• fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    26 days ago

    You know, I used to worry about China taking over the world, but honestly they look like a much better choice for a super power than the US is now.

    I for one welcome our new communist overlords.

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            18 days ago

            Fuck, they want to ban amphetamine-based prescription meds like in other kleptocratic countries.

            P.S. There were more approved drugs in US than in any other country, including Adderall. Also, there are many drugs for multiple sclerosis treatment and they are actively developed in US to be even better. It saves the whole world, I mean, it improves people’s lives significantly (however, these medicines are very expensive).

            P.S. #2 A few years ago there was Wellbutrin (depression, ADHD, narcolepsy treatment. Innovative new drug) in Russia, and it was registered there officially by pharmacy company GfK, it’s manufacturer. Then they shut down production and it stopped being supplied to pharmacies. Then relatives of people who had narcolepsy, lived at that moment in Europe and they offered to bring this drug from Europe to those people in Russia. Then the drug was confiscated at customs and a case was opened against these people, allegedly Wellbutrin contains “drug derivatives”, although this is NOTHING written about Wellbutrin, and there are no substances in the composition that could indicate this, there are no such substances officially, even the manufacturer doesn’t mention it. It is clear that there is no justice in that country, and that these people could simply be put behind bars. Well, they “scared” people once again and soon released them. It’s was just recently. Such biased cases about “narcotic substances” are common here.

            And I assume, US is turning into Russia/China 2.0

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      26 days ago

      My horrible take only based on a few snippets:

      Chinese open source AI releases, wipes the floor with US AI. Exposes AI as massively overvalued. Not surprising considering how big tech is just taking everything. Nvidia loses like half a trillion in value.

      I’m happy to see a home run against the fascists that hurt them more than violence, at least to start. And I’m not a fan of AI (as hyped), but if it’s going to happen I’d rather it be with an open source performer as a base than the venture capitalists that abandoned us.

      And really the US is no more trustworthy than China for those of us under the shadow of the big dick energy stuporpowers.

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            26 days ago

            I would honestly be more pro China if they weren’t so unbearably heavy on the censorship front

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              26 days ago

              i would be more pro democracy if it didn’t lead to every president we’ve had in the last 40 years

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          26 days ago

          if it is fascism that drags 700 million out of poverty in 40 years and lets kids go to college for a several hundred dollars a year, maybe we’ve been too hard on fascism.