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Those CGI artists need to be fired.

There's no excuse for such shitty CGI when gen AI tools exist.

I mean... No shit? ATACMS has a range of 300km, and it's not like Russia's pushed the front line 300km.

Look at a map of the European power grid: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-European-high-voltage-transmission-grid-Source-Adapted-from-GENI-2011_fig1_281127145

Now repeat your claim again, but this time be serious.

No mappers seem to confirm this... There are reports of Ukrainian counteroffensives in the area, but nothing that goes so far as to indicate that Ukraine has taken back control of all of Russia's territorial gains there. If anything, it's starting to look like another stalemate along a new frontline.

Is Zelensky talking out of his ass? Are mappers receiving delayed data? Who knows...

It's been almost a decade of civilian targets in Donetsk Oblast getting struck. Sure, blame it on civil war, but point still holds.

The argument against Golden Rice should have nothing to do with GMO and everything to do with monocultures.

Greenpeace is fucked in the head.

As long as US officials restrict strikes to avoid Russian nuclear deterrence installations, I don't really see why this wasn't already permitted.

The key US policy consideration in the conflict should be to avoid nuclear escalation. Don't strike nuclear early warning radars, don't strike nuclear silos, and everything else should be fine.

Putin's been saying this for forever... Basically ever since the doomed peace negotiations in 2022.

Zelensky won't accept a peace without retaking Crimea and Putin won't accept a peace that relinquishes current territorial gains.

We're at an impasse until someone cracks. If Zaluzhny hadn't been exiled to Britain, maybe things would be different.

Also a net exporter to north of the border

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Supporting the KMT or the TPP is a tankie position.

This is the entire reason why countries like China are investing hard into ultra-high-voltage transmission lines.

While regions like Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia have immense wind and solar potential, getting that electricity to the population centers is challenging.

Selling electricity to Eastern Europe, to Northern Africa, hell even to the Middle East is an option if Europe is truly operating an electricity surplus.

Tit-for-tat, innit?

Not a coincidence that the Filipino-American Balikatan military exercise this year simulated invading Taiwan... or that exercises ended on May 10th (taking place in the Batanes, 218km from Taiwan)... Or that they were the largest such exercises since 1991.

Not a coincidence that the Korean-American "Freedom Shield" military exercise was more than double the scale of last year's.

Also not a coincidence that Lai very conspicuously claimed that the PRC is an independent country, violating the ROC's Constitution and breaking the 1992 Consensus that is de facto upheld by the KMT and supported by the TPP immediately after agreeing to uphold said constitution...

While Lai holds the executive seat, his opposition dominates the legislature. Coincidentally, Taiwan is currently seeing mass protests against a bill that would shift power away from the executive to better match other democracies worldwide (this is the same bill that, notoriously, DPP lawmakers tried to steal from the Yuan to avoid getting it passed).

The DPP is a party that does not want Taiwan to stay Taiwan. It wants to ignore Taiwan's roots, it wants to ignore the history, the culture, and the economy. It does not want to uphold democratic ideals and instead prefers consolidated power within the executive... And, of course, this is even as KMT sympathizers hold a stranglehold over the upper echelons of Taiwan's military.