McCarthyists unironically believe this.

Part of the problem with vilifying a culture for nearly a century is that your audience will eventually lose the ability to distinguish between the individual and the stereotype.

That’s how we got Japanese Internment in the 1940s. That’s a big reason for the anti-Venezuela hysteria in the modern day.

That’s beautiful

It’s not for people that build their own PCs

glances at Kissinger and Cheney

This would explain a lot

You’re missing carrots and celery to round out the Holy Trinity. Otherwise, it looks good.

Go enjoy your day

Hey! That’s the spirit. Touch some grass, bro.

If that’s the case I’ll reiterate

You would have to make sense the first time for it to matter

Are you trying to argue that language is static?

I’m pointing out a term’s historical roots. You just seem to be arguing through hyperbole. FFS, even if you don’t want to acknowledge the existence of Latin, you might at least recognize the existence of etymology as a field.

We’re also talking about 70 years ago.

Brother, wait till you find out how old Arabic numerals are.

Not the same as old or middle English I’ll tell you that.

Did you drop a decimal point? Middle English isn’t 50 years old. Hell, the Transatlantic Accent isn’t 50 years old.

I also don’t speak Latin or Germanic

You’ll never make it as a proper Catholic.

If you definition hasn’t evolved since the 50s

How do you read English?

those who defend China and USSR as if they can’t do anything wrong

I’ve yet to see anyone - left, right, or center - that has suggested an entire country’s worth of people has never done anything wrong in its history.

“Tankie” has a real, actual, honest to god historical definition. Its not just “people who liked the Soviet system more than the capitalist system”. Its an explicit advocacy for non-interventionism during the Cold War. Specifically, it is British progressives who didn’t want the UK sending support to Hungarian reactionaries during the 1956 revolt.

The British media portrayed any reluctance to intercede on behalf of anti-communists abroad as pro-Khrushchev puppets who wanted to see Russian tanks flatten all of Europe. That’s what a “Tankie” is supposed to mean. It’s a person accused (by anti-soviet British media) of wanting a Soviet conquest of the planet.

I mean, ACAB. I’m sure you can find human rights abuses anywhere you want to look.

But what does this have to do with decarbonization? Is China’s production of photovoltaics materially more abusive than America’s production of hydrocarbons?

Then they’re tankies.

Was George Bush Jr a Tankie when he invaded Iraq? Is Trump a Tankie for invading Venezuela?

Or is the whole Blood For Oil thing Based and Freedom-Pilled?

I am pretty sure 90% of people who get called tankies on Lemmy are not communists

It’s funny, because the term was coined back in the 1950s to describe British progressives who opposed NATO intervention in Eastern Europe.

If anti-interventionism is what passes the bar for Communism, I suspect Lemmy might be flush with the little red bastards.

awful and effective?

It’s bad to do green energy when you’re Chinese because… ?

The UK isn’t leading they way. They’re dragged kicking and screaming because they no longer have access to cheap Russian fuel. They’ve made it into the 45% bracket, which is good but not exceptional.

Sweden, Finland and Denmark had the highest RES (Renewable energy source) shares among Member States in 2024 due to strong hydro industries (Sweden and Finland), wind power and wide use of solid biofuels for district heating. All of which are driven by public investment and administration.

UK drop off in carbon emissions over the last 40 years has largely been the result of deindustrialization and exporting of manufacturing abroad. They still consume a great deal of carbon per capita. They just do it by purchasing finished goods from overseas.

Of late, they’ve also been rebuilding their old dirty energy economy to power AI datacenters.

people have no idea of the size difference between 13 and 16 months

People with their own children notice the difference more readily

Yeah, for most parents, measuring age in months ends right around the one year mark.

I know plenty of parents who refer to their kid in months through year two, as you’re hitting milestones every month or two (vaccines, physical/psychological development, age limit for certain pharmaceuticals, etc) and “2 years” is such a big milestone for them all.

Also, kids who are premature make things extra complicated. I still refer to my son as “13-months adjusted” because if I said “16-months” people would wonder why he was so small.