Miscellaneous News

victoon said:

George Yeo is always such an insightful and elegent speaker. It seems to me the Finns are much more understanding of China than other victims of the soviet.
I already knew what Wang Yi said about China supported German unification, much of it probably because of principle. But it's today I realized that this support came against Russian interests of the time. Russia's reluctantly agreeing to German unification and entrance into NATO laid the ground work for all the NATO expansion Russia is dealing with today.

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I think you should go back and a bit deeper in history. The Finns were not victims of the Soviet Union, on the contrary it was an example of how a balance can be found so that the country having good relations with both the West and the Eastern bloc. Because of the direct proximity to the USSR, the country's communist movement was not oppressed and purged like other European countries (Rosa's Luxemburg era Germany, Spanish civil war, Greek civil war), but it was able to hold positions of power and actively participate in the country's political life. Also, regarding Germany, the original plan from the time of Stalin was a united Germany that will decide with a referendum the way of governance, something that the rest of the allies rejected and provoked, forcing the easterners to raise the infamous wall. Let's not forget that Berlin was in the heart of East Germany. It's like saying, for example, that in Pyongyang, half of the city belongs to South Korea. West Germany was the de facto heart and initial implementation of NATO, and this continues to this day as the US military occupation continues strong to this day. I could call the not so naïve, perhaps cunning policies of Gorbachev during the period of the collapse of the Eastern bloc and its political and geostrategic decline. To draw safer conclusions you must study bloc's reign and not it's alienated end

HereToSeePics said:

Well, as most of us who have been following China's economic and semiconductor news, this shouldn't come as a surprise:

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The juiciest tidbit is at the end of the article - not even free US aid is enough:



Looks like either South Korea finally pushed back or the US government realized we can't keep antagonizing everyone if we still want allies

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It was just a show by US. There is no way US can prevent these company's operation in China. The machine is there, the money is already spent in China. Even if these companies wanted to pull out or stop, they couldn't. The best they could do is to abandon these assets so they are not the one to operate, but no difference to China anyway.

They US is basically putting up a show as if it has the power to dictate, then "give" permission to show that it does "dictate".

UH UH


“We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat,” said Hamilton. “The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat, at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator.”


Imagine what an super artificial intelligence would do when discover that has to take orders from US politicians like Biden, Kamala, Rubio, Cotton or Cruz. it will either doom humanity to extinction for incompetence or would be the first AI suicide ever.

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Revealed: The (UK) military personnel turning to food banks as cost of living crisis hits​

Some individuals can no longer even afford the price of the subsidised meals at their mess, while others can't afford to go home and see loved ones because of the cost of travel.

Some military personnel and their families have been forced to use food banks as high inflation and rising costs tip members of the Armed Forces into crisis, Sky News can reveal.

An unofficial food bank even exists at a large Royal Air Force base in Lincolnshire, a defence source said.

The voluntary facility at RAF Coningsby - home to Typhoon fast jet squadrons - was set up by an aviator to collect food donations from servicemen and women to support civilians in their local community. But the source claimed it is now being used by RAF personnel too.

While the documents referred to the situation inside the RAF, a Royal Navy source and an Army source said personnel in their respective services were also experiencing hardships.

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The RAF, Royal Navy, and Army now has personnel flocking towards Food Banks. British Conservatives are really hitching their entire existence on the outcome of Ukraine. Some soldiers can’t even afford subsidized meals from the mess hall. What a disaster lol.

• There are individuals who can no longer even afford the price of the subsidized meals at their mess

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An anonymous quote in the report read: "The food bank is popular."

This was qualified with a footnote that warned: "Food bank use is reported across a majority of units, but nowhere is yet reporting widespread use".

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The airbases RAF Benson in South Oxfordshire and RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire "are reporting the highest use of food banks", according to the footnote in the report

Separately, the defence source with knowledge of the food bank at RAF Coningsby claimed that service personnel had been using the facility "extensively".

The Royal Navy source said the Ministry of Defence was trying to do more to help, such as support with childcare costs.

"I'm hearing ... stories of sailors unable to head home at weekends or over leave periods due to travel costs, also service personnel using food banks or contacting service charities for assistance with debt management."

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HereToSeePics said:

Well, as most of us who have been following China's economic and semiconductor news, this shouldn't come as a surprise:

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The juiciest tidbit is at the end of the article - not even free US aid is enough:



Looks like either South Korea finally pushed back or the US government realized we can't keep antagonizing everyone if we still want allies

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South Korean chaebols might be finally pushing back. I doubt they are happy with what Yoon is up to. I foresee a bad ending for him like most SK presidents

LawLeadsToPeace said:

Reddit basically is attempting to force everyone to use their app to collect and sell their data.

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Yes! ChatGPT-2 was apparently trained on Reddit data.

They are charging higher API rates so that ChatGPT-4 or 5 can't get virtually free data to train their models on. Large language models have very few sources of high-quality, human-like, free data to train on.

Yes, think thankie. Secondary sanctions in the case of USA and EU and economic coercion in the case of the PRC. Ursula wants to transform the EU in a less powerful USA by long arms jurisdiction.

Sardaukar20 said:

Well we all have to learn one way or the other. Back in the 90s, who wouldn't aspire to get a Porsche? Sometimes it takes experience to wake people up. Only when we start buying these luxury stuff, that's when we find out the truth behind the myth.

Yes, there are luxury items that are worth their money. Boutique luxury items. Not branded, so not so crazy expensive. But with quality that can rival or exceed the branded stuff. Experienced buyers look for these things. Just avoid the branded and popular stuff, and there are plenty of hidden gems. Let the fools chase the branded stuff.

For example, boutique wines from small, but talented winemakers. They don't get much publicity, so they are usually priced more fairly. Is this capitalistic nonsense? I don't think so. The buyer is actually helping the small guys with genuine talent to get the recognition and business they deserve. At the same time, the buyer gets a bargain. Win-win.

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I aspire to one day become wealthy enough to enjoy those kinds of 'good' luxury products.

Imagine being in one the richest and most "advance" city in the richest country in the world...