<div dir="auto">An optimistic scenario is that China will lose the war with Taiwan. Also, a realistic one. They're going to get annihilated when they try. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Alao: for the love of God please stop imbibing news from whatever echo chamber you're in or just go to /pol/ so you can at least get it undigested. It is at least interesting to see how things trickle down to the mainstream, I suppose. Stick to engineering.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On a related note, didn't we make another list for politics as to facilitate this one to discuss science and transhumanism instead of vapid mass media punditripe? This is as bad as John K Clark's Trump derangement, albeit presented with an avuncular "aw shucks" façade. But just as toxic and just as irritating to listen to. I'm also not a fan of a list admin displaying political bias.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 5, 2022, 12:58 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-642774554142368290WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>sjatkins via extropy-chat<br><br><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#222222"><br><br></span>>…<span style="color:#222222">China can't be doing Zero Covid because of health concerns. Anyone with elementary knowledge of virology knows that most viruses so widespread become endemic in a population that largely but not perfectly has herd immunity </span>…<span style="color:#222222">-samantha</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I get the feeling China is doing Zero Covid policy because the Dear Leader is hoping to dissuade the masses from lopping off his Dear Head. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">That being said, I am thinking about the Dear Leader’s options if the pissed off masses start closing in on the presidential palace with dear bloody goddam vengeance on their dear minds, which would be understandable considering all that has happened. I thought of a most worrisome scenario: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Chinese president looks around and finds that Russia is busy in Ukraine, NATO is (for the past few decades) temporarily weak with little willingness (and even less apparent actual ability) to project force, the USA government is at war with itself, occupied in putting together a massive taskforce aimed at deriving strategies to get the American people to stop talking about a laptop computer. He orders the military to grab Taiwan and calls on the protestors to stand down and contribute to the glory of China’s reunification, after which the Dear Leader controls most of the world’s computer chip production capacity.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Oy vey.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Someone offer a more optimistic scenario please.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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