What do you think of the donations to open source project maintainers or photographers or musicians? What about gifts sent to tiktok hosts?
I'm from a country where there're no tips, and I'm not defending tips at all. But I do think the tiktok gifts are basically tips right? Is it a good idea to live off the gifts like the tips?
Donations aren't tips. I'm an Open Source maintainer as well, and I don't ever expect to be paid for my work. It's a hobby, whereas the code I write at work is what people pay me to do. Growing up, I knew a fairly popular musician from the internet-era, and I'll just say she made less money than I did working the cash register. She worked more hours, too.
Tipping, as an American culture, exists to reward "above and beyond" behavior from service workers. Tiktok performers, bedroom musicians and FOSS developers aren't service workers, and most of the time they aren't salaried either. Expecting to live off those wages is an unfortunate mistake.
Um, does a mall normally gets a cut in all the sales which happen in the stores on its ground? The mall surely keeps the stores running by providing services like security, parking, advertising to attract people, etc.
China will start it when they invade our ally Taiwan.
It would also, almost certainly involve a pre-emptive strike from china onto american forces. This would be because China knows that the only way to have even a chance of success is to strike first against the USA.
Maybe a politician will be elected in Taiwan that China really doesn't like. Maybe the decades long, existing trends will continue towards the Taiwanese people no longer thinking themselves as having any sort of chinese identity. Or maybe Xi will simply try to distract the population from problems at home with a foolish hopeless war. There are a lot of possibilities!
> How long has the US or its allies been planning
They aren't planning on starting a war. If China doesn't invade Taiwan, there will be no war.
But yes, the USA would absolutely defend Taiwan from an invasion, and already gives Taiwan weapons to do so.
I hope that some of the politicians in china will eventually learn how foolish such an invasion will be. Or, perhaps, China will simply saber rattle and do nothing like it has been sabre rattling for decades.
China has enough problems as it is, but there is still a chance that they will go off the deep end and invade our allies.
If that happens though, the USA will absolutely defend against such an invasion though.
Let's do a thought experiment. Please give this a honest consideration.
If the Uyghurs had 40,000 combatants. And if they were dug in tunnels under Uyghur cities. And fires 10's of thousands of rockets into Chinese cities. And killed thousands of people with hundreds of suicide bombings. Their cities were mined and booby trapped. Their combatants were well trained, armed with RPGs, sniper rifles, machine guns.
Then the Uyghurs raided some Chinese city, killing 1200 people, taking hundreds of hostages.
What do you think China would do?
China isn't bombing them because it doesn't need to bomb them.
Uyghurs have less people that care about them in the international community, for sure. I'm not sure they're not suffering a lot more than the Palestinians are.
If china's goal is to wipe them out as a people, its more effective to do that quietly.
Having Uyghurs cry for their kins brings international attention. Having them slowly deported to camps and sterialized brings about the same result without that pesky international pressure.
