sodium_nitride [any, any]

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Cake day: March 12th, 2025

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  • Trump is not reviving economic planning or industrial policy with his tariffs. Just because the US needed to re-industrialise, and just because protectionism would have been part of any re-industrialisation policy does not mean that Trump’s policy is not phenomenally short sighted.

    The simple fact is that without imposition of

    1. Maximum import quotas (differentiated by good)
    2. Capital export controls
    3. A strong welfare program
    4. An expansionary fiscal budget
    5. Nationalisation of key industries

    It is practically impossible for the US to re-industrialise. And each of these policies is critical because

    1. Import quotas can directly limit the quantity of goods coming in unlike tariffs which have huge distortions effects and have a difficult to predict outcome
    2. Preventing the outflow of dollars prevents people from cheating Import quotas or tariffs. Preventing the outflow of machinery allows that to be invested in your country.
    3. This is needed to create a workforce that is actually healthy and smart enough to fix the economy.
    4. This is needed to run your economy to its physical limits rather than artificially created financial ones.
    5. This is needed because re-industrialisation requires the bourgeois class yo give up on a lot of profits, so you need to take control of industries away from them.


  • To add on to what the others have said, the compiler will also optimise your code (which is why professional coders write in common patterns as much as possible, so the compiler can recognise them and optimise).

    So many times, you literally won’t even have the same program.

    Also machine understandable code (assembly or 1s and 0s) is different depending on the processor used. You could give me machine code made for a risc-v processor and I could reconstruct a c program that made it. But if I had the same program compiled for an x86 processor …




  • Firstly, America is not nazi Germany 2.0, nazi Germany was America 2.0.

    Secondly, Who will declare war on America?

    China? They already are preparing for WW3 scenarios and Trump’s statements do nothing to change the timeline of preparations

    Russia? They are already at (proxy) war with the US

    Iran or North korea? They have enough defensive capabilities to have a good chance of defeating a US invasion (which appears to be a matter of when not if). But no real offensive capabilities against the US (discounting US satelites).

    India or NATO minus the US? Their ideological conviction would lead them to siding with American fascism rather than against it. Like, why would they invade the heartland of world-historical fascism when they themselves are fascist?

    We just gonna sit around and let Nazi Germany 2.0 happen?

    Modern america doesn’t a tenth the (relative to the rest of the world) military or economic power that Nazi Germany did. And that’s because other countries haven’t been sitting on their asses all this time. They’ve been struggling for decades to create the multipolar world.







  • Tulku Hungkar Dorje, a widely respected religious leader and philanthropist, was reportedly detained by Chinese authorities in early 2024. In August 2024, Chinese officials claimed he had “gone missing” shortly after he gave a public teaching on 21 July 2024.

    This timeline seems contradictory. He was detained in early 2024, but then gave a public teaching in late July 2024? And then he went missing, under a prolonged detention?

    Sources indicate

    Yes, the anonymous sources

    fabricated charges

    I’m sure I can trust western media to be unbiased

    Additional accusations included “disobeying higher authorities” for his philanthropic work of establishing monasteries and schools, and “causing disturbances” for advocating for the rights and freedom of marginalized Tibetans under the repressive Chinese rule.

    Oh, I guess not

    The detention, torture, and killing of respected leaders like Tulku Hungkar Dorje is a deliberate strategy to silence those who advocate for Tibetans’ fundamental rights.

    Really laying it on thick huh? There are no pretensions, just accepting the worst speculations and accusations as fact without any investigation. Truly lib behavior.


  • Inside and outside the White House, advisers say Trump is unbowed even as the world reels from the biggest increase in trade hostilities in a century. They say Trump is unperturbed by negative headlines or criticism from foreign leaders.

    Therein lies the appeal of Trump

    Numerous more sophisticated approaches were developed than the one Trump selected, people familiar with the matter said.

    Would mind sharing them?

    The White House demanded that Britain and India change their health and sanitation rules to make it easier to export U.S. agricultural products.

    Worry not, the nurglites are in control. Bird flu for everyone.

    In Brazil, India and Europe, they targeted digital regulations that have entangled U.S. tech giants.

    God I hope the EU doesn’t use this as an excuse to scrap privacy laws (like they keep trying with chat control).

    White House spokesman Kush Desai said Trump had assembled “the best and brightest economic team in modern history” to develop the tariff plan.

    The best and brightest of mainstream economists? Wouldn’t be surprised if this was actually true, given how dumb economists are.