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China doesn’t want to rock the boat … yet!

WHEN they’ve got the imbalance in-their-favor enough, they will gut & smash India: that is their plan.

Modi’s relying on Russia, China’s economic-vassal-state, for protection against China, hands India to China, strategically.

Make-believe never saved any country’s life, nor will it, in the coming decade.

See it for what it is: now is only a “location in time”, during the slippery-slope ( low steepness, after 1 or 2 more world-process Punctuations, the slope will be STEEP! ) time before global-TANTRUM/POGROM that #ClimatePunctuation, combined with political-tantrum, including “populist” dictatorships, combined with religious-tantrum, combined with food-web collapse, combined with an increasing-fraction-of-humankind becoming refugee…

etc.

The Great Filter’s unfolding, but still in its Yin stage.

China doesn’t want to rock the boat yet.

When opportunity is ripe, however, they are going to.

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Read Hofstede’s “Exploring Culture”, and consider that a person in a high-collectivity culture, which also is a high-power-distance culture, may well answer the survey with what “face” requires them to say, instead of answering with what they, themselves, feel.

If you aren’t correcting for that, you’re doing propaganda, not science.

Different cultures REQUIRE different subjectivities be taken-into-account.

I think it would be more valid to dig into specific dimensions of happiness, & make some of those objective ( cortisol-blood-levels, for measuring stress, e.g. )

WHEN you ask people in individualistic cultures a question, and THEN you ask people in collectivist cultures the SAME question, they are not answering the same question, they are answering the social-pressure question, instead.

It makes complete mincemeat of cross-cultural measuring of “objective” things.

Try reading Lanier’s “Foreign to Familiar” book, & understand just HOW different warm-vs-nordic cultures are, in instinct/reactions,

then it should be more obvious how such surveys are disinformation, not information.

Then it ISNT a

“Global Happiness Index”

, rather it is a

“Global URBAN Happiness Index”,

and such profound mislabeling of things is disinformation, not journalism.

Which, itself, is so systematic & profound, nowadays, that there isn’t much hope for integrity to win, in our world, now, anyways.

I haven’t read the article, but yes, wars do have time-limits:

Once a war becomes domestically impossible to participate in, Vietnam as 1 proof, then the-course-of-war changes.

Economic-collapse means that Biden’s hosed in 2024, and the Republicans are Russian allies, not NATO allies.

Yes wars have time-limits.

Simply wait & see: by the end of 2025, NATO will be gutted, Trump will have been crowned GEOTUS ( a term they already use for him ), and Trump will ( passively, at least ) back Russia.

Sickening, but it looks like that’s the fact of the unfolding global/geopolitical near-future.

There was an item in New Scientist, perhaps last century, of an experiment done at a hospital’s ICU ( UK, iirc, the hospital had some kind of religious name, like St (somethingorother) ),

and that experiment tested whether patient-to-patient infections were affected by ionizers ( which charge the air, making particles in the air stick to surfaces, like walls, objects, whatever )…

That experiment had no effect in the control condition, but the ionizer-test condition reduced those infections down to ZERO.

No hospital with any reputation would dare use such “New Age woo”, of course, no matter that evidence, combined with the Hippocratic Oath ( 1st do no harm! ), should oblige its use.

Bah.

I couldn’t find much of anything through DuckDuckGo.com

and Scholar.Google.com had stuff that wasn’t what I was trying to find,

and normal google had this

https://www.google.com/search?q="ionizer" "icu" "hospital" "infection" reduce patient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-m#ip=1

Anyways, according to the NO cases of inter-patient infection that was reported in the study I remember, it should have been made globally normal.

Notice that the things are called, by many, “air cleaners”.

I’m disputing that air cleaners have no effect on health ( put a box-fan with a 20"-square furnace-filter on the suction-side of it, and it’ll reduce the amount of dust, without any expensive products, and in some areas, in industrial or desert zones, e.g. it’ll likely reduce the harm done to one’s lungs by that air ), and pointing-out that different definitions of “air cleaner” are valid, though not about the same thing.

There is a Powerlaw underlying global temperature, in the interglacial-times:

280-ish parts-per-million CO2 as the baseline…

The 9th-root-of-2 times that, gives you what CO2 level produces 1C global warming.

280*(9th-root-of-2)^2 gives you what ppm CO2 produces 2C global warming.

280*(9th-root-of-2)^3 gives you what ppm CO2 produces 3C global warming.

All the way up to 9C.

All the simulaitons which contradict the measured polar heating, the mega-rivers IN Greenland’s ice, etc, are red herrings, and relying on them is incompetent: the evidence has already falsified their predictions.

Here is the paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19798

Notice that even not counting all the other greenhouse-gasses, like methane, sulfur-hexafuoride, etc, we already have guaranteed that the planet must stabilize at more than 5C,

… not the 1.5C or 2C that the simulations-which-contradict-evidence predict.

This powerlaw is measured, historical fact.

Delusionally ignoring it … isn’t worthy of respect, OR able to create viability for our species.

I don’t know that there will be any life left, in the tropics, within 1 century.

400+ cubic-km/year melting, now, iirc, and still accelerating, darkening the albedo of the planet…

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