jaekash

> I've tried both podman and lxd with success but I'm curious, what do you use a tool like that for, mostly?

I use podman for dev and test environments, CI and CD workers and testing OCI containers that I eventually deploy in K8S. No production use cases. Hoping to soon see K3S working inside podman though, and then I would use it for deploying K3S :)

Corporations getting rich off the CCP's action siding with the CCP is hardly surprising.

Very true in this case, if it was not for US foreign policy choices China would not be the problem it is today.

Sometimes USA still manages to do the right thing it seems.

> But for at least Portugal and Greece, and maybe Italy and some eastern European countries, the ally is china since 2014?

Maybe financially, but not ideologically. Not sure how far this "allegiance will hold".

> Maybe the long term resolution involves recognizing that even if China is totalitarian, it's only within it's own borders.

If it was not for china North Korea and possibly Pakistan would not have had nuclear weapons now. So no, it is not just in it's own borders.

Deferred action is better than nothing, but yes, I would prefer it happened immediately also.

> When a fifteen year old can be put into prison for years in some U.S. states for some weed it hardly makes makes the U.S. look like it values human rights.

Would like to see some examples of this, and numbers of this. I really doubt this is widespread.

And further, if it does happen, it would have to get through prosecutors, jury, governors, etc - all of who will completely eaten alive by the press if the kid could even be misinterpreted to be a minority in the USA and the whole world would know about it. Where if someone mentions China is not exactly a good actor we get a whataboutism shitstorm.

It is a bit weird that there are whole movements like BDS setup against Isreal, a wholly democratic and liberal country where people of all religions enjoy the same rights and nobody is placed in concentration camps, while every time someone mentions that China is a bad actor we get asked why does BDS not exists.

BDS does exist, and China is a bad actor and should be opposed.

> You can always tweak law to make criminal out of anyone inconvenient.

And this would be immoral and if you are suggesting the US is doing this you would need to actually back that up.

> Wasn't Assange's consensual sex relegated to rape?

Even if it was, that is not an example of tweaking the law to make a criminal out of anyone inconvenient, it is a case of tweaking the truth to fit the definition of something which is a crime, and should be a crime.

> value-systems are only 'values' and a 'system' when they are well-defined and consistently applied.

I get what you are trying to say but definitely a value system requires neither of those things.

> So most of the planet will only buy thise elaborate line when Saudi Arabia and Pakistan get told to keep their riches.

There is hypocrisy but the threat posed by China to the liberal world order is much more serious than the thread posed by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and in both those cases there is a bit of a deal with the devil.

If the Saudi and Pakistani regimes fall we will probably see much worse things popping up.