• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
    hexbear
    41
    5 months ago

    Through the hard work and dedication of many scientists and engineers? Yes.

      • duderium [he/him]
        hexbear
        36
        5 months ago

        Paper, the compass, printing, gunpowder. Cope, Nazi.

          • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
            hexbear
            35
            5 months ago

            Name anything developed 100% by America in the last 39000 days on an odd calendar month by a scientist who's name contains three vowels and the letter X which wasn't funded by wealth stolen from the global south and on land that wasn't stolen from victims of genocide.

            smuglord

          • Rom [he/him]
            hexbear
            31
            5 months ago

            Careful not to hurt your back moving those goalposts.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
            hexbear
            28
            5 months ago

            This article has ~4 inventions from last year:

            https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/10/4/nwad058/7070744

            Stop being a racist piece of shit

          • HarryLime [any]
            hexbear
            15
            5 months ago

            Hybrid rice, which has saved millions of people from starvation

          • BeamBrain [he/him]
            hexbear
            9
            5 months ago

            Why is it always the dumbest motherfuckers who are the most insufferably smug

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
          hexbear
          36
          5 months ago

          I love the COVID was a bioweapon line of argument because if you track it to it's logical conclusion, China is capable of making bioweapons that America and the rest of the West are extremely shitty at defending against so China could just hit them again and again whenever it wanted with disproportionate losses for the West.

          It's deliberately creating a conspiracy theory to show how much you suck.

          • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
            hexbear
            21
            5 months ago

            Not to mention the whole hitting themselves with it first thing just completely flying in the face of logic.

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
            hexbear
            20
            5 months ago

            And also that the response of every western government to the release of a bioweapon was to do fuck all and infect all their citizens with it and kill millions so that line would go up. With friends like these, huh?

          • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
            hexbear
            18
            5 months ago

            I love the COVID was a bioweapon line of argument because if you track it to it's logical conclusion, it definitely came from fort detrick

              • carl_marks_1312 [comrade/them]
                hexbear
                5
                5 months ago

                China has ranked first in the share of published papers since 2017, the top 10% most-cited papers since 2018 and the top 1% since 2019.

                Moving the goalposts as a coping mechanism

                https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2023/article_0013.html

                fuck interlectual property in general, so even if China did steal IP from other countries (it didn't), I'd respect them even more