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1) The Chinese made better Cars then the Americans now, BYD. 2) China could be the first one to put man on Mars. 3) NASA's chief is worried about China getting back to the moon first. Here's why NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China. 4) Boeing is falling, the Chinese aircraft, C919, is going to be a better one than Boeing's 737. 5) China has the capacity to build combat ships at 200 times the rate that the US can, per leaked US Navy intelligence. China's shipbuilding capacity has dwarfed US capabilities, per leaked US Navy intelligence. A Navy spokesperson confirmed the leaked material's authenticity to …

Hi kids I don't find it will happen literally. Eg some politicians may look a bit robotic but they're not made of metal and wires. But there is ever increasing automation of traditional jobs, especially manual jobs, eg someone's invented a machine which can lay bricks 3x faster than a man. On a theoretical basis, what would society look like if ALL paid employment became automated so there's no more jobs for human beings? I guess all money in the economy would eventually flow to the owners of the means of production, people who own all the robots and robot factories. Everyone else, the jobless, cash-less proletariat, would I guess have to go back …

Today I learned about Schedule F appointment, which is an insidious method of US government control and a subversive tool for those who aspire to dictatorship. Schedule F appointments essentially allow the reclassification of potentially thousands of US government workers as political appointees who can be hired and fired at the whim of the Executive branch of US government regardless of qualifications. Potentially, under Schedule F appointment if restored, a president can fire any so designated federal employee who conscientiously refuse his directives and replace them with a sycophant willing to do and say whatever he commands regardless of consequence. I shiver at t…

...and now a bible salesman! This short video is a good example of Trump's assumption that other people are as hateful and greedy as he is. A lot goes on in this short video. "The great John Paulson made plenty of money in Nevada. He doesn't live there but he makes a HELL of a lot of money. He makes money everywhere he goes actually. He's a money machine. You know what? Put him in treasury. You want to make a little money?" "....Then we go to South Carolina where we have done really well, where I have done well...." Notice how he contorts his mouth as he talks and how he belittles Tim Scott, but Tim just rolls with the punches. "Almost every one of them end…

Juanita N. Holmes is a name that may become more widely familiar in coming days. She is an American police officer and administrator who is the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Probation - and she has the responsibility of interviewing and making sentencing recommendations to Judge Juan Merchan in respect of newly convicted felon Donald J. Trump before his sentencing hearing on July 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_N._Holmes One issue that is of particular interest to a Probation Officer is whether a felon is in compliance with 18 US Code §922(g), a Federal law that renders it illegal for a convicted felon to be in possession of a firear…

"Let's stop being so damned respectful! Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness... Lets stop being damned respectful!" RICHARD DAWKINS 2002 "I think it's very sad especially in universities... where you should be free to speak your mind and to listen to something even if it's something you don't like, and it's very tragic that universities seem to have bought into the idea that if you hear something you don't like you should shut them up and refuse to let them speak" RICHARD DAWKINS bleating to Piers Morgan about cancel culture …

"The jury has found former US President Donald Trump GUILTY of falsifying business records to conceal a hush-money payment made to former porn star Stormy Daniels. He becomes the first former president to be convicted of a crime. This is for the first count of the 34 charges in total. There are more verdicts to come." This is current. He is guilty on the first three counts, so far. I thought it might be worth its own thread. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-69069142

The CEO of TikTok appeared before Congress yesterday to defend his platform, which has over 150M US users. https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-ceo-face-tough-questions-support-us-ban-grows-2023-03-23/ Democrats and Republicans seemed equally out for blood, and equally unqualified to fairly judge the popular app. Meta and Facebook hired an outside firm for a smear campaign against TikTok, and to me it looks like the committee members have all received lobbying funds from the Big Tech firms to incentivize banning this pesky competitor. Some of the questions asked were phenomenally stupid ("Does TikTok access the home wi-fi network?" asked Rep Richard Hudson …

One of the biggest problems in this world is human overpopulation. Adults with means can adopt children in need of homes unselfishly as opposed to making more babies. Whenever the planet is overcrowded, life widely suffers needlessly. Overpopulation is one of the main reasons desirable employment can be so difficult to attain. When people are fewer in numbers, hiring is much more in demand to furnish the economy with needed human resources. The world needs so many humans to make our modern living and comfort possible. If there were only 1,000 living people in the entire world at any given time, we would be still living in caves with loin cloths and hunting with spears and…

https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-2024-rhetoric-germany-antisemitism-31002afb91b642c0314223d19e51f427 Trumps social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a unified Reich This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the President was in court, Karoline Leavitt, the campaign press secretary, said in a statement. In related news, an urgent call goes out for optometrists to aid Trump staffers with sudden severe vision impairments.

It seems strange for me, why the American Civil War happened in the 19th century. I mean that, as far as I can see, civil wars and “Smuta” are an attribute of an authoritarian society, not a democratic one. I understand the mechanism of the Time of Troubles in Russia in 1612 or the Three Kingdoms in China: this situation occurs because any aristocrat wants to become a monarch, and the legitimacy of power is determined not by elections, but by the fact that the ruler is in power. Why then did turmoil also occur in the USA? My question is: when the southern states seceded from the northern states and mobilized, was that the decision of the people of those states? Did p…

i wouldnt say this is a brain teaser or puzzle but just something to think about and discuss If you were to pick any 5 Countries to rule the entire world what would they be (feel free to include maps of what the boundaries would look like) Mine are the nordic countries like Sweden, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, etc

A helicopter carrying Ebrahim Raisi the President of Iran has gone missing in a remote region of NW Iran close to the border with Azerbaijan. Foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian is also said to have been onboard the same craft which was part of a convoy of three helicopters that were returning from a visit to mark the inauguration of a new dam in neighbouring Azerbaijan. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/19/iran-helicopter-accident-live-president-fm-on-missing-aircraft Various reports from Iranian news agencies say that the helicopter made a “hard landing” somwhere near the Iranian border town of Jolfa. Iranian rescue teams are struggling to re…

I suppose, people here have heard about the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester and the counterfactual definiteness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur–Vaidman_bomb_tester https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_definiteness I have a question: can this experiment be performed at the level of countries for avoiding a nuclear war? Let’s consider, that in 2300 A.D. there is a country with a dictator Kim 8, who oppresses the people, exports some resources and controls the overbomb which can totally destroy the planet. He is loosing power because of the sanctions, and decides to use a weird strategy – threatens that he will annihilate Earth if…

Ever since i had ideas on how to improve my own country, i always thought it would be cool to make one... but the thing is i dont know how. I've thought about doing a charter city instead but i'd love full independence to experiment with certain policies, governments, economic systems, how houses are built, how you vote, public transportation... you get the idea. i dont want it to be big, maybe the size of a medium city. this city would be more for experimentation at first (haven't considered the troubles of redesigning a city rapidly.) if you think this discussion should go somewhere else please let me know, i wasnt quite sure where this would belong. and yes,…

To show off to the world what the US could do? Japan was already beaten. We also found out that the Nazis never developed anything close to an A bomb. Japan was already totally cut off from the world by US submarines and air force. No more imports so they were on the verge of starving. They were also having their cities systematically destroyed by huge B29 incendiary strikes, like the one that killed 100,000 people in Tokyo IN A DAY. All that happened by using the A bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to REVEAL to the world that such a weapon EXISTS. What they should have done, IMHO, is realize that nobody needs to know about IT, and that IT should be covered up so nobody …

I just did a search, it's seven years since the last post on overpopulation (on an overpopulation thread) so why not take a look at the latest? This is from Bing : And here's a youtube clip of how India is coping with a bit of crowding :

Many unusual and curious versions of the English bible have been printed since the reformation. The ‘Wicked Bible’ of 1631 found its way into history by omitting the word ‘not’ from the 7th commandment (Exodus 20:14) and enjoining its readers, on the highest authority, to commit adultery. Others include ‘The Treacle Bible’ of 1568 (Jermiah 7:24 - “Is there no treacle in Gilead”), The Printers Bible of 1702 (Psalm 119:161 - “Printers have persecuted me without a cause” - [instead of of ‘Princes’], and ‘Rebekah’s Camels Bible’ of 1823 which gives Genesis 24:61 as “Rebekah arose, and her camels” instead of “her damsels”. But few of them are quite as odd as the ‘Go…

Most of the "insanely rich people" are "self-made", so they know they have to force poor people to get off their asses and start up business on their own, just like they did decades ago.. Capitalist (libertarian) values are private property, private business, self-made business owner, earned by his/her own hands. Tax evasion is part of this. Government does not spend well funds gained due to taxes on regular people. Which you can see on your own eyes. And it is on either side of the world, no matter if we look at US, EU, Russia, China or whatever.. If the U.S. spent its tax money well, it wouldn't have the highest percentage of homeless people in the developed …

From the French Revolution onwards we have come being slow-cooked as a society. The French Revolution? Hasn't that been a good thing? Liberty, Equality, Fraternity? Demagogy. It has always been about getting people to the extremes. Make them hate some abusive kings or rulers, and give them the opposite, useless puppets working for the hidden monarchs. It's a loss, isn't it? Majorly when there isn't anything with what to compare. Massive column of a system of mass manipulation. And the use of good words to hide evil concepts have drifted away the naïve. Maybe to get them realizing when they are so corrupted that they don't care much.…

In any moment, is just a matter of time. Many of you come to this forum because you are researchers, maybe actually working on science fields. But the thing is, our thinking has been conditioned systematically from the beginning. We have been raised in captivity. And now, it comes the waking up, and the reaping the consequences. What I am calling for is a controlled demolition of the Matrix, to prevent the damage and chaos it was intended to be brought. How many "psychiatrists" actually heal their patients? Pretty much no one. Because they get paid for playing ball. And how many psychologists the same? They are useless, they ar…

I don't understand the thought process in filming the rebuttal in a kitchen. Also boo to geolocks.

What if Biden get re-elected, but drop dead one day after that, who will replace as the new President?

Does anyone think that the geopolitical centre of gravity needs to move away from the US and towards more collectively level-headed democracies? At 62, I'm starting to think that American influence and dominance is too toxic for the world. Even on the 'left' of the American political spectrum, the likes of Biden are merely paying lip-service to world peace as long as no one takes a slice of their pie. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The extent to which we are now seeing the worst elements of British politicians embracing the worst elements of US politics is disturbing. The UK has the most far right government I've seen in my lifetime here... and getting worse. …

“what makes this fee revolutionary is that it will apply to emissions that don’t happen on European soil. The EU already puts a price on many of the emissions created by European firms; now, through the new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, or CBAM, the bloc will charge companies that import the targeted products — cement, aluminum, electricity, fertilizer, hydrogen, iron and steel — into the EU, no matter where in the world those products are made.” https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2024/big-boost-europe-carbon-neutral-goals-cbam This removes incentives to move carbon-intensive industry out of the EU, since that won’t sidestep tari…