Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
by d0mine on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @12:31PM
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unrelated: USSR might have been 2nd world. Russia is 3rd world (since 1991) -- banana republic
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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
by crote on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @09:41PM
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No, Russia is by definition the 2nd world. It's about spheres of influence, not any kind of economic status. The First World is the Western Bloc centered around the US, the Second World is the Eastern Bloc centered around then-USSR and now-Russia (although these days more centered on China), the Third World is everyone else.
Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
by d0mine on Thursday January 02, 2025 @04:52AM
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By which definition? Here’s the first result in google: “The term "second world" was initially used to refer to the Soviet Union and countries of the communist bloc. It has subsequently been revised to refer to nations that fall between first and third world countries in terms of their development status and economic indicators.” https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/second-world.asp#:~:tex....
Notice the word economic in it.