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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/massive-explosion-heard-near-occupied-dzhankoi-in-crimea/ar-BB1idFZV?ocid=weather-verthp-feeds
https://news.yahoo.com/fire-breaks-military-facility-russias-075836586.html
Learn Ukrainian
https://www.thedailybeast.com/our-empire-was-bigger-than-yours-mongol-leader-taunts-vladimir-putin
ISRAEL
1. The Israelis are going to drive the Palestinians into the sea.
2. There is basically nothing anyone can do about that. This is partly because, after Oct. 9th (Putin's Birthday!) -- who could blame them?
3. The Israelis are going to pretend they are not in fact killing off the Palestinians and driving them out of Gaza, that they are fighting most humanely.
4. That's bullshit, they are literally starving out the Palestinians and are trigger happy with consequent "friendly fire" own goals.
5. It is stupid to let the Israelis white wash their orgy of violence, just as stupid as it is to let Hamas whitewash its own orgy of violence.
Sometimes all you can do is stand back and let two idiots bash each others' skull in until one of them is dead. Prediction time! Guess who I think will win?
These are descriptions, not prescriptions. My prescription is indeed, just stand back, point out the facts, and otherwise do nothing, because that's what most of you will wind up doing anyway, and that is rational given the facts above.
If you think this is a horrible nightmare, you are right.Musk-asks-what-kind-of-psycho-would-want-ukraine-to-keep-fighting-putin
Elon Musk "What kind of psycho would want Ukraine to keep fighting Putin?"
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“Marty” the martyr (not my real name)
Not many people think of Musk as a wealthy refugee, but that is exactly who he is. This isn't his fault and maybe instead of being jealous of his success or sad he had to flee apartheid South Africa you should be, what is the expresasion, "fair unbalanced"?
Musk is a technically minded person who, like most Anglos, Dutch, Jews, and Chinese likes money and pursues it. Sad to say I am very German in the sense of "loser boors lost two wars". Musk most likely understands Putin better than most because both are wealthy products of failed states. Each experienced a great country ripped apart and left in shreds. Musk might want to build back better but Putin is out for revenge. I doubt Musk sees that, Putin is a very effective liar.
It's not really possible to understand today how serious the race and communist debates, punctuated with liter bullet points, were in the 1970s and 1980s. Free necklace for every traitor! When 9/11 hit and everyone 10 years younger went cray cray for the terrorists I thought lol, you know not whereof you speak. I knew Bin Laden would fail, but also expected he would be able to goad the USA into "one, two, many Vietnams". Terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s was in fact much worse than in the 2000s.
Anyway, the evil bad nasty neo nazis Afrikaans (Musk is one) lost -- but not until the final nail was putin the USSR's coffin. Washington wanted apartheid to end, and it did, and it wanted to win the cold war even more than to end apartheid. Result? Two failed states! Well, when your state is built on racism or thievery and it collapses maybe we should just ... shrug our shoulders? You get what you fucking deserve.
Given they are both wealthy products of failed states Musk understands Putin and much better than most others, but imperfectly. Musk is willing to ascribe good faith and hope where he should expect lies and vengeance. Worse, Musk doesn't understand Ukraine. Back when we were both at Queen's I was writing about Apartheid for the campus newspaper,the Queen's Journal. I was also writing academic papers on Ukraine, South Africa, Ethiopia (Eritrea wasn't independent yet). Lots of people will call Musk nasty things like anti-semite, secret racist, elitist, what have you. I am fairly sure to Musk Ukraine and Russia seem alike.
They are not.
Musk probably hasn't noticed, or does not want to believe, Putin really does go around killing all his serious opponents. A car "accident" here, an "open window" there, and really special cases get "a mysterious incurable illness". Why does Putin kill journalists and political opponents, yet get away with it? The reason is: Putin is highly intelligent and a smooth talker, a brilliant orator comparable to Churchill, Hitler, or Trump. In fact, Putin is an even better orator than Trump. Putin is also a very good liar. No one can or does write about it, so far as I have seen, but World War II was largely a war between the orators. De Gaulle tried oratory, so did Roosevelt, Stalin too, but none of them were nearly so good at oratory as Hitler or Churchill. In a real sense Putin and Trump are echos of ... the second world war. If there is an undiagnosed political problem facing us it is this: Putin is a brilliant orator, and so is Trump, but none of their opponents are. Anyway Putin loves killing journalists, make it look like an accident, suicide, or cancer, and then abuse the surviving relatives while acting shocked in public. Putin is a troll, a troll with a gun, a knife, and a bottle of poison. Trump in comparison is a mere orangutan.
I am certain Musk wishes to impose a peace in Ukraine and will be unable to. This is because Musk does not understand
1. Putin represents thuggery, the mafia as government.
2. Putin is copypasting Hitler's playbook, and if he isn't stopped in Ukraine 2 or 3 years later after rearming and refitting whilst lying about having no warlike intentions he will attack again.
3. Putin equates Russia and Ukraine, in other words does not understand it is a war between de facto dictatorship and crime-as-governance versus actual democracy and rule of law against a backdrop of hundreds of years of national oppression.
Hopefully the CCP will moderate Musk, but probably will focus exclusively on stripping Tesla of IP, client lists, marketing plans, and devoting all that to make sure BYD kills TSLA in China.
Still, China can prolong lure-trap-kill on Tesla as a way to exert pressure on Musk, if it wishes too.
Anyway, Elon, we're like two peas in a pod, and I advise you to divest from China.
Where have we heard That word before?
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-proposes-sanctions-on-chinese-firms-for-helping-russia/
CHINA 龙年快乐!
To attain energy autarchy, and thus not be subject to U.S. pressures, China went "all in" on solar, wind, and batteries about 15 years ago, largely relying on German patented inventions to do so (feel free to guess how much ip theft occurred). Yet, Germany and China have had very close economic relations. China industrialized using the post-war German export substitution model. Germany used to be the world's largest exporter, before China became the world's largest exporter. I see no investment opportunities in China. Trade opportunties abound. They are mercantilist state capitalists, will happily undersell you. However, kleptocratic or autocratic tendencies of the Chinese government are likely to stifle invention and innovation, even though the party expressly wants both and to suppress or even combat corruption. China will in any case attain energy autarchy. China’s economy is driven by the state, though they don’t bother to cite Lenin’s “New Economic Policy”, dirigisme, or Lee Kuan Yew (who inspired Deng) as they prefer to let capitalists think they are other than “market socialism”, which is a nice way of saying mercantilist state capitalists. Harvard is even more penetrated than Cambridge. I suggest taking both those institutions with skepticism in security issues.
If I thought windmills and batteries were war winners I would be nordstreaming the shit out of China. They are not. If you don't believe me google stuxnet. A bunch of hard working people build your toys for you. Perhaps consider gratitude instead of fear or jealousy? You can't destroy labor unions by free trade and then complain about deindustrialization.
I think economic opportunism and strategic ignorance explain why capitalists miscalculate so frequently and wind up in stupid wars only to be defeated by illiterate farmers. Do you want a wealthy developed China to obviate war? Because starving people have nothing to lose.
Just because murrican capitalists (Musk is the latest example) can't extract profits from China doesn't mean war.
The grim thing here isn't capitalist opportunism: that's to be expected, it is a feature of capitalism. The grim part is capitalists over-estimating some threats (batteries) while underestimating others. I am not a blabbermouth, why give potential enemies nasty ideas? If I thought inaccurate threat estimates were a problem I would be tripling the CIA China budget, instead of doubling it.
Of things to worry about - Chinese energy autarchy isn't one, excepting inasmuch as that drives their foolish expansionist attempts in the south china sea, where they are already basically checkmated. When a country alienates all its neighbors by exorbitant territorial claims such a country is easily isolated. Geography also favors the West. My strategy of economic engagement and military containment is the correct one. Carrots and sticks.
I recommend against investing in China. Not to starve their economy and try (but fail) to oust the CCP. I recommend against investing in China because it's not likely to be profitable, or able to be repatriated and might lead to loss of your ip.
FBI has a whole website about this, which is accurate and smart. Maybe 1.5x FBI China counterintelligence? But liberals, capitalists, and most especially Americans cannot keep secrets. Blabbermouths abound. "Know yourself, know your enemy, 100 battles, 100 victories."
LEARN CHINESE
龙年快乐! 最精彩的花是你!Learning Chinese with ChatGPT
PROMPT
色 Produce the etymology of this Chinese character, the pinyin, its meaning, and a memorable sample sentence in Chinese to remind us of what the Chinese character looks like and means.
ChatGPT
Absolutely! Here's an analysis of the Chinese character "色" (sè):
Etymology:
The character "色" originally depicted a hand holding a piece of meat. Over time, its meaning evolved to represent "color" or "hue," reflecting the notion of the visual spectrum as a distinguishing characteristic.
Pinyin: sè
Meaning:
The character "色" primarily means "color" in Mandarin Chinese. It can also carry connotations of "lust," "passion," or "sensuality" in certain contexts, particularly when used in compound words or idiomatic expressions.
Sample Sentence:
"春天的花园里,鲜艳的花朵五彩缤纷,色彩斑斓,让人陶醉其中。" (Chūntiān de huāyuán lǐ, xiānyàn de huāduǒ wǔcǎi bīnfēn, sècǎi bānlán, ràng rén táozuì qízhōng.)
Translation: "In the spring garden, the bright flowers are colorful and vibrant, dazzling with a myriad of colors, enchanting those who behold them."
This sample sentence vividly captures the essence of the character "色" by describing the visual beauty of colorful flowers in a garden, reinforcing its meaning as "color" while evoking a sensory image that aids in retention and understanding.
It got it mostly right. In fact 色 depicts two people fucking, man's on top, ass in the middle. Wait till you get to 民 or 害 or 县 ...
When people have sex their skin changes color, blushing at first, and then... Thus this character also became a symbol for color. Fairly universally color or colors are used to portray the idea of the profane "blue" in English "yellow" in Chinese I believe it is also bleu in French.
A hand holding meat is 有。Otherwise GPT 3.5 seems to have gotten this one right.
Note: Sam Altman specifically makes clear his llm ChatGPT does not process images well, it is visually "blind". Other models do image just fine (Dalle, Midjourney)
"Russia" is going to have a series of revolutions which will ultimately result in the independence of several occupied countries and the reduction of the criminal regime in Moscow to the borders of Muscovy. Russia will be denuclearized and stripped of its UN Security Council veto. 解放西伯利亚!