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luminary

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Any consultants here?
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The trope of the “
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” continues apace, as exhibited by the endless number of consultants who boast about being “Six Sigma Black Belts,” endlessly quote “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu, drop words like “muda” in casual conversation, or treat the “Toyota Production System” as some sort of mysterious — that’s what “inscrutable” means — form of holy wisdom.
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GulfLander said:
"CIA Nominee Highlights Quantum, AI as Pivotal to National Security"

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Now that they know they have definitively lost the AI race, it's time to move the goalposts yet again.


Imagine being an elderly in Western society, holy
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1879762163063193904
 
manqiangrexue

manqiangrexue

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SanWenYu said:
LOL. 1200 horsepower train engines are peanuts in Chinese standards. China has had this hydrogen powered train engine of 2400kW. That's more than 3200 horsepower.

Guess India is once again leading a world in which China was conveniently absent.


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They didn't even actually develop it; it's in prototype phase. They're like, "We developed the world's most powerful engine! Next week we'll turn it on for the trial and see if it runs!" And that's not to mention how many foreign components form the critical core.
 
siegecrossbow

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Here's what the diplomatic way of flexing power with Chinese characteristics looks like, presented by Geng Shuang, the Deputy Permanent Representative of the PRC to the UN and the UNSC:



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Literally "Try me, b1tch" in the most figurative way possible.
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Basically sick burn on both sides.

Russia—you are not the Soviet Union any more.

America— you are not USA anymore, more like You—SB under the Sullivan Doctrine.

Cold War is over. Stop larping.
 
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im getting deja vu... last time this reverse repo happened we got e-vap news that came out of the blue around fort detrick area then went silent the way them East coast drone sightings did, just to be followed a few months later with CIA biovirus released in Wuhan World Military Games, in which apparently Mossad got the heads up

I think USD will implode before USA gets to AGI
 
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luminary said:
The sexpats are realizing they're going to have to work harder to pretend they 'know' China. One minute online and a TikToker can gain more insight and appreciation than any number of years living in a white Shanghai enclave.

When it comes to understanding white expat bros, I am always reminded of this post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AsianMasculinity/comments/1c4hrk9/_/kztkt1i
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Irony
- “Bruce Lee was wrong...” then goes onto complain about WMAF relations
Bruce Lee was married to a white person…

In any case, Bruce Lee wasn’t about white outreach, he just really believed in the idea “we are all one race, human”.

taxiya said:
On the serious side, Taiwan's madarin has deteriorated and will continue deteriorating. Standard Mandarin (aka National Speach in ROC term) was in the process of being standardized in the 1930s and 1940s in ROC era. In the 1950s both PRC in mainland and ROC in Taiwan are speaking the same standard. However in late 1950s PRC made a benchmark for pronunciation by picking a specific village/town north of Beijing and recorded speeches of local residents of all vocabularies. This act not only made a difference between mainland and Taiwan but more importantly set a measurable reference like the SI meter standarded in Paris. All subsequent CCTV and Central Radio anchors are trained against this benchmark, they then act as the reference to the rest of the country. ROC before 1949 did not do it, then it lost the chance forever after 1949, so pronunciation of Mandarin in Taiwan is experiencing natural drifting like today's English sounds very different from 200 years ago, American, Australian and British standards are very distinguishable.
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As someone who only speaks bumpkin provincial dialect, I try to continue improving my literacy despite being quite old. As part of this process, I came to the realization that even my own parents had Chinese “stuck in time”. They left Asia as teenagers and spent their whole adult lives in North America. All the vocabulary and sayings have not evolved much from that time. It’s funny when you realize this. They use English for anything “non-native” to Asia (animals, celebrities). I asked them “Do you even know what “raccoon” is in Chinese?” And they realized they didn’t, lol. Coincidentally, my answer drove by me 2 weeks later when I saw a Chinese pest control company called 功夫完熊 that had a big raccoon logo on the van.
 
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