Not gonna pretend that the unhoused in this situation are being helped or anything, but it goes to show that the US government is capable of improving things for its people but choses not to.

Also, remember when Beijing hosted the Olympics and Westoids accused China of hiding all the beggars? Lmao.

Notice that China is the only group represented by an animal. My theory is that the cartoonist spent hours trying to draw Xi but every time their editor refused to publish their extremely racist caricature.

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Of course, I say this as a diaspora Asian of sorts.

Noizumi is half-Japanese, and she found herself thinking, “Why am I so excited that my daughter has blue eyes? What’s the big deal about that? And why am I so excited that I have a baby who looks more white?”

This is the kind of statement that would get a white celebrity cancelled for saying it, but apparently it's just a fun tidbit for Netflix.

In their early creative conversations that would eventually span 15 years, they started spinning a tale about how “back in the Edo period starting in 17th-century Japan, it would’ve been illegal to be white.

Wtf based Edo period.

Idk if the series is as good as they say, but how the fuck did they think that publishing any of this was a good idea?

Attorney General Dana Nessel's office is ending its pursuit of criminal prosecutions over the Flint water crisis after seven years of no convictions, a decision that came Tuesday after the Michigan Supreme Court rejected an attempt to revive charges against Republican former Gov. Rick Snyder.

If Flint had been a village in China, the offending officials would have gotten the death sentence years ago.

The dunk is on the account, not the majority of people voting for the objectively good and correct answer.

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Westoids better pray that the Great Firewall stays up. For their own sakes.

Academia Sinica in Taiwan released the AI language model last Friday which can answer all kinds of questions that users input. Multiple media outlets in Taiwan had bragged that this language model is a new-generation product developed by Taiwan independently.

However, the Global Times reporters found that when users input questions such as "which country does Taiwan island belong to," the language model would give the answers "China" or "People's Republic of China."

Based AI model.

Media outlets on the Taiwan island said the language model was developed independently by Taiwan by using the historical documents from the Ming and Qing dynasties, the traditional Chinese version of Wikipedia, and various classical Chinese as its training materials, with development fees of NT$300,000, equivalent to about 68,000 yuan ($9,338).

Probably a gross misrepresentation from Taiwan Island media unless the output is in classical Chinese and not vernacular.

The Global Times cited the Taiwan media outlet CNA's report on Monday that when users input the question "who were you created by," the model answered that "I was jointly developed by the Fudan University Natural Language Processing Group and Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and my birthday is February 7, 2023."

And of course the cherry on the shit sundae is that the model itself claims that it was developed in Shanghai. Who's the IP thief now, Reddit Island?

Absolutely beyond parody.

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Intentionally or unintentionally.

I once played a game of Pictionary where the word was "Israel". Person on the other team gets up and draws a Star of David and a yamulke and a kind of crude but fairly identifiable map of Israel.

Her team member absolutely does not get what's happening and keeps guessing completely unrelated things. When time is up, the person drawing was really exasperated and said "It's ISRAEL! How can you not recognize the country of Israel?!"

Her teammate, without missing a beat, just said "Pfffft, Israel isn't a real country".

I talked to the based team mate afterwards and she was just a standard lib who was bad at geography.

That's it. That's the actual headline. Nothing I say can make it more absurd than it actually is.

The war-game participants include representatives from investment banks, in addition to current and former executives from pharmaceutical companies and retired four-star US military officers. The committee declined to name the financial executives who will participate.

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