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Gag order issued in case of woman charged after she said military officer raped her​

Gag order issued in case of woman charged after she said military officer raped her

A judge says Veronika Rodriguez, charged by Fort Indiantown Gap police, and anyone associated with her or her case can't talk about it.

www.pennlive.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1i844vi

 

[florduh]

The US tried to protect our tech sector by slapping sanctions on China, preventing them from accessing the latest chip technology. Then China turned around and ate our tech idiots' lunch.

How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions

With a new reasoning model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek managed to turn restrictions into innovation.

www.technologyreview.com

Big Tech is out of good ideas. Smartphones have plateaued. Nobody wants their VR goggles. So, they sold investors on this magical AI shit that only American Tech can develop. Hundreds of billions in capital poured into these companies based on this promise.

Now, CHYNA has developed a groundbreaking AI model at a very low cost without having access to top tier chips. So, what was the purpose of investors allocating an obscene amount of capital into these companies?

On Monday, one of two things will happen:

1. A Black Monday style market crash
2. We learn conclusively that our entire economy is based on magic beans

And it's gonna be the second one. This is also a good reminder that we're not gonna beat CHYNA with sanctions and tariffs.

 

[florduh]

Honestly...maybe it's time to admit China already won

This is all BEFORE the Trump Admin made major cuts to government research grants.

Edit: I forgot this. China also broke the previous controlled fusion record (also set by China) this week.

China's "Artificial Sun" Just Smashed the Record for Stable Fusion Reaction

Scientists claim that China's "Artificial Sun" nuclear fusion reactor has more than doubled its own previous world record.

futurism.com

17 minutes may not sound like much. But the 2023 record was 6 minutes. Seems like a big increase in a short period of time.

 

[florduh]

Trump suggests "cleaning out" the Gaza strip of Palestinians. Sort of a "cleansing" of all persons of a certain "ethnicity", if you will.

Trump’s Gaza proposal rejected by allies and condemned as ethnic cleansing plan

US president has suggested Palestinians should leave Gaza for neighbouring countries to ‘just clean out’ whole strip

www.theguardian.com

Something I hear very stupid Americans say all the time is, "why won't all these other Arab countries take the Palestinians?!?" For one, this is sort of like saying "why don't all the Ukrainians just go to Poland? They're all white Eastern Europeans? Close enough!"

But also, Egypt and most other Middle Eastern countries are client States of America. They all have very friendly governments. If those governments are seen as helping America and Israel with a final solution to the "Palestinian Problem", those governments will be overthrown and replaced with something far less friendly towards the American Empire.

Trump doesn't know this because he is very fucking stupid. He has no more or less knowledge of the world than the average Fox News watcher.