BEIJING :China, the world's top processor of rare earths, banned the export of technology to extract and separate the critical materials on Thursday, the country's latest step to protect its dominance over several strategic metals.Rare earths are a group of 17 metals used to make magnets that turn power into
    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]English
      11•5 months ago

      Love turning mental health discourse into a snide removed weapon to imply that someone pursuing a disagreement is simply mEnTaLlY iLl

      Who hurt you? Help is available.

    • ferristriangle [he/him]English
      8•5 months ago

      No one is attacking your “factual and informative” comment.

      No one is disputing the difficulties you’ve highlighted. What is being disputed is your assertion that those difficulties are relevant to your assertion that China won’t be able to achieve this.

      And the subject of the conversation is a technology that humans have already developed and is in use. So what is it about China/the PRC that would cause you to assert they are incapable of building/employing this technology?

      Your argument is that “Hard science doesn’t care about politics,” so I assume you don’t want to imply that you’re critiquing the capabilities of China’s political system. So what’s left? Is it racism? The removed can’t achieve what other humans have already proven is possible because the removed is subhuman?

      You are making a political statement whether you intend to or not, you don’t just get to whine about how you were only talking about the science and why is everyone being so mean when you only started a discussion about the science to reinforce (or deflect from) your original assertion.

      • @u_tamtam@programming.dev
        2•5 months ago

        your assertion that China won’t be able to achieve this.

        Well, except I did not only NOT write that, I even wrote the exact opposite, see: https://programming.dev/comment/5899890

        Also, interpreting my messages with your ideologically colored lenses doesn’t imply that this thread invites political discourse. I’m sure you’ll find many people here willing to vent their frustrations with you in easily ignorable threads of their own.

      • @u_tamtam@programming.dev
        1•5 months ago

        Because every single thing must revolve around America, only one thing can be bad at a time, and if I’m not with you I must be against you.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]English
          6•5 months ago

          , only one thing can be bad at a time,

          Oh, were we talking about something being bad? I thought we were just having a non-politically tinted discussion about science and technology

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]English
          6•5 months ago

          and if I’m not with you I must be against you.

          Neutrality is support of the status quo, there are no parties that neither support nor oppose it.

        • duderium [he/him]English
          3•5 months ago

          I mean, it’s the most powerful empire ever to exist, one built on ongoing slavery and genocide. It’s difficult to find global problems that don’t lead back to the amerikkkan ruling class.