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alzee76 t1_jbovgel wrote

Reply to China holds ‘military advantage’ over US as Washington prepares for conflict over Taiwan by agonhaziri

> Fox News senior strategic analyst retired Gen. Jack Keane stated, “China does have a military advantage.” They outnumber the United States in terms of ships, aircraft, and both offensive and defensive missiles.

Well yes. Until relatively recently, quantity over quality was their mantra just like it was with the USSR.

> This year, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) ran a war game that simulated what would happen if the People’s Republic of China launched an amphibious attack on Taiwan. It found that the United States would probably run out of long-range precision-guided missiles within a week.

No idea what this particular bit of trivia is supposed to portend, honestly. "Long-range precision-guided missiles" aren't exactly the keystone to the defense of a small island nation. They'd mostly be useful for striking within mainland China, which we probably wouldn't do much of.

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alzee76 t1_j6bs5m8 wrote

Reply to comment by Feshtof in Lawsuit claims mini bottles of Fireball Cinnamon don’t actually contain whisky by TheAngryBlackGuy

> only the small text indicating otherwise is misleading.

There is more than this. It's not just the small text on the back, it doesn't say whiskey anywhere on the front of the bottle -- as all the whiskey actually does.

Sure the label looks virtually identical but for that, but that's called... branding. You have to be somewhat mentally deficient to believe that Fireball whiskey can be sold in your local gas station, but no other brands are allowed in, and then to not actually look at it but just blindly buy it..

This is the same jackass who sued Velveeta last year claiming their shells & cheese takes more than 3.5 minutes to make, and has filed something like 400 or 500 lawsuits like this. Special seat in hell reserved.

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alzee76 t1_j5rmeu4 wrote

Reply to comment by melody_elf in Ted Sarandos says that Netflix has “never canceled a successful show” by avery5712

> Ofc she can be wrong but I'm not completely speculating.

Unless she's routinely invited to board meetings or she's peeping at people's emails, she is. I was an engineer at Paypal and I can tell you exactly 0% about how top management came to their decisions. Same with every other Fortune 500 company I've worked for, and there are a handful.

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alzee76 t1_j5rlotv wrote

Reply to comment by melody_elf in Ted Sarandos says that Netflix has “never canceled a successful show” by avery5712

> They focus entirely on short term, rapid growth

This is pure speculation on your part. I like how you treat it as a fact.

> Then they wonder why they can't keep users around.

Care to speculate some more, maybe on when and why I canceled my subscription? It'll be funny to see you completely whiff another one.

> Their stock has been on a downward slope for a long time now

No, it hasn't. It had a precipitous fall in the first half of 2022. It's been steadily trending upwards since then.

> so I think they should listen to their users.

You should probably learn what their actual motives are and what their stock is actually doing before forming such opinions.

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alzee76 t1_j5rkhfz wrote

Reply to comment by AnimusCorpus in Ted Sarandos says that Netflix has “never canceled a successful show” by avery5712

> People really are upset a capitalist enterprise is only interested in quick profits and not necessarily keeping fans happy.

Well, yeah. Especially when they're niche fans who in aggregate don't spend nearly enough to keep the cult shows they adore afloat. Them being vocal doesn't grant their position any additional importance.

> It's not like people have been saying the profit motive is a nightmare for the arts since forever or anything

These artists are free to not "sell out" and keep their artistic vision pure. But you know, they're pretty into the profit motive, too.

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alzee76 t1_j4byfns wrote

Reply to His excellency Rollan Roberts II announces his bid for President of the United States by JawaPunter

Trying to figure out what the "his excellency" stuff is about and it's rendering the article a bit suspicious.

> According to Roberts II’s website: “Rollan Roberts II is an American businessman, government advisor, and 2024 Republican candidate for President of the United States

The only place google turns up the phrase American businessman, government advisor, and 2024 Republican candidate for President of the United States is this article, and they don't actually link to his homepage of his. No other photos of him in this getup either. RIS for it just turns up a bunch of historic military dress uniforms.

ETA:

https://rollanroberts.com/

No photos of him doing cosplay here I could find. The origin of the title is explained though:

> He was given the African diplomatic designation of His Excellency as Peace Ambassador to Nations from the International College of Peace Studies.

"International College of Peace Studies" smells like a sort of religious circle jerk that exists solely to offer "training" to members who belong to an affiliated church, with an impressive sounding name slapped on it to try to buy some credibility.

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alzee76 t1_iyno4rz wrote

Reply to comment by epicaglet in Japan education ministry gives OK for students to talk while eating lunch at schools by echomike60

I agree, but in this instance, it's just the headline that's poorly written and oniony. The article itself is almost anti-oniony; the government is just telling schools that it's ok to relax and use their own judgement rather than just blindly following the most severe recommendations they can find -- which, because Japan, they've largely been doing up until now.

Example quotes from the article:

> As masks have been excessively worn at schools, the education ministry also asked schools to take a sensible approach to mask usage by making their own rules specifying when students can take them off and through other measures.

> ...

> [The government's hygiene management manual] does not have a rule requiring all schools to have children eat lunches in silence, but in reality, many schools carry out such "silent lunches" out of consideration for the Japanese government's original COVID-19 guidelines.

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