1

The narration is polluted with some anti-communist propaganda, as expected from a western MSM, but there are some great footage. DW deleted it from their channel, probably because the video portrayed a too positive image of NK, even with the anti-communist propaganda in the narration.

Maybe some or most of you already knew this doc, but I'm posting here anyway.

[-] leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Classical guitar. I bought a digital piano and learned some easy to intermediary pieces, but I have been focusing only on guitar. I made a classical guitar arrangement for the soviet anthem, but I don't have a set up apropriate to make a nice video. I also compose music for these instruments.

1
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

Deutschland translated to different English accents:

British: "Germany"

Australian: "Germany"

American: "GerMine"

[-] leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

The animal I talked about is called "onça-pintada". It's not necessarily black. It's the third biggest feline, being smaller than the tiger and the lion. It's the most powerful predator in Amazon rainforest. People often say it's the most powerful in the Americas, but they are wrong, then. I didn't know the english words for "onça-pintada" and "jacaré" and just put them in translator.

[-] leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

The jaguar (onça-pintada) should be higher. They are arguably the most powerful predators of the Americas. They can run up to 80 Km/h; they can climb trees; they have jaws strong enough to crush bones; they are proficient swimmers, being able to hunt prey in the water, including alligators; their roar is bone-shivering; they are stunning and iconic; they are important for the ecosystem balance. Note that while the jaguar may be phisically similar to the African leopard, the jaguar is faster and stronger, and a better swimmer.

[-] leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 months ago

Note that this is about the association between height and income. It is possible that a confuser variable or set of variables is/are influencing both income and height, thus producing the observed correlation between income and height. In this case, the association would not imply causation. But even if this is just association and not causation, its a significant fact, because then there is some unkown set of factors making taller individuals having higher probabilities of earn more.

[-] leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Perplexity summary: The article from Bloomberg[1] reports that Huawei's latest smartphone, the Mate 60 Pro, is powered by a new Kirin 9000s chip that was fabricated in China by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC). This chip is the first to utilize SMIC's most advanced 7nm technology, which suggests that the Chinese government is making some headway in attempts to build a domestic chip ecosystem. The article also notes that Huawei is reportedly developing its own Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and power management chips. Other sources, such as Swarajya[2], ThinkChina[3], TechHQ[4], and The Verge[5], speculate on how Huawei was able to develop its own chips despite US sanctions. Some sources suggest that Huawei may have used its inventory from 2020, while others speculate that the chips were manufactured by SMIC or even Huawei itself. Chinese benchmarking website AnTuTu has identified the Mate 60 Pro's CPU as the HiSilicon-designed Kirin 9000s, which supports 5G[6]. Overall, the article and other sources suggest that Huawei's use of domestically produced chips in the Mate 60 Pro is a significant development in China's efforts to build a domestic chip ecosystem and circumvent US sanctions.

[-] leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 10 months ago

That's in part because of all the anti-China propaganda on big media and youtube. In youtube, anti-China content, specially content from big media (BBC, sky news and the likes) and CIA-backed content, is recommended to much more users than pro-China content. Just look at the number of views of anti-China videos vs neutral or pro-China channels. Anti-China videos easily get millons of views, while the best of the best pro-China videos only reach tens or hundreads of thousands of views (one or another may reach millions by using a super catch thumbnail and title). The pro-China videos are mostly recommended to people that already watches pro-China videos, while anti-China videos get recommended for everyone on youtube. The result is that a huge amount of youtube users believe anti-China crap.

[-] leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 10 months ago

It's so toxic how they always talk about efforts to keep America the best this or the best that. They talk as if for them the priority is to do everything (even moraly wrong things) to make America be the best at everything, being human progress only a byproduct of this competition. They also talk as if America be the best at everything is necessary for the world to be "right"; as if this is something inherently good.

[-] leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not-so-fun fact: Rick Sanchez was possibly created with the same name as the news anchor Rick Sanchez (from CNN and RT) deliberately to hide him in the internet. Rick Sanchez himself made a video about this. He found a video made by an RM creator before RM creation in which there is a news transmission with an anchor called Rick Sanchez, showing that the creators of RM knew who him was before creating RM.

[-] leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Artisanal burgers are much tastier than McDonald's. In fact, it's not hard for a real burger to be tastier than a McDonald's one, at least in my country (I'm not sure if McDonald's quality is the same in all countries). Here, McDonald's isn't very good, and even so it's quite expensive. Even the most affordable option on the menu is pricey, and it barely has anything inside. Not to mention that these fast food burgers are tiny.

Hambúrgueres artesanais são muito mais gostosos que McDonald's. Na verdade não é difícil um hambúrguer de verdade ser mais gostoso que um McDonald's, pelo menos no meu país (não tenho certeza se a qualidade do McDonald's é a mesma em todos os países). Aqui McDonald's não é muito bom e ainda é bem caro; a opção mais acessível do menu já é cara, e não têm quase nada dentro. Sem falar que esses hambúrgueres de fast food são bem pequenos.

0
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

Summary made with perplexity.ai: The CIA played a key role in spreading Abstract Expressionism and its ideology worldwide to combat the opposing style of Socialist Realism and, by extension, communist culture at large. The CIA saw Abstract Expressionism as an opportunity to promote American culture and values worldwide. The agency employed covert methods to make Abstract Expressionism so popular that it became quite difficult for an artist to find success working in any other style. The Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organization funded by the CIA, gave the agency the ideal front to promote its covert interest in Abstract Expressionism.

Some links from which this summary comes from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html https://www.thecollector.com/abstract-expressionism-waging-a-cultural-cold-war-2/ https://www.theartstory.org/movement/socialist-realism/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artcurious-cia-art-excerpt-1909623 https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-did-the-cia-sponsor-jackson-pollock/

It's crazy to think how much CIA shaped the path of art, if all that is true. They may also have influenced in the popularization of avant-garde American classical music composers, like John Cage. I wonder to which extent CIA is responsible for the widespread of American-made cultural products, like pop music, rock and fast foods, and which artistic or cultural movements became influential throught artifficial means (instead of organically become succesful due to artistic merit).

An additional note: a similar thing may have happened internally in Brazil. I once heard that the Brazilian musical genre "Sertanejo Universitário", that skyrocketed in popularity during the 2000s and early 2010s to become one of the most popular Brazilian musical genres, may have owe part of this success to a funding from the big agribusiness players, which aimed to strengthen their monopoly over small poducers, or smothing like that.

leo_da_vinci

joined 1 year ago