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ModernMajorGeneral posted:China stays winning thinking about how the US hobbled india's state led domestic solar power project program in 2013.
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Jun 29, 2023 21:07
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fart simpson posted:that article mentions one of the diplomatic “costs” was upsetting a german wind energy company by letting them enter the chinese market in exchange for technology transfer, because the german company failed to gain significant market share in china after that and china gained their technical knowledge how delectably devlish of china
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Jun 29, 2023 21:17
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How Darwinian posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-information-biden A spy balloon that doesn't spy. Is there no limit to their sneakiness?
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Jun 29, 2023 21:18
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I was literally just trying to think of how to phrase a question like...."why call it a spy balloon if it wasn't spying...?"
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Jun 29, 2023 21:19
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that week or so where we scrambled jets xcom style and ended up shooting down like 2 weather balloons and a child’s hobby balloon owned
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Jun 29, 2023 22:29
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How Darwinian posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-information-biden lmao wonder what the US got in return for this
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Jun 29, 2023 22:37
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How Darwinian posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-information-biden what what what the gently caress was it doing even a weather balloon is supposed to collect data "intelligence" can i get loving a definition?
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Jun 29, 2023 23:59
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:what I think a weather balloon could have like a little GPS module on it to see where the wind takes it naturally, just for sake of tracking air currents, without strictly speaking "collecting data"
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Jun 30, 2023 00:09
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It may also simply have been broken and drifting aimlessly, literally sky trash
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Jun 30, 2023 00:11
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another option is that the pentagon is full of morons??
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Jun 30, 2023 00:12
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AnimeIsTrash posted:https://twitter.com/JewishCurrents/status/1674075033017131008?cxt=HHwWgICx5e6XwbsuAAAA this was a good read....as a follow up, does anyone know of any good introductory or overview-type books on political history in india from a left perspecvtive? I know this can cover a couple different currents, Kerala-focused or West Bengal historically or Naxalities or the CPI splits, so I'm still down if the book focuses in on one area specifically edit: for anyone also curious, this looks like it might be what I'm after: https://mayday.leftword.com/catalog/product/view/id/16882 Vijay Prashad's "No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism" Eminent DNS has issued a correction as of 00:53 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Jun 30, 2023 00:25
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China: before we’ll negotiate you must make a public statement that it was a weather ballon. USA: can’t do that. what if we just say it wasn’t “actively” spying while over the US? China: …ok fine. whatever
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Jun 30, 2023 00:32
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The pursuit of higher education and better work opportunities are the main reasons Chinese students study at foreign universities at the undergraduate level, while the opportunity to broaden their children's experience is what parents want most, according to a new report that came out on Saturday. Based on client information from overseas consultancy EIC Education, the report found that when choosing a destination for overseas study, students most value the ranking of the school or the major, the quality of education on offer, and career prospects, while parents are most concerned about safety. Students worry most about too much homework and academic stress, followed by safety and the language barrier. For parents, safety is their greatest concern, as well as cultural differences and racism. In terms of choosing universities, both students and parents pay the most attention to the ranking of the university and their major. For parents, the employment rate is the third most important factor, but is only seventh in importance for students. The report also found that from January to May, the number of consultations for overseas study increased by 43 percent year-on-year and by 12 percent on the same period in 2019. The 10 most favored majors in the last three years include economics, computer science, business, communications and media research, math and finance. As a result of inflation, tuition fees are higher this year compared with 2019. Students going to the United Kingdom are expected to pay 170,000 to 400,000 yuan ($24,000 to $56,000) in fees annually in 2023, up from 90,000 to 360,000 yuan per year in 2019. Tang Yingying, 23, got a bachelor's degree from the University of Sydney last year and is pursuing a master's degree at the same university. She chose the university because it recognizes scores from the Chinese national college entrance exam, or gaokao, and also because Australia is more inclusive and has fewer incidents of discrimination. Tang said her gaokao scores only qualified her to study at Shanghai University if she were to choose to study in China, so the University of Sydney was a natural choice. However, while entry requirements might be lower at some foreign universities, they have stricter standards for graduation, she said, adding that she has worked very hard to perform well in her studies and is also doing internships. "I know that a student with overseas study experience is not as popular a choice on the domestic job market as they used to be, but studying abroad has helped me to grow a lot, it has opened up my horizons and allowed me to make friends with people from different countries and regions." Chen Xiaojing studied at the University of Toronto for her undergraduate degree and at University College London for her postgraduate degree. She now teaches English at an overseas study consultancy company in Beijing. The 24-year-old said she chose to study in Canada because it is more open to foreign students who want to work there after their studies, but still decided to come home to work to be close to her family and friends. "The reason I didn't choose the United States was that I felt it was not safe there and wasn't suitable for students who are more introverted, like I am," she said. "If I only consider things from the perspective of cost, it is likely that it will take a very long time for me to earn back the money I have paid over the years on studying overseas, but it is still a worthwhile experience because it allowed me to meet different people, live a different life and become more understanding and inclusive."
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Jun 30, 2023 00:33
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Eminent DNS posted:this was a good read....as a follow up, does anyone know of any good introductory or overview-type books on political history in india from a left perspecvtive? Give this guy a try. He is left in my book, not sure if he is left enough for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di9pRmeF8EY Check out lec 6 for an Adivasi activist guest.
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Jun 30, 2023 01:34
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Cerebral Bore posted:its always funny when capitalist corporations get upset when they're outcompeted by china. just absolute never thought the leopard would eat my face energy therefore germans should ban selling their cars in china china would totally collapse once the chinese libs can't zhuangbi with their overpriced and hard to maintain trash
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Jun 30, 2023 01:42
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Lmao the western narrative about the spy balloon thing. CNN hasnt even bother posting the news, everyone is still calling it a spy balloon despite it not doing any spying.
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Jun 30, 2023 01:45
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It was filled with perfidious air.
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Jun 30, 2023 01:47
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How Darwinian posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-information-biden It was spreading Havana syndrome not collecting information!!
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Jun 30, 2023 01:53
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Eminent DNS posted:another option is that the pentagon is full of morons?? Lines of nose flour on the bathroom sink: not just for politicians and celebrities.
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Jun 30, 2023 02:44
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How Darwinian posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-information-biden I keep seeing talk of different factions in the US government and how the "realists" in Pentagon are less psycho because they'll actually have to fight any conflict that the neo-cons in the state department gets them into. the Pentagon were also the ones that initially said that the china-cuba spy agreement was bullshit ....oh my god the celestial has infiltrated US military
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Jun 30, 2023 02:48
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crepeface posted:I keep seeing talk of different factions in the US government and how the "realists" in Pentagon are less psycho because they'll actually have to fight any conflict that the neo-cons in the state department gets them into. it's really interesting to see these power struggles play out in the open and in real time
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Jun 30, 2023 06:25
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I forgot if it came up here or elsewhere but it's hard to imagine Chinese subterfuge managing to sabotage American policy or economies any harder than America already has
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Jun 30, 2023 06:39
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Slavvy posted:sky trash if you're not from zeta reticuli that's not your word
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Jun 30, 2023 06:54
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the wily chinese clearly sent a spy balloon that didn't record anything just to see how the us would react  unfortunately it turned out that the us still does react like it always has, by picking the dumbest and most violent option available
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Jun 30, 2023 06:57
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So called left wing Dutch papers continue to print that the balloon was found to be full of spying equipment after being recovered whenever they write about China.
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Jun 30, 2023 11:37
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Orange Devil posted:So called left wing Dutch papers continue to print that the balloon was found to be full of spying equipment after being recovered whenever they write about China. free press is when lying with plausible deniability
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Jun 30, 2023 11:40
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The Chinese sent a spy balloon that didn't spy, to show they could spy on the US if they wanted to
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Jun 30, 2023 14:16
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:what random Reddit comment I found that I literally trust more than anything. like even if it’s horseshit why wouldn’t any media anywhere ever actually do any investigation at all I doubt this was a spy balloon. The weather has to line up between China and the USA in order to ensure the balloon will be carried by the upper jet stream over the US. China can't just decide one day to launch a balloon to the US, conditions have to be right. Even if the jet steam lines up, the conditions on the ground might prevent a launch, too windy at the launch site and/or upper level winds might cause wind shear, ripping the balloon as it ascends. https://youtu.be/sPQ-tMoAHkY?t=423 So even if the jet stream lines up, it might not be possible to launch. To me it strongly suggests it's not possible to reliably launch a balloon that can float predictably over a distant target area. So the idea it was a spy balloon is rediculous. Also, yes, I know ppl are going to say it changed direction, no it didn't. Retracing it's path, by assuming it passively the followed the winds i.e. was not changing course, put its launch site in China. https://twitter.com/wildweatherdan/status/1621348631977623552 That backtracking is not possible if it adjusted its course. Meterologits also correcting predicted it course between Kansas City and South Carolina, again by assuming it wasn't changing course by just passively following the wind. It followed the wind from Point A to Point B because the winds lined up, by chance, and ground conditions allowed a launch at that time, by chance. TLDR: It's not a spy balloon because there's no control over its course, where it travels over. Also, China did advertise a heavy lift scientific balloon project... The flight test was conducted in northwestern China's Qinghai Province on September 30, 2022, by a research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), marking a further step in the development of China's high-altitude balloon platform. Delivering payloads from the ground to the stratospheric region known as "near-space," the balloon platform can carry tons of scientific instruments, especially large-sized ones such as unmanned air vehicles over aerial-based launches. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-heavy-payload-balloon-near-space-heights.html That's the rough location the balloon shot down is predicated to have come from by backtracking its course. https://twitter.com/wildweatherdan/status/1621348631977623552 Here's more info about the flight Honghu Special Project (Near Space Science Experiment System) a strategic pilot technology program launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences on March 2018. It focuses on the exploration and study of the near space environment, and relies on multi-type platforms to carry out the comprehensive detection of the near space with the most complete range of parameters possible. Original Chinese press release, translated: 2022 is the rising year of the 25th solar cycle, and it is also the final year of the Honghu Pilot Project. The scientific goal of the space center's experiment is to obtain comprehensive environmental detection data such as the variation characteristics of the sun's far-ultraviolet-ultraviolet spectrum, ozone content, and atmospheric environmental parameters (wind field, temperature, and air pressure) at near space altitudes. Four payloads (solar high-energy electromagnetic radiation detector, ozone detector, anemometer, and atmospheric particle radiation detector) developed by the weather room and detection room of the space center participated in the flight experiment. The date of the press release is dated a week after HH-21-6 was launched. So I don't think they advertise these launches beforehand, which is typical for China. They rather report afterward when the experiment is a success.
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Jun 30, 2023 14:44
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it’s so stupid they have satellites with which to spy on the USA
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Jun 30, 2023 14:49
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euphronius posted:it’s so stupid they also have me
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Jun 30, 2023 16:47
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fart simpson posted:they also have me and me
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Jun 30, 2023 16:52
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hey a movie! starring everybodyindigi posted:and me
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Jun 30, 2023 17:02
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China is going to steal the fabulous Baseball Diamond
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Jun 30, 2023 17:15
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"what color are their hands now" "DONT ANSWER THAT"
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Jun 30, 2023 17:35
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Jul 1, 2023 02:31
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lol
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Jul 1, 2023 04:13
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Oof. How likely are they to get the whole sum?
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Jul 1, 2023 05:02
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I don't think ransomware gets paid out very often, since data is infinitely replicable and the ransomers can just sell it afterwards anyways.
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Jul 1, 2023 05:06
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Miles Blundell posted:I don't think ransomware gets paid out very often, since data is infinitely replicable and the ransomers can just sell it afterwards anyways. I thought they locked your systems down, like they don’t need your data so much as you need your computers online for your hospital to work. Maybe the data is just extra bonus but the main pain point is that every computer you have is out of commission
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Jul 1, 2023 05:08
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I never really had the impression that those kinds of shutouts last for very long and that generally they can get back in eventually, but I don't really know the specifics, I'm not an infosec guy. Maybe for something as high stakes and expensive as tsmc they'll just pay out and hope for the best?
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Jul 1, 2023 05:14
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