[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Commoditizing something is harder than showing a demonstrator (even if it's less cool than the demonstrator)

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Musk is really good at headhunting and cutting through middle management cruft. He's actually really good at being a CEO, he's just also... y'know

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

In more local news, Falcon ends B.C. United campaign, throws support to Conservatives

Dude who literally kicked the BC Conservative leader out of the party is now supporting the BC Conservatives (apparently without consulting his candidates). Now BC United candidates are stuck up shits creek, meanwhile the party that Falcon said was "too extreme to govern" is now the party he supports.

Oh, and BC just approved single-stair apartments.

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't explain the pilot death so it doesn't work

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 54 points 1 month ago

I honestly don't understand what the US obsession with low-ROI government spending is. Like, it's not that hard to spend money so that a dollar in leads to multiple dollars in future cost savings or multiple dollars in economic growth.

I guess it's because the US doesn't price in the cost of healthcare? Maybe the zero-sum global perspective? The high cost of war?

Build a subway. Build climate mitigation infrastructure. Plant trees. Feed children. Give people doctors. Education for all. There's this whole individualist "fuck you got mine" mentality that seems to completely stall progress in the US and blows up the cost of doing anything that benefits other people to the point of it not being worthwhile.

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Basically all Western reporting on China is hampered by having no native speakers on the journalism or editorial team.

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Wait, what happened in Minnesota? I'm out of the loop.

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago

Ok but can we talk about how insane Pan Zhanle is?

Dude breaks his own 100m world record and gaps the rest of the field by a bodylength... Then a few days later, takes the 4x100m home by making up a 2m gap and then some... And in the process, does the whole leg in sub-46 seconds.

The guy is straight up 2-3% faster than everyone else. It's insane.

As for complaints about the pool being slow? Americans set new world records for the 1500m free and women's 4x100 medley, so that argument doesn't work anymore. Plus, the fastest recent 50m free is a 21.04, so it's not like it's impossible for someone to swim a sub-46 100m.

At this point the US should really consider planting some drugs on him because otherwise they're so fucked... This is as Chinese athletes are being tested as much as 7 times a day by WADA.

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 58 points 1 month ago

Asian markets are bleeding.

RMB is at 7 month highs.

US recession fears seem to be triggering a flow of money into China.

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Constraining exports is a way to artificially introduce oversupply.

All you're saying is that the US intentionally put Intel in a position of oversupplying the semiconductor industry... Which would be sort of funny if it didn't cost 15000 people their jobs.

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 63 points 1 month ago

So anyone want to tell me why Intel laying off 15% of their staff isn't an indication of how the CHIPS Act introduced state-sunsidized oversupply into the semiconductor industry?

No? American companies can't possibly contribute to oversupply? I see.

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Propaganda is flying around like crazy in this conflict and I think it's time for our community to come together and try to separate the truth from misinformation and chaff. Similar to my last post on the al-Ahli Hospital Massacre, we're going to go with the following format:

For top-level comments, post the claim being made as well as who made the claim (please cite as close to the original source as possible) and, if possible, the date/time that claim was made.

For other comments, please try to either prove or debunk claims using multiple sources and verifiable information.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by zephyreks@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

There's a ton of information coming out from a bunch of different sources and it's difficult to keep track of who's said what and who has evidence of what. This thread is to keep track of who's making what claims, who has what evidence, and discussion surrounding those.

For top-level comments, please separate into two categories:

Evidence (videos, facts, circumstantial evidence, etc.) that we can validate, invalidate, or provide supporting sources for

Claims (IDF, Hamas, Western media, etc.) that we can prove or disprove using current evidence

=== 2023-10-19 ===

It's established fact that Israel was operating aircraft near the hospital, that Israel was striking targets near the hospital, that Israel had indicated that they would strike the hospital, that Israel had striked the hospital in the past, and that Israel had targeted multiple hospital staff in the days leading up to the strike.

It's currently up to debate, but many indications suggest that Israel's message has changed multiple times. The initial claim was that the attack was on Hamas operatives within the hospital. The claim afterward was that this was a Hamas misfire (using demonstrably falsified audio evidence).

The videos show that a single large explosion triggered whatever happened, not a sequence of smaller explosions or secondary detonations. The video circulating of a Hamas rocket "misfire" is more indicative of a MANPADS launch given multiple comparable flight paths from other MANPADS. It's a clear usage of a multi-pulse rocket motor, something Hamas does not have domestic capability for but does have access to through Iranian MANPADS. An Iranian Misagh-2 fires a missile with less than 2kg of explosives and less than 20kg of total weight.

At this stage, my most likely conclusion is that the damage was the result of an airburst bomb.

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