Ugh. The Biden administration, totally peopled with totalitarian dictators wanna-be neocons is on a Hell-bent mission to destroy the world. And fuck, man, we are all trapped on this fucking crazed roller-coaster from Hell.
The good news is that the Domain Commander confirms that it’s still small – to – medium “bads”. And that things are under control. Personally, I just cannot fathom how it is so optimistic. Sheech!
I WILL query the Domain Commander for some details. And I WILL post the results on my Patreon website. Please be patient. OK?
What is the worst example of plagiarism you’ve seen as a teacher?
“L ≠k”
When my younger daughter was born, I missed a week of school. I gave my AP Chemistry students a PowerPoint every day with a practice problem. Students had to turn in their work to the sub.
One of the questions had to do with rate equations, and rate equations have a constant that is expressed using a lower case italicized ‘k’. When I returned to school, I noticed that every single paper had this equation solved for “L”.
At first I thought I must have accidentally typed “L” instead of “k”. They are right next to each other on the keyboard after all. But I looked, and the PowerPoint said “k”.
I was puzzled.
So I looked at the work of each student. They were all precisely the same, including this phantom “L”.
All except for one student – the best student in the class. She had written “k” … in cursive:
but her pen had died in the smaller loop, making something that looked a fair bit like an L.
All of the cheaters had followed suit.
The next day in class, I asked them how they had solved for “L”. Students gave me glowing answers of how they had worked together so hard and found “L” through considerable effort.
I played along.
I praised their dedication. I extolled the virtues of their morality in making sure they each did their own work. They were practically patting themselves on the back.
Then I put the PowerPoint back up.
I said “Hmmm, that’s odd…I wonder how you all got L instead of k.” Then I showed them the “bad pen” answer (I had taken a picture and added it to the PowerPoint).
The room got very quiet. I tried to talk to them. I tried to extol the virtues of honesty and integrity. I tried to tell them they were only cheating themselves.
But I just couldn’t say anything.
That class was never the same again. I was never the same again.
After that I stopped assigning homework altogether. I tried various other strategies – oral defense, all classwork, participation stamping. You name it. But kids always seemed to find ways to cheat, and always seemed to do so with impunity. When I finally found a way to essentially prevent cheating (a combination of oral defense and random call-back / question selection), students just stopped doing homework altogether. Their grades plummeted, and I got in trouble for failing too many students.
Sigh.
So now I occasionally assign homework. I collect it and grade it if it’s done or not. But it isn’t worth much, and it rarely determines a student’s grade. I write Python programs that create unique versions of tests for each student so that they cannot cheat. I’m working on that for homework, too, but it’s a lot of work.
I’m sad just thinking back on this incident – it was the day my innocence as a teacher died. I knew kids cheated before this, but until this day I had never watched a whole classroom lie right to my face like that. Losing homework as a tool weakened me as a teacher, and weakened our school as a place of learning. Most other teachers in my building have since come to the same conclusion, or else they just don’t care to look that closely.
Today, 10 years after this event, my students are chronically tardy and absent, often refuse to do even the most trivial work, and experience a diluted and simplified version of what I once taught. If I write something on the board, when I turn around a dozen phones have materialized and are actively being typed on. When I try to do fun things like labs and projects, the students complain and mope as if I was walking them to prison. They lament (out loud) how awful it is that they just can’t look up the answers like all the other classes. Mr. C. actually makes us do things, they say.
It makes me wonder how many diamonds in the rough I’ve missed. It makes me wonder how many students I’ve cheated by not having the heart (or the ability) to continue on as I did, pushing them all hard to find the few who are truly masterful. It makes me wonder what it’s like teaching in other schools where maybe things aren’t so bad.
It makes me wonder why I still teach.
Black (Live) – MTV Unplugged – Pearl Jam
What are the greatest threats to democracy?
The greatest threats to democracy are:
- Capitalism. The corruption and usurpation of the political process by the wealthy elite.
- Failure to deliver the goods to the people. Things like prosperity, equality, safety, and stability.
- The discovery of a better system that serves the people. In other words, a better alternative.
USA is the poster child for capitalist corruption.
USA is the prime example of failure to serve the people.
China’s system clearly demonstrates that there is a better way.
Is it true that Chinese products are always low quality, or is this just propaganda from the West?
Those are two questions, and they are not even about the same thing.
An example for highest quality Chinese products
It is not true that Chinese products are always low quality. I am a knives collector. And especially when it comes to knives, Chinese ones have a bad reputation, to say the least.
I thought the same. I was literally of the opinion that Chinese knives not only by and large, but as a whole sucked. Boy, was I wrong. I was totally and absolutely wrong. Which I noticed when I had the pleasure of handling a WeKnife 905a “Scamp”:
This knife is undoubtedly one of the best knives I ever had the opportunity and pleasure to put my hands on. The fit and finish is flawless, the design of the blade is brilliant, the steel is a “super”-steel (S35VN) and all other parts are made of titanium (except for the backspacer made of stainless steel, which makes absolutely sense in a slip joint) and personally I love the style.
You do not like it?
Well, they have several dozens of different models.
So, what do we have?
A knife made of the finest materials used in the industry, perfect execution in both art and craft, that must be exceedingly expensive, right? You will not be surprised to hear it is not. Do not get me wrong: it is not a cheap knife, by any means, coming in at around $180. For comparison: this is about the same as one of the better Thiers made Laguiole knives. But quality wise, we are talking almost of orders of magnitude in difference.
A more fair comparison would be with a Chris Reeve Knives “Impinda”: Same steel, same materials, both flawlessly executed. Seriously, if you would offer to gift me one of those two, I would have a hard time to decide which one to take. If I had to pay for them myself, the decision would be much easier: The Impinda has a street price more than double than that of the “Scamp”: around $450.
So is it just propaganda from the West that Chinese products have low quality?
No. Because a lot of Chinese products are built with a throw-away mentality in mind.
And now we ask ourselves who is to blame for that? As per the principles of capitalism, the market will just satisfy the demand of the customers. So imho, it is the demand for cheap products that causes low quality. If nobody would buy low quality products, they would not be produced.
Papa Roach – Last Resort (Squeaky Clean Version)
What is something you absolutely despise about your country?
The rise of anti intellectualism. Dumb seems to be celebrated here in the United States. People who read books are looked at as pompous, boring nerds who can’t relate to “real Americans.” Former President Trump is a moron. The same people who want to kick immigrants out of our country couldn’t pass the citizenship test themselves. Movies are the same dumb sequels and remakes. Reality television regularly celebrates stupid, making celebrities out of run of the mill morons. And the worst part is, these unintelligent people don’t even know they’re dumb! They regularly assert opinions as fact, talk over people far smarter than themselves, decree the opposing viewpoints of experts are “fake news.” They can skim one article on the internet and announce with great certainty they are now an expert in the field.
Now I know this is a problem in many parts of the world, but it really disappoints me here in the United States. We’re a country that affords so much opportunity to its citizens and so many freedoms. The fact that so many people are choosing not to read, not to enlighten themselves, not to strive for progress and the betterment of society blows my damn mind. Why choose dumb when you have every opportunity to do better?
Are Chinese Communist Party members an elite group and have privileges in China?
Citizens of all walks of life are eligible to join the Party, regardless of their socio-economic status, ethnic background, or gender.
Liu Xiuxiang with his mother (photo on the left) ; Liu Xiuxiang speaks during an interview at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing as a delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (photo on the right)
Liu Xiuxiang made headlines in 2008 after he took his mother, who has a mental illness, from Guizhou to his college in Shandong province to look after her.
Liu’s father died young, and his mother suffered mentally from the immense sorrow of losing her husband. After his sister and brother left home to work, Liu had to shoulder all the burdens of the family on his own.
However, despite all the difficulties, he never gave up studying. While taking care of his mother, he completed his studies from primary school all the way to university.
After graduating from college in 2012, Liu declined job offers from several companies and became a history teacher in his hometown Wangmo.
However, he found that many students did not know why they needed to study and what education brought them. Many began working or got married after graduating middle school, he said.
Then Liu started a campaign to motivate and help rural students. He has spent lot of his spare time traveling to the homes of dropouts, persuading them to return to school.
In the past 10 years, his campaign has helped more than 1,800 dropouts to return to school and got financial aid to more than 4,200 students.
In 2012, only 70 students in the county were enrolled in college, but this year, that number soared to 1,300, with each village having at least one college student.
Now he is a delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and vice-principal of Wangmo Experimental High School.
Speaks during an interview as a delegate to the 20th CPC National Congress, he said: “education has completely cut off the generational inheritance of poverty and enabled students in mountainous regions to enjoy more opportunities and better choices.”
Rush Hour2 – Heaven on Earth Massage Parlor
What does Silicon Valley fundamentally misunderstand about Chinese tech companies?
Silicon Valley and Chinese companies have fundamentally different approaches to solving problems.
The traditional Silicon Valley and American approach is that people are unpredictable, and are your highest costs, so in designing systems, they try to automate everything as much as possible, especially in replacing some of the boring and redundant jobs. This is why companies like YouTube, Facebook and Quora use algorithms to perform work which is usually done by human editors in publishing and in journalism.
In Facebook’s case, they are learning that editors and journalists cannot be entirely replaced, and in many instances, you must have them.
All of the leading Chinese media companies (Sina, Sohu, Netease, Tencent, Sina Weibo) rely very heavily on human editors and journalists to maintain high-quality content and prevent the spread of false rumors which can cause social unrest. In fact, these companies are now the largest employers of editors and journalists, surpassing the traditional media in China.
In China, labor is always very cheap, not in terms of monetary costs, but because it is always easy to find a smart person/s who can solve a problem, and then finding thousands, even millions, of laborers to build it. When Chinese have a challenge whether it is large or small, their first instinct is to throw a lot of people at the problem until they have a solution. People are used not only to solve low-cost, low-skill challenges, but high-cost, high-challenge issues.
I learned this lesson when I was involved in setting up an Internet company in China, and the local official asked me following my presentation: “How many thousand people do you need?”
No one in Silicon Valley has ever asked me a question like that, ever.
What does this mean? That means when you are in China, you are dealing with a whole different approach to scale which is completely different from the American approach. In simple terms, China is much BIGGER than anything the US has to offer.
It also means that when talking about “automation”, the Chinese and the Americans are talking about two completely different things: the Americans are talking about cutting out labor costs and employing fewer people, and the Chinese are talking about making the velocity of business transactions faster and more efficient. Automation in the US is about cutting supply-side costs, and automation in China is about stimulating demand-side purchases.
This partially explains why China has been so successful at transitioning to a cashless society ahead of the United States, using Alipay and WeChat Pay, and largely replacing debit and credit cards in the process.
My problem with the US Silicon Valley approach is that eventually the US will only have a very small and shrinking pool of consumers, which is exactly what is happening now. The rich get richer, and everyone else is poor and votes for extremist political candidates.
Bette Davis Eyes
What screams “I’m upper class” in England?
I taught for a while in one of Britain’s top private schools, so I feel I’m qualified to offer a definitive answer:
Tweed.
Seriously, ten years as a teacher and I never saw so much as a tweed dishcloth, but when I started working in private education suddenly the bloody stuff was everywhere. The teachers wore tweed (and the teachers were near-universally ‘old boys’ or ‘old girls’ whose parents could comfortably afford twice what most people earn in a year to get shut of their kids for most of it), the staff wore tweed, and the parents were dressed in tweed on a semi-permanent basis. I swear some of them slept in tweed pyjamas.
When they weren’t wearing tweed, they were cosplaying farmers, for some reason. This was irrespective of whether they lived somewhere in the cotswolds or the middle of London. Their farmer outfits were sometimes a bit worn, but always unnaturally clean.
So if I’m in the middle of the city and see someone wearing tweed or farming gear that’s never been within half a mile of a cow, that’s when know I’m dealing with the fourteenth Lord Bonkingly-Spinkle or some such.
The Feared George “Baby Face” Nelson | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
China has been building mass scale of manufacturing photonic chips factories now & will be ready to supply the world by year 2023. The photonic chips are 1,000 times better & faster than the 3-5nm chips manufactured by Taiwan & South Korea. Why?
China is already the world’s largest market for Photonic Integrated Circuits, PICs, or photonic chips. Sales have grown from $800 million in 2017 to $2 billion today. Next year, they will explode.
As electricity displaces internal combustion in cars, photonic chips are displacing electronic chips in circuits. The switchover will accelerate when Sintone, a Beijing startup, opens. the world’s first photonic chip foundry next year, filling the high end gap created by US embargoes.
Technological implications
In an electronic integrated circuit, electron flux passes through electrical components like resistors, inductors, transistors, and capacitors. In a photonic integrated circuit, PIC, photons of light pass through optical components like waveguides, lasers, polarizers, and phase shifters.
PICs are far superior to electronic chips, EICs, in speed, integration, heat generation, miniaturization, compatibility with existing mass manufacturing processes and cost, being produced entirely with Chinese equipment and IP. PICs increase bandwidth and data transfer speeds and reduce energy consumption in data centers, cutting cooling costs.
PICs make lab-on-a-chip (LOC) practicable, putting laboratories into doctors’ hands. Amazec Photonics markets a sensor with photonic chips which enables high-resolution temperature sensing, so doctors can measure cardiac output and circulating blood volume from outside the body. EFI’s ‘OptiGrip’
offers greater control over tissue feeling for minimal invasive surgery.
PICs facilitate communication between vehicles and urban infrastructure to improve driver safety, and can detect quantities of pressure, temperature, vibration, acceleration, and mechanical strain. PhotonFirst uses PICs to measure shape changes in airplanes, EV battery temperature, and infrastructure strain.
PICs can measure variables beyond the range of our senses, detecting disease, ripeness and nutrients in fruit and helping farmers determine soil quality, plant growth, and CO2. MantiSpectra ’s infrared sensor fits into a smartphone and analyzes chemical compounds in plastics.
Financial implications
While US hawks insist the collateral damage is worth bearing, the sweeping expansion of US export restrictions, intended to isolate China, risks decimating US firms.
Nvidia, unable to sell its advanced AI chips to China, saw its market capitalization fall by $38 billion. AMD’s fell $16.5 billion. The combined market value of Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA Corp, US makers of electronic semiconductor equipment – has fallen $25 billion since the bans were announced. Synopsys and Cadence, US designers of electronic design automation software, are now worth $9 billion less.
Geopolitical implications
After President Xi’s 2015 warning about dependence on foreign technology, Beijing invested billions to leapfrog existing IP, including overcoming PIC manufacturing challenges. If the new fab opens on time and the chips perform as expected, it will further reduce the value of American IP (and the geopolitical value of TSMC) and turn the embargoes into a trillion-dollar catastrophe, like Ukraine.
The specific condition for US success is that the target of export controls must have a sufficiently weak political will to abandon its intention to develop the industry in question immediately … However, China has both the will and an unmatched capacity for industrial policymaking to drive and guide the development of its own alternative technologies. Chinese companies and industries have long since begun the production of related products but are currently in the uncomfortable position of being constrained by the superior and more mature products of US companies. The subtlety of US bans is that it is the US government, rather than the Chinese government, that has helped these companies to achieve the effective exclusion of their competitors from the Chinese market which will, allow Chinese companies, in the medium-to-long term, to grow even faster and invest even more in R&D. Shen Yi (沈逸) and Mo Fei
(莫非), Fudan University.
Future Implications
With PIC manufacturing commercialized, China has put up $10 billion to commercialize quantum computing – the last mile in a 100-year race. There are Nobel Prizes to be won, and post-docs from around the world are flocking to Chinese labs to join the fun.
Shenzhen International Quantum Academy has set up an Integrated Circuits and Electronics Centre, with advances in key components a top priority. Its team of cross-disciplinary researchers are focusing on IC design, radio frequency and microwave device development and issues crucial to the commercialization of quantum computing technologies, and planning to move into their new lab dedicated to quantum IC design and quantum cryoelectronics. SCMP
Peperonata
“Peperonata is mostly viewed as a simple but flavorful accent dish frequently served alongside hardy meats and poultry. It is far more versatile, used as a topping for bruschetta, flatbread, crostini, as a pasta sauce, added to an antipasto platter, as a condiment, even a topping for eggs. My favorite is grilling it with fontina or asiago cheeses between slices of artisan bread with melted cheese oozing out. As the name implies, its dominant ingredient is sweet and colorful bell peppers. Flavors become wonderfully complex after simmering with onions, tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, herbs, seasoning, and a hint of heat from a pinch of red pepper flakes. It’s finished either with red wine, northern Italy, or wine vinegar in the south. In addition to peppers, I also grill onions, use “fire roasted” tomatoes and “Pete’s Garlic Oil” (pan roasted garlic and flavor infused olive oil). Can be made well ahead and refrigerated and reheated to desired temperature. ”
Ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup olive oil
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon tuscany seasoning
- 1 pinch red pepper flakes
- 6 bell peppers, bright colors
- 1 medium onion
- 1 (28 ounce) can roasted tomatoes
- salt and pepper
- 1 pinch red pepper flakes
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- coarsely chopped basil
- chopped olives like kalamata olive (optional)
- anchovy (optional)
- drizzle serving dish with a light drizzle balsamic glaze (optional)
Directions
- Peter’s Garlic Oil, add olive oil to a butter melting pot. Remove rough end of garlic cloves and slice each in half lengthwise. Do not remove skin. Place them in the pot with oil. Add Tuscany seasoning and red pepper flakes.
- Place on medium heat until the olive oil begins to lightly sizzle. Reduce heat, maintaining a low simmer. It will take several hours before garlic richly tans and becomes soft and sweet. You can hasten the process with slightly higher heat but be careful not to burn the garlic. Remove garlic skins when released.
- Fully char peppers on all sides. Start by placing peppers on grill grate top side down followed by bottoms then grill sides. Be careful not to pierce peppers so all of their wonderful juices are retained. Place in a tray with sides for additional protection while cooling.
- Peel and cut onion in ¼ inch slices. Brush with garlic oil and char both sides on the grill.
- When peppers have cooled, remove charred skin over a large bowl to capture juices released. Break peppers in half by hand. Remove core and seeds. Don’t be concerned when some fall into the liquid. Cut peppers in ½ inch strips lengthwise.
- Over medium heat with the oil from Pete’s garlic oil, finishing cooking onions by sauteing them in a large pot until translucent. Add tomatoes, a few grinds of black pepper, the remaining pinch of red pepper flakes, vinegar, basil and juices from the pepper. When mixture begins to boil, lower heat and cover, maintaining a simmer. In about 15 minutes remove cover and stir in peppers and the pot roasted garlic cloves. Stir occasionally until much of the liquid is condensed. Salt to taste. Cool to room temperature. You can refrigerate, even overnight until ready to eat. Serve at room temperature, warm or hot.
Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion (Live)
Hypersonic War
USA has a very, very serious problem here…
China’s hypersonic missiles as a strategic nuclear weapon are NOT the main problem for USA because nobody wants to fight a nuclear war.
China’s hypersonic missiles as an anti-ship weapon are the REAL problem for USA because it means that USA’s supercarrier strike groups dare not venture too closely to China in time of (conventional) war, say, over the Taiwan issue. USA will not risk losing several multi-billion dollar supercarriers to China’s hypersonic missiles.
Whatever missile defence system USA has (or will have) against hypersonic missiles cannot be 100% effective. In fact, nowhere close to 100%. And that’s a really, really BIG PROBLEM.
China can lob half a dozen DF-17s at the USS Gerald R. Ford and one of them will almost certainly hit its mark. You have my permission to crap in your pants.
Casablanca Final Scene
What type of person should get a cat?
Someone who can commit to a cat for 20 years. Regardless to whether the cat is easy to hold on to. You need to understand that if you need to move, the cat needs to move too. If you have less money to spend, the money that’s left needs to be split with the cat to get food, cat litter and go to the vet. When you are very busy you still need to play with your cat. When your cat starts to pee or scratches your furniture, you can’t just get rid of them.
Cats are living creatures, you can’t just throw them if there’s something you don’t like.
And next to all of this, make sure you know that you are not allergic before you get it. Cats get very hurt by replacing them (multiple times).
So most importantly, think twice!
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Chicken Agrodolce (an Italian Sweet and Sour Chicken)
“This is such a unique Italian chicken dish. Chicken breasts are briefly sauteed, then simmered in a sauce of honey, balsamic vinegar, wine, orange and lemon juice. Toss in a few toasted pignoli, and you’ve got a quick and delicious dinner with risotto or cappellini.”
Ingredients
- 3 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1⁄4 cup flour
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 bay leaves
- 6 allspice berries
- 4 tablespoons honey
- 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1⁄3 cup dry white wine
- 1⁄2 cup orange juice
- 4 tablespoons lemon juice
- salt and pepper (about a tsp. each)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 3 tablespoons toasted pignolis (pine nuts)
Directions
- In a large plastic bag, combine flour and chicken breasts, toss to coat.
- In a large skillet, saute floured chicken breasts in olive oil with the whole garlic, bay leaves and allspice berries until chicken is browned.
- Remove chicken to a plate.
- To the skillet, add honey, vinegar and wine; cook to reduce slightly, about 10 minutes on medium-high heat.
- Return chicken to skillet, add orange and lemon juices, salt and pepper, and cook about another 20 minutes or until chicken is done and sauce is reduced slightly.
- Remove garlic, bay leaves and allspice berries from sauce.
- Add pignoli and heat through, another 5 minutes or so.
- Delicious with angel hair pasta or a nice risotto.
How did your opinions change after living in China?
Thanks for A2A
Living in North America people are bombarded daily by messages and images of the rest of the world. Accuracy of those images is slanted in large part because they originate in the news media.
We know news media focuses on bad news because it feeds the North American bias for negativity and generates more audience attention. Therefore negative type stories take priority in reporting or neutral stories can be spun to feed the bias.
In my many travels to other countries, I found the image North Americans are presented about many places to be exaggerations of negative social elements or outdated events.
Therefore before I arrived in China for the first time I had largely discounted parts of the western media’s image of China as typical bullshit.
What I was not prepared for:
- Huge modern cities on par with North America,
- The level of openness of the Chinese to accept foreigners on a one-on-one basis ……. provided you make an effort to engage with locals.
- The spontaneity of the people.
- The general lack of restraints placed on the people.
- The lack of violence and anger in Chinese society.
After living in China an adjustment in perceptions will happen.
- Culturally China is a Shame Society like Japan, Korea etc. It functions well as a way to control society without the need for state sanctioned violence.
- There is a very low crime rate in China, and what there is either commercial crime or dumb crime like petty theft, pick-pockets and break-ins.
- The regular police do not carry guns or high sticks. Maybe ⅓rd are women. Police are generally respected.
- This a huge contrast to North America, where the judicial system tries to control society through punishment. Leading to crazy incarceration rates with no societal benefits in the end.
- “Beatings will continue until attitude improves” is rarely a formula for success.
- Individualism is contrary to social unity and stability
- Chinese society is family centric and serves as the road map for how society functions from a governmental aspect (benevolent father) to the daily interactions between friends, family and co-workers.
- You refer to good friends and co-workers as one’s brothers and sisters.
- Social networks are very important in China for many reasons and it creates solid social foundation which counter-balances life’s challenges.
- Guangxi is largely misunderstood by the West but is part of the social structure of building wide ranging relationships.
- Chinese society is family centric and serves as the road map for how society functions from a governmental aspect (benevolent father) to the daily interactions between friends, family and co-workers.
- China provides a greater opportunity for upward mobility them some democracies.
- China as no class structure ……… Unlike India with a regimented caste system or the US which has a permanent underclass and an elite class.
- 99% of Chinese regardless of their current position are within 2 generation removed from being farmers.
- There is no old money and old family dynasties in China.
- China as no class structure ……… Unlike India with a regimented caste system or the US which has a permanent underclass and an elite class.
- Small C capitalism is alive and thriving in China
- China has a business culture and people are opening up businesses every day, including many as a 2nd job. Anyone can open a business, with very exceptions.
- Business operates 7 days a week from morning to night.
- e-Commerce is miles ahead of the West.
- Not everything is perfect in China. There are issues but it is a mixed bag.
- There is still some poverty in the country, but it is no worse from that which I have seen in North America
- There is voting in China but the system is very different, It is not direct representative like North America, but an indirect representative system
- The people are happy, have a positive outlook and support the central government.
- Chinese migrating to the West are doing so for economical reasons not political ones.
- The educational system is tough and largely looked upon as inferior by the West, yet those students are the ones filling places in top western universities in STEM fields, if they cannot make the grade for acceptance in top Chinese universities.
There are many things have surprised me in the time I have been here, but only a few I would consider negative about China.
On the other hand ……. there is an old quote that goes like this …….” You can see your country a lot clearer from afar”.
In this context I have also altered some thinking about North America as well.
Since the surrender of Japan,after the end of World War ll, a large number of foreign troops have occupied Japan, giving many Japanese women a lifelong nightmare. A large number of rape cases suddenly broke out all over Japan. Many Japanese women were raped by Allied officers and soldiers. The number of rape cases once reached an average of more than 3,000 cases per day. Especially in Okinawa, more than 10,000 local women were rapes by the US military.
In order to cope with this situation, the Japanese authorities once set up a number of goverment run-brothels in various places to provide sexual services for Allied officers and soldiers. However in Okinawa,Misawa,Yokota and other bases of U.S. troops stationed in Japan, cases of rape of local women by US troops still occur frequently, especially in Okinawa which has the most stationed troops.
Of course, wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. The Japanese are not so honest. In 1945, World War ll had come to an end, and Japan’s surrender had entered the countdown. Okinawians were afraid to death into thinking of what will happen to them when the Americans come.
In June 1945, the US military occupied Okinawa. When they entered the local village to conduct a search, they found out that almost all the young and middle-aged men in Okinawa had been mobilized into the army. So the US military began to rape Okinawan women recklessly.
Many US soldiers treated Japanese women with utter cruelty as tools of lust. A member of the US Marine Corps once recorded a scene they encountered on the road in Okinawa: they passed a village, and found a dozen American soldiers in a circle on the roadside. They went to check up and found out that these dozen American soldiers were gang-raping the local area.
The US military demanded anything from the locals, and the Okinawians have been silently enduring it.
The three African American soldiers story
There is a village of Katsuyama in Okinawa. Like other places they also ravaged this small village. The difference is that there are three black soldiers belonging to the US Marince Corps. They seem to have tagged the sweetness after messing around in this village, so every weekend, three black soldiers come to this village. Since they came to the village with weapons every time, the villagers didn’t dare to stop them and allowed them to wander around the village. After arbitrarily arresting a few local women, they took them to the mountains and ravaged them. Although the locals had no choice, they naturally hated these Black American soldiers in their hearts.
After the battle of Okinawa, although the Japanese army was defeated, it did not die. Some scattered Japanese soldiers hid in the mountains, and from time to time they went to nearby villages to find food and other supplies. There were also two Japanese soldiers on the hills of Katsuyama, who were caught by the locals when they were looking for food in the village. Of course, the locals didn’t want to report the two deserters, they hope they would help get the three American soldiers who plagued the village every week.
The two Japanese soldiers also carried weapons. They hated the US military to the core, so they agreed to the request of villagers.
And so, another weekend came, and the three black men rushed to the village of Katsuyama, ready to enjoy their weekly joyous moment. At this time, the ambush locals and the two Japanese soldiers appeared in front of them. After a few shots, three Americans were killed.
The villagers hid their bodies in caves and called the caves “kuronbogama” which means “the caves of the black men”, after the local US military lost three soldiers, they included them to list of deserters since they couldn’t find them.
End result
The villagers kept this a secret for years until one guilty local reported the situation but nevertheless the US military and the Japanese Goverment didn’t charge the villagers for the crime since it happened long time ago.
Today as we know that the Okinawans are still suffering from these crimes every year, new reports of rape cases keep rising up and the military has always been a trouble to the Okinawans.
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British Naval Intelligence HQ Destroyed by Russian Missile, Many Deaths (Deeply Censored)
Illegally located in Ochakiv, Ukraine, British war planners and ‘operators’ die horrifically for their role in a censored false flag nuclear attack on Russia
Britain detonated a .5 kiloton nuclear weapon on a modified torpedo converted to ride in a Ukrainian naval drone.
The British naval intelligence center set up to manage operations against Crimea was destroyed in an attack by Russian drones. While planning of the operation was organized on Ukrainian soil by NATO operatives, another “redline” for Russia, the drones themselves were piloted by Americans operators at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
Russia responded to Ukraine’s attack on Saturday by ships of the Black Sea Fleet by hitting a training center for special operations forces of the Ukrainian Navy in Ochakiv with precision-guided weapons . According to the Ministry of Defense, the center has been destroyed.
According to available information, the Russian Armed Forces carried out an attack on the Naval Forces of Ukraine base in Ochakovo, where the Training Center for the MTR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is located, it is reported that the communications center and other facilities on the base were destroyed. Previously, Geran-2 kamikaze drones worked out at the Center. Earlier it was reported that Russian “Geran” went in the direction of Ochakov and Odessa, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine traditionally reported on their destruction, but apparently not all of them were destroyed.
According to the military department, it was at the MTR Training Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that British instructors trained Ukrainian servicemen to control naval drones, which were used to attack Sevastopol. By the way, the drones were also delivered by Britain. In general, the center in Ochakovo was built by the Americans and the British precisely for conducting special operations against the Black Sea Fleet, the presence of Ukrainian Navy units there was only a cover.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense reported that they had lifted from the bottom of the wreckage of naval drones used to attack ships on Saturday morning. According to the study of the remnants of drones, it was possible to establish that they were taken out along the “green corridor” for a grain deal, after which they changed the route towards Crimea. It is assumed that they were taken out on one of the civilian ships “chartered by Kyiv or its Western patrons for the export of agricultural products.”
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… YOUR life. Listen closely.
What does Silicon Valley fundamentally misunderstand about Chinese tech companies?
in hating to answer a question with a question….
What do Humans fundamentally misunderstand about ANY modern Tech or for that matter a ‘company’?
Its ALL satanic. there is nothing Godly about the total surveillance state nor the foundations its built upon.
It will all be brought down in some Biblical event (and most probably blamed upon some ‘leader’) as all Tech destroys Gods creations.
Black is such a great song man, “I know some day you’ll have a beautiful life I know you’ll be a star”. Cheers for that one MM
There is only ONE reason for China to impose its Will upon Taiwan…
There are US Bio Weapon Labs in operation there.
The world would be a SAFER place if there were over 1000 individual States or countries.
Amalgamation or Conquering because of some historical leader ‘owning’ a region in the past is outdated and obsolete in a Modern World based upon the Law of One. Sovereign Citizens have a fundamental Right to self Determination. Any who oppose this, work in Satans interests.
When the State religion imposes its beliefs upon ALL ‘equally’ there is Satanic human spirit destruction and loss of individuality or the foundations of individual sovereignty.
Until every man woman and child is their own SOVEREIGN Being (as in a Kings right to Live in peace) there will never be peace. Satan needs a fascist army while God needs sovereign citizens. When did a King ever need a Vaxx covid green pass? Daily?
So whats it going to be, given God Wins? Be careful what you wish for when for every action God has an opposite and equal reaction.
Most of mankind has lost its belief in an eternal spirit. Which means satans view of we came from a primordial soup and there we shall return allows for man to be vaccinated against the belief in Spirit as foretold by Rudolf Steiner. It will ALL come crashing down.
With the Vaxx rate or snake venom mRNA in Taiwan its Toast anyway.