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BlackWindMnt

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US leading shipbuilder attempts to hide rising shipbuilding costs; is charged with fraud.
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US navy is finding modernization is a lot harder than it looks.


Soon, minorities will also be AI generated.
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Levi is using AI to generate fashion models that are diverse, instead of, you know, actually hiring diverse models.


In fact, diversity roles overall are now finding themselves without use in this economy. Guess it was just a fad to make more money off of BLM movement.



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The guide suggests MSU community members use terms like "higher weight" or "larger-bodied."
Reminds me of Stanford's list:
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TikTok is innovative, not cutthroat. For good or bad, it is changing the nature of social media itself and creating the formative experiences for Gen Z.
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Both Shien and Tiktok use real-time data analysis to make their content faster and more adaptive than their US competitors.
Classic result of social justice warrior warfare. Minorities get a slice of the cause and white people get the rest of the loaf of bread.

Rip models....inbe4 AI onlyfans models..
Asia is already halfway there with V-tubers...
 

plawolf

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Alibaba and Amazon are 商人 (traders) passing things and money from one hand to the other making no added values to the society. They are like lubricant of machine, necessary and even critical at some point but never the core and foundation, should never to be allowed to take the major chunk of resources and profit. Whenever they become too dominant, they should be cut into pieces, but we are not going to remove them.

BYD and CATL are making real things, they are the machines. They will be encouraged to be big, but on the condition that they don't suffocate the tech development, that is not being a patent bully to stop competitions.

In principle, there should be NO dominant power in industry, NOT even SOEs. The only dominant entity is the State, the country. Chinese businesses are only to be large to compete with foreign powers, but not to overshadow the state power. They are the tools of the state, not the owner and ruler of the state. If you study the Chinese history, you will realize that it is always like this. And this is the very reason that China remained an unified state for more than 2000 years.

You are right in the core aspect, but there is a key guiding principle I think you are not making clear. The issue at hand is not industry or sector, but rather competitive power and fairness.

One of the basic principles about economics (and peoples and governments for that matter) that the west has forgotten is that all companies in all sectors seek monopolistic power and influence to allow them to wipe out the competition so they can just sit back to relax and enjoy an easy life afterwards. It’s basic human nature, but it’s something that must be resisted and fought else your industry and economy will fall into stagnant and decline.

Now, scale and size itself isn’t really a good determining factor in when a company has gone down the wrong path, because there are different minimal economies of scale that makes industries efficient and competitive, and there is no real magical threshold beyond which a company will automatically loose competitiveness.

Instead, it’s a psychological shift, and the best benchmark on when a company needs a change in leadership direction or even to be broken up is when said company stopped or slows competing through innovation and self improvement, and instead starts to try to stifle the competition. That is a key warning sign and red line, because as history has invariably showing, once a company with such a mindset is allowed to dominate the industry, they will stagnate the industry by using its market power to crush all challengers in the cradle all the while fleecing the public with rent seeking actions to abuse its dominant market power.

In the west, it’s far worse because once a company has grown big enough, it can achieve state capture by legally bribing politicians to write laws to effectively make their dominance legally mandated and change the very rules of the game to benefit the company at the expense of the public, country and even the world as is the case with Huawei and now TikTok.

Chinese regulators understand that a core part of their job is to watch out for, and resist companies that seek to behave in this way.

This is now the key fundamental difference between Chinese and western companies which explains why Chinese companies are absolutely obliterating their western competition in fair contests. Because while western companies stopped seeking to innovate and be more efficient and instead refocused their energies to political and legal intrigue to game the system, Chinese companies are forced to constantly fight for their position and survival through delivering better products and services for a lower price.
 

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Happily, does that mean Bellingcat, that fat sexpat Palmer, and those 'asian american journalists' are now legitimate wartime targets?
Surely the West would not mind bombs going off in the New York Times building, or receiving packages with body parts of CNN/WSJ stenographers?
I am sure this is absolutely impossible and the Chinese Communist Party would consider it an imperialist act.:rolleyes:
no, when pogroms occur against Chinese diaspora, that nation forfeits the right to sovereignty in much the same way Germany forfeited Danzig because of its own pogroms and genocides. Think of it as a reverse unequal treaties where Chinese laws and force of arms protects the diaspora, subject only to Chinese law.

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superpowa better start using some of those Vedic starships to rescue its people.
 

sheogorath

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Happily, does that mean Bellingcat, that fat sexpat Palmer, and those 'asian american journalists' are now legitimate wartime targets?
Considering how all of them get involved in conflicts around the world, particularly Bellingcat, they should be considered legitimate targets by Syrians, Iranians, and China further down the road.


The NYT's twitter account got stripped of its verification by Musk
 

BlackWindMnt

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Considering how all of them get involved in conflicts around the world, particularly Bellingcat, they should be considered legitimate targets by Syrians, Iranians, and China further down the road.


The NYT's twitter account got stripped of its verification by Musk
Well they could always go to mastodon...

Is mastodon still a bumfuck of a service, because when Elon bought twitter there was a big migration to the platform.
 

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Overbom

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It feels like up to Xi's 3rd term CPC's tone has been "the world is big enough for both of us, I just want half I don't mean to get rid of you entirely", but since the big meeting and the Saudi-Iran peace deal the tone has changed to "
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I have another view, it was just politics. Don't forget that the entire 2022 was basically election season for Xi. He had to be very careful and have a very stable environment.

Now that he has secured his third term, gloves are off and an unrestrained Xi emerges.
Given Xi's history, I wouldn't believe for a second that Xi was naive enough, in 2023, to still believe in that "whole world is big enough for both of us"

My supporting evidence is that since he has secured his third term, he has been going full throttle antI-US moves


This is why everyone and their mother are going to Beijing. China will now start actively resisting Western hegemony. Its like that Asian kid in the school, getting bullied all the time and saying nothing. Now that it starts fighting back and punching its bullies, everyone is going back to him saying "what's up bro, just a prank! Don't take it serious, we never meant it bro".
Joke is on them, i predict that this kiddo is now also going to start grabbing some guns and loading ammo.

The West better be careful, their economies are in very dangerous position and if China decided to do so, it could easily kick them down while they are weak
 
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