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Bulletins and News Discussion from June 24th to June 30th, 2024 - Waiting for War - COTW: Lebanon
  • From what I heard they're aggressively stamping out corruption and most of the high level leadership keep getting caught in it.

    Stamping out corruption good, but repeatedly prosecuting or purging high level leadership could lead to stability issues. Is the cost worth it? Idk I don't know enough.

  • Locke'd Out Again
  • It's fine on its own terms and I never really hated it as bad as others. I blame the producers for going on the record over and over and over saying that everything would be resolved and answered. Most of the main points wee fine, but there were a good handful of story threads that were dropped lazily before they even came close to a resolution. They were not particularly respectful of their audience, although it's true that it's influence on prestige TV was overall positive.

  • Locke'd Out Again
  • The issue in real time was years of the show runners promising over and over and over that "every mystery will be answered, and there will be no loose ends after the finale, and we already know what the end is going to be, just trust us".

    People were extremely hyped because dozens and dozens of mysteries were generated over the seasons, so to tie them all up would be incredibly impressive.

    Unfortunately it was blatantly unrealistic for that to happen, and there are several examples of the writers not having a clear direction and just stringing the audience along by creating more mysteries than they could possibly solve to add "suspense".

    Two decades later it's sort of a different experience watching the show on its own terms.

  • JUST IN: Hunter Biden convicted on all 3 charges at federal gun trial
  • (we need a macro or bot for the comrade Trump pasta):

    Folks, the bourgeois, they're no good, more and more people are saying it. All these workers— the biggest, we have the biggest workers— very handsome workers come up to me and say, Comrade Trump there is a specter haunting Europe, and you know what, they're right. These bourgeois are very nasty people, very very rude, and very unfair to the workers. They are stealing our surplus value and no one is doing anything about it. The proletariat comes up to me every day and says, Comrade Trump will you lead the revolution? And I gotta turn to them and say look, the instruments of capitalism will be used to bring about its destruction, believe me. The means of production, Obama never wanted to seize them. Well guess what? I'm seizing them. Landlords? They're done for folks. Everyone told me— they said, Comrade Trump you won't be the vanguard of the revolution and they would laugh, the media laughed the democrats laughed, guess who's laughing now?

  • It's wild to see the contrast between this Yang Wang EV and all the ongoing news with the cybertruck.
    • Cars bad
    • I try and avoid playing in to the "china-boo" tendency that immerses hexbear, but they kinda keep winning.
    • follow up with more features (yeah the first video wasn't done, it has a drone hangar lol): https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLq6fXt7/
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    U.S. assessing if China’s SMIC broke U.S. rules to make Huawei chip
    www.cnbc.com U.S. assessing if China's SMIC broke U.S. rules to make Huawei chip

    The Biden administration needs to determine whether SMIC violated U.S. export rules to produce a chip to power Huawei's Mate 60 Pro phone, said an official.

    U.S. assessing if China's SMIC broke U.S. rules to make Huawei chip
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    Two TikTokers Youll like

    Inb4 whining about TikTok in general, nobody cares

    • @cloudcloutclaud - thorough content about the current LGBT scene in the PRC, culturally and legally. People often ask questions and struggle sesh about this, this is the person you want to be hearing from instead of the Anglos digging up secondhand info here (not that it's all that bad).

    • @circusfaery33 - a true poster who would fit right in here. Shreds the libs about how voting for Biden doesn't matter. Consistent, high effort, thorough responses to even troll comments. We love to see it.

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    TIL Starlink only exists to create demand for rocket launches

    On brand, but I guess SpaceX has no path to profitability (go figure), so Starlink has to launch thousands of microsatellites every year cause their orbit is so low that they burn up like right away

    I didn't really have high expectations for them of course but they are way below the bar of what even Tesla brings to the table.

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    Holy fuck was AMLO killing the new Mexico City Airport a fucking win or what?
    www.technologyreview.com Restoring an ancient lake from the rubble of an unfinished airport in Mexico City

    Plans for Mexico's $1 billion Lake Texcoco Ecological Park reflect a new paradigm in urban design.

    Restoring an ancient lake from the rubble of an unfinished airport in Mexico City

    CDMXicans, please chime in

    But yeah it's wild the way the city is on a whole lakebed that was drained cause the flooding was too inconvenient to the Spanish colonials, and the last bit of it that was still remaining was about to become a whole ass airport. I guess AMLO won just in time to cancel it (partially complete) and turn it into an Ecological Park. A huge W for a place that needs a sustainable source of water. It's pretty damn convenient that they already are in a lakebed if they can manage it correctly.

    Anyway wealthy business interests apparently were big mad about it.

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