‘The more I see of what you call civilisation, the more highly I think of what you call savagery.’

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  • US soldiers are cowards, not brave risk takers or supersoldiers, but they don’t need to looking how US fights. The whole myth (inflated, but not totally ungrounded) that even allow US military to even operate is the idea that they are so technologically ahead to everybody that nobody is in any actual risk of dying or getting hurt and military is just some field trip for poor kids to get college. I guess it’s kinda of a bravery when your wars are all air campaigns and your bravest and most machho soldier is some F35 pilot firing standoff munitions to some school 200km away.

    When it comes to wars US has all the freedom to choose target countries, that it thinks are weak, softened by sanctions and intelligence undermining, and not ready to put up much of fight. It has always been this way, and US isolated geography gives them this freedom to pick their battles, US never needs to play defense or think about long term consequences, since “war” is always something happens to somebody else somewhere else. The same goes for political imperative of American wars, any amount of bodies that can been seen coming back in coffins is too much.







  • Us strategy is to chase the latest frontier model and while they burn money to get to that economy solving model they just plant to get everybody hooked, so they can ramp up prices later and make mega profits. Chinese just see the AI as a productivity multiplier and expect the money to be made elsewhere, their models are open and their Ai companies work on a loss. US plan really expects that there is eventually A) no competition, and B) their shit can actually be so useful that soon nobody can live without them. Everything the Chinese do is just poison to US AI companies.









  • Finnish game studios don’t even bother to add Finnish subtitles in the games half the time and nobody cares, because nobody expects them to, or even makes a fuss when they don’t, and the devs wouldn’t care even if some people would, since domestic market is an afterthought. Such is the fate of a small language zone, lol. It’s a bit weird if Chinese isn’t among the first 2-6 languages to get translations, if they care about widest possible global market and sales, and the game isn’t just in english with no language options at all. I don’t know if it’s harder to get good Chinese translators in some places to do that kind of work to get both message and the tone right?



  • Does it go something like this? Those companies who buy the NAND chips to make AI accelerators, SSDs and RAM for data centers are the Microns customers, like Nvidia. Even if they are in trouble and know that the datacenters are not being built, they can’t cancel the deals because that would call the bubble into question. They will have to take any markup deal that Micron gives, them because if they don’t there will be nothing for them nor Micron anyway.