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Some Chinese institution: lies

Some journalist: Points it out

Chinese government: "Stop spreading these baseless lies about us!"

This guy: "There sure is a lot of Sinophobia around here these days!"

So much the last bit! I can't count the number of times our CEO has either sent a mail or created an issue (very small company) with something along the lines of "X is broken", when what they mean is "I don't like the design choice behind X." Like, whatever they're complaining about is completely functional, it just doesn't work exactly the way they envisioned it. When explaining why it can't (or shouldn't) work exactly the way they envisioned, there's maybe a 50 % chance that "X is broken" turns into "oh, I hadn't thought about that".

It honestly shocks me how stupid people are. There was just a case in the news about some guys that were busted while planning an attack on the White House UFC thing recently. They had initiated contact about this on tiktok (before moving to signal). One of the guys had posted photos on instagram of training with one of the others. The first guy that was busted had been reported by his parents, who he lived with, because they had overheard phone conversations that made them worried. They had anlso noticed he had begun stockpiling weapons, ammo, and other gear. All of them had quit their job to make time for the planning + attack.

Like, I'm glad these people were caught so that a bunch of innocents weren't killed. What baffles me is how intensely stupid it's possible to get. What would make anyone even consider communicating about this kind of stuff on a digital platform? How does anyone think it's a good idea to suddenly start stockpiling weapons in broad daylight? In what world do you document this training online? Why in gods name would you quit your job out of the blue while doing all the above?

We're just lucky these people are so stupid....

When you just look at the modern map it's absurd to think about the number of people that live in Africa north of Sahara. It looks like a wasteland that stretches all the way to the coast.

Also, with this timeline, it seems plausible that the earliest Egyptian empires may have been around just early enough to actually experience this desertification. No doubt countless tribal peoples had (or have) oral histories describing how their homeland was eaten away by desert.

Wait... sorry? In what world is 180k USD/year "working class"? I make the equivalent of like 70k/year before my nordic-country taxes take their share. That puts me decently well off here, at least above "working class" wage. I was in the US a couple years back, and prices were lower than they are here.

Like, at 70k/yr (before Nordic taxes), I felt like I was pretty well off in the US. Definitely not lower-end at least. How on earth does that translate to 180k/yr being "working class"?

that also find creative ways to kill themselves

I have a friend that's a sheep farmer, and this bit is what surprised me most the first time she showed me around the farm. Her sheep graze in the mountains as long as there isn't snow, so they're probably in decent shape compared to sheep a lot of other places. STILL, she said she would find sheep every now and then that had lain down wrong, tipped over, and were unable to get up. They would literally die if she didn't find them and right them up.

Apparently, it's something about how their organs move around, which makes them all slide over to the side if the sheep lies on its side. Once that happens, their center of mass is shifted too far over, and they'll fall over again when they try to get up. The way to fix them was to roll them over on their belly and keep them there until their organs had slid back into place...

Slavery the same way using a dog to herd sheep is slavery. If you've ever seen one of those dogs at work, you'll realise that there is nothing else in the world they would rather be doing. You let them herd sheep and they're so happy they're basically out of their mind. I honestly think it's hard for us humans to even imagine loving just one thing so much that you would never do anything else if you had the choice.

I know a guy that rents out goats for a similar purpose of keeping down vegetation, they go under power lines in the mountains (places inaccessible with machines), and just graze there. These goats are literally living the best life a goat could ever dream of: They're chilling out in their natural habitat, with more food security than any wild animal could hope for, and are completely protected from predators. In the winter, they're kept warm and fed, so they don't starve or die of exposure as a lot of them would in the wild.

Imagine if we treated people this way, just providing for everyone's basic needs and let people do whatever made them happy...

Oh absolutely! It's cool as hell! I think it could be even cooler if they put a camera in the robots head so that the controller could get the right point of view, that would probably make it more easy to be accurate.

It doesn't look like they're autonomous to me, it looks like they have a pre-programmed set of movements (like the kick-variants we're seeing, and the "get up" motion), and being controlled by someone outside the ring. That also fits with the way they're missing: it's hard to get proper alignment when you're looking from the side, and the pattern for how they're missing looks a lot to me like how you often miss if you try to line up e.g. a remote controlled toy car on an opening to drive through when you're sitting off to the side.

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"No, that's not a child in the factory! Why would you spread such baseless lies?!"

I think a significant difference this time was that they elected the idiot again, after Biden had spent four years trying to douse the flames, and the guy still wasn't in jail. It became clear to us in a different way what kind of country we're dealing with: A country that will see a blatantly corrupt facist attempt a coup, and will elect him again four years later rather than imprison him.

With earlier ones like Bush there were always some easing circumstances: When you look back at Bush today there's no doubt that he was orders of magnitude more mentally stable that the orange one, while also largely playing by the rules (by that I mean, not attempting a violent coup after his second term).

With trump it's gone too far. This isn't just about political disagreement anymore, it's about electing someone that respects the basic facts about how the world works. Someone that can't just look at you with a straight face and lie about something you're both seeing right in front of you.

While acting up is a problem in professional football, anyone who actually believes these players fall like flies at the smallest hint of contact have so obviously never seen a match up close, much less played football at even the junior level. Football can be a pretty brutal contact sport.

There are very well defined rules for how you can tackle someone, but those rules allow that 90 kg player can basically mow you down at 25 km/h as long as they do it right. If you've ever looked closely at how these players fight for the ball (or played at a decent junior level or higher), you'll notice that most adults would quite simply be knocked to the pitch and more or less kept there if they ever tried beating a high level player to the ball.