Also the DPRK, I remember him scolding tourists who go there after a Korean missile flew over where he lived and set off air alarms. His video on that went viral.
Gou Zhongwen, the former director of China's State General Administration of Sports, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve over taking bribes and abusing power, state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday.
The death sentence will be reduced to life in prison unless Gou commits further crimes during the reprieve.
Most "death" sentences for corruption are of this reprieved kind, meaning its execution is delayed by the time stated. It's China's way of reducing use of the death penalty, as most often the convicted stays on good behaviour to have it reduced to prison time, even if lifetime.
After reading it: by "schools" they mean decades of policies like standardised testing that put students under evermore pressure. Most of the article lays out pretty well how the pressure on students and even pre-K has increased dramatically since the 80's, but then there's bits where their fence-sitting and "just asking questions" gets really annoying.
The overall conclusion is that school needs to lessen the burden and rediscover "learn through play" so students don't hate school anymore, and then just bemoaning all the interest groups that get in each other's way
This graph only shows CO2 emissions without other greenhouse gases, which were 38.5 gigatons last year. I'm guessing you used a numbers that factors in other greenhouse gases?
It was very difficult to find a good overview of CO2 equivalent emissions together with climate change projections. Climate Action Tracker and an EU body put 2024's total emissions at ~53.4 gigatons (similar to the area you circled). CAT says we're currently headed for 2.5-2.9°C of warming based off this, equivalent to RCP6 rather than RCP8.5.
The central argument is a variation of the "dot-com bubble glass fiber" argument: "complementary" sectors of the economy get boosted by the bubble and they remain after it pops. They cite the railroad boom, electrification and the auto industry as examples. Notably, the Great Recession is never mentioned at all.
So what are the "complementary" investments in the US driven by AI? For energy, it's mostly fossil fuels rather than renewable energies. Data centers and GPUs are infamously short-lived. Employers may upgrade their computers, but they're mostly paying rent to OpenAI and co.. And the US is struggling to build up a domestic supply chain to reduce reliance on China and Asia more broadly.
I recognise the style as being from Our World In Data, so I searched for them and found it. They use data from the UN which uses this definition:
A slum household is defined as a group of individuals living under the same roof lacking one or more of the following conditions: access to improved water, access to improved sanitation, sufficient living area, durability of housing, and security of tenure.
"Security of tenure" is probably where China's hukou system messes things up.
There's also a "complementary" category of "inadequate housing", which is defined by households spending 30% or more of their income on housing. This isn't part of the definition of slums, which is probably why the US and such appear so low. But keep also in mind that 0-10% can still mean up to 1 in 10 households.
The data sources are a mixture of national statistical agencies and the UN's own.
Same with "black hole". So easy to translate, but nah, it's "burakku hooru"