The largest urbanized areas are all in the states, with cities of 7 million like Boston having more built-up area than 37 million tokyo-yokohama. Nobody can hold a candle to <1000person/km2 density in statesian cities. It’s absolute madness. I guess prodigious consumption of resources makes the economy looks good though.
I can’t wait until australia and new zealand are kicked out of the imperial core through economic warfare. Demographically, it’s already well on its way to becoming an asian country. The west can play in the north atlantic.
一切 = all + exact = all without exception
反动 = counter + movement = reactionary
派 = dispatch (original meaning. right side depicts water branching off a river, left side enforces this meaning) = party (loan from english as pai4)
I wonder what it will take for these models to actually “bootstrap” their intelligence and not just feed off human intelligence like it seems they do now.
there are literally living dialects of Mandarin Chinese (as in intelligible to Beijingers) spoken in Kazakhstan. Arguably China’s most famous poet, Li Bai, was born in modern Kyrgyzstan.
fun fact, there’s a variety of mandarin still spoken in central asia, now written in cyrillic
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Holy shit, NYT deleted that top comment to control the narrative. I honestly didn’t think they’d be so bold. It’s gone. The new top comment is:
Good that we have funding for Ukraine. The funding for Israel should go to relief supplies for the people of Gaza and not the Israeli military.
No kidding. Also, spending $1 billion on aid, and $60 billion on weapons to kill the same people, is insane on its face.
Some good news - this is so on the nose that even the good liberal subscribers are not biting. Most upvoted comment atm:
“It’s a good day for world peace,” - how utterly grotesque. I sometimes wonder if Joe Biden genuinely has no idea he’s going to lose in November.
I think this kind of meme is the best for lib agitation. Most don’t need to be convinced that people are more important than profits. Now we just need to find a way to insert the idea about just what kind of economic system prioritizes people over profits…
I wonder how history will explain these moves. It’s comforting to assume actors being rational, but this is a case of just the opposite guiding a country. Argentina is basically a vast expanse on the edge of the earth. What purpose could a military possibly serve for them? Their relationship with Brazil, their literal only credible threat, was good until recently…it’s just incredible that anyone is able to conjure a lens through which this looks like a good idea
If this is a modern version of a sedentary society going soft, then who are the modern steppe nomads that will sweep them?
seems like this is a photonic computer? wild
What message are they trying to send by claiming responsibility for this?
Yes because they didn’t build enough townhomes