Yes? Toyota has been producing vehicles since the 30s, so two years ago is quite recent within context.

who gets to drink today?

It's the new drinking game, obvs.

i'm not a gen z but I routinely do that. a habit picked up from grad school work and having to assimilate several frameworks and techniques quickly.

arguably clickbait is the reason: i'm not here to listen to the video or all of the other fluff, i'm here to get the point as quickly as possible. it's a 'meeting could have been an email' sort of thing where lots of videos could really just be several bulletpoints.

AI youtubue summarizers are great in that regard.

is that really dystopian? is more kink by way of Paul Virilio

(You're right—I was responding I guess simply to the author's name, not the genre being discussed).

Now there’s a name you don’t see every day on HN

there has always been a ton of bait and bots here mon ami. now it's bursting at the seams with them.

NATO cannot be called in to defend Taiwan. NATO article 6 makes this perfectly clear:

"For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack: on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America... [or] on the islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer..."

The US may invoke ANZUS or treaties with Japan and SK.

If China attacks the US directly, such as attacks on US soil, that might change, but it is highly unlikely that NATO would ever get directly involved.

none of those points matter so long as Taiwan is a discussion point

big oil has been calling the shots in n america since oil was discovered. new boss is same as the old boss, etc.

to channel lord palmerston, "no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only interests"

if it can be used to murder people it will be.

the only reason we dont have antimatter weapons or gravity guns is because we haven't figured out how.

We have international treaties that ban biological and chemical weapons. Other weapons that are regulated include anti-personnel mines, cluster bombs, and blinding lasers. Expanding bullets are banned in military uses as are incendiary weapons against civilian targets.

That's the state today. Throughout history there's been a long negotiation about what weapons have been allowed in combat.