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For both attacks, I've been seeing stories of a plane, the "EC-130H Compass Call" flying in the area. It's supposedly an electronic intelligence aircraft that hasn't been seen in the sky for about a year. I don't know much more than that though

Why would you do that? Just out of vindictiveness?

How could the airing be blocked in another country?

He's a popular voice of dissent on Twitter and someone must be cracking down right now. Scott Ritter is another--he had his passport seized recently and his house raided by the FBI a week ago.

"Yes, Lake Michigan looks way bigger than this sphere, but you have to try to imagine a bubble almost 35 miles high—whereas the average depth of Lake Michigan is less than 300 feet (91 meters)"

It's hard not to view a story like this, at this particular time, as some type of coercive measure being used against someone.

Tensions in the Middle East are the highest in 20 years and suddenly new 9/11 evidence starts popping up. Can't help but raise an eyebrow

Based on my understanding, the goal of kneecapping Huawei goes far beyond hurting the company’s P/L or market share. This is a geopolitics issue—-centered around slowing the advance of China’s technology sector related to chips / compute / etc. The capabilities of the nation as a whole is what both parties are primarily concerned with.

The US wanted China dependent on the west for high end smart phones and chips. The way it’s turned out, China would have been more dependent if the US just left Huawei alone to begin with

I'm not seeing what the contradiction is. The US made a bet that Huawei couldn't survive without foreign help, and they seemingly lost that bet. Every country subsidizes private industry to varying degrees (CHIPS act, etc...)

See this NY Fed analysis of how export controls have worked out so far: https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr1096

Which makes me think--are we sure this isn't malicious?

Hah, this reminded me that Dave Portnoy bought $500k of Rheinmetall stock about a month ago. He was copying the trade of a congresswoman who happens to be on the house subcommittee of military construction. Hard to imagine her trade wasn't related to this news

https://x.com/stoolpresidente/status/1795810560677749078

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I think this post is more focused on nuclear defense in space. Which also changes the whole mutually assured destruction dynamic. Until 2002 we were in a treaty that limited anti-ballistic missile systems

Can you share what company that is? Palantir?

And I bet China will have EUV lithography tech within 5 years after we cut them off from ASML

Why do you think it's CGI? Looks real to me

I can't take these EU leaders seriously when they clamor for increased Chinese imports while continuously adding new sanctions on items they won't sell to China

I guess my point is: it seems like a lot of people believe China is subtly manipulating public opinion via TikTok, but I think it's more likely that these feelings are just organic and they surface in TikTok because people agree with them.

Is there any evidence that the content on TikTok isn't a result of the beliefs and interests of its users in America?

I guess we'll find out. I'll be waiting with bated breath for the collapse in Palestinian support once ByteDance no longer runs TikTok.

If India wanted to enforce the sanctions they would. I'm sorry but what America found out is they can't just enforce sanctions across the globe in the way they thought they could.

- blackhawkC17

Didn't you hear, BBC said half of China is sinking into the ground so we should be good:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40102522

I'm surprised this passed (in the house at least) at this point in the election cycle. My suspicion is that ByteDance will in fact refuse to divest, and TikTok will get banned. Which I don't think the electorate will like very much

Interesting. If this is true, would love to see what these "sound and radio frequency-based directed energy devices" look like.

Could be pretty dangerous if they're easy to produce.

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As someone who genuinely wants AI to take over most white-collar jobs (I'm burnt out), it's been 1.5 yrs without many jobs replaced. Worried it may never happen

You're reading a website published by ISW, founded by Kimberly Kagan (sister-in-law to Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan). Please do not be under the impression that it's a neutral source of information.

Robert Kagan is a "leading advocate of liberal interventionism", and everything ISW publishes is colored with the intent to make US intervention appear to be a good idea (or at least not a bad idea). As you may be aware, that hasn't worked out very well for the U.S. or foreign nations the past 24 months. Which by the way is probably a major factor in Niger's decision to kick the U.S. out

I'm a little out of touch, is there a way to see how Grok measures up to other models?

Does anyone have an idea of the likelihood of the owners divesting vs a ban being enforced? I kind of want to see the owners refuse to divest

I mean this is kind of ridiculous. As a "banker", you can't take someone's word you're not going to lose money. Pretty basic stuff