Giving legitimacy to a fascist just empowers them domestically and internationally. It’s not a shell game where you’re giving nothing. Legitimacy is directly how governments operate, it’s the real currency of the world. Legitimacy is frankly the bedrock of currency itself.

The problem is if they decide that William the conqueror didn’t actually have allodial rights to the land, then all property rights in the UK are made up too and that’s a bridge too far.

Jet fuel is essentially kerosene. The idea is to fuel the jet engines on a nuclear aircraft carrier after the bombs drop. Namely sustaining a Pacific fleet against China after supply lines are cut.

Well hopefully we don’t try to do that while actively digging up more black gooey form to burn. If it was thought to be economical at any point in the future nobody would give a shit about hydrogen after all.

Cool tech but I question it’s usefulness. They focus on clinical in their language but anybody who’s on telemetry orders needs waveforms not beats per minute. I care if they’re suddenly in afib, not that they’re a little tachy after getting up to go to the bathroom.

Man inadvertently broadcasts his insecurities and how he copes.

Not really. What they identified was

• megacorp buys property
• megacorp takes loan based on property+development
• megacorp buys property
• land value increases due to all the property buying
• megacorp leverages the land value increase(now the loans are being driven by loans)
• property development becomes completely divorced from any actual need, instead becoming an investment vehicle

This is the financialized model that pretty much drives the western economy. China rightfully saw this as undesirable and put limits on how much developers could borrow based on assets. And this is the result. Realize that many of these loans were foreign investments.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_red_lines

It’s been pretty much party line that they want this to happen for some time now. Pooh bear famously made this houses are for living in speech and directly wanted to knock out speculation. They do not want to be the West and define themselves by asset prices rising with no relationship to productivity. What the West would view as a major crisis then is the CCP’s intended effect. They specifically targeted these highly leveraged developers with the theory (correct in my opinion) that the loans themselves are what are driving this “growth” and it’s largely creating a situation of extraction that’s pricing out regular Chinese from housing. Even making noises in that direction would seriously spook Western housing prices. Harris’s solution was famously increasing lending if you remember.

Oh it’s variable interest rate. Otherwise I’d sooner keep it in USD with the expectation of massive inflation.

Pre print journalism fucking bugs me because the journalists themselves can’t actually judge if anything is worth discussing so they just look for click bait shit.

This methodology to discover what interventions do in human environments seems particularly deranged to me though:

We address this question using a novel method – generative social simulation – that embeds Large Language Models within Agent-Based Models to create socially rich synthetic platforms.

LLM agents trained on social media dysfunction recreate it unfailingly. No shit. I understand they gave them personas to adopt as prompts, but prompts cannot and do not override training data. As we’ve seen multiple times over and over. LLMs fundamentally cannot maintain an identity from a prompt. They are context engines.

Particularly concerning sf the silo claims. LLMs riffing on a theme over extended interactions because the tokens keep coming up that way is expected behavior. LLMs are fundamentally incurious and even more prone to locking into one line of text than humans as the longer conversation reinforces it.

Determining the functionality of what the authors describe as a novel approach might be more warranted than making conclusions on it.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

I’m speaking from ignorance but isn’t the server backend often licensed and they couldn’t release it if they wanted, even as binaries? Granted, going forward they’d have to make those considerations before they accept restrictive licenses in core parts of their game. And the market for those licenses will change accordingly. So there core of your argument is correct.

Watching this guy barreling down a waterslide while drinking whiskey with a pack of cigarettes at hand and a crystal ashtray while wearing a full suit with your family at your side is funny as fuck. Kim sure knows how to put on absurd state events.

favouring transit

China is largely dominating the electric bus market too. I doubt Europe particularly wants to bootstrap a lithium mining and refining industry to compete though. The Chinese companies are that vertically integrated.

Saudi has been in a cold war with Iran for decades because it wants to be a regional hegemon and hasn’t been quiet about it. Turkey is more circumspect, giving everybody face while cutting them off at the knees in the shadows. Egypt, by comparison, would much prefer to stay out of everybody’s business and have them stay out of theirs. They’ve got more interests in Sudan and Ethiopia at this point.

What’re we suddenly considering the Saudis and the Turks the moderating influence in the middle east now and Israel and the US aren’t even in the equation? Jesus Christ.

I guess I’m a train now.

Hard to have standing over a third party not doing something to someone else that would hurt them to maybe(key point here) help you. It’s possible to argue yourself there but the bar is incredibly high. If you can’t assign direct provable causation and redress, you’re SOL.

It’s kind of like how nobody really could challenge DACA in the courts from the Republican side because all the harms they cited were hypothetical.

The legal basis is someone with standing would have to sue him over it. Tiktokm certainly isn’t going to and Congress… Well.

Anticompetitive structures in South Korea? I am shocked.