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Pandas live only in the mountainy forests of the Sichuan area. They are mostly active around dawn and dusk, and have never been huge in number.

They do not live in the traditional Chinese heartland, Sichuan didn’t join China until about 200BC, and remained a hinterland up into the modern day.

Lack of accessibility, being on the periphery of China, and difficulty to encounter will all have contributed.

“Mo” (貘) is the modern Chinese word for tapir, and the South East Asian Tapir which traditionally had range into Southern China is also a black and white, small number, hard to encounter forest animal that lives on the periphery of China.

Don’t forget that the IDF went full Hannibal and shot to kill Israeli citizens as that was seen as preferable to Hamas having hostages.

I mean… Whose funding the religious nut jobs?

Quelle surprise, it’s the crypto-fash again. Getting real tired of their shit.

They’re very connected and joined up.

The fascists are much more interconnected: there’s only a Thailand based crypto billionaire link to travel between the Deputy President of the USA and TRADITIONAL VALUES organised crime in Spain and North Africa.

Misogynistic far right groups in Australia get funding and guest appearances from nutters from Sweden and The Netherlands.

We don’t realise how much of a literal conspiracy to tear down our society is currently taking place.

Just leave it in the background and know that number trends up.

Also, shows for infants are either on trackers I don’t have access to or just thoroughly under-provided through torrents.

It’s certainly possible for it to be that if you dealt with people deemed verborten by the Republic that it could be frozen, or just transaction denied - so Watto perhaps risked losing all of it for his normal business practices… But I don’t think anything like that was ever mentioned in any of the Star Wars, and it is also a physical currency too (at least sometimes).

As far as I’m aware Hutt Space also used Republic Credits. But I’ll concede that it is also a time-space location that I don’t know enough about. (Hubristic enough to have speculated on though.)

From historical precedent: yes.

All people need to have something hold worth as currency is the knowledge that it can be used somewhere vaguely useful. A nearby interstellar state/society means that anyone who goes off world would use it, which in turn means anyone who lives/deal with a major settlement would be fine with it.

Roman and Imperial Chinese coins ended up being used as currency half a continent away (and were all devalued well below face value or already fiat) at much of their given value throughout (and even after the fall of the Western Roman Empire).

Uncertain, as no one knows about the causes or condition before it.

That’s the nice thing about science, it just says what the evidence shows and is happy to label the rest: TBC.

It’s not that it’s more volatile, but that the volatility is coming closer to home (and 24 hour news amplifies it).

South America is at its most peaceful in about 100 years, South East Asia currently only has 1 war ongoing, while slightly up from 0 in 2010, is still lower than most of the last 100 years.

Africa is more stable overall and developing better for most people, with some exceptions.

Although if you mean volatile as “the US is no longer sure it can curbstomp any likely military opposition”, then yes. That is now true due to other nations’ improvement, and changes to asymmetrical warfare capabilities.

Only parts of southern China, and parts of Korea eat dog. (Might be some other regions I’m unaware of. More freaky, and looked down on for it by the rest of China is Guangdong’s eating of monkey brains).

I think the reporters at [House of Saud](https:// houseofsaud.com) mentioned that Oman had been consulted by Iran near the start of the conflict, and Iran’s stated goal is Oman and Iran together control shipping through the strait.

Equally though, Oman has been pretty content to sit back and not draw the ire of either side which is sensible enough too. Besides, for a smaller Middle Eastern nation it’s not as if its government openly supporting either side would win it much favour.

LLMs tend to be synchophantic and can’t judge or give feedback effectively.

Plus they can fail at tasks as simple as telling me how many kids Queen Victoria had.

They never hold their own line, but cave and bow. Which in turn makes the one inputting to it weaker.

Abiut whatever they like.

It strengthens the psychic net of the world that will protect against the potential TREACL summoned apocalypse.

Many folks in higher education in the UK have been bemoaning a generation of genii lost to business and the City who put their talents and creativity to the good of making profit rather than inventing and humanity.

Many more have their funding and direction tilted to capital, too.

If they were real has no implication on the reality of any diety (or deities) let alone the Abrahamic God, Yahweh.

To add for others, electrons orbiting is a convenient assumption - really they’re more a delocalised cloud of negative charge that exists in various bits of space known as “orbitals”.

Not orbiting in the way we’d understand it from planets.

Capitalists have capital, which they invest in legislative capture to create a more favourable environment for capital.

It’s capitalism unrestricted, since there is no restriction on what capital can do once enough has been accumulated.

While I indeed doubt that the Romans knew of WuWei, they and Imperial China were aware of each other.

The Han Dynasty even tried to establish a direct embassy and sent an expedition that goto around modern day Jordan-Syria-Turkey before giving up and going home.