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Oh no, they also do a lot of work in the food industry.

But did you learn about the motherfucking best ipsum?

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One of the more revealing – and darkly amusing – features was the phone’s automatic censorship of words deemed problematic by the state.

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Ha ha, no. Petroleum lobby needs a new pair of shoes.

Say what you want about the PRC, they make the trains run on time.

(the secret ingredient is slave labor!)

right right… which part of China is communist again? is it the permanent oligarchy? the reeducation camps? the low-paying factory jobs that make the owner class rich?

I doubt China will make a direct military move against Russia ever. That’s not how they invade their neighbors.

Instead what they like to do is arrange some kind of development contract, usually mining or something similar, where they take over a large piece of land and then basically have free reign to bring in whatever equipment and personnel they want and extract resources with little oversight, few if any environmental regulations, and no labor laws. They will either import their own workers who will basically be treated like slaves, or hire local workers if they’re cheap and treat them the same. Also it’s pretty easy to import some surveillance equipment and a few PRC enforcers amidst all the industrial gear and specialist personnel.

For example:

• https://www.mining-technology.com/features/arrests-and-attacks-tracking-chinas-illegal-mining-in-african-countries/
• https://www.spglobal.com/en/research-insights/special-reports/china-s-global-reach-grows-behind-critical-minerals
• https://thediplomat.com/2024/03/canadian-miners-needs-capital-but-only-china-is-stepping-up/

Internally, China is starting to enforce stricter environmental protections:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214790X23000096

Because of things like the damage that’s been done to the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake:

https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-bans-sand-mining-on-yangtze-river

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/reuters-graphic-devoured-how-sand-mining-devastated-chinas-largest-freshwater-2021-07-19/

So basically they’re exporting environmental damage to other countries:

https://coastalcare.org/2018/10/chinas-search-for-sand-is-destroying-mozambiques-pristine-beaches/

(which is not really different from what western nations have been doing since the industrial revolution, it’s just that in the present we know a lot more about the long-term impacts of the damage and the climate crisis is a lot more immediate, plus modern technology accelerates and amplifies the damage, and China is very aggressive in this area)

Russia is experiencing a labor shortage and will continue to for a long time after this war. I expect we will start to see deals with China to do resource extraction inside Russia, and once they’re in it’s very difficult to get them out.

tl;dr: military operations are expensive in terms of finance, politics, and international influence, but resource extraction deals are lucrative and develop soft power

How is Russia planning on rebuilding its military might

China & North Korea.

Russia just got handed a bunch of war material by NK, probably acting as a proxy for China. China will prop them up to put pressure on the EU, while also gaining more internal control over Russia.

Old men ruling countries is a national security issue at this point

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Pain is a great teacher.

If you had the hardware to build a robot that could “feel” the world around it, and you wanted it to self-teach how to move around on its own (so that you don’t have to pre-define movement paths), you would probably program in a system that could interpret potentially damaging sensations as danger/bad and avoid them automatically (too hot/too cold/too sharp/too hard/etc). That system would essentially be a pain response.

Garbage in, garbage out.

Who could have possibly predicted that?

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There’s nothing functionally communist about the government of China.

Graphene is the most amazing material, it can do anything you can imagine - except leave the lab.

Encrypting the connection is good, it means that no one should be able capture the data and read it - but my concern is more about the holes in the network boundary you have to create to establish the connection.

My point of view is, that’s not something you want happening automatically, unless you manually configured it to do that yourself and you know exactly how it works, what it connects to and how it authenticates (and preferably have some kind of inbound/outbound traffic monitoring for that connection).

Ah, just one question - is your current Syncthing use internal to your home network, or does it sync remotely?

Because if you’re just having your mobile devices sync files when they get on your home wifi, it’s reasonably safe for that to be fire-and-forget, but if you’re syncing from public networks into private that really should require some more specific configuration and active control.

The Internet Used to be a Place

There are still active webrings:

sadgrl.online webring directory
digilord.neocities.org/webring
webringworld.org
brisray webring list

Company Scrip

It’s the same old grift.

Definitely would want the charter to stipulate that nothing is stored for longer than a year.

Right to be forgotten (Wikipedia)

Eroding critical thinking skills linked to increased AI use.