As far as I know. When speed limit goes UP, the speed limit takes place as soon as the sign is visible. But, When the speed limit goes DOWN the limit is in place at the location of the sign and beyond

2.6ms by the end of the century. They claim that people might be feeling like the days are getting longer. 2.6ms is not noticeable

Well, that’s going to force Russia to do more damage faster with less discrimination.

The Eurocentric world is genocidal and has been for over 600 years. Eugenics was invented in England, as was the pseudoscience of race theory.

The Chief Revenue Officer must have been angry

With Western armaments, it’s the same thing.

Oh look, someone figured out that propaganda exists.

Why does America hate brown children so much? It’s almost like they are eugenicists or something.

The USA has no intention of intervening to deescalate

One side of the moon is NOT always facing the sun. One side of the moon is always facing the EARTH. The moon rotates on its axis at a rate of one rotation per orbit around the Earth.

You really think that the absolutely massive output of China that is dwarfing the West’s output is because of a reduction in worker’s rights when compared to the West?

I have a feeling this is being reported specifically to create a false equivalency with the proposal to seize Russian assets

Subsidized monopolies are the dominant form of monopoly and oligopoly in the USA and Europe. Go look up how many billions in subsidies the USA provides to industries with only 3 dominant players, from fossil fuels to cars to phone companies to internet companies to cable companies to publishers to food conglomerates.

Sovereignty transfer doesn’t mean displacement. If European settlers want national self-determination, they can go back to their nation-states, or they can live under the sovereignty of another nation. Social justice requires that the colonizers cede back the power over the land that they took through centuries of genocidal violence.

Edit: also good to note, restorative justice would be for all the European settlers to return the land to a healthy state under the dominance of the indigenous peoples of the land. Retributive justice would be for the indigenous peoples to invade and violently occupy Europe for 600 years. No one is even asking for restorative justice at this point, just an end to the genocide and occupation.

Give a nation of people their own state on their native land. That’s what the USSR did when it was founded. They worked to give every nation of people’s their own government and self-determination, they gave them all the right to secede, they elevated their national heritages

The USA, however, is a colony that went rogue. It’s people are not a nation - there are many nations present. The nations that were here before the Europeans arrived need to be given full sovereignty, the American descendants of slaves are a nation unto themselves and they need the right to self-determination. The many persons of the various European nations need to lose their sovereignty in this place. That national self-determination is how it becomes sustainable and effective. Letting colonists run their little fascist fiefdoms is not and will never be a solution.

It would have immediately created conflict over natural resources. There was no alternative. They had to unify and they had to get the capitalists on both sides into an alliance in order to proceed.

Probably not. The North didn’t see enslaved people through some sort of egalitarian lens. They made their money financializing the slave trade.

We didn’t de-nazify Germany. We put Nazi officers in charge of NATO and we joined the Catholic Church in protecting Nazis and distributing them all over the world.

I don’t think they believe they can decolonize and be independent of a world hegemon. Unlike the liberal world, who can get independent and then try to navigate, I think Japan will not decolonize until they have a path charted to fully participate in the world system they think will win.

I think that’s a modern phenomenon. Japanese history is structured along moments of total adoption of the world dominant system as they understand it. Japan adopted much of Chinese culture very long ago and maintained it until the Europeans showed up. Eventually they saw Europe dominate China and they adopted the European system, hence the fascism. My hope is that they see the writing on the wall of China rising and they once again adopt China’s systems and reform their entire society.

My understanding is they do this because they are aware they cannot dominate the world with their limited resources and territory and therefore have adopted a millennia-long strategy of tailing the leader.