This would be better than the face and/or ID-scan by creepy companies every time you want to access whatever is deemed adult. For one it would be privacy-preserving, they wouldn't know who you are or anything other than something basic like an age range which is the ideal.

The tricky part is implementing it in open source software of course. The best thing to do would be to not require that. If kids are clever enough to install Linux to get around their parental controls then let them. But I doubt that will be acceptable. I suppose my idea would be for some sort of hardware, external or internal that does this task with some sort of cryptographic assurance of integrity and a protocol for web sites and programs on the machine to directly query it.

One issue is I can't see things like Graphene or rooted Androids passing the evaluation here so people owning those would be locked out of certain things while trying to use them unless Google implements and they leave intact some high integrity, high assurance hardware based solution they can't tamper with. But given the way Google is going trying to kill other options and lock down their system with mandatory certificates only through them those things may not have long to live anyways.

I'd rather not budge on this at all but the fact is this is happening. It's happening whether you and I want it or hate it. Many places are doing it in a very privacy invasive way that ties identities to actions, speech, thoughts, history on the web which will be used shortly for censorship, oppression, silencing critics, etc. So the chance to push alternative tech that explicitly prevents that via a design that doesn't involve your identity being stored or sent anywhere, just an age signal is one that shouldn't be passed up by anyone who is an enemy of the liberal western system. Because once that's in place the arguments for passing identity betraying laws are a lot weaker and it takes a lot of wind out of their sails and will build further resentment among normal people if rammed through anyways.

Knowing these types he was probably doing an all tuna diet or something like that. Probably even snacking on it to absorb its power or something.

It triggers a visceral rage in these older people at what they perceive as disrespect and of course at what they perceive as the loss of their white supremacist culture. They think they (the white boomers) were the best generation and culture that ever existed, any deviation is a horrendous descent into childish barbarism that must be corrected. All must eternally bask in and uphold the glory of their culture.

It's paternalistic mainly, it's also racist, it's lead-brained knee-jerk anger response. It's very deeply rooted in Christian paternalism "respect your elders, honor thy mother and father (with obedience)".

Or maybe they supplied them a ton of advanced stuff and this act of trying to get these systems working with Iranian radars is all a ruse.

You have to have something for the Americans and their radar seeking missiles to home in on, if you let them think they've destroyed your poor cobbled together collection of old junk maybe you can use visual spotters, light them up at the last minute from a hidden position and start blasting them from the sky. At least one can wistfully think that might be the case. Could be they're in dire straights.

Also could be they simply plan to keep the good stuff hidden and only bring it out if it turns into a full on war, basically let the Americans pound them like last time, take the deaths, launch a few punches back and hope the Americans go home and they don't get into a full on war.

Certainly they'd be fools to be flashing their good stuff right now and if I were advising them I think I would tell them keep the good stuff hidden for at least the first day of strikes. That way you can pull it out and maybe shoot them down and scare them off if they turn it into a continued campaign.

At the very least a lifetime ban on climbing outside of organized larger groups with multiple other experienced climbers present.

If it can be changed at will only by the governor, given the power zionists have here then they have no reason to worry. They can continue to wield the holocaust as a club for their own genocide while denying any discussion that suggests any other group ever suffered racism.

Which is why some would say you always execute these people. Some sympathetic person will inevitably get into power within a decade, pardon them, and make a mockery of the whole thing. If you really want to deter you have to deter in a permanent way that can't later be rewritten.

isn'treal, Ukraine, Britain, France, etc.

The west would never let that happen.

At best the west would let China sell its DRAM to typical western brands like Apple, HP, Dell, to meet the shortage then immediately kick them out if the AI demand goes away and call them a national security threat and restore the markets of the western memory companies without missing a beat.

The Chinese companies and state know this. They know there's no real leverage to gain from a temporary entry providing cheap component goods to the west which is why I doubt they'll make any moves to attempt that. Because no good will bought from doing that would be worth a damn in dissuading the west from attacking China or in making those populations reconsider the propaganda they spout on China as westerners have goldfish memory and if that kind of thing worked the western publics would be grateful to them for the cheap goods they've been providing for some time instead of grousing about "Chinesium" and how much they dislike buying from China and would rather it was made in the US. And for the companies no good will from doing that would get westerners rioting in the streets demanding their Chinese DRAM be brought back and unbanned as we've seen with things people actually care about like Tiktok (memory is invisible to most consumers, they just buy an end device with it already installed).

If the west were to allow what you propose, Chinese electronic brand penetration and implosion of western brands (unthinkable, their value in NSA campaigns is hard to calculate both in foreign spying and domestic spying and control) then it would signal the throwing in of a towel by the west in a very real sense or at the very least an incredible failure and lack of intelligence on their part leading to far reaching consequences.

As I understand it Chinese memory producers are making memory to meet China's AI needs, so the same kind of HBM incompatible with consumer systems. Oh they may have enough to meet domestic DRAM demand but exporting it may be another question. And in a choice between losing the AI race with the US and whatever risks that might carry (not insignificant given what we've seen the future of warfare will look like and the threat China faces from the US) AND making a quick buck that may be very fleeting (as the US can slam the door shut any time without warning leaving manufacturers with inventory glut) I think the Chinese will choose powering their own growing AI ventures which they plan to pair with robotics to continue dominance of global manufacturing and prevent western capitalists from easily decoupling.

The data centers won't get built, the US will collapse any day now, Russia's victory is assured in another 6 months with a major offensive and Ukraine's front will collapse due to not enough soldiers and the tide will completely turn, the US won't build capacity to decouple from China. Nothing but cope and I have to admit cope from the left is still cope.

Maybe the AI bubble implodes, maybe it doesn't. The bourgeoisie seem serious about marshaling their funds to create a real dagger of automation to hold at the throat of labor to drive down worker power in a time of decline and no more expansion.

America's infrastructure is shit because the bourgeoisie don't care, because there's no reason to invest in it. Because like a lot of things they own its best kept in a just barely working state and a few catastrophic failures that kill some proles are a small price to pay for operating "lean". America can build things and data centers are relatively easy to build. There's lots of construction companies in the US. It's not like shipyards where you need these special spaces, special equipment, special know-how, special supply-chains, and specially trained workers and where the bourgeoisie don't really care about matching China's capacity so far.

As to power that's easily solved, repeal EPA regulations, run dirty generators off diesel and fracked gas, bring dirty power plants online, charge consumers through the nose to pay for expansion of capacity, blame consumers running air conditioning or appliances too much for rolling brown-outs that happen. Run the grid overloaded at 110% capacity, etc.

Even if they build 50% of the planned amount it's going to create problems. Even if they're delayed by a year or two.

Made an emoji out of the saddam/osama flag burning pair at the bottom, someone give it a name and post it in the emoji community:

Suggested tags: sicko, saddam, osama, flag, burn, yes, win

Three options, you choose which one looks best:

Op1: Biggest

Op2 (further cropped):

Op3 (restored black at top after cropping):

Video Game CEOs: Got it, so we need more abusive psychology, gambling mechanics, and naked women in our games in order to compete! Make it so at once!

Developer: Can we at least optimize our games a bit given how high RAM and storage prices are these days? Our customers cannot afford to run them!

CEO: No! Optimization costs too much money, we're just going to shift resources to mobile games that also run on PCs that employ the above values.