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Sorry, really just liked the headline, couldn't resist.

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[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

This move makes sense if you plan on decoupling from China and accelerating global warming to destroy the rest of the world to enshrine your hegemony for the rest of this century and next by being one of the few livable, somewhat insulated places that can be a viable climate fortress.

You need China to make things like solar with batteries viable. But if you know you're going to war with them, decouple from them, etc you want to be on dirty things like coal you can just use entirely locally. All while helpfully poisoning those unnecessary workers you're positive that AI and robotics will replace.