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“We would advise against dangerous close approaches to Chinese naval vessels to prevent unintended air and maritime incidents,” China said. The warning has been issued. If the United States chooses to ignore it, it will own the consequences.

I have never, in my 16 years of being in higher education had any Black student attend an interview with me in a bonnet, durag, looking unkempt or disheveled. Even when I do see it on campus, (typically in dining halls, mailrooms or libraries) it’s certainly not the majority.

This is genuinely one of the things I like the most about China: there is literally no problem that cannot be solved in 15 minutes with a bit of pragmatism. This is anecdotal but so illustrative of this: we got our RV stuck during the night in a street parking in Kashgar. Really stupid situation: we parked the RV at the end of the parking when it was relatively empty and it filled up during the night, in such a way that we couldn't get out anymore. Not to worry: seeing our predicament, the local parking guard got a screwdriver, and started to unscrew the street bollards in order to create an escape route 😅 In the space of 5 minutes, we were out! Bollards re-screwed immediately behind us, done! I can't even begin to imagine how long we'd have stayed stuck had this happened in good old Europe: "Sir, we can't possibly unscrew street bollards, we'd first need to file a request with the municipality, and that's going to take several days, bla bla bla..." That's incidentally one of the most common misconceptions about China: that a "communist" country must drown in red tape, with everyone paralyzed by fear of stepping out of line. My experience is systematically the opposite: at the grassroots level, when something pragmatically makes sense, people feel empowered to just do it, period. The "I know it makes sense but the computer says no" mentality that plagues so many countries basically doesn't exist here. This is undoubtedly one of the biggest hidden strengths of China and one of the key reasons why it moves so fast and efficiently. In a country that size, without this empowerment at the grassroots level, you'd get complete paralysis.

i think i misspoke! i’m changing my mind. it makes more sense that Jupiter would be history.

Apparently we get called “homophobic” for saying we won’t date bisexual men.🚶‍♂️‍➡️😩

America and China are the least externally dependent major economies in the world...as tabulated via OECD's intercountry input-output data 2022. 1) US and China are the least reliant on foreign demand

WTF AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp. The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell. What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.