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@Cabinoodle23 @AB_baxi @MUAUHASSA @davidkersten So doesn’t that just prove even more that you don’t need elections?

@AB_baxi @MUAUHASSA @davidkersten China got millions of people out of poverty when Deng Xiaoping embraced economic capitalism.

America banned China from the International Space Station. So China built its own. This is a pattern that has repeated many times on many different levels. The more America tries to hamstring China, the more China rises to the challenge and overcomes it.

@Mplspatriot @MarioNawfal Go ahead and keep crying. Twenty years ago, the U.S. claimed that China’s refusal to heed its warnings would lead to its collapse, yet now China has emerged as the U.S.’s greatest strategic rival.

@MarioNawfal This will end up back firing on China. Iran current government is certain to fall now.

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China just ordered its domestic companies to ignore U.S. sanctions targeting Chinese refiners tied to the Iranian oil trade, including Hengli Petrochemical. -Affected firms had been hit with U.S. asset freezes and transaction bans -China's Ministry of Commerce called the U.S. measures "unlawful" and "a violation of international norms" -Beijing issued a directive prohibiting recognition or enforcement of the sanctions inside China -Comes days after U.S. Treasury warned about Chinese "teapot" refineries doing business with Iran This is China openly rejecting the U.S. financial pressure architecture in real time. For weeks, the U.S. has been tightening a financial blockade on Iran that runs parallel to the naval one, sanctioning shadow banking networks, threatening Chinese refineries, and warning shippers off Iranian tolls. Beijing just told all of those measures to take a hike, and instructed its companies to act as if the sanctions don't exist. Source: @officialrnintel

@MahurRohitash @RT_com To be honest, it feels just like a husband and wife flirting, so cute.🥰🥰

This is ABSOLUTE CINEMA 🔥 🇺🇸Trump at 1:00 PM: "We are going to put sanctions on China for buying Iranian oil." 🇨🇳China at 1:10 PM: "Fućk off. We do not recognize US sanctions on Iranian oil purchases and will not comply with them. We have trade agreements with 🇮🇷 Iran and strictly warn Trump not to put your nose in our affairs."🔥 ABSOLUTE BELT TREATMENT 🔥

⚡️ China BANS and BLOCKS US sanctions against 5 petrochemical companies Beijing REFUSES to recognize, implement or comply

@Samking207 @teortaxesTex Dude, we're talking about DeepSeek Vision. x.com/i/status/20494…

@teortaxesTex But it’s still there, I have it on web and app

Bro disappeared like he never existed

@malentretenido_ @acidchicken55 @Mayoveli There is no evidence that China exists, what you think of as China is nothing more than an illusion implanted by the CIA. We’ve all been deceived into believing that a country called China actually exists in this world.

@acidchicken55 @Mayoveli Bro, we all know Columbus was way more influential that's why the Chinese have to make up that Zheng He had a massive ship. There's no proof it even existed. There's no way that thing could even sail.

This is why you have to strip yourself of Eurocentrism. If your exposure to global history is limited to a Western point of view, then you’re missing a great deal of important detail. I could look at this picture alone and write a dissertation on China versus Europe, on how differences in resource distribution, political structure, and cultural outlook helped shape colonial attitudes and their lasting impact on the world today. Historically, China often operated from a position of relative abundance and self-sufficiency, especially during its strongest dynasties. It held its civilization in very high regard and viewed itself as the center of the world, prioritizing internal stability and regional influence over sustained intercontinental expansion. They hardly suffered from a lack of capacity; they had formidable naval and economic power. There were literally Chinese pirates with fleets rivaling those of some powerful European states, this is not an exaggeration. Of course, they had some periods of outward engagement but they were followed by deliberate withdrawal, and most of the expansion they did was continental or tributary rather than overseas or settler-colonial. Western Europe, by contrast, was relatively constrained in land and resources and remained politically fragmented for much of its history. Competition between states, combined with commercial ambition, greed, their fascination with mercantilism cum capitalism and some advances in navigation which China had way before them, helped drive maritime expansion and, in many cases, exploitation abroad. Many don't know that, for a time, Europe was deeply fascinated by Chinese goods, from porcelain, prized as a luxury, to tea, silk, and more. Meanwhile, China maintained controlled trade and had limited interest in European goods beyond silver. In response to this imbalance, British traders introduced and expanded the opium trade to disrupt and eventually decimate Chinese society. China had the capacity to project power more broadly, but global domination was never a sustained objective. Its priorities were shaped more by internal governance and regional order than by overseas empire-building. I don't think much has changed in their approach to geopolitics, even today.

@deepseek_ai DeepSeek is slashing prices again. We're too cheap — people beg me, "Liang Wenfeng, please, it's too cheap! We can't handle it! Before you, AI was always expensive." I said, "No, no, no. We'll keep cutting. You'll win bigger and cheaper than ever!" x.com/i/status/20264…

The DeepSeek-V4-Pro discount has been extended until May 31, 2026, 15:59 UTC!

@Customds @z2206501488 @NXTXZXW @wayne_m159 @lekan897 What do you think of X? It’s related to sex, but neither SpaceX nor X has prevented Musk from becoming the world’s richest person.

@z2206501488 @NXTXZXW @wayne_m159 @lekan897 That’s a better name than anything with “wang” in it, which is slang for penis.

Video footage of the exact moment the BYD Yangwang u9 Xtreme reached a maximum speed of 496.22 km/h on the Track in Petersburg,Germany, officially beating the Bugatti Chiron super sport’s record as the world’s fastest production car

@sciencegirl That is utterly foolish. Remember what Musk once said: without the cycle of death, humanity would descend into corruption and tyranny. Chaos and evil would reign, and everything would fall under the control of the devil.

A teenage prodigy in quantum physics is aiming to tackle one of science’s biggest challenges: human aging. Laurent Simons earned his PhD in quantum physics from the University of Antwerp at just 15. Rather than slowing down, he has already begun a second doctorate, this time focusing on medical science and artificial intelligence. His long-term ambition is to better understand aging and disease, with the hope of helping extend healthy human lifespan. He has described death as a complex “puzzle,” made up of many interconnected pieces across biology, physics, and engineering. His strategy is to study these layers together, using AI to analyze biological systems and identify patterns that would be difficult to detect otherwise. Simons’ academic journey has been unusually fast. He completed high school by age 8, finished a bachelor’s degree at 12, and went on to earn both a master’s and PhD in quantum physics years ahead of typical timelines. His doctoral work explored advanced topics like Bose–Einstein condensates, where atoms behave as a single quantum system at extremely low temperatures. Although highly theoretical, this research underpins technologies such as quantum computing and precision measurement. Now, his focus is shifting toward biology and medicine. In AI-driven healthcare, researchers are already using machine learning to improve early disease detection, model protein structures, and accelerate drug development. In the field of aging, scientists are investigating ways to reduce cellular damage, eliminate dysfunctional cells, and better understand how the body changes over time. However, experts stress that “solving aging” is extraordinarily complex. While lifespan extension has been achieved in simple organisms, applying those findings to humans remains a major scientific hurdle. Simons himself acknowledges that meaningful progress could take decades. Even so, his path reflects a broader trend in science—where breakthroughs are increasingly happening at the intersection of disciplines, and younger researchers are setting ambitious, long-term goals. Learn more: "15-year-old genius sets his sights on solving human immortality." Brighter Side.

@gnomie34832511 @FurkanGozukara youtu.be/TeEdKAYTqxU

@FurkanGozukara Bullshit. To transfer 80kwh in 10 minutes you would need a 480kw constant supply. The wire gauge alone would be unmanageable, not to mention that typical household service is limited to about 50kw.

The technological gap is widening rapidly. While the US government wastes billions funding endless wars for the Zionist regime, China is unveiling revolutionary EV batteries that charge to 100 percent in just ten minutes. The West is completely being left behind.

@gnomie34832511 @FurkanGozukara You're right! It's obviously impossible to go from 0% to 100% in 10 minutes, but it can go from 10% to 98% in 7 minutes. Clearly, this is a defective battery. x.com/i/status/20475…

@JamesTakesOnAI @bindureddy No, Kimi is like a high-speed train that’s slower but more comfortable—and cheaper. ChatGPT, on the other hand, is like an airplane: more expensive and faster. 95% of the time, I’d choose the high-speed train over the plane, even though the plane is a few hours faster.

@bindureddy calling kimi 2.6 "the king" while admitting it's slow as molasses is like calling a horse the king of transportation because it's cheap. speed isn't a side quest, it's the product. nobody's choosing 5x cheaper if their agent loop crawls.

Kimi 2.6 beats DeepSeek and remains the king of open source!! It’s a GPT 5.5 / Opus 4.7 low effort model which is about 5x cheaper in practice The only drawback is speed! Open source would have won when they catch you up on that dimension - Weeks away!

@hahazazaha1 @HealthRanger That’s not how the world works. China has been distilling, copying, and replicating American technology for decades. In theory, it should have collapsed right from the start, but now it has actually become America’s number one adversary.

@HealthRanger When start reading about “distillation attacks” you know the writing was on the wall.. who’s winning who’s not

Anthropic's Opus 4.6 and 4.7 models cost $25 per 1M output tokens. DeepSeek-V4-Flash costs $0.28 per 1M output tokens. It's nearly 100 X cheaper and almost 100% as good (not quite, but very close for the majority of tasks). Is this China weaponizing pricing to destroy the U.S. AI industry? Not at all. It's just math: DeepSeek engineered an astonishing new method for compressing context (KV cache) to use about 1/10th the memory. That means roughly 10 parallel queries can run on the same GPU hardware that used to only be able to run 1 query. So now there's 10X throughput (I'm simplifying it, but that's the idea). On top of that DeepSeek innovated in the sparse attention space, allowing their high-parameter models to function with the speed of very small models while still demonstrating the near-full intelligence of large frontier models. The result? DeepSeek runs faster, smarter, in less memory than anything else. Thus, they can charge a lot less on a per-token basis and still make a decent profit. DeepSeek's pricing, in other words, isn't some international punitive price war that's initiated a a loss. It's actually reflective of the far better technology and architecture of the DeepSeek model. In fact, DeepSeek has published all their science papers on these innovations. It's all public. They aren't hiding it. The ONLY way for U.S. AI companies to compete will be to adopt DeepSeek architectural innovations, or somehow surpass them on their own. Even then, electricity is cheaper in China because the Chinese government wasn't retarded about "climate change" and they didn't dismantle their core energy infrastructure like Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia did (all to appease the climate cultists whose assertions never matched reality). Bottom line? If you want to build a successful AI industry for your nation: 1) Invest in power infrastructure and keep building in every way you can: Nuclear, clean coal, gas, wind, solar, hydro, etc. 2) Don't dumb down your education system. Demand excellence and merit, and stop handing out college scholarships based on people being "woke." 3) Don't reward GREED and corporate secrets. Encourage industry-wide sharing of knowledge and innovation. Encourage open source. The USA didn't do these things. China did. That's why China is winning the AI race to superintelligence. And that's why the USA is at least two decades behind on power infrastructure and education excellence. The race is already over, in other words.

@PeterWang873584 @BasilEsq_ @ruima After all, there are still people in the world who don’t have enough to eat, and not everyone is wealthy. The more sophisticated and complex a tool is, the more expensive and difficult it is to repair.

@BasilEsq_ @ruima I'm extremely disappointed in humanity that seats with bidets and constantly changing covers are not the global standard.

It’s really difficult to explain to visitors that Chinese people, on average (maybe not the much younger first tier city dwellers), prefer squat toilets for public use (seated are great for home). They think sharing a toilet seat is very dirty. It’s probably at least in part because contagious infectious diseases were such an issue even just thirty years ago. Toilet seat covers help, but most (especially older) people would just rather not be anywhere near where someone else had placed their bare rear end. It’s very hard even today to find public “regular” seated toilets in second tier cities and below (or even in outskirts of first tier cities). In the third tier city we were in, we couldn’t find any except for a fancy mall’s handicapped bathroom.

@kohakeyes24000 @ARAARASHINIGAMI @keiya610 How could this possibly be a crime? Just think about it—Japan’s invasion and the killing of so many Asians during World War II don’t even count as crimes in your eyes. The Japanese often believe that murder isn’t a crime, yet pirating video games is the worst crime imaginable.

@ARAARASHINIGAMI @keiya610 確かに好きなコンテンツを消費できないのは同情はしますが、犯罪していいとは別かと。 それに、日本のコンテンツ供給側も海外で売るとなったら現地の法律や価値観に合わせて変えないといけないとかあるんですよ。工藤新一→ジミークドウの例とかね。あなたの国で売るためにそんな魔改造施されたいです?

The reason why many Japanese don’t directly address the “why won’t you just sell me something so I don’t pirate” issue and only respond with “piracy is bad” is because they quietly want Japanese things to stay Japanese only. Japanese people, as a rule, are not direct in speech.

@OopsGuess @MarioNawfal You're just venting your anger at thin air. Mario is simply sharing information from various media outlets and sources. He has neither the need nor the energy to verify what is true. What you choose to believe is entirely up to you. x.com/i/status/20442…

This idiot’s fantasy always has the same structure: treat China like a static map, pretend logistics never adjust, pretend reserves are fixed destiny, pretend pipelines, Russian supply, coordination, and policy response do not exist, then announce a dramatic “countdown” like a bad screenwriter. Meanwhile China’s actual response is calm and simple: China and Russia continue practical cooperation, including in energy, on the basis of mutual respect and mutual benefit. So much for the June 8 collapse fantasy.

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Everyone is focused on what the blockade does to Iran. Nobody is talking about what it does to China. About 5.5 million barrels of Chinese crude imports and 30% of its LNG flow through the Strait of Hormuz every day, roughly half of China's total oil supply mix. China has an estimated 1.2-1.4 billion barrels in reserves. Sounds enormous, right? But a reserve isn’t immunity, it’s a clock. The disruption started February 28th, meaning China has burned through roughly 45 days of that buffer already, putting the crunch point at around June 8th. And it’s more than an economic concern: The same reserve barrels China would need for a Taiwan military contingency are the barrels it may need just to keep its factories running. Every barrel used to stabilize the domestic economy is one fewer barrel available to the People's Liberation Army, whose wartime fuel window is estimated at just 60-100 days. Russia helps through overland pipelines, but Russia doesn't solve this, you can’t just snap a pipeline into existence. China looks terrifying on paper: carriers, hypersonics, rocket brigades… but industrial warfare is downstream of logistics, and logistics is downstream of energy. You don't have to destroy China to constrain it, you just have to make it burn its reserve barrels faster than it can replace them. June 8th, start the countdown… Source: @RyanMcbeth

@MiloshOffical @TKohoto @otlg30 @DrJStrategy I’ve used ChatGPT for years. I’m 90% sure this was made with GPT-5.4 Thinking. Feels like a few rounds of prompting shaped it first. Then the final answer came out. No one spends time doing a full, point-by-point teardown like this. Too detailed, too complete.

Food for thought. Yes, the New Great Game is unfolding. No nation stands to gain more from a closure of the Strait of Hormuz than the United States, across the short, medium, and long term. This logic is embedded in President Trump’s National Security Strategy, with the Trump Doctrine now visible in practice. Strategically, China loses on multiple fronts with Hormuz closed: seaborne Middle Eastern supplies are constrained just as Venezuelan crude is increasingly redirected toward the U.S. Gulf Coast on short, politically secure routes. At the same time, the Strait of Malacca, and with it, the broader Malacca Dilemma, moves to the center of gravity. In parallel, the Sunda, Lombok, Makassar, and Mindoro Straits remain critical arteries for Chinese trade and energy flows. Together, they constitute the geographic chokepoints of Beijing’s vulnerability, and Washington is acutely aware of this. Yes, the New Great Game is unfolding, and Wall Street has yet to comprehend the consequences.

@muellerberndt @skdh @TomCampbell_MBT @TOEwithCurt @RealChrisLangan @stephen_wolfram @ericweinstein @elonmusk If I'm an idealist, I predict God exists. You can't prove or disprove it. In a Harry Potter world, I predict Earth destroyed in 2000 years. How to verify now? All who drink water die because of God. How to distinguish causation from correlation?

> how can an idealist theory be substantiated by materialism? I don't quite understand the question.OPH is an idealist theory, but it makes concrete predictions for how matter forms, how it behaves, and what kinds of it emerge. So it does explain why the Universe looks to us as if it was composed of matter.

In Observer Patch Holography, all mysteriously "fine-tuned" Physics constants are fixed by a single simulator setting plus overlap-consistency math. Experts in maths, physics, CS, QC, and philosophy, help us complete the correct Theory-of-Everything. github.com/FloatingPragma…

@muellerberndt Your theories are mere child's play compared to the luminiferous aether. Once, this framework was so elegantly perfect and universally embraced by the greatest physicists of the 19th century. Your arrogance and narcissism serve no purpose beyond Web3 marketing hype.

@muellerberndt @cgarciae88 @skdh I’ve seen dozens of similar projects. AI is now amplifying human imagination. We used to imagine other worlds with words, like Harry Potter. Now we can build entirely different physical worlds with math and code. The world has truly advanced.

@cgarciae88 @skdh I really wish @skdh would take a deep look at it. Knowing where she's coming from, I'm sure she'd fall in love if she gave it an honest shot. For example, OPH shows that we don't need larger particle accelerators which will make Sabine very happy.

Our small team has worked hard on refining the novel observer-based fundamental theory of Physics, OPH, over the past 3 months. Still way to go, but we already derive most of existing Physics and parts of the particle spectrum. @muellerberndt/observers-are-all-you-need-how-observer-synchronization-creates-all-of-physics-8ebb7e9783e7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@muellerberndt…