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Devils Affricate posted:I guess you could say he's figured out where the true dough is 
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Devils Affricate posted:I guess you could say he's figured out where the true dough is 
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Aug 15, 2020 00:56
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Devils Affricate posted:I guess you could say he's figured out where the true dough is Holy poo poo 
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Aug 15, 2020 00:57
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https://www.pcmag.com/news/pro-china-propaganda-act-used-fake-followers-made-with-ai-generated-images Graphics to further explanations on the page. quote:
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Aug 15, 2020 01:40
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Are there samples available so we can make our own?
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Aug 15, 2020 01:49
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Why the gently caress would anyone need to make fake angry comments about how lovely the USA is on the internet?
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Aug 15, 2020 02:19
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Shumagorath posted:Are there samples available so we can make our own? The StyleGAN2 repository has instructions and pretrained networks. It also has links to a bunch of sample output.
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Aug 15, 2020 02:27
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Shumagorath posted:Are there samples available so we can make our own? https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ It's a lot more fun to sit there refreshing it than it should be. https://thishorsedoesnotexist.com/ The horse one gets you wonkier monstrosities.
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Aug 15, 2020 02:59
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BrainDance posted:https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ That is drat creepy. You can see where it starts to gently caress up though. 
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Aug 15, 2020 03:05
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I'm glad that person doesn't exist.
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Aug 15, 2020 03:33
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:I mean maybe at this moment although I'm not sure all those Syrian hospitals that got bombed by Russian jets would agree. But it's not like if the US vanished tomorrow, Russia would stay in the exact same state it is right now forever.
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Aug 15, 2020 03:41
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Fojar38 posted:https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-huawei-built-data-centre-a-failed-investment-papua-new-guinea-says/
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GotLag posted:Isn't the US military also in Syria? Hmm good point hmmmmm
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Aug 15, 2020 04:27
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Not very topical, and sort of out of left field, but would anyone care to translate these? The friend who had his wife disappear to China (earlier in the thread) found an old phone of hers and these were sent via wechat (along with some pretty explicit selfies) over the past two years. My wife refuses to look at them, on the grounds that it's an invasion of privacy, but I think it's some sort of superstition thing with her (acknowledge bad things, and they might happen?).    I "cleaned" them up in photoshop and tried a few image->text translation sites/apps, but no luck. He says he's "over it" but I think this is the final nail in the coffin he needs to finally move on with his life. I'll take these down if they're too, "internet detective" or creepy.
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Aug 15, 2020 04:51
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Blistex posted:Not very topical, and sort of out of left field, but would anyone care to translate these? The friend who had his wife disappear to China (earlier in the thread) found an old phone of hers and these were sent via wechat (along with some pretty explicit selfies) over the past two years. My wife refuses to look at them, on the grounds that it's an invasion of privacy, but I think it's some sort of superstition thing with her (acknowledge bad things, and they might happen?). Those are written on skin? Did she end up taking money?
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Aug 15, 2020 05:05
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MarcusSA posted:Those are written on skin? Yeah, he sent me some heavily cropped pics, but from his description and what was visible before further cropping and colour/brightness tweaking, they were pretty explicit. MarcusSA posted:Did she end up taking money? She managed to sneak off with well over half their liquid assets, but considering he has a bought-and-paid-for house in Toronto, he came out ahead.
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Aug 15, 2020 05:19
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Blistex posted:Yeah, he sent me some heavily cropped pics, but from his description and what was visible before further cropping and colour/brightness tweaking, they were pretty explicit. Yeah I remember her sneaking off and drat finding that stuff must be rough. What a kick in the dick
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Blistex posted:Not very topical, and sort of out of left field, but would anyone care to translate these? The friend who had his wife disappear to China (earlier in the thread) found an old phone of hers and these were sent via wechat (along with some pretty explicit selfies) over the past two years. My wife refuses to look at them, on the grounds that it's an invasion of privacy, but I think it's some sort of superstition thing with her (acknowledge bad things, and they might happen?). 傻啊你, How stupid are you 升something公 (I cant read that middle character) 稀罕你，傻瓜 I need you, fool 打你 hit you. I dont know a non-literal meaning for that that fits here. BrainDance fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Aug 15, 2020 |
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Aug 15, 2020 05:56
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BrainDance posted:傻啊你, How stupid are you lol
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Aug 15, 2020 07:15
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Leverage the explicit selfies to recover what she stole.
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 An objective obituary: https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1294299491076431873?s=21 It can be summed up in this conversation I came across recently, which is not in the article above. quote:Isaac: Maybe the Luminous Path, but China knows that the Red Arrow are business owners, entrepreneurs, community leaders, and that they protect the city from outside influences. There was a famous Bulgarian communist who warned us about fascism 85 years ago: quote:"Fascism is not a form of state power "standing above both classes -- the proletariat and the bourgeoisie," as Otto Bauer, for instance, has asserted. It is not "the revolt of the petty bourgeoisie which has captured the machinery of the state," as the British Socialist Brailsford declares. No, fascism is not a power standing above class, nor government of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen-proletariat over finance capital. Fascism is the power of finance capital itself. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia. In foreign policy, fascism is jingoism in its most brutal form, fomenting bestial hatred of other nations.... The development of fascism, and the fascist dictatorship itself, assume different forms in different countries, according to historical, social and economic conditions and to the national peculiarities, and the international position of the given country." Malkina_ fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Aug 15, 2020 |
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Aug 15, 2020 12:47
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Shumagorath posted:Leverage the explicit selfies to recover what she stole. He has had zero contact with her since she disappeared. So even if he wanted to commit extortion, he couldn't contact anyone she wouldn't want to see the pictures.
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Blistex posted:He has had zero contact with her since she disappeared. So even if he wanted to commit extortion, he couldn't contact anyone she wouldn't want to see the pictures.
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Malkina_ posted:
Hahha nice, but I didn't ask for this. Things are bad and messy, not existential, well maybe for Trump it is. Things look worse than they are as we can see all of it. The frustrating thing is America is more than able to fix the vast majority of its problems, its not a question of resources. China is disturbingly opaque, but we can safely infer more aggressive, asinine the positive stories are, more leaks, the worse things are. I wonder why there is this sudden push to not waste food as a virtue which runs completely in the opposite direction to cultural expectations. There are multiple factors pointing to food insecurity. We have seen this before else where like the stock markets. Hmmm.
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Aug 15, 2020 20:03
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Malkina_ posted:
lol we're at like 4 decades of idiots saying this poo poo and counting
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oohhboy posted:I wonder why there is this sudden push to not waste food as a virtue which runs completely in the opposite direction to cultural expectations. There are multiple factors pointing to food insecurity. We have seen this before else where like the stock markets. Hmmm. It's okay the CCP made sure to diplomatically alienate all of the world's largest agricultural producers looking forward to when the PRC reports positive GDP growth in 2020 and everyone believes them
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Aug 15, 2020 21:45
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MarcusSA posted:That is drat creepy. You can see where it starts to gently caress up though. Baronjutter posted:Why the gently caress would anyone need to make fake angry comments about how lovely the USA is on the internet?
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Aug 15, 2020 22:58
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Budzilla posted:I find this more of a damnation of Australian foreign policy. PNG is almost a colony of Australia and we allow this to happen. We’ve dropped the ball in a big way. It’s astounding how little we’ve worked to defend our geopolitical power in our backyard. We could’ve supported all of the pacific islands with aid to directly counter Chinese interests but we’ve pissed away whatever home ground advantage we had through inaction and forcing them to look elsewhere.
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Blistex posted:He has had zero contact with her since she disappeared. So even if he wanted to commit extortion, he couldn't contact anyone she wouldn't want to see the pictures. He's a lot more stoic than I would be about this. Because I'm ridiculously immature I'd be tracking that poo poo down. I'm not gonna guess at your friends relationship but Christ, kinda seems like he just paid for a very expensive life upgrade not having her around.
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Nam Taf posted:We’ve dropped the ball in a big way. It’s astounding how little we’ve worked to defend our geopolitical power in our backyard. We could’ve supported all of the pacific islands with aid to directly counter Chinese interests but we’ve pissed away whatever home ground advantage we had through inaction and forcing them to look elsewhere. Australia's foreign policy, and has been since Howard is "We are friends with America. America is big and scary. So don't mess with us. Did I do good Mr American? Your boot is so tasty. Oh, by the way reffos out." Even now, ScoMo's push for an independent inquiry or whatever into COVID-19, that is causing so much "hurt feelings", is basically a way to follow behind and suck up to the US.
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Being a close US ally does not equate to "licking boot." If anything Australia was rather flippant regarding China from an American perspective.
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The worst part is that since the US is basically imploding and won’t be paying any attention to foreign policy, we’re hiding behind a wet tissue.
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Nam Taf posted:The worst part is that since the US is basically imploding and won’t be paying any attention to foreign policy, we’re hiding behind a wet tissue. This is a pretty big misreading of the situation. The US is a clusterfuck domestically and Trump is a bad diplomat but US hard power is fine and isn't going anywhere.
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related to the previous post, this tweet is from yesterday: https://twitter.com/duandang/status/1294485837862723585
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Fojar38 posted:This is a pretty big misreading of the situation. The US is a clusterfuck domestically and Trump is a bad diplomat but US hard power is fine and isn't going anywhere. The executive has an outsize role in US politics from a public perspective. Especially overseas, you rarely hear about what the Congress is doing, it’s pretty much only ever Trump. Given he is clearly just flailing around trying to do whatever he can to increase his re-electability, I don’t see the US (through him) being able to provide a consistent narrative that will unite countries in an effort to push back. Sure, the gears of the US foreign relations will continue to turn but that’s not the same as a rallying call of leadership that I think’s necessary for dealing with this. I’ll concede I phrased it fairly poorly and made it sound like the US is worthless diplomatically. They’re absolutely not, but I don’t think they’re currently doing a great deal of leadership either.
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The upshot is that China is an even worse clusterfuck domestically and Xi is a worse diplomat than Trump.
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Gonna second on that. Even the tinfoils over here aren't all for participating in sinic irrumatio - a far cry from what it used to be like a decade ago when the propaganda was relatively new.
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Exercise in how "I have nothing to hide" of tankies is, well, just do a rewatch of laowhy on youtube. You know, pro China mostly, fun bike and travel videos, not really having a problem with the "system" - just a foreigner doing harmless things. [time passes] Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CPqROtanA Guy with breaking voice sitting, completely paranoid and separated from family, in a HK park, reporting how he just made it across the border thanks to some lazy border office because he is actually being looked for in China by the military for trumped up charged of illegal journalism because he interviewed someone years back. And his friend is missing. Like, I feel sorry for this dude but also lmao. The whole thang is an immersive experience of why fascism is bad for you even if you aren't even fighting against the CCP. Someone should make like a supercut education video about this. Show it to tankies. "Am I safe in a fascist state if I don't really want to be a problem for them?"
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Haramstufe Rot posted:Exercise in how "I have nothing to hide" of tankies is, well, just do a rewatch of laowhy on youtube. I can basically guarantee they would just call him a CIA plant and ignore it.
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