the key bit

This represents a potentially significant shift in AI deployment. While traditional AI infrastructure typically relies on multiple Nvidia GPUs consuming several kilowatts of power, the Mac Studio draws less than 200 watts during inference. This efficiency gap suggests the AI industry may need to rethink assumptions about infrastructure requirements for top-tier model performance.

It’s pretty simple actually, Ukraine is a US proxy in a war with Russia. As such, Ukraine has no agency in this, and now that US realizes that the war is lost, they’re talking directly to the other party in order to end it.

Poe’s law :)

Annihilation is fantastic, I really enjoyed the whole series.

Sure, meanwhile Cuba, China, Vietnam, Laos which are moving humanity forward.

clearly they did not

“the entire world”

The quotes you selected suggest the opposite. The US is recognizing that it lost the proxy war against Russia, and it is now willing to accept Russian terms for ending the conflict.

that would be the ideal scenario

Russian forces and have them refocus efforts on their own territory instead of attacking Ukraine

except that didn’t happen

I think that will all depend on the state of the US in the next few years. If US crashes economically, they might not be in a position to do anything about it.

The US has been cooking the numbers for a while now, here’s a prime example https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/19/something-strange-has-been-happening-with-jobless-claims-numbers-lately.html

If the regime collapses, the north might move in.

The way things are going in SK, it might just implode politically at some point.

Indeed, it’s gonna be a long road before anything substantial happens.

But its government is also harsh towards its critics, and that can be expected to have an effect on surveys.

First of all, you clearly have no clue how Chinese government actually works. I can recommend this article as a primer. The whole notion that people in China are afraid to criticize the government isn’t based in reality. In fact, if that was the case then the government wouldn’t have any incentive to improve the lives of the people. Finally, the fact that you think people at Harvard aren’t smart enough to do a proper survey is also incredible.

The proof was referring to trying to apply same means of revolution to a different system. Revolution agains preindustrialized feudalism doesnt prove the methods success agains developed capitalism.

Yet, you’re unable to put in concrete terms how these differences matter in terms of organizing a revolution. You’re just making hand wavy statements that lack substance here.

I agree the nature tells us lots of different things. And when one starts to pick seemingly related concepts he will find whatever he wants. Did you know that fascist believe that they are just intepreting biology? Same with colonialists. Thats why they are not a serious argument. Unless we talk of something innate to humans that would prevent certain specific behavior.

This addresses nothing of what I actually said.

Yeah no. Basic logic here. When was the other famine there? After tsar before stalin? Any proof?

Yeah there’s plenty of proof, and maybe go spend a bit of time learning about the subject instead of wasting other people’s time with inane claims. This whole discussion started with me pointing out that you’re speaking out of ignorance here, and everything you’ve said in this thread has further reinforced that fact. You keep acting like things you’re attempting to debate are just abstract ideas while there is very clear history and facts at play here.

In any case, it’s pretty clear that this discussion isn’t going anywhere. We’re obviously not going to agree on anything or convince each other of anything. So, I’m going to stop here and let you have the last word.

Yeah that must be it, couldn’t possibly be that people who see their government work in their interests and whose lives improved more than at any time in history would genuinely support their government. You are very intelligent!

I mean why would anyone think they live in a democratic country where the government represents them when this sort of things are happening right?

90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes

Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-bank-earnings-01-12-2024/card/chinese-household-savings-hit-another-record-high-xqyky00IsIe357rtJb4j

People in China enjoy high levels of social mobility https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html

The typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-chinese-adult-now-richer-than-europeans-wealth-report-finds-2022-9

Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it’s the most populous country on the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8SvK0E5dI

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China’s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2019&amp%3Blocations=CN&amp%3Bstart=2008

By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/asia/china-poverty-xi-jinping.html

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience

None of these things happen in capitalist states, and we can make a direct comparison with India which follows capitalist path of development. In fact, without China there practically would be no poverty reduction happening in the world.

If we take just one country, China, out of the global poverty equation, then even under the $1.90 poverty standard we find that the extreme poverty headcount is the exact same as it was in 1981.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/07/5-myths-about-global-poverty

The $1.90/day (2011 PPP) line is not an adequate or in any way satisfactory level of consumption; it is explicitly an extreme measure. Some analysts suggest that around $7.40/day is the minimum necessary to achieve good nutrition and normal life expectancy, while others propose we use the US poverty line, which is $15.

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/12-things-we-can-agree-about-global-poverty