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> Though one must ask, why are American models banned in China? Hmmm.

Because they're not? But the American government and Anthropic don't want American models to be used by the Chinese. Anthropic is notorious for its effort to tell if the user is within China.

Re:Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home on Thursday January 15, 2026 @02:54AM (#46629448)
if, there are healthy newsrooms
What I don't really understand, as an outsider, aren't the arabs semitic too? Why doesn't the word antisemitism include the hatred toward the arabs?
I think you've guessed their plan.
Re:Employee – CEO pay gap historically wide on Thursday July 24, 2025 @01:48AM (#44667357)
It hasn't? If only the US is willing to sell.
Re:Are We the Baddies? on Sunday July 06, 2025 @10:57PM (#44486327)
What do you think of the donations to open source project maintainers or photographers or musicians? What about gifts sent to tiktok hosts?

I'm from a country where there're no tips, and I'm not defending tips at all. But I do think the tiktok gifts are basically tips right? Is it a good idea to live off the gifts like the tips?

Um, does a mall normally gets a cut in all the sales which happen in the stores on its ground? The mall surely keeps the stores running by providing services like security, parking, advertising to attract people, etc.
> If a country that we are likely to be at war with has significant influencer over our population, that is indeed a big deal.

So, how will the war begin? Who will begin it? How long has the US or its allies been planning to start this war?

Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal on Monday August 12, 2024 @03:28AM (#41221994)
It doesn't just so happens that solar is cheap energy. It's China who made solar cheap energy.
So did Beijing bomb the Uyghurs? Do you see Uyghurs anywhere cry for kins killed by bombs or houses destroyed? How can you compare China with Israel?

Also, sure Uyghurs killed Hans in riots, and they sure have conducted terrorist attacks in China.

Re:What's the difference between a motor and an engine? on Thursday May 23, 2024 @03:46AM (#40451763)
Why not "Kings English" now, as the Queen, well, is gone?
It's Deepseek, not Deepseed, just so people can actually find the model.
Re:Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) on Monday December 25, 2023 @02:00AM (#38760473)
If tenses are cases are what keeps languages from being global, you should all speak Chinese now, whose words don't change forms at all.
Re:Shopify Files Lawsuit over Illegal DMCA Takedown Abuse on Monday October 23, 2023 @11:26PM (#37994573)
It could be a large deposit, to be returned if the case is verified, or to be rewarded to the victim if it turn out to be vicious.
Taking Taiwan back won't make a Chinese leader "great". It is more of a responsibility and sort of a minor one, as a not so famous general (Shi Lang) in Qing dynasty achieved this and people have criticized and are still criticizing him for his betrayal to the Ming dynasty.

Deng Xiaoping brought Hong Kong and Macao back, but he was memorated as a great leader not because of this, but because he opened the door for China to its economic prosperity.

Re:The Hostile Forces of Beijing on Saturday January 28, 2023 @03:04AM (#34556042)
Perhaps the dying Chinese people are more willing to donate their organs and there are more Chinese people dying as there are more people in China?
Re:As TikTok grows, so does suspicion on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:56AM (#32053095)
Currently in 2020. Later the primary source becomes India. China actually did put an end to the shipping.
Re:As TikTok grows, so does suspicion on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:26AM (#32052876)
Hmm, you know corporations can run prisons, and they can fight in wars with mercenaries.
Re:Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:28AM (#29670900)
It's really absurd to call any labor performed by Uygur inside China forced labor. Are Uygurs so lazy to deny any labor? Or can they not prefer working in factories than, say, farming or herding cattles?

As to the ideology and gratitude part, I think people may alter their ideology if they so choose. After all, the Romans switched to Christianity, and slavery was once legal in the States. And people should be able to express gratitude to people giving them a chance to work for a better life. Even now, people from abroad are moving into the States to work, are they all forced labor?

Re:Is The World Deglobalising? on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @03:00AM (#29401747)
So the poor in the US are not exploited?
Perhaps the drivers didn't mean to speed...
This thing can be good for the Chinese people, but it's CCP, so yeah, it must be evil intentioned.

I don't know if you really mean it or you are forced to well imagine it so your comment won't be downvoted.

But you could just ask. If the natives don't want a modern lifestyle, that's ok. If they do want it, you should definitely give them a chance to work and earn it. The same applies in the alien-earth case too.

At the very least, if you insist your way of treating less advanced cultures, democracy should never be spread to countries that were previously authoritarian, because that was their natural way of living.

Re:Apple makes its case against iPhone app sideloading on Thursday June 24, 2021 @07:27AM (#27616127)
So you must love China and CCP. China is very safe, you don't get gunned on the street (or in schools for that matter), and you don't fear absurd medical bills. The government runs a walled garden and the corporations have to cooperate due to the market size.
Re:Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear on Thursday June 17, 2021 @11:15PM (#27547015)
The character 企 also looks like a penguin by itself.
Re:Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:08AM (#26831447)
Market manipulation?
China complained about the fund provided by the UN being abused by the Haiti government. If there is no fund, there will be no complaint.
Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:26AM (#26074511)
What do you even mean if you call the US nativist? Native American Supremacist?

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