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Europe can't even make 155mm artillery shells at volume without complaining that China is not selling them nitrocellulose. Except this a self-inflicted wound because they are the ones who banned cotton from Xinjiang.
Do you think the US can send their carrier battle groups into China's A2/AD complex and survive at this moment? If not and you were DC realizing that China just crippled your chances at solving this problem using conventional weapons in the foreseeable future, would you escalate to nuclear threats, knowing you have the advantage in that scenario?
I would call the Americans' bluff if they resort to nuclear blackmail. China's the one with NBC rated underground parking garages and will be the one to rebuild faster from the ashes. Russia is also not going to sit idly by as the US threaten first strike.
The odds of armed conflict decreases with each passing day as China grows and the US atrophies. Still doesn't change the fact that the most likely time for a military confrontation is tomorrow though, assuming the Americans are rational and competent.
At least make them plant enough salt cedars to offset the carbon footprint first… We practice frugality in Socialism.
"Not any browser though. If you use safari it doesn’t work."
On the contrary, through trial-and-error/messing-around, I figured out a long time ago how to play YouTube videos in audio-only mode in Safari on an iPhone. Here's how I do it on my current iPhone (iPhone 13):
Step 1: Start YouTube video in Safari (and get past ads, if any)
Step 2: Tap within video, then tap on double-arrow icon that appears in lower right.
Result A: Video now appears in letterbox mode, i.e., against black background entirely by itself with no title shown, no comments, no recommended/suggested videos, no advertisements, etc.
Step 3: **While letterbox-mode video is playing** (this procedure doesn't work if video is paused), press side button on right edge to switch off display
Result B: Display goes dark
Step 4: Press right-side edge button again to switch on display
Result C: The lock screen appears with an audio control bar toward the bottom (with play/pause, fast-forward, and rewind buttons, and showing time remaining and time elapsed)
Success! I now tap the play button, and I'm off to the races. I can switch the display off and on with the right-side edge button without interrupting the audio, and the audio control bar is always there on the lock screen when I switch the display back on. To listen to a different YouTube video, go back to Step 1.
The above sequence might seem rather involved, but after familiarization, one can blaze through it.
Glitch: Sometimes, Step 4 (press right-side edge button) fails to produce Result C (audio control bar appears on lock screen); or Result C is produced, but tapping the play button on the control bar results in a "Not Playing" error message. In that case, I tap/swipe "home" (and enter the passcode), which brings back Result A (letterbox mode); play the video a few seconds longer; and then repeat Steps 3-4. If that doesn't work, I do it again. And if that doesn't work, I tap/swipe "home" to bring back Result A (letterbox mode), tap on the screen, and tap on the X that appears at the top, which puts the video back into regular viewing mode (Step 1). I then play the video a few seconds longer and just go through the rest of the whole sequence again, i.e., Steps 2-4. Sometimes, in trying to clear the glitch, tapping/swiping "home" skips Result A (letterbox mode) and puts me all the way back to Step 1, in which case I just shrug and go through Steps 2-4 again. To reiterate, these steps can be performed a lot faster than one might think.
The above methods have never let me down so far, but depending on your iPhone model, iOS version, etc., your mileage/kilometerage/kilometreage may vary.
Well this is the west that protects and nurtures the abusers/tortures by withholding the information about them, while the victim's details are revealed for the whole world.
Welcome to depravity of western notion of human rights.
Welcome to depravity of western notion of human rights.
That lasted all of three days. After Epstein thing it has gone full on anti-Semitic again. Maybe they should’ve hired the SeeSeePee censor as consultant.
supercat
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Epstein couldn't even get someone into a master program at Peking University. The Epstein files are a unequivocal indictment of the bankruptcy of the so called "Judeo-Christian morality", or, if you want to include the Arabs, the ruin of the "Abrahamic morality". It's futile to drag China into this.
It all boils down who will get there first: China makes a functional EUV lithography machine or the US establishes a heavy rare earth supply chain. I think China will win.
So says the one who is actively supporting Israel's Gaza genocide.
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I’m more appalled at the lack of revolutionary spirit amongst the western laity, they literally have cannibal child rapists as their rulers and I’m not seeing Bastille day equivalents of storming government buildings and taking of armories like fort Sumter. Not even a mass general strike.
And what do these cannibal child rapists think of China? Answer below
Narrator’s voice: they did not in fact, break China. Epstein would later be imprisoned and Bannon would be sanctioned to oblivion by China.