• duderium [he/him]
        ·
        1 year ago

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

          • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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            1 year 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]
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            1 year ago

            Careful not to hurt your back moving those goalposts.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            1 year 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]
            ·
            1 year ago

            Hybrid rice, which has saved millions of people from starvation

          • BeamBrain [he/him]
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            1 year ago

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

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          1 year 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]
            ·
            1 year ago

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

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
            ·
            1 year 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]
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            1 year 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]
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                1 year 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