Found the article. Some real cutting edge journalism from dubba-dubba-dubba-dot-persecution-dot-org

The protestant Three Self Church and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association are prominent examples of these state-run institutions. They work to promote CCP propaganda and the personality cult surrounding country President Xi Jinping through songs, sermons, and community events.

yeah, uhuh, “cult of personality”?

call me when he’s publishing his own bible

I’d say this is a crushing blow to Mormonism, but I don’t think they were allowed in to begin with.

No, I’m afraid he means for specific individual development, not just overall evolution. Apparently he’s tried to pressure several of his surrogate baby-mommas into medically unnecessary c-sections.

but will it have a magnetic ink display option

There’s a money pit in this article, but it’s not the one the author is arguing…

A 500-mile line from Los Angeles to San Francisco under construction has grappled with costs spiraling to more than $100 billion and a still-uncertain completion date

compare to this from further down;

one of China’s priciest rail projects is taking shape, linking Tibet’s capital of Lhasa with the central city of Chengdu in Sichuan, at a cost of more than $50 billion

The distance from LA to San Fran is about 350 miles. A quick search puts the distance from Lhasa to Chengdu at 1,200 miles. It costs us a billion dollars for thee miles of track. China is building 24 miles of track for the same cost!

that’s bleak

i think that’s a little beyond our leader’s ability to think ahead

nobody’s thinking further than the next quarter or the next election

yeah, I agree with all of this, although i’m still not sure what that best position is for where i’m at

it’s just funny to harp on that specific contradiction

there was a thing I saw the other day

Don’t Drink & Drive

Becasue

There are People Out there Texting and DRiving

and WHEN they hit you

you will go to jail

Utah keeping sports betting illegal is the exceedingly rare mormon win

d oyou promis

it’s funny being a US citizen who’s also mildly impressed by Deng Xiaoping

cus like

it’s really impressive how he played the structural intensives of the market to China’s advantage in a way that the US really has no way of coping with, let alone combating

but also, as someone who lives here and thinks about socialism a lot, what am I supposed to do with this insight? Like, we as the United States should build our productive capacity by going to the Untied States and… asking… them… to… invest… in our… manufacturing capacity… oh dear

That’s the good ending! It means we’ve carefully maneuvered Sol through the galactic disc to do a hand shake with a red dwarf’s liquid water zone. It means there is time, time to explore to test to get it right. Life goes on going on, sentience ripples through the whole ecosystem and people learn to come together for cake! …well, except that fellow in the trees… that’s a tad bleak…

that’s so sweet, a tea party on a spek orbiting a red dwarf

For a while I was posting the thing they keep calling “AI” is going to implode our ability to maintain computer networks and bring an end to the Silicon Valley bubble, but I started second guessing myself. Like, if that seems like the obvious conclusion to me, an idiot, then at least some of the people in charge must notice this.

Today I saw a tumblr post detailing how to rig an adblocker to get a google image search to turn out actual images. Nobody in charge has noticed, and… I don’t think they will notice. Not until it’s fully busted. They’re dreaming of electric sheep meanwhile the actual machine has got cholesterol in its arteries.

Winning power is actually the loosing position; when things go wrong, when there are problems longstanding or otherwise, people expect you to do something. Loosing election and being the opposition party is a far more preferable state of affairs – all you have to do is criticize the “winners”.

Going from “The Ukraine war risks nuclear armageddon” to “this is a cold-blooded calculation between large geopolitical actors” would be a huge leap in perspective. It sounds like the exaggerated position was her way expressing a real concern; meaning something more like “I’m worried about this conflict, what do you think of it?” You respond with a specific analysis and she agrees with it. If she doesn’t see her own perspective as changing, then it is because your analysis doesn’t contradict her own understanding of the world. It sounds like she values your knowledge on these things.

think i may need to start pestering local politicians about how wildfire prepped we actually are

I’ll be able to start biking more places thanks to climate change (no snow in February is freaking me out)