Marzzle posted:

not acknowledging fred jones is the jungian himbo archetype?

KirbyKhan posted:

I learned the following in the promo material for R-rated Scooby Doo HBO Max reboot show called Velma

Velma Gay, so what
Daphne voiced by Constance Wu, cool
Shaggie is black, cool
Black Shaggie isn't named Shaggie, wait wut
Velma is Indian, ok
Velma is Mindy Kaling, gently caress this I'm out

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1578100321477279744?t=3wTEe1Ki7BPq5tlgLhgSEg&s=19

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1578130070752968704?t=TwclkEqLJaZiam5-Q3GUlA&s=19

bedpan posted:

im going to lose my drat mind! the correct terms are bimbo and bimbette!

caelxii posted:

The original Scooby Doo was great because every episode hammered home that magic and superstition are bullshit and everything has a rational explanation if you look hard enough. Then they started adding actual magic and superstition.

Trabisnikof posted:

Bimbx

AnimeIsTrash posted:

incredible things happening in china

https://twitter.com/wowinteresting8/status/1576884397659545600

KomradeX posted:

Only slightly less terrfying than an active shooter drill

quote:

US hits China with sweeping tech export controls
Restrictions will limit Chinese companies’ access to advanced computer chips and slow their progress in artificial intelligence

4 hours ago
A Semiconductor Manufacturing International plant in Shanghai
An SMIC plant in Shanghai. The company will be affected by controls intended to make it more difficult for China to develop advanced chips © Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
The US has introduced sweeping export controls that will severely complicate efforts by Chinese companies to develop cutting-edge technologies with military applications, in one of the toughest actions President Joe Biden has taken against China.

The commerce department on Friday announced restrictions that will make it extremely hard for Chinese companies to obtain or manufacture advanced computer chips and will slow their progress in artificial intelligence.

The measures are also designed to make it much tougher for China to develop supercomputers with military applications that range from modelling nuclear weapons to developing hypersonic weapons.

The controls mark a new attempt to decouple China from the US in cutting-edge technologies. They come days before the Chinese Communist party holds its 20th national congress at which President Xi Jinping is expected to seal a third term as leader.

Paul Triolo, a China and tech expert at Albright Stonebridge, a consultancy, said the action was a “major watershed” in US-China relations and in the increasingly intense technology competition between the two countries.

“The US has essentially declared war on China’s ability to advance the country’s use of high-performance computing for economic and security gains,” said Triolo.

The controls will hit Chinese companies in multiple ways. They will bar US companies from exporting critical chip manufacturing tools to China, which will affect groups such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, Yangtze Memory Technologies Co and ChangXin Memory.

The restrictions will also prohibit “US persons” — American citizens and companies — from providing direct or indirect support to Chinese companies involved in advanced chip manufacturing.

Kevin Wolf, an expert on export controls at Akin Gump, said the US persons provision was the “most significant and expansive” element of the broad package of measures announced. He said it was a “novel” approach because it threatened a form of sanctions even if the underlying technology was not subject to existing export controls.

The US also put YMTC — along with 30 other Chinese entities — on a list of “unverified” companies, paving the way for possible inclusion on a separate blacklist called the “entity list” that would effectively bar US companies from supplying them with technology.

“The administration’s strategy is to deny China the capability to indigenise its semiconductor industry. If the US is successful, this causes a huge problem for Beijing’s strategy to be a world-class player,” said Martijn Rasser, a security and technology expert at the Center for a New American Security, a think-tank.

Underscoring the scope of the controls, the US is using a far-reaching mechanism called the “foreign direct product rule” to make it harder for China to develop and maintain supercomputers and AI technology.

The rule — which was first used by the administration of Donald Trump against Chinese technology group Huawei — in effect bars any US or non-US company from supplying targeted Chinese entities with hardware or software whose supply chain contains American technology.

But in an effort to reduce supply chain disruptions, the administration will carve out an exception for chipmaking facilities in China owned by companies from the US or allied countries that are exporting chips.

“The PRC [People’s Republic of China] has poured resources into developing supercomputing capabilities and seeks to become a world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030. It is using these capabilities to monitor, track and surveil their own citizens, and fuel its military modernisation,” said Thea Kendler, a senior commerce department official. “Our actions will protect US national security.”

Analysts said China’s memory chipmakers, including YMTC and ChangXin Memory, would feel the most immediate blow.

“They are basically doomed,” said Mark Li, a semiconductor analyst at Bernstein in Hong Kong. “It will be very difficult for them to get the equipment they need.

But the ban on the export of semiconductor tools could significantly hurt Chinese chipmakers more broadly because US equipment makers have a stranglehold in a few crucial niches.

Triolo said there would be “many losers”, including US chip design leaders such as Nvidia and AMD, and tool makers including Applied Materials and Lam Research. He said the rules would also hit non-US players, including ASML, the Dutch company that produces the most advanced semiconductor tools, and TSMC, the Taiwanese contract foundry company.

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One chip industry executive said the US was attacking China “from all angles”.

“The stunning thing about this move is that they have assembled a whole array of tools,” the executive said. “They are not just targeting military applications, they are trying to block the development of China’s technology power by any means.”

The Semiconductor Industry Association, the main US lobby group for the chip industry, said it was “assessing” the effect of the controls and working with its members to ensure compliance.

“We understand the goal of ensuring national security and urge the US government to implement the rules in a targeted way — and in collaboration with international partners — to help level the playing field and mitigate unintended harm to US innovation,” the group said.

Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic majority leader, welcomed the controls but said the US need to go further. He said the Senate was looking at ways to include measures in an upcoming defence spending bill to counter Chinese efforts to undermine the US chip industry.

KirbyKhan posted:

https://twitter.com/BornAKang/status/1577700714070933507?t=0ZG6pHsDzDkEEAzFy97wIQ&s=19

Incredible educational lesson.

i say swears online posted:

drat that last kid is a real dumbfuck

KirbyKhan posted:

Wife is doing teaching and they've had 2 active shooter scares since school start and they still don't have standard operating procedure document to describe what the gently caress you're supposed to do.

KomradeX posted:

So what the local cops come in terrorize everyone, leave and no one still has a plan for what if?

KirbyKhan posted:

Not even local cops. They just sent an email after the second incident saying "ok when the drill happens turn off the lights and lock the door" and then they said over intercom "ok the drill is happening." then like 5 minutes later they gave the all-clear like "ok the drill is done, you can go back to spelling or whatever"

When I was a post9/11 kid that theater was taken much more seriously and happened every 3 months: the police would use this time to bring their drug dogs past the lockers, and like menace us (only the first time. I guess they were told to knock it off after that because we only got our door shook that first time) . Kids nowadays are getting so much less, which is wild.

Palladium posted:

America: This is really about stopping China and not throwing you under my Micron's bus!

Samsung and SK Hynix: Do we look like one of your eurodumbs?

the bitcoin of weed posted:

scooby doo is for 8 year olds. you're not supposed to like it, you're supposed to have formative sexual thoughts based on which of the girls you wanted to gently caress when you started puberty

quote:

Russian Railways presented a new train of Santa Claus at the Leningrad station

It will go on a New Year's journey of 85 days across Russia from Veliky Ustyug on October 22 and will return on January 15.

Very atmospheric

mawarannahr posted:

The measures are also designed to make it much tougher for China to develop supercomputers with military applications that range from modelling nuclear weapons to developing hypersonic weapons.

slave to my cravings posted:

https://twitter.com/jpak25/status/1578495236892135425?s=20&t=embHOexxIKueZjg0tTggPA

Npr lady losing her mind that her friends in Shanghai are subject to quarantine procedures

https://twitter.com/jpak25/status/1578495252763381760?s=20&t=embHOexxIKueZjg0tTggPA

When all else fails speak to the manager

this allusion meant posted:

the party does want to hear people's complaints most of the time. the whole covid response is scrapped together too hastily and a lot of the people doing it still hope it'll all be cancelled before any slacking off catches up to them.

Tankbuster posted:

yeah, they should send retroactive giftbags if they jump the gun on ordering a quarantine.

lumpentroll posted:

i say swears online posted:

don't worry. if you want to post something completely horrific and inappropriate in the cspam pics thread, you just need to hide it behind spoiler tags instead of de-linking it and putting in NMS tags, as is appropriate policy for all NSFW pics across forums history

Regarde Aduck posted:

gently caress you

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/reuterspictures/status/1577010797557026816?s=20&t=-ZiU2uUgkR4JLJYAcbtZMA

Maximo Roboto posted:

Hello, why hasn't this been posted in Hot Takes yet

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1576542389887344642
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1576567419950092289
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1576910850480164866