The Presidential Center consists of the "Obamalisk", which will have a museum about the Obamas and special exhibit space. I think it will also house the offices of the Obama Foundation? It has to, I don't believe an Obama museum alone warrants such a big building.
Alongside that there will be additional buildings housing a library and various other cultural facilities. The archive for presidential records that usually accompanies presidential libraries will be digitised and stored somewhere else.
Russia has the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, which is a museum plus convention center. A Russian communist claimed it receives more money from the government than the Hermitage and Tretyakov Gallery combined because it keeps losing money.
The Yeltsin Center was established in accordance with the 2008 law "On centers of historical heritage of presidents of the Russian Federation ceased to carry out its powers" for the preservation, study and public presentation of the heritage of the first President of the Russian Federation "in the context of the recent history of the Fatherland, the development of democratic institutions and the rule of law".
Based off the title of that law there will be one for Putin when it comes to it.
I was planning on adding something like that, about people who feel disempowered wanting to feel power over someone else. In the end I didn't add it because it would have felt like flinging stuff at a wall and I wanted my comment to be concise.
The sexual liberation movement in that time period had no consensus on the taboo on pedophilia at the time, some viewed it as yet another oppressive institution causing stunted development; there wasn't good science at the time on how it was different from, say, homosexuality.
It's how the infamous "Kentler Project" happened. Helmut Kentler was a renowned German sexologist, top of his field. He contributed a lot to advocacy for sex ed and homosexuality (he was gay himself with adopted sons). As he dealt a lot with the consequences of sexual repression, he believed "consensual pedophilia" could be beneficial to the child's knowledge of sex. Late in his life however he changed his mind, as notions of power dynamics became established and he became convinced that a child could never properly consent.
If I were to guess it's a perception that the world being cruel and there being bad people is "just the way it is" and that holding on to "kiddie morality" makes you "too good for this world". By extension, caring and sharing then makes you either naive, weak, foolhardy or parasitic. In such a cruel world, preservation of oneself and the group you belong to become all that matters.
Society sucks, but "handouts" will be taken advantage of, accepting queer people threatens social order, leftists and "soft" people always get in the way of what needs to be done: discipline and cleansing.
In the Netherlands we learned about the public shaming of "moffenmeiden" (an English translation would be "kraut girls"), Dutch women who entered relationships with German soldiers. A Dutch docu series gave a number of 140,000. The most common act of shaming was shaving them bald.
There were also calls to annex "German territory free of Germans", but in the end only a few villages were annexed and it was all returned in 1963 save for one hill near Nijmegen.
Isn't this how China developed its own technological capicity though? Learn and derive from existing tech, then you're experienced enough to innovate yourself.
I don't trust it whenever this topic comes up, even if I sympathise strongly. The discourse is all vibes-based and when people try to look for material explanations (the Victorians could exploit harder, fancier lamps would be much more expensive) there's nothing to back it up other than it feels true and relies on strawmen of complete dullness versus "Versailles for everyone".
Also, "ugly buildings" often ends up levied as anti-communist propaganda and before you know it someone is talking about a conspiracy by the postmodern Cultural Marxists
It's Microsoft's internal name for an anonymous "advanced persistent threat" they suspect to be a Chinese military hacking group, but aren't 100 percent sure. It has many other names given by other companies, it's been around since at least 2021.
Multiple organizations may assign different names to the same actor. As separate researchers could each have their own varying assessments of an APT group, companies such as CrowdStrike, Kaspersky, Mandiant, and Microsoft, among others, have their own internal naming schemes.[88] Names between different organizations may refer to overlapping but ultimately different groups, based on various data gathered.
CrowdStrike assigns animals by nation-state or other category, such as "Kitten" for Iran and "Spider" for groups focused on cybercrime. Other companies have named groups based on this system — Rampant Kitten, for instance, was named by Check Point rather than CrowdStrike.
Dragos bases its names for APT groups on minerals.
Mandiant assigns numbered acronyms in three categories, APT, FIN, and UNC, resulting in APT names like FIN7. Other companies using a similar system include Proofpoint (TA) and IBM (ITG and Hive).
Microsoft used to assign names from the periodic table, often stylized in all-caps (e.g. POTASSIUM); in April 2023, Microsoft changed its naming schema to use weather-based names (e.g. Volt Typhoon).
[Peter Thiel] finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.
"In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation."
The person in the video also places the caveat near the end that he's talking about the dev space:
And I think that it might just be the year of the Linux desktop. And when I say that, of course, I do mean for developers. I don't think my mom's probably ever going to learn Linux.
His shirt also has the logo of the Azov-derived 3rd Assault Brigade on it, initially commanded by none other by Andriy Biletksy himself, which makes it even more
The model is not without its limitations. While the Beijing-Shanghai line is an exemplary success story, other Chinese domestic lines are showing far less flattering results, with low occupancy rates and significant economic losses.
The Presidential Center consists of the "Obamalisk", which will have a museum about the Obamas and special exhibit space. I think it will also house the offices of the Obama Foundation? It has to, I don't believe an Obama museum alone warrants such a big building.
Alongside that there will be additional buildings housing a library and various other cultural facilities. The archive for presidential records that usually accompanies presidential libraries will be digitised and stored somewhere else.