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For the sibling commenters trying to grief OP, he never said he randomly selects verses. I wish you all a nice day.

I'm surprised someone's surprised, it's a well-known thing: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sunday_scaries

It could have been for a service that was not in production yet, and in an isolated environment.

Whenever I listen to these types of recordings, there's so much static and it's hard to hear the words. Is this how it actually sounds to pilots/ATC operators or is their feed actually much clearer?

I'm sorry, what? Do Russians not live on Earth or something?

I had a more charitable reading of GP's comment: supposing, hypothetically, the US wanted a proxy war against Russia, it didn't have to "trick" Russia. This is a perfectly valid rebuttal to GP's parent imo, especially because GP's GP never suggested US "tricked" anything.

> If China downs one in South China sea, the US might keep it quiet because neither country wants a violent escalation into war just yet.

>> just yet

No, sorry. Neither country wants a war. Full stop. I despise this tendentious reading of normal tension between two major world powers as a claim that war's going to break out. It's dangerous fear-mongering.

Sibling commenters saying US did not want to provoke a war with Russia are being biased imo. US drew a line in the sand, or kept pushing on the issue for Ukraine to NOT promise it would never join NATO. These are facts. Whether that justifies Russia invading parts of Ukraine is the debatable part.

Hint, when you hear the mainstream media constantly repeating a slogan or phrase nearly unanimously, there's probably something that language is hiding. I'm thinking about how all media called the war "unprovoked". Well, that isn't entirely true, and is some US propaganda/face-saving measure.

That might be a necessary condition, but definitely not a sufficient one to be considered a superpower. Simple thought experiment, "completely erasing" the US as you suggest would render the Earth unpleasant to live on, for a while, for all inhabitants.

> indentured servants

Could you explain what you mean?

Ok, so you want to make a system that does not include some otherwise very popular criteria to the citizens of the host nation? Because... it benefits you?

> point based system

Today if you're an illegal migrant and claim asylum, you get +inf points. If you're born in certain countries with long wait time, you get -inf points.

Clearly the system today is working within your definition.

> I suppose the counterargument is that the US educational system is generally so poor that it's not generating enough people with the necessary technical capabilities

But what if it's not a policy/ed system issue but a culture/society/values choice? As a teen today, why go to college when I can try my hand at drop-shipping/digital marketing/content creation/ChatGPT startup/whatever guru du jour's shilling today

You describe the current system, just that country of origin is a factor in the "scoring system."

> Both the US and China have made it much harder to leave China and enter the US now.

Which policies do you think create this?

It could be entirely probable the Chinese just don't find it attractive to live and work in the US after getting their college degrees here.

That's a feature, not a bug. Otherwise you could find X country that is loose with citizenship requirements and get around the US' per-country limit.

The per-country limits are a good thing, the "bottleneck" is a feature not a bug

Not just geometry on the math side but numerical computation and linear algebra as well. Was enough to make my head spin.

> and before long you will have a search engine of real value for yourself (and possibly others)

How much do you think hosting would cost?

Thank you for clarifying, I get what you mean now.

That study is over a decade old though. And I would think that there's too many confounding variables at play there. IMO the biggest confounder is "society issues" that make women feel less safe in general in public spaces. In my local neck of the US, I pretty much never see solo women eating outside at night, vs solo men and mixed groups.

What does gender have to do with anything in this discussion?

> in DC area it's something like 2:1

That's not true.

Everyone, literally every person I know laid off at Google and Meta were subsequently rehired by the same company. It's strange.

Charlie Booker, of Black Mirror fame, said (paraphrasing): it's not technology that sucks -- it's people.

Oh please. Look and see some example Mandarin and Cantonese words loaned to English. [1] They also have your Japanese examples in there.

Want more counterexamples? Probably literally every Italian food: spaghetti, pizza, ravioli...

To me, this is just more evidence for how strong this meme of Japanese uniqueness, coolness, "sugoi kawaii desune~~ ^-^" is. I'm not bashing people who think Japan is cool. But I do think it's weird how they can't recognize it's just a meme, to the point of fetishization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Chine...

I'm pretty sure the average Joe would agree with you about the CPI numbers being a complete farce. It used to not matter when it was low. But after covid, when people, largely following the same habits over time, see their grocery receipts go up 15% yet the government quotes 7%, they're not going to forget that for a long time.

It's not really the storing, it's the spending. USD buys oil, baby!

You see, the AI will allow people to free up enough time in their J1, J2, J3, etc. that they will have enough time to run more side-hustles or gig-economy jobs. ECONOMY! /s

> Did you take the history lessons into account, or it's business as usual?

Did we take the same history lessons? Lots of what led to the fall of the Roman Empire has been happening in USA the past few decades. And then we have China literally opium-warring us with fentanyl and killing tens of thousands of US citizens each year. But yeah, count on the cool shiny AI and space exploration to save the US.

In your world, what would a Xi victory have looked like?

Not arguing against your point, but there's an active element in America media that's very anti-Chinese. When's the last time you saw a story that was cool or innocent related to China in HN (because MSM's totally out of the question)?