Is this an AI generated article? The section on Xinjiang and Tibet basically says nothing substantial. Obviously those are expansionist examples. The border fights China has with neighbors like India are also examples. But what makes me think this is AI is that the section on Xinjiang and Tibet basically doesn’t answer anything. What about them? What about the suppression of their culture? What about the concentration camps? It just moves past all these suspiciously.
Pensions should be banned. The entire notion of a guaranteed income is unrealistic and incredibly expensive. People need to save and manage their own spending and savings responsibly. Taxes for redistribution make sense within some range of policies but simply telling people they’ll be guaranteed a certain income? With various loopholes to maximize pensions? It’s no surprise that many pension funds are in the red.
And the pensions mentioned in the article are an example of this. It mentions that two workers supporting each pensioner is a problem. How? If that’s the case wouldn’t these two workers eventually need four workers to support them as pensioners? What makes this different from a Ponzi scheme?
Savings is an insidious lie to ourselves. It makes zero sense to an economy. X people working, and Y people not working leads to the outcomes you see as obvious. Trying to say some people are not saving enough becomes meaningless when looking at a whole economy. Or you are saying that people should increase their time worked or reduce their disposable spending which is saying they hardly deserve any rewards for their hours.
As someone who has legitimately tried to save enough for my retirement, it is obvious that my savings will be taken away through government taxation changes (the "tax the rich" movement will insidiously spread to taxing middle class savers in New Zealand). The government can't afford to pay for retirees so it will grab resources from whoever has them which I expect to be the "savers" you mention.
An economy can reduce spending on retirees, and increasing the retirement age is the most convenient way to do that.
The proper way out is to increase the productivity of the economy.
Perhaps you are not acquainted with the common retirees that are skimping on all expenses - trivial things like enough heating or food. I have a retiree friend living in his car (and still working hard).
Once people get the idea saving just makes you a sap the numbers will get dramatically worse. This is my argument against needs-based pensions: If I only get a pension when I don't have money, trust me, I will not have money when I retire.
Also I somewhat question that money will have same purchasing power in future if either of population and productivity growth fails. The idea is that you save now and in future there is enough labour to buy... Which is likely to fail. You can make numbers look like anything. But that does not solve the issue that people need to be willing to do something for you for price you can pay.
Well for one, Trump is likely compromised by China. His family owns properties there. He had much stronger tariffs on friends of America than on China. And he held off on banning TikTok even though the law required it. China doesn’t have to be tariff proof. It just needs an incompetent corrupt adversary like Trump, who is only competent at making money for himself at the taxpayer’s expense.
It’s crazy that Hegseth has a Christian nationalist tattoo on his chest. And watching him bully the Boy Scouts into becoming a “god centric” program, the Nazi Christian vibes are strong.
Edit - to respond to some of the replies all at once:
- German swastika is literally a different symbol than Buddhist and Hindu swastikas
- If Hegseth is actually proclaiming he's an extremist maybe use that proclamation as evidence rather than demonising a cross motif that existed nearly a millennia before the United States
- And whoever thinks the crusades were about slaughtering non-believers seems to not know anything about history, Jerusalem was Christian for centuries before Mohammed was even born and the Muslims were the invaders...
- It's extremely hypocritical to call Christian symbols "extremist" or whatever while giving a pass to symbols from a certain other religion that's particularly fond of conquest and has conquered significantly more previously Christian regions than the reverse...
I don't know much about the Kingdom of Jerusalem per se, but even today many Jews say prayers specifically written after the Crusades
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland_massacres
So the symbols of "hope and triumph of establishing Christianity in the Holy Land" do not evoke particularly positive connotations, even aside from the usual modern opposition to that particular mission.
The shooter who committed the 2019 New Zealand mosque massacre thought that.
Fellow members and leaders of Hegseth's National Guard unit thought that.
Crusader symbols in general have grown popular with many far-right nationalists, who see the imagery as a nod to an era of European Christian wars against Muslims and Jews.
Contemporary usage of symbols is often at odds with and regardless of any historic original back story and meaning.
> If Hegseth is actually proclaiming he's an extremist ...
Nope, he's always banging on about being a Proud, Patriotic, American, Christian, Nationalist. I can't say I've ever heard him proclaim himself to be an extremist ... save perhaps in the extreme love of God and America he professes to have. You can hear him Capitalise the words as he spits them forth.
Who on earth thinks the buddhist swastika is a German nationalist symbol? Oh, right, everyone who saw Nazis use it. Turns out that when one group uses a symbol to represent themselves, that symbol becomes associated with them. Go figure.
In this case it's not even "a symbol represents who it is used by". You literally linked to an article that espouses about how it's a symbol of the Crusades, i.e. united Christendom coming together to slaughter non-believers, in other words it has always been a symbol of hatred.
> Linear is the shared product system that turns context into execution.
I agree it’s weird, but this is a pattern many companies are applying. They’re desperate to look like an AI company and to centralize themselves as the place where everything happens. It helps with investors and some customers.
But yes I think having agents in these products is weird - and most people would rather access the basic features / data via their own agent of choice, outside these products.
Of course they killed cases against Trump friendly companies. It also means everyone else loses. Smaller companies with little wrongdoing will occupy the attention of the agencies.
Pensions in general feel like a scam. How can you guarantee a certain income? Such predictability is just not possible in real life, which is why so many pension funds don’t have enough assets. And so they turn into a Ponzi scheme. This seems to be true in every state or country where they exist.
Call this an “AGI CPU” just feels like the most out of touch, terrible marketing possible. Maybe this is unfair but it makes me think ARM as a whole is incompetent just because it is so tasteless.
> Arm has additionally partnered with Supermicro on a liquid-cooled 200kW design capable of housing 336 Arm AGI CPUs for over 45,000 cores.
Also just bad timing on trying to brag about a partnership with Supermicro, after a founder was just indicted on charges of smuggling Nvidia GPUs. Just bizarre to mention them at all.
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