Gsus4

@ Gsus4 @mander.xyz

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2mo ago

Imperial Wastes So Much Time
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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 2mo ago
Case in point: Platinum melts around 2kK.

3mo ago

Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring

Good science is boring, good politics is boring, good espionage is boring, good journalism is boring, good history is boring, good banking is boring, good business is boring. Entertainment serves us this pop view of the world...

But wikipedia is more valuable than all the LLM slop machines combined.

3mo ago

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 3mo ago

You need ground rules and objectives to reach any desired result. E.g. a court, an academic conference, a comedy club, etc. Online discussions would have to happen under very specific constraints and reach enough interested and qualified people to produce meaningful content...

4mo ago

UK: China’s London mega-embassy meets vast rejection as residents fear espionage, human rights violations, tourism deterrence

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

The US and China are not equivalent in this. The UK is not neutral ground like Brazil or India where I agree that both need to be equally represented as opposite poles to balance.

4mo ago

UK: China’s London mega-embassy meets vast rejection as residents fear espionage, human rights violations, tourism deterrence

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

Because it's already built and the UK depends on the US militarily. China should not be given a chance to do the same.

PS: but it's very easy, China can ask Moscow to build one there and I'm sure they'll agree.

4mo ago

UK: China’s London mega-embassy meets vast rejection as residents fear espionage, human rights violations, tourism deterrence

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

Just no more mega-embassies. That's all, everyone knows what it means, it's bad enough when a friend does it.

4mo ago

UK: China’s London mega-embassy meets vast rejection as residents fear espionage, human rights violations, tourism deterrence

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

What duplicity? If you are not my ally, why should I let you do whatever you want on my turf? It makes no sense. You just sound like a 5-year-old trying to "it's not fair" guilt people into allowing you to build another mega-embassy, which you already admitted is a bad thing for an ally to do, so it will be worse for an adversary.

4mo ago

UK: China’s London mega-embassy meets vast rejection as residents fear espionage, human rights violations, tourism deterrence

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

So? The only person talking about the USA is you.

4mo ago

UK: China’s London mega-embassy meets vast rejection as residents fear espionage, human rights violations, tourism deterrence

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

China is not the UK's ally, so they should not act like they are. Maybe Moscow or Pyongyang will let the build a mega-embassy.

4mo ago

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

So they're just going to use GitHub as a code training dataset? Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

4mo ago

Funhole be like

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

...some books smell like vomit :/

4mo ago

What are y'all thoughts on Communes?

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

If you just joined one and did stuff, I'd try it, but all the ones close to me demand payment, like it is some holiday retreat. It's hard to find the real ones within all the hustler noise.

4mo ago

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

The issue for me is that musicated poetry has to be good poetry in first place. Generally, the voice even if good just interferes with the music unless it is a choir. Plus I've always had a hard time parsing lyrics by ear... I'd never considered cross-culture universality.

4mo ago

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

The fake transparency is because of he Helvetica scenario.

4mo ago

Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

Just make it an official extension ffs...

4mo ago

Russia 'perfecting' China's sabotage tactics against the West, EU Intelligence report warns

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

russia annexed part of another country, in Europe, nobody was going to accept that long-term. Some probably thought they could buy time for putin to die or some political change to happen in order to deal with someone less fanatic. Merkel knew him well and she probably heard him rant at length about all his pet hates, she knew what she was dealing with. But boys will be boys.

PS: compare this

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/leaked-putin-remarks-on-ukraine-enrage-russia/ (putin threatening to invade Kiev in 2014)

with

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-reveals-why-he-didnt-launch-full-invasion-ukraine-2014-1788767 (putin says in 2023 he wanted to capture land "peacefully")

So the best the EU could do was buy time to rearm Ukraine against invasion, keep things from escalating, and "hope" on the side that they change their mind through economic cooperation: https://www.eureporter.co/world/2014/10/01/letter-from-president-barroso-to-president-putin-2/

4mo ago

Russia 'perfecting' China's sabotage tactics against the West, EU Intelligence report warns

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

russia had plenty of room for deescalation and to save face before they decided to go all in in 2022 and annex country unilaterally again. After that, there was no point pretending anyone took Minsk seriously anymore.

4mo ago

Russia 'perfecting' China's sabotage tactics against the West, EU Intelligence report warns

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

russians yelling about Minsk is funny, they do 10x as much, 10x worse and then complain that we didn't take their bullshit promises at face value...it's a very bad vatnik talking point. We know what russia has been doing for decades, but we thought they were misunderstood, but now it is clear that they should be dealt with the same contempt that they have for us.

4mo ago

Russia 'perfecting' China's sabotage tactics against the West, EU Intelligence report warns

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

I never talked about Minsk, that's just mitigation after the fire started to spread. I talked about her 30 years of Ostpolitik, including 16 during her chancellorship.

4mo ago

Billionaire Jack Ma tried to behave like Elon Musk. He lost his fortune after publically mocking Chinese regulators. Now he is just a small millionaire and was spotted riding a bike.

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Gsus4 @mander.xyz 4mo ago

For that, first you need to solve a major problem posed by globalized capital to any government (also salary/regulatory arbitrage and bribes), which is, you need to get the stuff that they stashed away in a tax haven or even in a hostile country.