Death ambivalence? I feel like I’ve seen that term floated somewhere.

Yep. And bad news just sells better.

I think the 2020 election and the pandemic are largely to blame for some spiraling plummets in our feelings about our system as a whole. Both of these events caused some pretty large divides in our government, communities, and even family and friend units.

War and human suffering were already there. Corporate greed and late-stage capitalism effects were already there, as well. We’re all just critically assessing everything together at this point because some of those divides removed a security net of reliability and trust.

That kid’s gotta be around 11 or 12 now. Wonder how he’s doing.

Love these! We have one in my neighborhood and it’s pretty convenient to drop off my read pile in there.

This is a good synopsis of the complexity of the problem with a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

To add to that, the US stance since 1972 has been to abide by the One China policy. As such, the US recognizes that Taiwan is legitimately owned by China. I am doubtful that this will change with this POTUS or the next. However there is also the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) which allows the US to treat Taiwan in some capacity as in independent state. The TRA does include the sale of arms for which Taiwan may use to defend itself from aggressors, and the US does sell heavily to Taiwan. The TRA also neither includes nor precludes US military intervention in the event of conflict.

What’s interesting is that in 2022 Biden said that Taiwan can define itself however the fk it wants to - not his exact words. This is a big departure from our One China policy which states no, absolutely no independence whatsoever of Taiwan. So I think things are evolving a bit, but agree with /u/Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever that there’s a lot more at stake to the US than with Ukraine.

Love the name btw.

As a second thought it’s also probably a convenient excuse to get a little bit of military rehearsal in…

This is typical behavior for China to show its displeasure when Taiwan gets involved in non-China, independence-affirming things. Its so routine, that at this point it’d be more significant if they DIDNT provide some type of military response.

Agree. The graduation photos are pretty funny - kind of uplifting to see their youth having a good sense of awareness and full on mocking their futures.

Christ this is depressing. Isn’t China facing some kind of imminent population crisis? This isn’t encouraging for that.

This. For now, what I do is join the ones that seem to have momentum with active posting. Eventually one will be dominant and I’ll drop the dead ones.

Are we including the coordinated orca yacht attacks in with this? I want to see where all that yacht hate is coming from.

Yep saw that one and another with a deer eating a bird. So I think there’s new categories for animals now too on what they eat. Instead of carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores. There’s obligate carnivores and opportunistic carnivores. Apparently even pandas would kill for some protein if given the opportunity.

Gonna be a 3-D food web once we get all the new science rules settled.

Great explanation of the concept of a food web. Grew up only knowing the food chain as well. Still kind of fuzzy on the rules for direction with certain animal pairs and whether it’s based on predation capability or something else.

Holy ffff…what did he look like before he got homeless?? Seriously though I could see him going down the Jeremy Meeks (photogenic prisoner turned runway model) path with this kind of exposure. He looks ridiculously healthy despite his living situation which probably can’t be easy to maintain.

Hoping for rain between the hours of 7pm to midnight. For context, we’ve been breathing in the smoke from the Canadian wildfires for weeks now.

I had the same lurker status back on reddit and definitely feel more inclined to post here. I think part of it is that for at least right now, individual comments really are setting up the success of lemmy so it feels good to be a part of that. Also, back on reddit those hardcore karma farmers dominated the threads. You had to find niche subreddits for comments to feel like they mattered…everything else was a “why bother” feeling.