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  • Classical guitar. I bought a digital piano and learned some easy to intermediary pieces, but I have been focusing only on guitar. I made a classical guitar arrangement for the soviet anthem, but I don't have a set up apropriate to make a nice video. I also compose music for these instruments.

  • Came up with this bad joke and wanted to share

    Deutschland translated to different English accents:

    British: "Germany"

    Australian: "Germany"

    American: "GerMine"

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    Living animals/creatures Tier List (open for opinions)
  • The animal I talked about is called "onça-pintada". It's not necessarily black. It's the third biggest feline, being smaller than the tiger and the lion. It's the most powerful predator in Amazon rainforest. People often say it's the most powerful in the Americas, but they are wrong, then. I didn't know the english words for "onça-pintada" and "jacaré" and just put them in translator.

  • Living animals/creatures Tier List (open for opinions)
  • The jaguar (onça-pintada) should be higher. They are arguably the most powerful predators of the Americas. They can run up to 80 Km/h; they can climb trees; they have jaws strong enough to crush bones; they are proficient swimmers, being able to hunt prey in the water, including alligators; their roar is bone-shivering; they are stunning and iconic; they are important for the ecosystem balance. Note that while the jaguar may be phisically similar to the African leopard, the jaguar is faster and stronger, and a better swimmer.

  • Little joke I found in a YouTube comment someday somewhere (slightly reformulated)

    During a visit to queen Elizabeth, Biden asks:

    "How is your parliament so effective?"

    "Because I pick very smart people for their positions", the queen answers.

    She then phones Boris Johnson.

    "Boris, answer me. If your mother has a child, and it's not your brother nor sister, who is it?"

    "It's me", says Boris.

    Back in the US, Biden calls Kamala and asks her the same question.

    "I have to think about it and I'll give you my answer soon", she says after thinking for a minute.

    At evening, Kamala asks her husband the question.

    "That's easy. It's me", he answers.

    The following day, Kamala goes confident to the White House.

    "Mr. President, I have the answer to your question. The child of my mother who is not my brother nor my sister is... My husband!"

    Biden goes mad and, while shaking her shoulders, shouts:

    "You idiot! It's Boris Johnson!"

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    Israel removing Palestinians from Gaza's North to control its gas reserves?

    I heard in an analysis by Pepe Escobar (in Portuguese) that Nazisrael is destroying Gaza's North and removing Palestinians from there because of the fossil fuel resources that exist there. As I understood, supposedly they want to divide Gaza on a line that coincides exactly with the southern border of a gas reserve found in Gaza (not sure if he said gas or oil). Nazisrael would export this gas to Europe, supporting Warmerican plan to have a response to China's BRI which would include Nazisrael, the "Middle East", Europe and India.

    Edit: what I wrote suggests that they are doing this only for the gas reserves. But that was not my intention; while I was writting I forgot to make some changes. To be more accurate, the hypothesis is that Israel decided to run the operation and chose to prioritize the occupation of the Gaza's North having as one of the main motivations the gas reserve. Also, as you pointed out, it's off the coast, so "line that coincides exactly with the southern border" is also not very accurate.

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    Everyday Israelis Express Support for Genocide to Abby Martin

    It's insane what propaganda can do.

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    Huawei Teardown Shows 7nm Chip in Blow to US Sanctions
  • Perplexity summary: The article from Bloomberg[1] reports that Huawei's latest smartphone, the Mate 60 Pro, is powered by a new Kirin 9000s chip that was fabricated in China by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC). This chip is the first to utilize SMIC's most advanced 7nm technology, which suggests that the Chinese government is making some headway in attempts to build a domestic chip ecosystem. The article also notes that Huawei is reportedly developing its own Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and power management chips. Other sources, such as Swarajya[2], ThinkChina[3], TechHQ[4], and The Verge[5], speculate on how Huawei was able to develop its own chips despite US sanctions. Some sources suggest that Huawei may have used its inventory from 2020, while others speculate that the chips were manufactured by SMIC or even Huawei itself. Chinese benchmarking website AnTuTu has identified the Mate 60 Pro's CPU as the HiSilicon-designed Kirin 9000s, which supports 5G[6]. Overall, the article and other sources suggest that Huawei's use of domestically produced chips in the Mate 60 Pro is a significant development in China's efforts to build a domestic chip ecosystem and circumvent US sanctions.

  • Xi, Modi agree to 'de-escalate' tensions on disputed Himalayan border
  • That's in part because of all the anti-China propaganda on big media and youtube. In youtube, anti-China content, specially content from big media (BBC, sky news and the likes) and CIA-backed content, is recommended to much more users than pro-China content. Just look at the number of views of anti-China videos vs neutral or pro-China channels. Anti-China videos easily get millons of views, while the best of the best pro-China videos only reach tens or hundreads of thousands of views (one or another may reach millions by using a super catch thumbnail and title). The pro-China videos are mostly recommended to people that already watches pro-China videos, while anti-China videos get recommended for everyone on youtube. The result is that a huge amount of youtube users believe anti-China crap.

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  • Artisanal burgers are much tastier than McDonald's. In fact, it's not hard for a real burger to be tastier than a McDonald's one, at least in my country (I'm not sure if McDonald's quality is the same in all countries). Here, McDonald's isn't very good, and even so it's quite expensive. Even the most affordable option on the menu is pricey, and it barely has anything inside. Not to mention that these fast food burgers are tiny.

    Hambúrgueres artesanais são muito mais gostosos que McDonald's. Na verdade não é difícil um hambúrguer de verdade ser mais gostoso que um McDonald's, pelo menos no meu país (não tenho certeza se a qualidade do McDonald's é a mesma em todos os países). Aqui McDonald's não é muito bom e ainda é bem caro; a opção mais acessível do menu já é cara, e não têm quase nada dentro. Sem falar que esses hambúrgueres de fast food são bem pequenos.

  • Comrade Greta is ready to overthrow capitalism (ficpedia entry in the post)
  • Yep. I made the pic and the fic just for fun. She is most definitely a puppet. She was also silent about the Ohio train derailment disaster (right?). Besides, there is the theory that the green agenda pushed by the USA and its vassals does not aim to mitigate climate change, but instead aims to difficult the industrial growth of big developing countries like India and Brazil.

  • Comrade Greta is ready to overthrow capitalism (ficpedia entry in the post)

    Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, also known as GtG (abbreviation for "Greta the Great"), is a Swedish revolutionary communist leader. She was one of the main figures in the movement for neutralizing imperialism (MNI), and is one of the leading politicians in the multipolar world order (MWO). She had a key role in the partial recovery of Europe's sovereignty after decades of vassalage to the United States of America. Greta is also an environmentalist, and is known for the creation of the "Program for sustainable and just society". She is the author of the books "We need red to protect the green" and "Why we need to overthrow capitalism to save the Earth".

    GtG is known for her direct and impactful statements in public speeches, addresses and summits. One of the most notable one is "How dare you tell us how to rule our countries when your own country has the highest debt and one of the highest inflation in the world". This was said to American president John Dickanhaughty during the third Euro-American summit. She said the phrase after the American president tell in a way that she considered "annoyingly condescending" that the socialist countries in Europe are, in John's words, "dangerously moving away from the correct form of democracy".

    Greta started her career as an environmental activist. But she gradually moved to the sphere of politics. Her political ascension was initially aided by the empire, which saw her as a suitable ally in its agenda. But when she became a very successful and established politician in Europe, she broke up with the empire and revealed that she was actually a communist from the beginning. Trevis Tuckerson synthesized this cleverly: "GtG tricked the imperialists into believing that they were using her, when in reality she was using them to get funding and popularity".

    GtG's successful socialist system applied in Sweden was used as a model for other European countries, such as Serbia and Greece.

    A remarkable curiosity is that Greta almost always uses red clothes. She considers red "the leader of all colors" and "the optimal complement for the green of nature".

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    TIL CIA pulled strings and poured money to make Abstract Expressionism an influential art movement worldwide

    Summary made with perplexity.ai: The CIA played a key role in spreading Abstract Expressionism and its ideology worldwide to combat the opposing style of Socialist Realism and, by extension, communist culture at large. The CIA saw Abstract Expressionism as an opportunity to promote American culture and values worldwide. The agency employed covert methods to make Abstract Expressionism so popular that it became quite difficult for an artist to find success working in any other style. The Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organization funded by the CIA, gave the agency the ideal front to promote its covert interest in Abstract Expressionism.

    Some links from which this summary comes from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html https://www.thecollector.com/abstract-expressionism-waging-a-cultural-cold-war-2/ https://www.theartstory.org/movement/socialist-realism/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artcurious-cia-art-excerpt-1909623 https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-did-the-cia-sponsor-jackson-pollock/

    It's crazy to think how much CIA shaped the path of art, if all that is true. They may also have influenced in the popularization of avant-garde American classical music composers, like John Cage. I wonder to which extent CIA is responsible for the widespread of American-made cultural products, like pop music, rock and fast foods, and which artistic or cultural movements became influential throught artifficial means (instead of organically become succesful due to artistic merit).

    An additional note: a similar thing may have happened internally in Brazil. I once heard that the Brazilian musical genre "Sertanejo Universitário", that skyrocketed in popularity during the 2000s and early 2010s to become one of the most popular Brazilian musical genres, may have owe part of this success to a funding from the big agribusiness players, which aimed to strengthen their monopoly over small poducers, or smothing like that.

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