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Not sure about "easily" but I believe the idea at this point is to not escalate, drag out the war and win on economic grounds. Of course dragging things out also comes at a huge price for Ukraine but the EU/US seem to have accepted that as the price to be paid despite the moral posturing.

This is definitely not the sort of "protection" I would rely on.

I personally would like to see East Asia more unified and less reliant on an increasingly unstable country like the US. They will collectively have to rely on foreigners more in the future anyway due to low birth rates as Japan already does. A lot of people serving food were Chinese when I went there. About 50% of the tourists were also Chinese.

A lot of those "enemies" can't protect Ukraine which they are much more geographically positioned to defend.

Plus a lot of morals go out of the window when there is a real threat and a lot on the line. Even between the new tensions with China and Japan, the US appears to be quiet: https://www.ft.com/content/bf8b5def-db4d-43ac-91cf-bea5fcfa3...

What part of wanting destabilisation for the most powerful country in the world is hard to understand for those that aren't from there?

We have widely used benchmarks for reasoning. And no no it does not, you need get off HN.

At the end of the day most people would agree that if something is able to solve a problem without a lookup table / memorisation that it used reasoning to reach the answer. You are really just splitting hairs here.

Is reasoning undefined? That's what usually meant by "thinking".

It is worse than you think. The country is on its knees. I go outside and no one looks happy and no one is shopping or eating out unless it is McDonalds or Lidl. No one is working, children are calling sick for school and everyone is wondering how the hell so many random people suddenly got in. The next few decades will be a story of decline.

Economy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyp7v7r28yo

Youth unemployment: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/11/britains-you...

Health care: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/11/nhs-bracing-...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrkervnxvqo

A lot of exploitation is not even about money. Some of these platforms don't even make profit. It is about politics.

It feels like there is more bot activity then ever before. Reddit is now filled with fresh accounts, suspended accounts and bunch of content that suddenly gets deleted. It doesn't even feel like you are interacting with people anymore.

The "social" part is severely decaying.

..."It is exploitation but at least it is not slavery" is a (let me put it frankly for you seen as you need it) shit argument that justifies and proves nothing.

Because so many children are going outside instead of wasting their life on TikTok Twitch etc.

The amount of human hours spent watching others play video games / gamble / creating parasocial relationships: https://twitchtracker.com/statistics/watch-time

Dystopian is hijacking your mind using recommendation algorithms.

I'm just waiting for the next massive knee jerk reaction in the stock market to start seriously investing again. AI is not going anywhere even if there is a bubble but people are going to make stupid narratives on it being over for Nvidia and tech.

Did we really just bring up and contrast current exploitation to slavery as an attempt defend social media?

Went to Japan recently and the young women take social media (particularly Instagram) to a whole nother level over there. They very clearly invest a lot of time and energy into getting the best photos. A lot of the young men just look defeated.

Ironically, anyone else face random hostility recently from American tourists? Made me not want to go there for a long while.

Anyone studying CS now unless it is at Stanford, Harvard etc. is an idiot.

It needs to end one way or the other. A lot of men seem defeated these days when I go out in public and a lot of women are more interested in their followers than the men around them.

I have seen even women below the median act severely spoilt and delusional.

Can't see anything lost here. I'm in the awkward camp of neither being in the privileged group but I also don't check off any DEI boxes so I never benefited from it. I'm sure a lot of other people can relate.

It could have been nice if DEI at least made some sense and wasn't just code for black/women but I think people who run these programs might not be the smartest and have the understanding of discrimination of an infantile. Maybe in the future we can have something that actually promotes equality properly and not what Karen from HR thinks it means.

When I think of low corruption I certainly think of India.

Going off the broader pattern of recent changes, I believe that's a feature here not a bug.

I am talking about bias in hiring in general. I am responding that the bias in hiring towards this one country goes beyond that it is 'cheap'.

It is easy to make the 'cheap' argument when you talk about outsourcing but it no longer makes sense when you look at h1b numbers.

Here you go, h1b hires still get paid American salaries so that throws the whole 'they get hired because they are cheap' argument out of the window: https://fortune.com/2025/09/22/india-government-responds-tru...

>70% is a pretty insane number that certainly speaks for itself.

Also, when you start giving a lot of tech jobs to people from one specific country, then the github developer numbers will naturally reflect that.

Tons of anecdotes like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/1eblg0d/rea...

I would say it is more sinister than just a cost-benefit analysis and plain racism in hiring. Cheap talent exists in far more places than India but somehow it almost always is India. Not only that but I have seen the strangest LinkedIn profiles where people graduate from no-name Indian universities and get a big-corp job here in the West like it is nothing.

Even Japan has become pro-Indian on immigration for tech: https://eastasiaforum.org/2025/11/06/takaichis-japan-looks-t... Wtf...

I do weightlifting so taking 1.5-2 grams * bodyweight of protein makes sense. I am not American but a lot of it just looks like sodium, carbs, sugar and fat rather than lean meat.

Supplements industry? I only take whey protein and creatine from known sources. Anything on this?

Scams seem like the norm in 2020s. Crypto, Quantum Computing startups, "AI" (LLMs), Amazon delivering fakes, electric vehicles (what happened to all electric by 2030?). Yesterday I saw that the Playstation Store started doing "personalised discounts" where they will now discount the same game at different rates for different people within the same country without explicitly telling people.

Someone recently even tried to attempt scamming me when buying a burger by telling me if I want certain toppings without telling me it will cost more. Apparently now have to play mind games when buying a burger.

I can program and play chess to a proficient level but I also know I can't design a good game whatsoever because the mindset required to design a truly good game seems to me to be something beyond logic and reasoning. Same thing with any other art. I don't think any framework could ever truly explain it.