I think Xi is counting on the west to be too distracted by Ukraine and Israel to effectively support Taiwan.
Also, speculation on my part - but this feels like the usual posturing/distraction playbook. China’s economy isn’t doing so hot and the government’s bungling of COVID is still fresh in everyone’s minds, so what better way to make people forget about that than to saber rattle?
Maybe it’s just morbid fascination with the slow motion trainwreck that’s Twitter?
This sucks. I really liked SmartNews but this explains why it’s been so terrible as of late.
What’s funny is Google pushed me to turn off all my targeted ad preferences + watch history on YT. I basically did what you did and they started pushing me PragerU and other weird conservative ads, so I just straight turned everything personalized off. And pretty much stopped using the platform.
That’s why they cut off outbound communications. If you don’t photograph or video them doing war crimes, then they’re not committing them, right?
I was just amazed that it took him so long to roll out a predatory monetization model…
The problem here is that people often conflate Israel and Judaism as one and the same, when that’s absolutely not the case. You can have problems with how Israel operates as a nation without being antisemitic. It’s hard to have any nuanced conversations about Israel and Palestine if you don’t grok this.
This is giving me “how do you do, fellow kids” vibes.
Given that they make >$30B a quarter in revenue, probably not. They probably count the fine of $100k/day as a cost of doing business.
I love this so much. I need all tech to be explained to me this way
I agree! To clarify, what I meant was that I was disappointed that Dems, including Biden, aren’t backing someone younger. Whatever happened to uplifting the next generation?
Agreed with you there about gamification and how it can be useful for some people.
I do think that the latter half of the article that tries to present the difference between “gamification” and “play” is fascinating, and I wish they dove into that a little bit more. I understand that they’re trying to say that having this endless churn of “goals” in “gamification” is potentially harmful, but then what’s the alternative look like when it comes to Fitbit, Duolingo, etc.?
Shhhh! Xi Jin Pooh doesn’t like being called a dictator. 🙄
Yeah. I don’t know why the Dems aren’t running someone younger…
I wasn’t thrilled about Biden either, but I think Biden handled negotiations with Europe for Ukraine very well.
But yeah, I get jealous every time I look at other countries’ leadership and see how young they are…
This drives me freaking bonkers. A lot of times libraries tend not to expose the env var to discourage its usage but IF YOU MADE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU HAD A USE CASE FOR IT.
The nicest thing I can say about this guy is… umm… he died doing what he loved?
According to the article, this lawyer also clerked for Clarence Thomas. It’s insane that Thomas is still a Supreme Court justice:
Yeah, angrily jabbing a phone screen realllllyyyy does not have the same satisfaction whatsoever.