Return at displaced Palestinians first, then cry about expelling Israelis who displaced them. Most of them have a second passport, unlike the stateless Palestinians.

But Palestinians aren’t as human as (insert local population here)…

It’s in the works already, and the Iran fuckup accelerated it. The yuan and the digital yuan are going to take over.

it’s a stack of cellulose pulp sheets with markings on them right?

That was way too literate for the tone you intended

Just look at the Arabian Gulf countries… They built US bases in the promise of protection, and when they were attacked as a result of the US starting a war, they were left to defend themselves AND defend the US bases while the American soldiers escaped to hotels.

You’d be a complete moron to request a US base after what we all just witnessed.

Open a corporation and buy your home and turn it into an AI data center.

Only the battery packs… Tesla for example, for what its worth (obligatory fuck Nazi Elon Musk), provides full detailed service manuals for free for ever component on the car.

You mean that new car market no one has ever heard of, KN?

I don’t know how being in a union would stop my brain from thinking about a problem I haven’t solved in my work day… It’s not my employer dictating it, it’s my brain.

We take our work home because we’re thinking about the problems and how to solve them all the time, some of my best solutions came to me in the shower.

I have a home lab and I often carry what I learn from my lab to work, I’m not working my job when I’m working on my lab, but there mental overlap is there.

I can’t imagine I’ll be solving many burger flipping problems in the shower.

But they won’t even strike over gas prices…

The fact that Google is behind it is what makes it sketchy. I bet those mosquitoes are carrying 5G.

Truth. Fuck Google, fascist Genocide supporting oligarchs.

Their motives are not pure, for sure. But this program will save many lives, even if its strategic value to Google is long term self benefit.

Also, has anybody thought to ask why Google has 32 million mosquitoes on hand?

This isn’t new, releasing infertile male mosquitoes to reduce the population is a proven technique, and will genuinely reduce disease risk, so the public-health value is real. Why Google has them on hand? Well, they bought the company that started the program (Verily) and took it over, they have a lot of interest in the health and science sectors, not just AI and search/ads.

The real concern is that public health, ecological management, and climate adaptation are collective needs, but they are increasingly being handled through private corporate platforms. Debug can look humanitarian while also expanding Google’s role in governing public infrastructure, deciding how data is collected, how interventions are deployed, who gets served first, and who remains dependent on corporate technology.

Google is using a real public-health problem to develop a scalable bio-automation platform, gain regulatory and municipal trust, strengthen its public image, and position itself inside future public-health and climate-adaptation infrastructure.

They see huge profits and monopoly on technology that will likely become essential to our survival in the future, as they accelerate that likelihood with their reckless environmentally devastating technologies today. They’ll make us pay to use their technology to control pests that threaten our food supply. This isn’t charity, it’s long term strategic planning.

As for the immediate need, we’re gonna need this technology for the devastating future that’s coming, and since our corporate controlled government aren’t doing it themselves, it might be good to let it happen through evil corporations today, and hopefully when shit gets bad enough people will finally revolt and take ownership of it back to society, where it belongs. If not, we’ll continue to be slaves to corporations, but at least half the population won’t starve or die of mosquito spread diseases.

I don’t like that Google is doing it, and you’re absolutely right not to trust their stated motives, and no doubt they’re thinking of all possible evil applications of the technology in the future.

You don’t need to know the names of powerful people to know they are powerful.

The point is not that China only becomes powerful once Western readers can name its elites. The point is that this ignorance reveals how shallow the dominant understanding of China still is.

“There is a problem when cultured people, who are interested in international affairs, who read the press, have difficulty imagining the existence of three Chinese figures” then emphasize Gilles Gressani, director of the journal The Great Continent. It was he who, in the introduction to the latest work published by his journal, The Enemy who designates us (Gallimard, 2026), poses this “paradox” : China weighs “half of what matters in geopolitics and economics”, but no one is able to list three names of living Chinese.

“We continue to completely ignore what is happening” “That says something fundamental”, adds the essayist. We live with mental representations which are those of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. We are still living in 2000, when in reality we are much closer to 2050. ⁇ The book, which brings together several texts by “renowned sinologists and key doctrinaires of Xi Jinping”, under the direction of the Italian-Swiss writer and political scientist Giuliano da Empoli, suggest just one “exclusive folder” on the Middle Kingdom. “If we feel so dizzy in the face of the upheavals underway, it is perhaps because we still refuse to integrate a massive contemporary dimension: China”, plants the volume presentation.

Gilles Gressani invites you to look at the figures. “impressive” : Between 2018 and 2019 alone, China produced more cement than the United States in the entire 20th century, he says. Moreover, "more than half of the AI research is made in China ⁇ , and renewable energy installations are “vertiginous”. “Yet we continue to completely ignore what is happening”, he notes.

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I’d say that makes them a pretty major world power.

Yuh… His argument is not that naming officials is some trivia test for geopolitical seriousness. It is that China now occupies an enormous share of the world’s economic, technological, industrial, and strategic reality, yet many people still relate to it through outdated mental maps. We keep thinking with the categories of the year 2000 while living in a world that is already moving toward 2050.

China is not just “a major power” in the generic sense that people usually mean: big economy, large army, nuclear weapons, permanent UN Security Council seat. That description is technically true, but it barely scratches the surface.

The scale is the issue.

China is central to global manufacturing. It is decisive in supply chains. It is a major force in AI research, green technology, batteries, solar panels, electric vehicles, infrastructure, rare earth processing, telecommunications, finance, and development lending. Even the cement comparison is not just a fun statistic, it shows the scale of the transformation.

So yes, obviously China is a major world power. No one serious is denying that.

The argument is that even people who accept that fact often underestimate what kind of power China has become. They treat it as one important state among others, when in many sectors it is already one of the central organizers of the global system. The usual analysis stops at: “China is a key player in the global economy, has a large military, and possesses nuclear weapons.” That’s like describing the United States in 1945 as “a country with a strong economy and a large navy.” It is not wrong, but it’s insufficient.

Not knowing the names is a symptom. If they took china seriously and the analysis was deep, the reporting on it would surface those names and they would become common household names.

Why is Elon Musk treated as a world-historical industrialist, but Wang Chuanfu of BYD is still obscure, even though BYD is central to the global EV transition?

Why is Sam Altman a household name, but not Robin Li of Baidu, or Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance?

Why is Jamie Dimon constantly quoted, but not Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China?

Western coverage turns mediocre American figures into global characters while reducing China to “Xi” or “Beijing.”

They bomb kids daily and you’re complacent, you’re telling me if they added more ads you’re gonna finally revolt?

I don’t buy it.

Oh no not the well being off your first world top 1% family, you don’t want to risk their cushy meat for every meal lifestyle. Your government (both parties) are funding genocides and bombing children to intimidate others into submission to the empire, so they can exploit them and cement your hegemony and said cushy lifestyle, so of course you won’t do anything if that’s your motivation.

You benefit from brown people being slaughtered and their resources stolen, why would you fight it to build a better world for everyone? Unless you had principals.

And if you had principals and cared more about society than being on the very top of it, you would have a revolution. But oh no, not a strike.

For what it’s worth, your kids future is less cushy than yours, and you’re allowing that future to be built. And as Trump idiotically destroys US hegemony and collapses the empire, your oligarchs will have to squeeze you more directly. Go live in any US puppet controlled country for a taste of what’s coming, meat will become a luxury soon enough, and get ready for dissenters to disappear. ICE and militarism isn’t about “aliens”, you will find out soon enough.

He’s an unapologetic war criminal who brags about his love of war crimes and got a Nazi tattoo to commemorate those crimes.

But “he says enough good things” and calls himself progressive, and that’s good enough for you?

Prices for tomatoes are up 40% over the past year, the biggest increase tracked among products in the Consumer Price Index

Literary the sub headline.

All they care about is them and theirs. Everyone outside the border is disposable and less than human.

They imagine being a low income Chinese citizen working in a factory and think “I’d rather be living in America”. There’s no nuance, they can’t even put themselves in the shoes of people struggling in the US, it’s their own fault after all…

Progranda is powerful.

You forgot to call me a Russian bot

Completely replaced postman with Voiden in my org. Can’t imagine going back.

The update available for install dialog that keeps spawning a hundred times is getting really old though, hope they address that soon.