people that you take as a stand in for all the others, and then keep doing it untill it encompasses the whole of humanity.

I say “just”, it’s not like it’s that easy, but it’s doable.

Tribalism is bad, but the tribe existing at all is empathy in action. Once the tribe is there, it’s just a matter of expanding it.