Imagine a fucking Westoid complaining about Kim Jung Il’s love of cinema. All you mayo do is watch movie, pay rent, eat hot chip, and lie.
I always think of the old city when I imagine Beijing. Plus, my brain automatically injects smog into the memory.
What an incredible view and a perfect day.
Alright, which Chinese city is this?
There’s a special sadness in techbros spending the last sixty years trying to invent the Robot Dog, given how many real dogs are in need of adoption and ready to give you their entire heart and soul for a head scratch.
It’s a shame we never invented a Space-Time machine
I mean, maybe. But I’m still not even sure what this is selling.
It’s not like Conservapedia, which is legitimately unhinged. It’s not Black Rifle Coffee, which is basically just a grift for US Military Base grocery stores. What’s the point?
Threw a few basic keyword searches at it and it just returns Wikipedia / Britannica as the top results, consistently.
Then I went fishing for anime torrents and got some fairly decent results.
I did some basic “news of the day” searches and I get back exactly what you’d expect. Links to PBS and NYT and WaPo for the most part.
Somehow, this is marginally better than Google/Bing, but not by much. I’m really not seeing a difference. Other than “Its based because we’re conservative” what is the sell on this digital tool?
Broke: Software
Woke: Software as a Service
Bespoke: Software as a Telemarketing Service
Experts went to China to count robots
You’ll never guess what they found
If I told you I had a 300 bod, would you hold it against me?
Diploma mills gonna mill diplomas
Seems like it’s the only way anyone knows how to make money anymore
War is always just the prelude to diplomacy. Gotta wonder how many more people will die before talking starts.
Republicans. Would. Be. Worse.
Ah, maybe it is. My mistake
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SMCI/
This time last March it was around $100/share and now it’s $970
SMIC stock price has gone up astronomically. Once again, American firms are coping and seething at their eroded market share.
We will be more like China
We won’t be like China. We’ll be more insulated and divorced from Chinese media, culture, and conversation.
That’s the stated end goal. Bringing up sharp walls between nationalities in order to control the flow of information between people.
If we keep TikTok open, we risk exposing American young people to Chinese norms, ideals, and social standards. We might even be exposed directly to Chinese mass media (ie, propaganda).
This is a real security risk, as it raises a possibility that younger Americans won’t accept American mass media at face value.
