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When I asked about Tiananmen Square events it answered with a correct historical context. Or who looks like Winnie the Poo. Haven’t used the app but colleagues that tried found it censored. Not sure those “journalists” did any actual investigation.

You can find it out yourself. Download ollama and deepseek locally, turn off network connectivity and ask it about Tiananmen or other potentially censored information.

https://interconnect.substack.com/p/was-zuck-right-about-chinese-ai-models

Use Ollama to run deepseek locally. No censorship, no data leakage, can be run without network connectivity.

Economic and financial terrorists. It’s also a great awakening how the current value system can be captured by the whims of a few intellectually inept creatures.

Well, I want ice cream and a pony. Maybe two ponies.

Stock market is woke /s

Not long until MAGAs call the stock market woke.

Why not build from agar which is already used in other cultures as gelatin and part of local desserts?

Let’s stop peddling the clickbait nonsense. Planning to buy isn’t cancelling. There’s no contract. The F16 fleet is ageing and needs replacing. With EU funds directed towards EU defence companies and US unpredictability, makes sense to look elsewhere for aircrafts.

Straight from the horse’s mouth:

"The Air Force wants this replacement to be made by F-35s, which are American-made planes. What you are saying is that, due to the change in US foreign policy, it is less likely that Portugal will replace the F-16s with an American aircraft?

The world has already changed. There were elections in the USA, there was a position in relation to NATO and the world, affirmed by the Secretary of Defense and by the President of the USA himself, which also has to be taken into account in Europe and with regard to Portugal. And this ally of ours, which for decades has always been predictable, may bring limitations in use, maintenance, components, everything that has to do with ensuring that aircraft will be operational and will be used in all kinds of scenarios.

And could the replacement go through aircraft, for example, French?

I will not have this discussion here. "

https://www.publico.pt/2025/03/13/politica/entrevista/nuno-melo-afasta-compra-f35-eua-causa-trump-mundo-ja-mudou-2125727

I’m with you on that. However, some places in Asia are moving that way. Signs on shops with cashless payment only. Only a matter of time before it moves to Europe.

https://www.seoulz.com/moving-towards-a-cashless-society-in-south-korea/

The point is also in which direction do you think this will move? More app dependency or less? There’ll be a point in time where cash won’t be allowed and payments are by QR code bank transfer. Some parts of the world have places that completely excluded cash transactions. Once people can’t buy basic goods without an app it’ll be too late to start caring about app-led population exclusion.

I actually don’t see the post as that nuts. He’s got a point, some folks just want to get a name on their CV and HR people are shallow enough to value it.

My point in being pedantic is that three language in a corporate setting is based on business English. Companies deal with loads of people from different countries and cultures. However, a self-styled leader and mentor ought to know better as the language used can captivate or put people off.

“very less”… The Engineering Leader, Mentor

Add WhatsApp to the list

This was the 80s, health and safety be damned. People would build wooden cars with ball bearings from washing machine for wheels. It was a basic wood plank from fruit boxes hacked together with some nails. We’d hit the steepest road (yes, with cars occasionally), climb to the top and zoom down the steep descent. Ended in a 90 degree turn which meant that using shoes for braking didn’t always work and some folks would hit the pavement and be launched. Kids as young as 6 to teenagers would all join in. No adult in sight. Ahhh… good times!

Two main benefits/“public goods” from having your lives in a societal arrangement:

1. Having an educated population allows overall advancements that wouldn’t be possible where education standards are low. If the protestant dogma of “work hard and you’ll get salvation” was still prevalent in all groups we’d still be chiseling stones as that is real manly work. Intellectuality is still mostly frowned upon in the US. The whole purpose is to work less and enjoy living as the benefit of having basic needs solved for. Access to free education has plenty of positive externalities that we aren’t even able to quantify. Would the US still be engrossed in its culture wars or other wars?
2. Having a healthy population allows a sense of group and care for a country. Belonging to a country should mean that your fellow countrymen have your back in time of need. Father time comes for us all. How unpatriotic it is that people proudly wave their flags whilst letting their own fellow countrymen die from preventable causes or having to face choices such as living longer and getting bankrupt or let sickness fester until perishing. Not having free healthcare from an outside perspective is as unpatriotic as you could get.

The US seems a prime example of too much emphasis on GDP and limited focus on quality of life. I’d rather be homeless in Cuba than in the US albeit all wealth and quality of life indicators are better in the US.

So, everyone acknowledges that consolidating risk benefits from natural hedges, a large purchaser of services has greater bargaining power and that centralising service provision enables accumulating knowledge and efficiencies. This is all evidenced in the private sector and consolidation. However, when it comes to healthcare risk pools have to be split, services are provided by multiple providers with limited information available on risks covered and additional admin layers are brought in to manage the embedded inefficiencies from a poorly designed system.

The level of retardation of privatised healthcare beggars belief.

Why stop at internet, stop using keyboards as they’re used to cause so much harm. And pen and paper, so much harm has been done by letters, books, messages. Slippery slope.

Internet is a tool. You can whitelist content to suit your needs rather than allow the floodgates of ad tech play with your mind. I remember the days before the internet. Bureaucracy galore, queuing for basic services, relying on the whims of some individual to get simple actions performed. It wasn’t fun. With today’s low attention span and low tolerance for boredom most people would have a mental breakdown.

Corporate tax at 17% albeit large companies can negotiate to bring it down. Global minimum tax rolled out in 2024 will act as a floor at 15% now.

Income tax, as usual, is based on income brackets. GST is 9%. https://www.iras.gov.sg/taxes/individual-income-tax/basics-of-individual-income-tax/tax-residency-and-tax-rates/individual-income-tax-rates

For reference, Dubai’s corporate tax was 9% but global minimum tax will have the same effect of setting a 15% floor.

Income tax is zero and 5% VAT/GST.

Bready McBread Pain

It had more slow motion scenes than an Indian action movie. Shallow and cliché dialogue ripping off from the star wars universe. Snyder was plastered all over the credits. If this isn’t his cut then take the damn name off the credits. No matter how you cut it it’ll have the same actors, storyline, dialogue depth and in-your-face visuals. Snyder really is a subtle and sophisticated guy.