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Actually I think it is better to show a random poem. Novels are long, and opening lines can easily trick you to think that you "know" the works. But poems, on the other hand, can b…

It looks that not many talked about the fact that there is a lot Chinese investment in Poland, bringing in manufacturing and management experiences.

There once were news about Fitbit or Garmin displaying workout records for users near classified military bases, and some workout routes were suspected to be in the playground of t…

Banning books is not something new, but I think Florida has some 'unique' criteria when banning certain books. One example I know is Jackson County, FL. once banned 1984 for being …

In China, particularly in Tibet and Qinghai, plague still occasionally occurs, because a wild animal, the Himalayan marmots carry it and people may get plague from them. After the …

This reminds me of the so-called "heartless couplet" (无情对) in Chinese. Every pair of words in the couplets are synonymous or anonymous, and yet the meanings of the couplets are com…

AI is good if you use it wisely. There were reports years ago about using AI in SoCal to detect wild fires, but in the end we see insurance companies using AI to withdraw from area…

I would not jump to the conclusion solely based on isotope signatures. A decade or so ago, a prominent Chinese professor Weidong Sun specialized in geochemistry analyzed the ancien…

That's nonsense. Searching for "广告拦截" on Baidu returns hundreds of thousands of webpages and tutorials telling users how to install and turn on ad blockers, and Chinese smartphone …

I still remember when I bought my first sony vaio in about 2004, running on Windows XP in Japanese, I was just appalled to find that a whole family of useless crap softwares pre-in…

It is celebrated by quite a lot of people in China, Korea, and even in Japan. Yes, Japan. For many Japanese people, the Abenomics did not really revive the economy, and their lives…

I would say it's not an issue about democracy or bureaucracy, it's because the responsibility is diluted. Someone is not happy with this? Great, it is now not because we do not do …

From the viewpoint of people outside the US, Americans probably believe that gun violence is just a mild condition, and decide to live with it. Just like the covid, sure it kills s…

https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%E5%9F%BA%E5%8A%AA%E9%87%8C%E7%BB... https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=2&tn=b... I suspect that this time reuters got tricked to publ…

In the past the big multinational corporations did not give a shit about ethics. IBM happily sold Hitler machines to categorize jews gipsies slavs and gay people. Now programmers '…

I am not sure whether this is disinformation, but in Feb there was this news https://thebulletin.org/2022/02/us-official-russian-invasion... So either Russians are very quick to co…

Some people really need to see what the other parts of the world are thinking. Why would India take a stance in this war? When the border dispute between China and India broke up R…

I am really interested in India's stance on this. Russia is India's largest source of arms, and even now Russia still has arms worth blns to be delivered to India. The last two yea…

Biden said that US is not going to war, but in fact there are many ways to slow down the Russians. You could have a voluntary army from western countries geared with weapons and su…

Do you watch Taiwanese political talk show? Basically guests from both sides in the shows agree that the next election is going to be important. They do openly expressed their ange…

I feel it amused that people here are discussing what and how Lithuania and the west can do to 'confront' China, but everyone in east Asia knows that before the next Taiwan electio…

Perhaps Biden administration has no reaction because Apple Daily (and its boss) was very active in spreading misinformation about Hunter Biden https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ho…

Yes evidence, more evidence, just like the good ol' time that US had evidence from Nayirah, and Powell wielded a tube of wash powder in UN claiming that was WMD. I do believe that …

You have to outnumber for security. From the videos in Hong Kong, I noticed that the journalists in shiny PRESS vests were usually WAAAAAY more than the number of police, many of t…

Initially Chinese people treated it as flu, then they freaked out finding it to be SARS-like, and Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore set temperature checks. During the SARS outbreak, …