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Though your question is kind of meaningless as China and Russia are now on the same side. Thanks to the hapless Joe Biden and the durian elite class. This is a good thing. The association with Russia further damages China's reputation and makes their appeals to a consistent international order (whi...

. Yes, Welcome ZM Danger Anglos, West facing now is not military, but more and more, World population looking at China achieving better live for their population compared to America's situation, being now convinced that Western system a "scam" .. democracy and freedom etc etc buzzword to ...

I’ll take the CCP over Russia any time. But returning to the topic, if the US had any sense it would put a $5 floor on gas prices and slowly turn up the heat over the next several years while simultaneously funding a permanent transition to nuclear and renewable energy infrastructure, electric vehic...

What does that have to do with the "lay flat" phenomenon being sensationalist fluff?

Twitter is a globalist mouthpiece. No need for profit (which is impossible) just money laundering and propaganda. Musk has created the possibility of suing the board for malfeasance. Next comes discovery. Twitter should have worn gloves when installing that poison pill. They got some on their finge...

Chinese youth are giving up on their lives After 2-1/2 years of on again off again lock down and lack of jobs Chinese youth are giving up on their lives saying "Let it rot" and "Lay down flat" Way to go Joe err XI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgl-45gmoDE gl-45gmoDE This is ex...

For well over a decade now, the third rate intellectuals you’ve been regurgitating have convinced you that Russia is the Great White Hope. You’ve internalized this so thoroughly, this is now so fundamental to your belief system, that you don’t just turn an eye to Putin’s genocidal revanchism, you’ll...

Google Search will face even more headwinds in the AR future where information and experiences will be mediated by platform vendors, contained in non-indexable formats.

OTOH, Google is well positioned to create a wearable platform and parse the abundant data its sensors gather.

Job numbers looking great. Record number of travelers this summer. Biden Boom indeed

This was a bad ruling by an illegitimate court. It will one day be rectified (assuming the slide to authoritarianism is reversed). Until then, consider that women are now the majority of college graduates in the USA and earn more than young men in prosperous cities. Where are these young women going...

Taki's Mag - Z Man | Wholly Macaroni The macaroni subculture in the British empire and the intelligent in the Russian empire were late-stage cultural phenomena among an elite that had run out of energy. The same is true of vanguardism in the Global American Empire. Like the spoiled children of a we...

Wow, Doc is pushing Critical Race Theory! Never thought I'd live to see the day. Excited for uncomfortable historical truths about European colonialism to be thoroughly explored in American high school classrooms.

I'm trying to remember who bypassed the Afghan national government and cut a deal directly with the Taliban, leading directly to the present day calamity that has sent the Europeans into Daddy Vlad's arms.... Whoever cut that deal must surely be someone's asset.

I think you might be confusing victim blaming with suicide by cop. The real question is why did these individuals want to die? Most of the videos I've seen show people who decidedly do not want to die. George Floyd didn't want to die, he even began the encounter by beginning not to get shot, knowin...

How would realtime data be handled against gametime waiting? this would have to be an always online, central server thing , with the central server doing all the lookups on the data and sending cached optimised packets out to the clients, with fallovers on dependancy failures. the trigger for all t...

Japan is agood chance of joining the anglosphere on the most trusted levels. https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/japan-should-join-five-eyes-intelligence-network-says-ambassador-20210420-p57kv6.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-19/five-eyes-intelligence-japan-bid-yoshihide-suga-shinzo-abe/1266...

Physical commodities are a waste of effort and money. The bid/ask spread is ridiculous and that's the nature of the scam: dealers are selling but won't buy it back from you at anywhere near the same price. What a racket! A friend of mine is convinced we are on the cusp of a commodity super-cycle as ...

Seems to be an asymmetry between basic and value added products. That's because this figure is by volume. It doesn't give any sense of what the economy looks like by value . High-value-add technology exports don't occupy a lot of volume. The top 10 exports by category and value are: Machinery inclu...

It looks like someone has done the research and mapped exactly how all the global companies are interconnected. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354-500-revealed-the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world/ It's an interesting visualization but neither surprising nor reflective of corpora...

Those are the cops I grew up with. Don't f**k with em and there won't be any problems! Damn shame more parents don't share that with their chirrun these days...... This is classic victim blaming. The problem is that US police are effectively above the law. The reason for this is the extreme violenc...

[Zack honestly you don't know me. You really don't. Did I ever mention after the Pulse nightclub massacre I explained to more than a few gay people how they really needed to buy guns and get properly trained with them for personal protection. As if one or two persons in that club that night had a g...

I also think that facebook/google/apple et all removing the account of an elected leader on the same day sent shivers up the spine of most western politicians, which is the topic being discussed here. The story here is: Conservative politicians alarmed at corporations acting within their God-given ...

I'm sad for Hong Kong and sad for what will inevitably be Taiwan's fate. The US will not get involved and even if it did, it would likely result in military humiliation (it is inevitable that China, soon to be the world's dominant economic and cultural force, will eclipse our military capability). ...

I'm sad for Hong Kong and sad for what will inevitably be Taiwan's fate. The US will not get involved and even if it did, it would likely result in military humiliation (it is inevitable that China, soon to be the world's dominant economic and cultural force, will eclipse our military capability). ...

I have particularly enjoyed it moving from meaning "release of stored carbon" to "all carbon" - the former being a problem with focus, the latter being anything anytime anywhere for any reason. For self-hating humans, there is only one Final Solution. Problem is no one wants to ...