The west innocence or sense of infallibility is a problem. People need to take air gapping of networks more seriously

Worse, some of them are Ethical Altruists, just like Sam Bankman Fried of FTX

Delay No More

…and this is why conservatives in the UK pushed for Brexit

Yes, American munitions export controls

That’s the one. The possessed one.

Any megachurch, to be honest. Any thing Pat Robertson did, that guy with the crazy demon eyes, Joel Osteen, etc

Commercial CAs are not that better either

That was France, not the EU

The road is being paved for Clippie’s return

The one good thing about this trial is that America is realizing how chronically inadequate its laws are for expecting people in political office (or campaigning for) to behave within the law. Everyone is human and bound to abuse and the law should set clear boundaries to prevent that abuse.

oh, that looks like ascites… hope he can recover, cancer is shit

I guess both given the massive scale of the business and its massive impacts on the whole economy is reasonable

The root cause that all comments here in Lemmy miss is the Chinese approach to tax funding, which is entirely built on cities and provinces being expected to generate tax income through land sales to property developers, and then public officials competency and rise inside the party being measured by the size of that tax income generated trough land sale.

China needs to adopt a western style of income and consumption taxation if they don’t have one but I understand that internal enforcements is very lax (to prevent popular protests) and corruption (that ends up siphoning off any revenue raised through taxes).

In short, that housing stock will remain unused and, without maintenance and continued use, will only deteriorate over time, leaving cities with a terrible burdensome legacy

Not sure Xi cares about the state of his country after he goes into history books

Very high likelihood of invasion as Xi would like to cement his legacy before he dies

When one company in an industry has nearly endless cash, as Microsoft and Apple do, it is natural that everyone else would be seen as acquisition targets

Silicon valley has a massive indian community that also discriminates among their own (see the issue with dalit/caste), so not surprised that they would censor the murder of the Sikh leader

Open elections when there is only one party in practice are moot

China already have their own system in orbit