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Japanese dependence on Chinese rare earths dropped from 90% at the time of the incident to 60% today. The consumption of rare earths in Japan is now half the level of what it was then.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/10/japan-rare-earth-minerals/

A 15 percent reduction in consumption of rare earths imported from China and an implied crash of direct manufacturing reliant on rare earths

Use the superior en dash Alt zero one five zero

Get elected and let the supreme court define natural born citizen or let them declare it a political question

In the last year or two Xiaomi have come out with a couple of very good cameras in their phones

Plus they charge at about the same wattage as an electric vehicle

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(If you hate yourself)

For the US, sure

The trigger would not be very hard to devise. Even with jammers and antidrone tools it would be a bloodbath.

This is like sinking aircraft carriers by releasing massive amounts of gas underneath them

That is, brilliant

pigs have lost control of before they were able to arrest them

This is pretty generous

They’ll incite adventurism, provide the weapons and maybe arrest them before an attack, maybe not - ofc they can arrest them much earlier if they wanted to

women are highly educated

This is a pretty simplistic analysis and I think it’s pretty crap because it lets capitalism and men off the hook, as well as sorta suggesting that the reason uneducated women have higher birth rates is because they’re stupid (instead of education being a proxy measure, although not a great one, of reproductive autonomy)

The birthrate is still like 2x South Korea

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The Irish did that in Australia but they’ve been here long enough they’re just Australian now

their delicate stealth coating is not particularly especially of the warm, salty sea air

Four decades and they’ve still got problems with the stealth coating

More food, more weapons, more men, more horses, bigger house, bigger fortifications etc

There is at least the idea that one could eventually have enough material needs met to relax - the profit motive has no limit

We do have them here, named either as donut holes, unnamed samplers or as loukoumades (or the five other different ways to say it as you move further east from Greece, but loukoumades is definitely the most common)

a nation of temporarily embarrassed dukes

Musk no, the other thing!

probably their most inexcusable geopolitical offence

Supporting Islamists to own the Soviets in Afghanistan was pretty bad

wow almost half a single percent of China’s annual national income