BynarsAreOk

I do not know why people are acting surprised as if Putin and Russia are based anti-imperialists. Always remember the current nuclear non-proliferation status quo is beneficial to every single neoliberal country including Russia.

Remember that Russia-Putin and China-Xi sanctioned DPRK in 2015 after their successful nuclear test.

Of course we can rationalize a dozen reasons why these countries should support Iran and others getting nukes, but this is not how they see it. This gap is what explains China's death cult embrace of US and pacifism, it is what explains Putins multiple fall for it again award in Ukraine since 2014 etc...

I want to see TASS and RT put out coordinated denials of this narrative otherwise its going to be the same DPRK troops to Ukraine stuff again. People will dismiss only because its western sources while the Russians themselves only play around the issue and shift blame.

There are other reasons to see this as a plausible stance too. Russia has shown to be entirely self-interested and if they're judging that Iran may face a real war over the nuclear program it is only going to be a war that permanently puts Russia-Iran-China on the same "bloc". To me at least this is clearly undesirable for all parties. Neither Russia nor China want to fight the US realy, Russia is a white conservative shithole thinking they're on some global war against woke liberalism or something and China is cynical trade pill garbage.

At this point it should be clear Putin has already faced internal pressure to end this Ukraine war as soon as possible and expanding it by unconditionally supporting Iran's nuclear program is only going to make it harder.

I don't know, maybe within a week all Russian news and government denies this and its a nothingburger but it doesn't surprise me to see this alignment towards pushing Iran to accept a US deal at all, perhaps its even expected now realy.

IMO the capitalist victory also means climate change became unavoidable. Civilization will be destroyed for thousands of years if temperature goes over 5 degrees. By 3 degrees half the population is already dead and the feedback loop makes that a done deal. We`re on path for earlier than 2050.

I respect the fear of nuclear anihilation, specialy if a Soviet boomer came to me and explained how it felt living through it. But then we are now "priviledged" to experience the unique period of human mass extentinction from climate change caused by the capitalist victory in the cold war. Its ironic yes, also sad. If given the choice I`d rather echo the sentiment of war and struggle than the upcoming hell.

People will say humanity will go on regardless but who cares IMO, nihilism is only as powerful as you make it. In the long term the Sun will also engulf the solar system and destroy the Earth too.

I guess but it seems like very often they put a lot of emphasis on the "program" creation aspect. AI slop as it exists today is the opposite no?

I think of both extremes where the holodeck is a combination of being so extremely detailed you can spend years on a program and also supposedly extremely "slop" like where you can just say "computer create X" and it just does so.

The current AI slop is very much the latter part of this, specialy given how little control you have and if you do end up having to integrate AI art or whatever into some bigger project then it is borderline not saving any time at all.

At the current stage, you do not get exponentialy or even lineraly better results by spending more of your own time messing with AI models, LORAs etc.

So yeah I guess, maybe you may as well say that the replicator is just actualy good "fast food".

Just because I say an article is good doesn’t mean I agree with every single one of the author’s points.

Ok so just we're clear. As the genocide continues and if eventually it is successful, given China`s active role in supporting Israel throughout you don't actualy believe this should be a catalyst for a change of modern Chinese FP policy? This was the writer's main point about Chinese contradictions in their FP and their relation with the US and Israel. China's "diplomacy for economic interest" is impossible if the US will just attack and destroy your "trading partners".

If you can't understand this then god you're truly beyond hopeless.

You do something about the bases, the pedos and the carriers first then you can come back with "a battle for our national interests" lol. Lame ass liberal opportunist shit, completely spineless in reality.

As an additional point, it is also strategically prudent for China to let the regional conflicts elsewhere distract the empire against itself.

What are you even talking about. How is Israel distracting the US from China when Xi went to San Francisco to meet Biden on November 15th 2023, literaly less than 45 days into the genocide. When Yellen and Blinken went to China to order them to shut up and fix their industry or else in the following months etc.

The empire can actualy look at 2 places at once, in fact there has not been a single moment of the past 8 years(since Trump 1) where the US hasn't been focused on China, before in Xinjiang etc and now the trade "war".

Like how can you read this article and come out with "and yes its strategicaly beneficial for China to let the genocide continue" when completely the opposite of what the article concluded, like wtf.

Please control+f "contradiction" in that article, I can't imagine someone bashing this point harder than this person tried.

This contradiction within China’s Middle East policy is destined to push the country to reconsider its unsustainable approach. The increasingly dire reality on the occupied land of Palestine will eventually burst the bubble of the illusional fantasy inherited from the short-lived peace process of 1990s-2000s and force China to abandon its unrealistic goal of fraternizing with both sides. Since Israel’s genocide in Gaza, this contradiction in Chinese foreign policy has exacerbated into an unprecedented degree as Israel has threatened to harm Chinese investment if China continues its diplomatic support to Palestine.

They make this point a few times, there is no "strategic victory" for China when your position is unsustainable.

"China nukes Alibaba's payment IPO and humbles Jack Ma"

You seem like you're unaware but you're kind of at least 6 months out of date btw.

I don't think the whole CPC owns the billionaires narrative is particularly compelling these days when China is also the country with literaly the most of them and in any case if "exile" is only temporary why should anyone give a shit?

. But if there is any prospect that AI development poses a threat to the social and political order Beijing deems acceptable, can anyone be in doubt that it would be halted in its tracks?

Why is this a valid argument at all? This absolute nonsense. Be very conscious here, there is only one reason the west is praising the CPC's stance on AI. Its because they're in favor of it, yet we've been here before, Did anyone forget the dozen a day articles about "draconian" censorship laws and how the CPC is evil bad dictatorship for requiring things like masks and ID-movement tracking during COVID?

Of course they`ll flip the script because for now China is doing exactly what they want. Nobody on the left should be happy about this, at least unironicaly, This is literaly "trust the plan" but capitalists using it against ourselves to justify their own garbage slop.

So we know AI is just garbage slop but if it was realy bad surely China would've just banned it already? Surely it wont turn out exactly like it happened the last time the CPC did a crackdown

AI will be so much bigger than this and no IMO there is a near zero chance the CPC will stop AI if it gets big enough. The only possible time is now or in case of massive public backlash, otherwise its pretty damn indisputable, if the CPC couldn't handle Tencent having a single bad day lol, then they wont bother with their NVDIA size AI slop maker either.

The best we'll get is some "feel good" laws like Chinese teenage gaming laws that barely do anything for the vast majorty, but hey at least they have something so their hands are clean.

This was never about stopping the factory though. It was about forcing BYD to comply with the local labour law on the construction site, I don`t know how you reached that conclusion. We don't even know what will happen to the lawsuit though I wouldn't hope for anything either.

The only difference in this article is some politician said fully functional by "end of 2026" while the BYD guy says "July '26".

All it took was for China to halt Brazilian beef import for Brazil to cave.

So what you're saying is the trade can stop whenever they want to actualy and the reason they don't stop trading with Israel is they're actualy assholes? Yeah I kind of figured that already lol.

God I hope you're not looking at this from a China W angle because that is just funny.

To be fair the reports suggest it was not CR specifically but a third party that provided them with this. Apparently it came from Cygames, publisher of the show. Maybe CR understands not to go the duolingo route, I don't think they're that stupid.

It also doesn't surprise me Cygames would take the cheap out route towards the international market. They're one of the best examples of Japanese boomer mentality at least when it comes to their games. Absolutely completely unsurprising Cygames would cheap out. Its a shame because there are tons of talented people behind their IP's, but Japanese shitty boomer mentality goes brr I guess.

That said fuck CR.

Why did you even think I'd care about this? Like its not 2022 anymore lol. The best use of Chinese military tech is to arm Chinese farmers for a counter revolution against the current fucking garbage T1 cities neoliberal elites. Everything else in these past years has turned out to be nothing but Chinese nationalism grifting.

I think the way he analysis this misses most of the criticism about Voyager. Its not just about how good or bad Janeway's morals are, but her lack of consistency and the show's own narrative e.g the contrast between "scrambling for survival" and abusing the reset button every 3rd episode.

What culminates in In the pale moonlight is already something we kind of expected from Sisko's personality and most importantly the show properly built up to the moment e.g when Sisko mentions the death tolls we had already seen that in person, its not a sandbox situation for that episode only.

The show needed to be consistent about survival being an actual real threat. That way she could still struggle to make the necessary choices but we could understand why. Yet the main issue here is the overall production, the writers and producers not being clear what Voyager should be as a show. Its very rare to get a sense if something realy actualy matters when we know the reset button abuse is present, therefore its also very hard for her to look anything more than a hypocrite at times.

Upholding SF morality while your ship looks pristine from episode to episode yet struggling to make a choice when that randomly isn't the case seems entirely superficial and hypocritical indeed. I think this is what he is missing, its not just about Janeway, it includes the overall problem with the writing of the show.