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Please tell me this also comes with a new map set in Ohio.

The even shorter, more direct version is:

‘Local community’ actually means ‘Official representatives of the local community.’

EDIT: And ‘great relationship’ means ‘we do business with whatever entity regularly, and that business we do is more advantageous to us than it is to them’.

… Also… I’m in America so… maybe this is somehow different in various Euro countries, but I seriously doubt it…

There’s no way Amazon invests in local roads.

I’m from Seattle.

Our roads are absolute ass, I’m talking worse than the average road in a small town in South Dakota or Montana.

They certainly don’t directly fund any roadwork around Seattle, despite having many logistics hubs in and near the city.

They’re more likely to strong arm a city, even literally sue them, into upgrading their roads than they are to… like directly contribute some share of their revenue or profit directly into the city’s road maintenance or construction budget.

0 chance Amazon directly funds building of any roads beyond the roads on their property.

Provide computers to schools? Sure, I believe that.

But I am highly doubtful that Amazon directly contributes to building local roads.

Only way I can even see that kind of making sense in a roundabout way is if the city has some kind of specific tax on heavier vehicles or vehicles used in delivery/logistics…

In which case … this would apply to any delivery/logistics vehicle of any kind that either transits through or is based out of the city.

By that logic anyone that pays a sales tax or property tax in the city pays for new roads, likely significantly more, as a group.

“Amazon wont pay a living wage due to its great relationship with the local community”.

So, taken by a normal person, not aquainted with corpo speak… that is some astounding anti-logic.

But if you know a bit of corpo, what that actually means is something like:

We have the local city government by the balls, greatly overexagerated the economic benefit our warehouse would bring to the city, got them to subsidize our construction costs, relax zoning laws or fees, change tax laws or give us a special carve out so that we pay less than if anyone else tried to build a warehouse here…

… and now if the city gov goes for policies/laws we don’t like, we’ll just shut down this location, I’ll go work the same job somewhere else, everyone else is unemployed, and then we’ll tell the media that’s because of the city government, and they’ll likely lose their elected positions.

Neither of the two articles are well sourced.

But you acted like yours was credible, until I presented another one, whereupon you admitted they are both equally valid.

That’s assuming that the random article you found is correct, the veracity of which I can’t verify any more than the interesting engineering article…

That is to say, you cannot verify either of these articles at all, ie, they are both of dubious legitimacy.

You accused someone of being racist based of an article you admit you cannot verify, posted a bunch of related research papers that indicate, sure, they’re trying to develop the thing your article claimed they did… but doesn’t indicate that they actually developed it.

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I can link you a patent for a triangular shaped aircraft, listed as filed by a US Navy Scientist that claims to outline how to create an electromagnetic, gravity negating field around the craft.

That would not be evidence that the US Navy officially announced that they basically built a UFO, that it works, and there’s a video of it, all officially documented and released.

But to you, it would be, if China had done all those things.

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I am not saying China certainly has or has not developed a hypersonic passenger liner.

I am saying your source for this claim is dubious.

I am saying that you believe(d?) it credulously, without any skepticism, got very hostile with people who doubted its claim less tactfully than I did, and now you admit you got hostile based on a claim that you now admit is dubious, and shifted the burden of proof from the article making the claim to the skeptic questioning it.

Again, this is the logic of a fanatic.

If we just pick which dubiously sourced claims we believe based on vibes, truth stops existing.

So, you just assumed a unsourced, unverified story is true because you have a bias in favor of China, and put the burden of proof onto the other person to disprove it, and are completely fine with calling the other person a ‘sad racist’, despite now admitting that the veracity of the claim they are skeptical of is in fact not well established.

This is the argument/personality style of a fanatic, a religious fundamentalist, a QAnon adherent, an Elon Musk simp.

This is how we got ‘the Trump assasination attempt was staged!’

Please stop posting trash tier misinformation as ‘technology news’, please stop jumping to ‘everyone who disagrees with me is rascist’, this level of unjustified vitriol only makes you appear manic.

So… then… you agree that this entire Interesting Engineering article you posted is wrong?

Are you going to apologize to Sarah Brown for calling her a ‘sad racist’ when she expressed doubt as to the veracity of the dubious article you posted?

Ok so 24+ hours later and I now see a few different websites I’ve never heard of before that basically have the same article as this:

https://scienceinfo.net/chinese-hypersonic-aircraft-prototype-reaches-mach-6-speed.html

Still no actual link to the apparently original source somewhere on some social media site.

Now whats being said is that this was a flight test that actually occured 3 years ago, and was classified until now.

And they do provide an image, and credit it to CAS (without an actual link, I still can’t find this on CAS’ english site, but again maybe they are still writing a proper English post?)

This is a test article, that doesn’t appear to have any intakes for scramjet. I think I can make out two small rocket bells inside the thing, but the image quality is very low.

It’s just a test article, launched by a rocket, that Inwould guesstimate to have a wingspan of about… 4 meters, ish?

This new article also mentions that Cui, the team lead, did not mention anything about the current status of the hypersonic passenger jet which this was a test article for.

So… this test article got up to mach 6.5, 3 years ago.

Absolutely nothing about whether or not a successful test flight of a passenger jet sized craft achieved hypersonic speeds with an air breathing turbo ramjet / scram jet or something like that.

Completely different than the originally report.

… This is why I wanted an actual source.

If this very poorly sourced article from this random, clickbait style website is more accurate than the OP article (another poorly sourced article from another clickbait style website) is more accurate, that would mean SCMP, and everyone in this thread saying China has built an air breathing hypersonic jet liner is wrong, and everyone saying that this is basically comparable to the X15 is correct.

(Differences being the X15 was carried up to 45 thousand feet by a B52 instead of a rocket, and the X15 was manned, and this test article is presumably unmanned.)

I mean sure, thats a related research paper, but that isn’t the same thing as an official press announcement or video saying ‘Hey we actually built this thing, it works, take a look.’

I know that the CAS has specifically been researching/developing a hypersonic, passenger liner sized craft for around a decade… and the US has been doing the same with the SR 72, both attempting to develop … something like turbo ramjet that transitions to scramjet at high speeds/altitudes.

But a link to a research paper from 6 years ago is not actually a primary source to what your original link claims, but does not actually source.

I am willing to believe that this may have actually been developed…

But a better source sure would be neat.

Interesting/Wonderful Engineering both claim this was posted on ‘Social Media’ by the Chinese Academy of Sciences… with no link.

South China Morning Post also claims a video posted by CAS on social media… with no link, no video.

The english version of the CAS website is updated every couple of days, but this isn’t on it.

Granted, they could be taking their time doing a proper translation.

Does anybody know where to see this video?

Legitimately did not know a cat could assume that pose.

What a goober.

Mostly for memes about beans.

Uh but for real because reddit quite literally sold out and went full corpo.

While the justification for this is primarily based on TikTok being a privacy and data security risk due to it being owned by a Chinese State Organ/Corporation… which is hilarious bullshit because the US does exactly the same thing with all the net data that goes through US corporate social media…

Brainrot is a real thing.

Shortform video platforms are addictive the same way cigarretes or heroin is, extended use ruins your cognitive ability, ruins your attention span, increases depression and anxiety, and fhe format promotes an absurdly fake, narcissistic culture, scams, and mis or disinformation.

Algorithmic profiling is definitely not unique to TikTok, but it is used by the app, and this often pigeonholes the user into content/advertisements that often becomes more and more extreme, manipulative and exploitative of the user.

Though this is being done mostly for stupid reasons, and it isn’t stoping US Corpo brainrot inducing social media platforms, I’ll take what I can get.

Yep, Signal has been the obvious best combination of actual security and ease of use for quite a while now…

But most people that I interact with are still on the level of ‘everyone knows Apple is more secure than Android, so anything on an iPhone is fine’ or ‘wtf undont have a SnapChat? Everyone has a snapchat’.

He’s more conventionally attractive, confident, charismatic, muscular, well dressed, and less of a drama king/queen than most other leftist influencers his age, and he speaks in more Gen Z lingo/vocabulary than other left wing influencers (who are often older) with similar knowledge levels and political stances.

Oh, and he is already popular, on a platform where people love to exist in one-sided, parasocial relationships.

… Sorry if this bursts your bubble, but even most self described leftists basically operate by the same fundamental popularity / favorability dynamics that middle or high schoolers do, whether concsiously or subconsciously.

You sound like a gender/sex swapped version of me, 15 years ago.

I was a hopeless romantic as well, would have crushes on girls, do my best to be as respectful and cordial as possible while hanging out, asking out, or going out on dates with them… falling in love with a fantasy idea of them, huge emotional highs from any attention, massive lows from rejection, lack of contact, or them acting wildly unlike my wistful idea of them.

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Sorry to tell you, but this guy likely just was/is not really that interested in you, or anyone, as a serious relationship partner.

If he was, he would have made time, would not have ghosted you.

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He said he’s never been in an ‘official relationship’ before, asks you if you are single.

He makes sexual jokes when its just you and a few other people.

He enjoys seeing you in person, reciprocates hugs when you meet… but is always asking what you’re doing that night, that weekend, tries to get you over to his place…

He’s most likely the kind of guy that is not interested in serious relationships, and is really just looking for convenient flings.

Doesn’t make him evil. Doesn’t make him a saint.

Unless theres more to this story where you’ve already told him directly how much he means to you, how you really feel, where you directly said ‘Hey do you want to go on a date / be my boyfriend’…

… he probably has no idea that you are basically in unrequited love with him.

He probably doesn’t hate you, he probably just likes you as a friend and finds you attractive, a potentially bangable friend.

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As for what to do next?

Well, first come to terms with the idea that he enjoys your company as a friend, and potential friend with benefits, but currently is not interested in a serious relationship with you, despite your efforts thus far.

Then, you could accept this, continue to be a more casual friend with him.

Or you could maybe write him an email that explains … hey you know I am actually pretty seriously enamored with you as a potential serious, long term relationship, and I’d like to know if you’d be interested in that.

It could be that it just did not occur to him that that’s what you’d like, and maybe he’d be willing to try!

Or… maybe not, and then hopefully you two can still be friends.

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A lot of guys (myself included) are pretty dense when it comes to determining ‘hints’ from women.

And I say ‘hints’ because you never described yourself asking him out on a date, asking him to go steady with you, telling him how interested in him you are, doing or saying anything that would specifically indicate you want a serious relationship with him.

You often have to be pretty direct with a lot of guys, with how you feel and what you want, otherwise, they’ll miss them entirely.

Not a fan of the NSYNC ones, but it makes sense given the playlist’s origin, haha.

I like all the other ones… and would add:

Elmo & Patsy: Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

You know, I think you are right.

I meant to say when the discussion forums were integrated and basically autogenerated for any game, when Steam went from ‘this is our game launcher’ to ‘soon we will sell every pc game that has ever and will ever exist.’

But when it comes to hiring people to moderate things?

Insanity.

Facebook does this by hiring tens, hundreds of thousands of moderators in economically undeveloped nations, managed by a few thousand based in the US or EU.

Its a horror show sweatshop of constant exposure to the most horrible content imaginable, which basically drives many employees to suicide or insanity.

There is no AI that can do this.

… Valve could maybe? probably? afford to hire hundreds of thousands of low cost moderators following Facebook’s model.

But I’m pretty sure that they would basically go, oh, we are now legally responsible for what is said on our platform?

Fuck it, nuke 99% of it from orbit, do a bit of redesign, hire a much smaller cadre of moderators, who will manage a vastly stripped down and more cumbersome and more restrictive ability to comment on or discuss things.

… What would be the downside to that?

12 year olds and morons with no impulse control now use discord instead of the steam forums?

People maybe go back to making their own game based community websites/forums?

… Who is going to stop using Steam because the discussion forums dissapear?

Because all the default comment posting and viewing settings for all the other ways you can leave a public message now flip to being restrictive and time delayed?

I really do stand by my other statement in this thread: You could erase everything that is not from a human, manually pinned discussion thread and nothing of value would be lost.

Bingo.

It’s been that way since its inception, astronauts with gun meme or whatever.

Steam discussion forums … kind of famously do not have or require any active, human moderation.

Basically, there’s a simple ‘foul word detector’, and that’s about it.

You could nuke everything that is not a manually pinned thread, and nothing of value would be lost.

Welcome to the mundane, realistic cyberpunk dystopia, hope you paid attention to more than the flashy surface level marketing.