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Abominable

Major
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Bruh! Didn't you say you were going to have four children with your wife using IVF because you didn't want to "ruin her figure"? Is that what these technologies are made for?
Child birth doesn't make women lose their shape. The reason some women become fat after having a child is eating too much and laziness. Stop spoiling her and get her back in the kitchen.

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ZeEa5KPul

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Yes. We can provide them with a loving family, father and mother to teach them right from wrong, to show them what kind of marriage they should seek to be in and to teach them the right world views. Technologies are for that, not so men and women have no use for each other ever again.
That's very nice and commendable. However, there are a couple of points to be made about this: 1) The inventors of IVF didn't invent their technology so it could be used for cosmetic purposes. And that doesn't matter at all, because technology can and is used in ways far beyond what its creators intended or even imagined.

2) The problem with the idealistic home where children are raised by affluent, morally upright, well-adjusted, loving parents can be summed up in one word: scalability. The typical environment falls far short of the ideal. You strike me as belonging to an atypical income bracket, especially in the Chinese context. You also have strident and well-developed societal views that are atypical in any population. Bear this in mind when you consider the scalability of a proposal like "men just need to be men again, do it like I did it."

Scalability is a very important criterion in the face of a national emergency. To analogize this situation, let's imagine this national emergency is a boxer in a ring. I have the choice of sending one of two opponents into the ring against him: The first looks like he ate Mike Tyson - arms the size of tree trunks, traps up to his ears, titanium armour plates grafted onto his skull. Let's call boxer one "science, technology, and engineering."

Boxer two cuts a far more pathetic figure. He looks like a terminal cancer patient on a prolonged hunger strike. Why is he even under consideration? Well, it's said he used to be big back in the day. Not that I've seen it myself, but so the legends say. Let's call this boxer "traditional family values."

Of the two, which would you bet on? Which would you bet China's future on?
 

TK3600

Colonel
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Physical attraction is different between men and women. While men are attracted to only one thing, women can be attracted by a lot of different factors: appearance, wealth, personality, confidence, style, etc. In fact, IIRC, there was a psychological study that determined the most common trait that women found attractive in men was confidence.
Bullshit, women with good personality is attractive. Pretty women with bad personality is a turn off both sexually and long term relationship.
 

pmc

Colonel
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This is so stupid talking to you. You need every basic thing to be explained...
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"Immigrants coming from Mexico comprise the majority of undocumented agricultural workers at 88 percent."
do you even read and understand your own link that you posted?. A country of 130m has only 249K undocumented workers in Agricultural next to US. It can happen if the farms owners have some family or historic connection with them.
According to CMS estimates, there are approximately 283,000 undocumented immigrants who work in the United States as agricultural workers. These individuals make up approximately 4 percent of the total undocumented workforce in United States. Immigrants coming from Mexico comprise the majority of undocumented agricultural workers at 88 percent


ok...

English too poor, cannot understand

Mexico can regulate the value of their own currency.
Not if it has to compete with US for its own resources. If Mexico make Peso equal to $1. what will happen?
You would, if the US border patrol wasn't there 24/7 with machine guns to stop them
They most likely majority coming from other parts of America. it is own safety as this busiest border
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What soft power? They want to enter the US but are told at gunpoint to stay home?
how many want to enter?. you dont have the data.
It's probably good enough but there is no evidence that the offer they made Musk to invest was good enough or better than Germany's.

Demographic crisis is not soft power. You are confused with the definition again.
demographic represent society values . He is not even smart just showman. Germany really screwed him with overpriced factory with some of the highest cost of labor.
You mean the migrant wave who wanted to work in Germany to escape poverty? Earning money over escaping poverty is attraction to hard economic power.

And as I said, you're wrong, and you have to accept it.
It was attraction for Musk. he thought he will have better time in Germany. and he also visited Turkey as he may have met Turks in Germany.
Your definition of wealth and skills is that the nation has an airline??? Do you know how many airlines the US has?? Stupid comparison from the get go.
If i am not writing long paragraphs it does not mean i dont know what i am talking about. Ethopian airline has modern wide body fleet and it located a narrow body distance from wealthy Arabic airlines hubs. so unless Ethopia have aka Soft Power and it will not be allowed to have such a fleet. Arabs can wipe out such fleet instantaneously with pilots. They spend over $200b on FIFA.
Its about control of the region and build leverage with West. Think about why Aeroflot designed new wide body aircraft were sent to Turkish and Air India. Arabs have deep connections and leverage with Boeing and Airbus and that leverage has further enhanced now.

What soft power? Money? Oil? Or you mean others banned it and it gave concessions to have the ban lifted? None of that is soft power.

Most of the time, I do, but when you go so far off topic and ask me to prove such basic things, I start to drift and wonder what the topic is indeed. In the meantime, look back at our conversation and take a guess if I and the other members of the forum who blow up my feed with likes are the ones who doesn't know what I'm talking about, or if it's you, with the only reactions laughing at you.
Kuwait has more money as its Sovereign wealth fund is oldest. does it have soft power in same league as Qatar. Each and every topic i cannot educate.
There are people who eat shit. I will prove them wrong everytime.

LOLOL Germany got beat into a pulp in WWII so the only thing it can do is repeat the values of those who beat it. Left alone, Germany is actually a great power with a lot of hard power. But now, it was crippled by Allied hard power so now it talks like a useless little puppet. That's what hard power does. Germany's values aren't even its own values due to American hard power. Germany may be after soft power but that's because that's the only thing it can chase despite it being useless to stop anything from harming Germany.
where you get this information Germany is repeating foreign values?. Germany want get rid of oil/gas which is primary industry of US. It did not buy F-35 until recently and still smaller quantity than when you consider its size relative to South Korea. Germany has alot of soft power that it want to impose on US. No one has stop Germany from chasing hard power but it has made choice to chase Soft Power.
I don't understand your imaginary broke logic; you don't understand world politics and soft/hard power.

Mexicans don't LOLOL

It's all about Dubai's money = hard power. They have the choice because they have the skills = hard power. Hard power for hard power only.
There plenty of places where Software is paid well. Dubai has enhanced its Soft Power appeal so more high caliber Software developers now its attracting and it is not the best weather.
OK I see you are too stupid for this. You don't know what soft power is, which is why you think it's important. Money attracting engineers is economic hard power. Engineers designing machines is a skill and skills are hard power. Skilled pilots possess hard power on the battlefield. You probably think that only war or killing is hard power, which is why you only say stupid things.

Yeah, talking and diplomacy is soft power. But being able to carry out what you promised requires hard power in money and technology. As the saying goes, "Talk is cheap." And so is soft power.
Money cannot attract people who reach to certain level. They make ideological choices at that point whose money is important.
To create a sustainable long war. you need Soft Power. similar with business that transcends generations.
 

KYli

Brigadier
gas prices in Europe are falling even below what they were before the Russian invasion of Ukraine...



Everything has been a disaster, another Russia after its infamous invasion, the Ruble is one of the most devalued currencies in the world, marked by a
Gas prices are down in EU due to lower demands in both Asia and EU. It points toward a global slowdown in economic activities. However, majority of EU gas storage that were filled during last Spring and Summer is still Russian gas. EU doesn't have the option to import more Russian gas as gas import from Russia is down 90%. Therefore, I don't think EU is out of the wood yet. Although, China would be happy to supply gas to EU through the long term term it signed with the US and Australia suppliers and take more gas from Russia through the gas pipeline. It would be a win win for both China and EU.

Ruble is overvalued last year due to a rapid rise in energy prices. Russia has accumulated too much reserves and made over 200 billions through gas and oil sales. Since the prices have come down now, Russian ruble is just return to its normal value and could probably go down some more as the pressure from the sanctions from the West. However, Russian economy has proven to be resilient enough to weather any sanctions from the West that Russian economy should be doing fine especially both India and China are ramping up imports from Russia.
 

Sardaukar20

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Clowns...
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The US will defend Japan with atomic weapons if necessary, the Japanese government announced on Thursday, citing the readout of a meeting between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The discussion took place in the city of Hiroshima, infamously destroyed by a US nuclear bomb in 1945.
“President Biden reiterated the US commitment to the defense of Japan under the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security, backed by the full range of capabilities, including nuclear,”
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to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
The US talking about defending Japan with nukes in Hiroshima. How stupid can they get? How shameless can Japan get?

At the start of the meeting, Biden mistakenly called Kishida “Mr. president.” Japan’s head of state is the emperor.
Ignorant or senile Joe Biden. Nevertheless, I don't think Trump could have done much better either. America doesn't even take its favourite ally in East Asia seriously. Yet Japan is hoping that America is gonna defend it against North Korea, China, and Russia with nukes.
 

Sheleah

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Gas prices are down in EU due to lower demands in both Asia and EU. It points toward a global slowdown in economic activities. However, majority of EU gas storage that were filled during last Spring and Summer is still Russian gas. EU doesn't have the option to import more Russian gas as gas import from Russia is down 90%. Therefore, I don't think EU is out of the wood yet. Although, China would be happy to supply gas to EU through the long term term it signed with the US and Australia suppliers and take more gas from Russia through the gas pipeline. It would be a win win for both China and EU.

Ruble is overvalued last year due to a rapid rise in energy prices. Russia has accumulated too much reserves and made over 200 billions through gas and oil sales. Since the prices have come down now, Russian ruble is just return to its normal value and could probably go down some more as the pressure from the sanctions from the West. However, Russian economy has proven to be resilient enough to weather any sanctions from the West that Russian economy should be doing fine especially both India and China are ramping up imports from Russia.

Remember that all imports of Russian oil derivatives in the EU have a limit (price cap). Of course that applies to any country that sells it in the EU serving as a springboard to Russia.
This means that Russia must sell oil, gas and derivatives at an unsustainable discount for its economy, which is highly dependent on oil and derivatives... In the medium or long term, the Russian economy will continue to worsen, and its blackmail of war (gas prices for the EU) ended up becoming a double-edged sword, and in the long run Europe will continue to buy gas, at normal prices, while Russia will have to sell it cheap, which will benefit third countries more than Russia itself ... Europe was not going to freeze over from Putin's outbursts and infamous invasion, and time has only shown how weak Russia is economically.
 

Dark Father

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US and Taiwan reach deal on first part of ‘21st century’ trade pact​


The US and Taiwan reached agreement on the first part of their “21st century” trade initiative, covering customs and border procedures, regulatory practices, and small business, the US Trade Representative’s office said on Thursday.

After the initial agreement of the US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade is signed, negotiations will commence on other, more complicated trade areas including agriculture, digital trade, labour and environmental standards, state-owned enterprises and non-market policies and practices, USTR said.

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Just beautiful. Really beautiful to let the US dictate all your economical, industrial, technology and trade policies. 'Non market policies' and practices. That means implement neoliberalism wholesale and do not invest or make plans as government to better your country through technology and trade and privatize all your state owned companies . The free market tycoons will do the job. This is one method how they spread their favoured economic model of neoliberalism throughout the globe: through ''trade'' agreements, WTO, IMF, trade ''wars'' and world bank.
 

FriedButter

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Remember that all imports of Russian oil derivatives in the EU have a limit (price cap). Of course that applies to any country that sells it in the EU serving as a springboard to Russia.

Maybe you should read the details again and stop focusing on the $60 price cap.

The European Union – together with the international G7+ Price Cap Coalition – have today adopted further price caps for seaborne Russian petroleum products (such as diesel and fuel oil). This decision will hit Russia's revenues even harder and reduce its ability to wage war in Ukraine. It will also help stabilise global energy markets, benefitting countries across the world.

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The second EU-wide embargo, on Russian fuel, is set to come into force on Sunday. It targets Russian refined oil products such as petrol, diesel and heating fuel, arriving on ships.

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Do you see the most important words? Seaborne. Arriving on ships. And where do most of the Russian energy exports to Europe comes from? Pipelines. You are gloating over a price cap when the vast majority of exports are not subject to any price cap. And the ones that are flowing to Europe via ships is totally 100% made and extracted energy from India.
 
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