Miscellaneous News

coolgod said:

Damn, this is actually very true, I didn't realize it until now.

I was on a date night before on a weekday in secluded part of a provincial/state park, it was around midnight and I haven't seen other people/cars around for hours. We were parked in an giant empty parking lot (300 or more spots?) in front a of big lake just watching the stars after adapting our eyes to total darkness for half an hour. Then suddenly this car with full lights pulls up and parks right beside us. I thought it might have been the park services people checking up on us, but no it was just some Indians. These guys just stayed in the car and left their music and headlights on. I didn't want to find another spot and wait for our eyes to adapt again so we just left after 10 mins. I couldn't understand why those Indians parked right beside us considering there were like 20 other parking spots with identical lakefront views, but looking back now I guess it was just a tactic to get us to leave.

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gadgetcool5 said:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announces a new state of matter called the 'topoconductor' that powers the world's first quantum processing unit built on a topological core, which he says could be make practical quantum computers feasible within years, not decades:

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He says that this could allow you to hold a device in a palm of your hand that has more computing power than all the computers in the world today combined. Does China have anyone working on something like this?

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siegecrossbow said:

Flee to China. A lot of Ukrainians are doing it.

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tokenanalyst said:

Crazy.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1892264096298344922

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Temstar said:

And now he's gone
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Don't let the door hit you on the way out

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Feima said:

Defenestration, the Russian way

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Exclusive | US to axe China-based diplomats to cut size of mission by 10%: sources​

The ‘substantial’ cuts are expected to affect both US and local employees and are part of Trump’s drive to overhaul the corps worldwide​

The United States is set to cut the size of its diplomatic mission in China by up to 10 per cent, according to people familiar with the situation.

US diplomats working in mainland China and Hong Kong as well as local employees might be given notice as early as Friday in an unprecedented round of downsizing, the Post has learned.

Two sources with knowledge of the matter said the cuts would affect the embassy in Beijing and consulates in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenyang and Wuhan, as well as the consulate in Hong Kong. Both sources requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.

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It was not clear whether any of those affected would be reassigned elsewhere in the diplomatic service, but lay-offs are expected.

Describing the downsizing as “substantial”, one source said it was probably the first major downsizing of the US diplomatic team in China since the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic in 1979.

A second source said the State Department’s instruction to downsize came last week. He added that affected employees may be contacted by the end of the week to be told the details of their severance package and last day of work.

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They said the downsizing was part of the

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, with diplomatic missions expected to cut both US and local employees by around 10 per cent.

Separately, 60 contractors at the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour have been terminated in recent weeks with further cuts threatened in other bureaus, according to US media reports.

The move comes amid drastic overall

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which have seen

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The State Department said it was “fully complying” with Trump’s “workforce optimisation agenda”.

A spokeswoman for the department said: “Consistent with this, the State Department continues to assess our global posture to ensure we are best positioned to address modern challenges on behalf of the American people. As a general matter, we do not comment on internal personnel matters.”

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coolgod said:

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Exclusive | US to axe China-based diplomats to cut size of mission by 10%: sources​

The ‘substantial’ cuts are expected to affect both US and local employees and are part of Trump’s drive to overhaul the corps worldwide​

"Diplomats"
I better not see anymore LGBT flags and events on the US embassy and consulate weibo pages.

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Chevalier said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1892097675237130250

A traitor was caught.
If anything, Chinese media must promote the image of a superior Chinese civilisation so “la malinche” types don’t do stupid shit like this. Mind you, a traitor is a traitor and once caught, should donate their bodies to weapons testing and then medical testing afterwards. You can understand why the nine familial executions were a thing for traitors.

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Chevalier said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1892201680499785890

viets can be contrarian and act like a bitter hater but sooner or later, they must kowtow to big daddy china. Or else, Annam starts looking nice on Chinese maps.

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Temstar said:

Well a deal with China to sell more commodities to China in exchange for opening up of imports from China of finished goods seems like you know, the thing that Russia is doing? Trump wants to turn US into farm land and mine for China? Seems like an okay deal to me, normally countries have to be squeezed into accepting that sort of arrangement.

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