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@teortaxesTex CAAC, CCTV and a whole bunch of those 4 letter departments are too boomer heavy and lacks innovation
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Not sure what this is about, but seeing as LandSpace has better engines than CASC now, maybe it was time for a change.
Ken Cao-The China Crash Chronicle@Ken_LoveTW
Power in China is cannibalizing itself. Ma Xingrui’s case dragged on for eight months before finally being announced. This is not some low-level purge. Ma is one of China’s top technocrats, an engineer by training, the kind of elite the system once relied on to actually run things. Now he joins Zhang Youxia and He Weidong as the third sitting Politburo member to fall since the 20th Party Congress. The Politburo is supposed to be the core of power. Yet it’s starting to look like a demolition site where even insiders aren’t safe. When your highest-ranking officials are being taken down one after another, it tells you something deeper is breaking inside the system. With the 21st Party Congress approaching, this likely doesn’t stop here. More Politburo members could be investigated and removed. The old belief that reaching the top guarantees safety is gone. In today’s China, the closer you are to power, the more dangerous your position becomes.
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@Sutter_Pain @CommieSlayer8 @hardwarecanucks He's looking at an MLC Ssd which is way more expensive than consumer grade QLC, which is not 1k+
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@CommieSlayer8 @hardwarecanucks Damn I bought that for like 249 under a year ago that is wild. Sucks I need another for this year but not paying them prices.
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Turns out Sam Altman "buying up" 40% of DRAM wafers was actually him writing Letters of Intent. Letters he supposedly had / has no intention of converting to actual purchases now.
And memory manufacturers are just getting DUMPED on today.🍿🍿
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@mirroredcaptain @AlaricTsoni @clockstiqqun They believe it because the alternative of not believing in America gets you looked at sideways like you've just committed spiritual treason. Most people don't like upsetting the apple cart so the cult goes unchallenged.
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@AlaricTsoni @clockstiqqun There's a lot of people, especially in Government, who have this idea of us having industry comparable to 1940 or even the 70s hidden away somewhere. It is total fantasy and I don't know how people believe it.
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one of the things I think you really have to understand about how the empire backed itself into this corner is that its formative modern military experience remains WW2, a war it went into with a dinky military and proceeded to win anyway for reasons it refused to understand
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@TaraAnnThieke Au10tix now does this automatically via the scraping of your social media posts. Armageddon is not really about the forces of hell vs heaven. I will be the forces of zionism vs humanity.
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When I was 19 I found out a Zionist had made a list of every American he could find who had criticized Israel. There were tens of thousands of people on the list w/ reasons given for why they deserved to be labeled an enemy target. I was shocked to find my dad on the list because he had signed an anti-war petition. It is laughable to suggest my father is an anti-semite, but he is strongly anti-war.
I, being 19 & extraordinarily naive, contacted the maker of the list to explain this was about war, not anti-semitism, and asked him to take down such a dangerous "enemies" list. He responded cheerfully that I was obviously also an "enemy of Israel" because I was opposed to making "enemy lists" and so he added my name to it and wished death upon me.
The next 20 years taught me that wasn't a fringe character - that is contemporary media & political policy. The deliberate mixing of criticism of Israel with antisemitism is the actual revolting bad-faith practice and has no place in a polite, free, or (dare we hope one day) loving society.
New York Post@nypost
'Giant' review: John Lithgow is superb as Roald Dahl in show about his revolting anti-Semitism trib.al/fjtu38M
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@icemanpls @GodfreeTrh That is not the behavior of patriots or personnel in high morale. Maybe a poll to see if they are sufficiently motivated to die for Israel is called for as well.
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@arketype4 @GodfreeTrh The crew had their deployment extended several times definitely could be the crew setting the blaze.
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It's never one thing that brings down an empire, but we're accumulating too many 'things' too fast lately. Spaced out, we could handle them, but:
1). Iran hit our $12 billion warship with a $120,000 missile while its crew were in mid-mutiny, causing damage so massive that we will not see ol' Gerry again until 2030.
2). We're running out of F-35s in theater because, for every 60 minutes airborne they require 30 hours of skilled work. Iran's downing of one is statistically insignificant but remarkable for its coverup.
3). We're out of REEs. 300 F-35s delivered without radars. That's just the most visible part. Our defense industry is a dead man walking.
4). We lost control of the Middle East, its riches and the petrodollars faster than Britain lost Singapore: the worstest, fastest imperial defeat since Cannae.
5). We ceded control of our foreign policy to a bunch of crackpots who then persuaded us to elect one of their poodles. (His defeated opponent, a former escort, was also one of their poodles).
These are both significant and happening simultaneously, but our leadership lacks the chops to handle even one of them competently and expeditiously. We have the worst leadership in our history while Iran, Russia, China and North Korea have the best.
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@burnerNo354 @0x49fa98 I had always been suspicious given Zero's high verbal IQ but it never occurred to me he might be a jew. God damn it.
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@0x49fa98 Goy starts to connect the dots. Jew says he’s got brain damage or mental health issues. Other Jews come out in support of the brain damage or mental health hypothesis by reaffirming accusations of Goy’s “unusual” behaviour. This is loxism 101. Harley Pasternak coded.
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This guy was always laid back and level-headed until quite recently.
One day, he appeared to go nuts, blocked a bunch of his long-time mutuals, including me, and started writing the most inane, brown-brained conspiracy nonsense about us that would have always been beneath him.
I was puzzled by the above, but today I learned he had a severe ischemic stroke and a some aftershocks.
He also believes the stroke did not impair his judgement. I think this is very sad, but also quite revealing.
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@icemanpls @GodfreeTrh If anything, you better hope the fire came from an Iranian missile and not crew mutiny. That you think the crew setting their own ship ablaze is somehow a gigantic own against Iran means you are way too short for this ride.
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US Navy, NYT, CNN, Reuters, Stars & Stripes every credible source confirms the same thing: **March 12 laundry room fire** on the Ford. Took sailors 30+ hours to knock it down (lint, flammables, ventilation ducts on a 100k-ton ship make that believable). 600+ crew displaced from berthing, a handful with smoke inhalation. Non-combat. Ship pulled to Crete for repairs after a brutal extended deployment.
Iran says “missile strike” because that’s what they *always* say when anything goes wrong for us. No hull damage photos. No satellite imagery of an impact. No wreckage. No crew reports of explosion. Just their word.
Extraordinary claims require evidence, not “trust me bro” from Tehran. The fire was real and embarrassing. Turning it into a $12B Iranian victory lap is pure propaganda.
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@HeLiuLeo @HXD3D_8028 Right, they definitely could use more Shell gas stations and McDonalds arches.
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@HXD3D_8028 As far as aesthetics goes, it will look even prettier without those communist slogans, incongruous flags and Soviet buildings
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China has inequality but no one cares. People look at central Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and scream ‘CHINA’. They don’t even bother venturing out to look at Beijing’s shabby suburbs, let alone the rest of China - villages, towns, counties, before staging their mindless orientalist worships. It’s ridiculous.
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@boleshwar @Mind_of_yakub @irrationalistus Pakistan, Peru and Argentina arent proclaiming themselves superpowers.
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@Mind_of_yakub @irrationalistus india also performed better than meat eating pakistan, peru, argentina and others. what's your point?
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When Chinese family got rich they fed thier kids more meat , diary while some indians do reverse of this they go vegan, vegetarian and non diary.
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole
China's 18-year-old males are now the same height as American 18-year-olds. Let that sentence sit for a moment. In 1985, the average Chinese boy was measurably shorter. Not marginally: substantially. The gap was the kind you could see in a crowd, feel at a doorframe, read in a population chart without squinting. Between 1985 and 2019, Chinese men experienced the largest height increase of any nation studied. Boys aged 7 to 18 grew an average of 7.6 centimetres in three decades. What happened in China between 1985 and 2019? Economic reforms. Rapid urbanisation. And a diet that shifted, quite deliberately and measurably, toward more animal protein. More meat. More dairy. More eggs. The traditional diet was rice-dominant: and rice protein, it turns out, is negatively correlated with height across populations. When Chinese families got wealthier, they bought steak. Their children grew. This isn't a coincidence. It's a controlled experiment that 1.4 billion people ran on themselves over thirty-five years. And their children are now eye-level with Americans.
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@KCDN19 @corsair21c If only to figure out an efficient way to get rid of them
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@corsair21c We need to study them. An all out international effort.
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Sometimes I wonder if they realize that they appear to be biologically incapable of introspection, accepting blame, and using words as something other than tools of exploitation.
Imagine Cluster B personality disorders, but as a race
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry@pegobry_en
For the five billionth time: - You don’t need a conspiracy theory to explain why the US government is interested in an area that has 50% of the world’s oil and 30% of the world’s trade - You don’t need a conspiracy theory to explain why the US government feels threatened by a jihadist death cult whose motto is "Death to America" developing nukes
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@fhungonical @blue_rookery @DataFrill_56 @suchnerve House was not autistic. He was mad because he was in pain all the time.
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My oldest special interest is People, and you can tell because it’s like: 🧐📝
(Autistic little girl deciding to use her brainpower to create, through sheer brute force, a synthetic simulation of the people skills that come relatively easily to allistic people? Many such cases!)
Jimothy: Worldbuilder, Youtuber, Stinker@Jimothy48500311
@suchnerve Is it just funny for you to know the depths of people's souls, sometimes better than they know themselves, without even knowing of their individual existences?
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@Why__Knot @DoggyDog1208 See? You are capable of connecting the dots and synthesizing the correct conclusions, just so long as the subject matter isn't directly about China lol
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@DoggyDog1208 Nutrition + strong mating preference for tall males + some use of growth hormones has incredible results. I thought it would take a couple generations
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@rickzzzzr @Rafa_Schwinger @teortaxesTex You're willing to pay your own way, are you willing to pay for the freeloaders? Pareto principle - 80% of revenue comes from 20% of customers. Are you willing to pay not only for yourself but 4 others? This is why the decen web concept has not evolved after the invention of BT
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@arketype4 @Rafa_Schwinger @teortaxesTex True but personally I am ready to pay the cost if I get privacy, my data control and no censorship
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Had an account lockdown for being really pissed at a Ukrainian who demanded renouncing my Russian heritage. I don't think he reported me (he took it lightly at the time, days ago).
One "good" use of AI is trawling through undesirable accounts for pretexts to keep them offline.
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Why the western weebs are mad at this, it’s not even denied in Japan
Mr. Reply Guy@GenericSnarky
They're doing Stage 1 to Japan now
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@blipman744 @itsbasilbasil Vast majority of media is on the same level as comfort food. People want something easily digestible. Novelty is "work".
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@itsbasilbasil I just don’t understand why 99% of sci fi looks so lame, with gray and blue panels, some neon lights, and blue holograms,
when I’ve seen indie creators come up with much more interesting aesthetics.
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people with unexamined biases who want their military sci-fi to just be tacticool “gritty” sloperator aesthetics in space are really just the chud version of people with unexamined biases who want their fantasy stuff to just be critical role found family D&D
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@rickzzzzr @Rafa_Schwinger @teortaxesTex Problem is vast majority of regular users are unwilling to pay for the compute and infra.
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@Rafa_Schwinger @teortaxesTex AWS needs to be decentralized otherwise this problem will persist
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@luanam465 @eyebaws1 @Richard_D_Boyle @lulu_lulu2020 It's an ethnostate because in comparison to every single western country that has been sold out by its elites to mass migration, where it's natives are quickly becoming a minority - any country that retains 90%+ it's native stock is by comparison an ethnostate.
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@eyebaws1 @Richard_D_Boyle @lulu_lulu2020 Anyone can become a Chinese citizen, no one is excluded a priori and no one is preferred a priori. The Chinese state was not established at the expense of any other people, there were no expulsions and no massacres. It is ludicrous to claim that China is remotely like Israel.
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@StevenGlinert > The connection is a mostly Chinese creation
are you growing insane
sure they've adopted this meme but Epstein = Mossad spy has been an American conspiracy theory since the moment of his arrest
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I both dislike Jeffrey Epstein and am lukewarm on Israel but they have no connection.
The connection is a mostly Chinese creation, but it is rapidly becoming accepted fact on the left and it is a pure antisemitic canard.
Michael Tracey@mtracey
Victor Gao, prominent Chinese political and media figure, says we have to get to the bottom of Israel's role in dictating US troop movements, declares it's "high time to expunge the evil as represented by Jeffrey Epstein," intimates that China is in possession "Epstein Files"
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@patriot_dx @zecchinoroni @MentzerOcean Yes. Intrasexual competition exists. It's exactly the same mechanic as a middle aged man with a beer belly getting the urge to get into shape after he sees someone jacked.
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@zecchinoroni @MentzerOcean So according to you women make themselves look the way they do for other women?
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For those of us with a 4,000 ethnoguesser score, this is too easy
emirate🕊️@clinton_emirate
Is she Korean, Japanese or Chinese?
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@h35514n @grimoireghostie @OzmunC Successful and consistently either generate economic surpluses or consistently be able to take them from others. Hence their people start expecting increasing material prosperity as it trickles downwards throughout society.
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@h35514n @grimoireghostie @OzmunC My theory is that the materialism is a direct result of both being Empires, China being the oldest and USA being the newest. Most countries live the equivalent of hand to mouth, no material surplus. But Empires got that way because of some combination of traits made them highly
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"Blocking positive information about China is unstainable long term. The Western masses are force-fed messages about how backward China is, but year after year they see more and more Chinese people coming for tourism and to buy luxury goods. So their hearts start to beat faster and they begin to wonder: 'How are these people getting richer and richer, while we are left with a pile of debt?'"
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