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AssassinsMace said:

How the hell do they think anyone wants to speak with AI customer service that speaks in a heavy accent that’s not their language? How about this? Have their AI speak in clear English. I recently had a customer service representative ask me to spell out every word of English I was speaking because they had trouble understanding their English as a second language. Filipinos speak better English than Indians but they apparently love celebrating co-workers’ birthdays while at work. On multiple occasions when I had to call customer service, someone next to the person I’m talking to had a birthday and co-workers broke out singing Happy Birthday to them and communication was impossible during that time. That has had happened to me on several different occasions. What are the chances of me experiencing that same problem and how many people are in that office to have those chances happen? No, I don’t feel that warm fuzzy feeling of being at home when someone on the other end of the customer service line is speaking in a heavy foreign accent because Americans are so use to it. Of course this was created by countries from where customer service centers are outsourced to. Because you have to be so out of the loop to mistake how thinking where those jobs are outsourced to mean Americans prefer to hear those accents. That’s why Indians think they’re great and the best programmers because so many English speaking countries outsource to them that they think they’re that good but it’s really only because they’re the cheapest and are just good enough.

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I'm not one of those larpers who keep saying how they are prophets or whatever. But I have said this so many times that AI gonna screw over countries like India hard when it comes to this stuff. They are doing cheap low level IT SERVICES. Why do they think AI can't replace that? We have also seen WITCH company stocks fall because they are losing revenues fast and cannot justify having so many staff.

So why do people act all surprised and shocked when it finally starts happening? I really don't get it.

Apparently apart from fuel prices, Pakistan closing the air space makes it a lot harder for planes over there.

supersnoop said:

This guy is just a straight up scammer, but RFA says he is a fintech innovator

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When Trump does the same thing, western media roasts him

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His murky financial dealings implies that he is probably on the payroll of the US regime. Nowadays, crypto is the way to go if you want to hide the money trail.

Such bravado - there is no escort by US military vessels as far as I know.

How to make China great again - notice that to cater to the reader base, the authors have to frame their narrative carefully. For example, "purge" is the standard word for removing a corrupt official:

There is nothing rampant or crazy about Chongqing's development. So just cry ab it.

Think China can’t get any crazier? Go to this mind-bending city​

After decades of rampant development, the megalopolis of Chongqing is having a viral moment

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Another thing people just glide past, the entire U.S. oil and gas sector is like what, max 5% indirect share of total employment. And it’s not even state-owned, it’s all private & entrenched.

So all this galaxy-brain “we dominate the global oil, Venezuela, Iran, blah blah” — who exactly is “we”?

Because the average American isn’t seeing a cent of that. They’re just getting 2–3x gas prices, even more inflation slapped on top, and a lecture about how this is actually a brilliant "strategy".

And then somehow torching your own industrial base of the only remaining most productive parts of your Empire, Europe and East Asia, with insane energy costs is supposed to be… 14D chess?

That’s not chess, that’s arson with extra steps. You’re driving your own society toward perpetual instability, edging closer to internal rupture, while also weakening the West’s real, material power versus its competitors.

Meanwhile, China has state-controlled energy and ridiculous reserves, so at least the current shocks won't affect the broader economy and its high-tech growth, which the US could only dream of.

This isn’t a strategy; it’s another upward redistribution with a PR campaign. A few Big Oil executives & shareholders (Chevron, etc) win big; everyone else gets told to clap for "vibes".

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The word "record" is used a lot in headlines but doesn't actually say anything, just a single barrel above previous high could count as record.

The actual data is US is exporting 5 MMbd, up from previous high of 4.5 MMbd, 0.5 MMbd is a drop in the bucket compared to the 10 MMbd cut off in the Starit of Hormuz, and financially at $100 per barrel US is only netting +$18 billion a year, just short of how much they gave UAE to bail them out.

Oil is a physical thing that follows real world rules, and in the real world you can't arbitarily incerase oil production, nor can you arbitarily increase refining nor oil terminal capacity. People who think US can somehow do so always conveiently forget if its possible so could Russia and China.

Randomuser said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2051136632477413727

Apparently apart from fuel prices, Pakistan closing the air space makes it a lot harder for planes over there.

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such low frequency basically unprofitable. Indian didnot pass Hormuz opening test. i dont think they are going to give them any favor.

supercat said:

His murky financial dealings implies that he is probably on the payroll of the US regime. Nowadays, crypto is the way to go if you want to hide the money trail.

Such bravado - there is no escort by US military vessels as far as I know.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2051375557263171587

There is nothing rampant or crazy about Chongqing's development. So just cry ab it.

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I don’t think you need the crypto connection to tell you. He’s literally being featured by RFA, lol

TBF with Chongqing, he’s basically playing into the viral memes and says as much throughout the article. His trip was paid by a hotel there… although normally the Telegraph is full of crazy anti China stuff.

This shouldn't alarm anyone. This is the latest tactic by the West where some are even suggesting that because China is not surrendering to the West meaning not submitting to their trade demands thus causing instability in their economies, it's causing the rise of the right in the West. So... Is that suppose to be scary for China? Yeah right-wingers are more likely to threaten military action to get their way but that's pretty much it. There is nothing with the right in the West that says they're supermen where if unleashed, their enemies will quickly fall. Look at Iran. That's what Trump and Republicans thought too of themselves and Iran exposed how much the US has a glass jaw. Now you have US allies talking as if they're Iran to China being the US. No they're the US because they're molding themselves like the US in every way including how everything is more expensive when they do it which why the US can't compete with China. The US can't make enough anti-missile munitions for itself let alone all their allies. That's why US primary Western allies will be vulnerable in protecting themselves.

All of them are going to face the same problems that the US is experiencing facing asymmetrical warfare. It's not because they're the smaller country, they have hopes of standing up to China like Iran does with the US. They have so many things that are more in common with the US. How about thinking their lives are more important thus they are too afraid to lose or waste them? That's why you see Americans up there in disapproval against these wars like with Vietnam and Iraq. Once they got the feeling they couldn't win, it was a negative to possibly lose their lives over it so they turn against it. All this happened already with Iran after a couple months of war because they didn't surrender from the start as the US expected. Yeah if Iran acted as the Americans expected at first, you would see more support of the war even if the US had slaughtered many Iranians. That's the ironic weird thing. What doesn't deter them is how many Iranians they kill but instead the possibility that they might be killed. They're not supermen.

That's why China should develop and advertise a series of some of the most horrific against international law anti-personnel weapons just to cause nightmares in the enemies' minds where they would think twice about going to war with China. Weapons that were designed to maim and not kill are high up there on the illegal list. I believe it's Bouncing Betties mines are illegal because when triggered, a small explosive device springs into the air and explodes around the crotch region so that the enemy can't have babies anymore. Not intended to be deadly but the idea it's designed to take away the enemies' crown jewels horrifies them thus they mark it as illegal. I never said they had to be used because it's only when they are is when international law would be broken. International laws against are only for prosecuting others and not for themselves... like how they're okay with genocide in Gaza... You have to do everything you can from them starting a war with you and if it scares them into having second thoughts in having a war, it's a good thing. Just like I've been advocating China develop conventional weapons to strike the homeland of adversaries even half a world away, that is how you deter the West from starting a war with you. When the West experiences loss close to home enough to disrupt their lives personally, then they think about it twice in not starting a war. When they believe they won't suffer is when they cause trouble in the world. Not the mentality of a responsible nation.

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Yeah that's the economy right now. I was at Kroger (supermarket) the other day. During self checkout, one of my items wouldn't scan due to barcode damage, but luckily, I wanted to buy 2 so I scanned the other one again which was already in the bagging area. This triggered some anti-theft feature and my kiosk locked up, summoning a person. The person came and once the employee ID was scanned in, he was literally forced to watch a bird's eye video of what I had done to see if I stole something. He saw nothing wrong, finished my checkout, and I left. When loading the car, my wife looked at my receipt. He forgot to charge me for the chocolate cake LOL

Do I live in a shit neighborhood where CVS keeps all the hair products locked up? No, though I haven't been to CVS in the last 6 months. I live 3 minutes from a country club that charges $50K to get in and we are zoned for the best public school in the metro-Atlanta area. This is a prestigious area, and this is what the local supermarket is like now.

supersnoop said:

When Trump does the same thing, western media roasts him

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I suspect that we are witnessing the collapse of Western government funded and associated funding for the anti-China propaganda campaign ongoing for decades. We are seeing this narrative collapse in real time.

With the rise of China, which means today leading in the industries of the future, and having economic growth with a historic trade surplus, and with China-influencers from the West making positive videos about China on TikTok or Youtube, this old narrative has flat out failed.

The happy China content creators probably outnumber the anti-China content creators probably 100 to 1.

This old narrative has failed, spectacularly!

That is why I think this anti-China narrative from the West has collapsed.

The old narrative has clearly failed. There is no new narrative to replace it, they just use the same material. Same topics, same talking points. The same anti-China narrative, that already failed.

They cannot go forward, nor can they go backwards. They just sit there, in this collapse mode.

Like how Hitler did it in his bunker.

Got to wonder at this point, what was their actual goal in the first place? What were they thinking?

That by telling outrageous lies is going to work? That lies alone will derail China? Were they that stupid or that naive?

Record trade surplus, in the history of the freaking world? All done at gunpoint.