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Hheheh. If we are talking about the decline of America, the idiots in the WH turned down repeatedly the option to get more than 100 million doses apparently up to 500 million from Pfzer before summer. You need two doses to gain full protection. Orange then issued a vague executive order saying America gets vaccine first despite you know, offered more repeatedly. The head of the operation Warp Speed who idiot keeps crediting straight out says he doesn't know wtf. Once again snatching defeat from victory.  quote:“Frankly, I don’t know, and frankly, I’m staying out of this. I can’t comment,” Slaoui said. “I literally don’t know.” There is a counter theory that there is a business play being made to play off multiple companies for better something??? Maybe price, but $20 a dose is pretty good for something with a crash program with nothing more than a payment on delivery. Certainly not cost plus nonsense. The actual concern is supply as each company can only make so much no matter the price and the fact GOVERNMENT ISN'T A loving BUSINESS. Fuuuucckk, that fucker can't gently caress off fast enough. China's vaccine otoh can only produce 300 Million a year after building a new plant. Regardless of its effectiveness of which we know nothing about, or 2 wet beat up boxes of "Medical" supplies diplomacy 10 years to vaccinate your own population isn't exactly winning. Other vaccines have very high (Claimed)production rates. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55212787 quote:Moderna has said it aims to ship 500 million doses in 2021 and AstraZeneca has said it will produce 700 million doses by the end of the first quarter of 2021.
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Dec 9, 2020 16:46
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China looks at controversies involving facial recognition in the USA and says, 'hold my beer'. https://twitter.com/CharlesRollet1/status/1336341734943420416 https://twitter.com/CharlesRollet1/status/1336345130177990657 https://twitter.com/CharlesRollet1/status/1336349266181177347
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Dec 9, 2020 17:14
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China is apparently boosting its social science research funding. https://macropolo.org/china-marxist-ideology-research-funding/?rp=m It probably surprises no-one that this boost in funding is limited to very specific subjects, with more traditional fields of study like law and philosophy actually seeing their funding cut. The subjects which are gaining?quote:More significant than how much China spends is where this money is going. Since Xi took office in November 2012, of the 23 social science disciplines the NSSF funds, the three that saw the biggest percentage increases are 1) Marxism & Scientific Socialism; 2) Ethnic Studies; and 3) Party History & Party Building (see Figure 2). This shift in funding came at the expense of other disciplines, with economics, law, literature, and philosophy suffering the steepest declines. So basically immense sums of money are being poured into "research" on ideological purity, Han supremacist assimilationism and party organisation, or, I poo poo you not, “philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics.” A large share of the pie is directly reserved for research into Xi Jingping Thought, which is definitely a normal thing to do for a leader and not at all a massive case of projecting insecurity about your intelligence
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Dec 9, 2020 20:26
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Pharohman777 posted:China looks at controversies involving facial recognition in the USA and says, 'hold my beer'. Why do we get all the tech dystopia poo poo but none of the cool cyberpunk poo poo???
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UltraRed posted:Why do we get all the tech dystopia poo poo but none of the cool cyberpunk poo poo??? because the dystopic tech is free and easy to adopt
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Dec 9, 2020 20:55
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Dec 10, 2020 01:49
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Something like that about Hunter had popped up before the election that was allegedly not given coverage by the "mainstream" despite approaching multiple journalist and having publicly verifiable information. It turned out to be absolute bunk and the information was verifiable publicly because it was a collection of public material with no correlation with each other but was package as legit. The links supposedly when all the way to Jimmy Lai with funding for the report as well as some other HK connections. Jimmy when asked about it was pretty much "hell no". If you have something, actual legit journalists would be all over that. One of their key jobs is to look for facts which requires being able to smell BS. Then there was that dumb af laptop. I doubt the investigation will go anywhere. They are probably seeking clarification.
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Dec 10, 2020 04:07
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Wait, do we still have legit journalists?
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Dec 10, 2020 04:26
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have a meme i saw in pyf and made me laugh.
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Dec 10, 2020 04:26
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oohhboy posted:Something like that about Hunter had popped up before the election that was allegedly not given coverage by the "mainstream" despite approaching multiple journalist and having publicly verifiable information. It turned out to be absolute bunk and the information was verifiable publicly because it was a collection of public material with no correlation with each other but was package as legit. The links supposedly when all the way to Jimmy Lai with funding for the report as well as some other HK connections. Jimmy when asked about it was pretty much "hell no". If you have something, actual legit journalists would be all over that. One of their key jobs is to look for facts which requires being able to smell BS. Hunter is a bit infamous and this investigation has been going on for something like 3 years now apparently. It also about tax fraud, not specifically related to China. The conspiracy theory I've heard about it is that they put it on hold because they didn't want to hurt Biden's chances in the election and that Biden himself is tied into his son's dealings but the proof of that seems pretty tenuous.
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Dec 10, 2020 05:58
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WarpedNaba posted:Wait, do we still have legit journalists? Greenwald seems ok. Other than that...
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Dec 10, 2020 07:47
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glenn greenwald resigned from the website he founded because the other editors wouldn't let him rant about hunter biden's laptop
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Dec 10, 2020 07:58
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Greenwald did a speedrun from legit journalist to dumbest motherfucker on Earth in the past few years.
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Dec 10, 2020 08:04
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The fact that all the genocide-denier tankie media were sending messages of support to Glenn Greenwald when he quit, and that Greenwald immediately went on Tucker Carlson's white power hour, tells you all you need to know about GG. https://twitter.com/chineseembinus/status/1336888614052048897?s=21 In other news, the Chinese embassy is claiming they were hacked. The hacker deciding the only thing they wanted to do was retweet one (1) Donald Trump tweet. Sames as when a (presumably the same) hacker broke into the Chinese ambassdor to the UK's account to like one (1) footjob porn video.
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Dec 10, 2020 08:07
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Grand Fromage posted:Greenwald did a speedrun from legit journalist to dumbest motherfucker on Earth in the past few years. That explains why the tweet felt off (Mixing news with opinion) even before I looked through the replies which are varying levels of batshit. The last time I heard of him was back when he was legit.  Happened here?
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Dec 10, 2020 08:44
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oohhboy posted:That explains why the tweet felt off (Mixing news with opinion) even before I looked through the replies which are varying levels of batshit. The last time I heard of him was back when he was legit. Another victim of 2016 brokebrain.
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Dec 10, 2020 09:10
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oohhboy posted:That explains why the tweet felt off (Mixing news with opinion) even before I looked through the replies which are varying levels of batshit. The last time I heard of him was back when he was legit. Hillary Derangement Syndrome
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Dec 10, 2020 11:52
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WarpedNaba posted:Wait, do we still have legit journalists? Yes but not Greenwald.
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Dec 10, 2020 11:53
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oohhboy posted:Something like that about Hunter had popped up before the election that was allegedly not given coverage by the "mainstream" despite approaching multiple journalist and having publicly verifiable information. It turned out to be absolute bunk and the information was verifiable publicly because it was a collection of public material with no correlation with each other but was package as legit. The links supposedly when all the way to Jimmy Lai with funding for the report as well as some other HK connections. Jimmy when asked about it was pretty much "hell no". If you have something, actual legit journalists would be all over that. One of their key jobs is to look for facts which requires being able to smell BS. The information on the laptop regarding the Biden’s connections — especially Hunter — to China is real. https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1337046319924457473?s=20
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Dec 10, 2020 18:49
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Not Russian disinformation but Russian, uh, information. It's easy to smear your enemy when everyone is a crook (see also how CCP anti corruption arrests always seem to nip political threats in the bud).
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Dec 10, 2020 19:52
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So he is claiming conspiracy on top of a conspiracy. Dozens and dozens of people had to have some knowledge of this, was not interested in breaking the story or hungry or curious, all felt that Biden had to win, inside a dozen large and small organisations that no one else had stumbled upon, all these people somehow managed to stay quiet or coincidentally cooperated with each person's individual choice. The CIA went out of it's way, all to bury the story of this magic laptop.
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Dec 10, 2020 20:50
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I mean to believe the Hunter Biden laptop story you'd have to believe that he flew across the country drunk to drop off his laptop (which he promptly forgot he ever owned) to a Mac repair shop run by a blind man that conveniently no longer exists. That blind mind immediately searches Hunter Biden's personal files and finds "MyCrimes.txt" which he is so concerned about he runs straight to Rudy Guliani instead of the FBI. So basically to take that all at face value you'd have to have literal brain damage or be Rudy Guliani, but I repeat myself. Like there's a reason no legitimate news organisation would take it because the story is so unbelievably loving stupid and tainted. Glenn Greenwald deciding to throw away what was once a legitimate investigational journalism career and throwing in with right wing monsters solely to pursue a single minded grudge filled hateboner against anything Democrat is actually pretty depressing. Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Dec 10, 2020 |
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Dec 10, 2020 22:03
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oohhboy posted:So he is claiming conspiracy on top of a conspiracy. Dozens and dozens of people had to have some knowledge of this, was not interested in breaking the story or hungry or curious, all felt that Biden had to win, inside a dozen large and small organisations that no one else had stumbled upon, all these people somehow managed to stay quiet or coincidentally cooperated with each person's individual choice. The CIA went out of it's way, all to bury the story of this magic laptop. the state department is powerful indeed
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Dec 10, 2020 22:58
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I don't know a heck of a lot about the case but the computer repairman seems to be easily identified as John Paul Mac Isaac. Here's WaPo saying it's maybe Hunter's laptop. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/24/hunter-biden-laptop-disinformation/ Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe claimed that the laptop was "not part of some Russian disinformation campaign" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/ratcliffe-says-no-proof-foreign-actors-tied-biden-laptop-officials-n1243874 Thinking the Democrats don't have deep ties to media and foreign capital is extremely naive. Greenwald seems to be mostly interested in criticizing anyone and everyone and I think, regardless of the veracity of these documents, he makes some valid points in his article. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored
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Weka posted:I don't know a heck of a lot about the case but the computer repairman seems to be easily identified as John Paul Mac Isaac. It also seems that the highly publicized email can be verified to some extent using Google's DKIM keys, specifically that the email was in fact sent using the GMail servers and has not been tampered with. The keys with which it is signed were used between 2012 and 2016, but the exact "Date:" field on the email could have been forged by the sender. https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim Of course the email itself doesn't say "here's the big list of crimes you and I have planned, and also here are the ones we've already done", it's kind of a nothing message on its own. But it didn't originate from some Russian guy opening notepad.exe and typing up a fake email. I'm aware of all this because I came across a blog post (https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/11/16/ok-google-please-publish-your-dkim-secret-keys/) some time ago, which says essentially DKIM was never meant to be used to verify email authenticity, so Google should just rotate & release their secret keys every year or so, which would allow anyone to fake old emails. Edit: to be clear I think that blog post is pretty dumb and it kind of seems like the guy is frustrated that verifiable emails keep getting leaked... Pham Nuwen fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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Dec 10, 2020 23:23
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:I mean to believe the Hunter Biden laptop story you'd have to believe that he flew across the country drunk to drop off his laptop (which he promptly forgot he ever owned) to a Mac repair shop run by a blind man that conveniently no longer exists. That blind mind immediately searches Hunter Biden's personal files and finds "MyCrimes.txt" which he is so concerned about he runs straight to Rudy Guliani instead of the FBI.
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https://i.imgur.com/RqITBRS.gifv
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Dec 11, 2020 03:06
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best to just link to the mp4 with no tags https://i.imgur.com/RqITBRS.mp4
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Dec 11, 2020 08:41
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That's what I get for phone postin'. It always looks fine in Awful App.
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Dec 11, 2020 09:03
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Mr. Fix It posted:best to just link to the mp4 with no tags Sliding into my work parking lot with absolutely zero traction was one of the scarier moments of my adult life.
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the great fall of china
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The laughing though.
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While I am not saying I don't appreciate the move, this could have been done years ago along with many other tools. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55269879 quote:The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered certain US telecommunications companies to remove Huawei equipment from their network. While this isn't proof nor do I have any, the timing and the rate seems to indicate my theory Orange has been sandbagging anti-CCP moves despite his rhetoric might have something to it. Right now he is busy re-enacting Downfall and before that the election thus not focused on blocking the rest of the administration actually doing things nor wreaking poo poo for the hell of it.
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now is china's turn China's tainted cotton quote:China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new research seen by the BBC.
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Shumagorath posted:now is china's turn the unnamed country can only emancipate
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This line in the new york times today stood out to me:quote:Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president for internet software and services, who has been at the company since 1989, has told partners that “the two things we will never do are hard-core nudity and China,” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/business/media/apple-gawker-tim-cook.html#click=https://t.co/EoQUZsj1k6
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Shumagorath posted:now is china's turn One of the biggest mistakes naive people can make about China is thinking it is anything except the exactly identical eastern hemisphere counterpart of like the worst kind of white Europeans in history.
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From the Schad thread: Chinese boat seized for illegal shark fishing in the Galapagos crashes into dam.
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