yogthos

Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans (www.newsweek.com)

Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than Bluetooth competitor (consumer.huawei.com)

Compared to Bluetooth:...

Priorities (lemmygrad.ml)

Toddler Economics (media.mas.to)

China is forecasted to reach 1,000GW of installed solar capacity by 2026 (from 500GW today), which is pretty much equivalent to the total global solar power capacity today. (reneweconomy.com.au)

More hilarity over lemmy.ml, I gotta say libs do add a lot of entertainment value to the site (lemmy.ml)

The United States is pushing Ukraine further into a war that it cannot win. (nationalinterest.org)

French journalists were able to get access to a confidential report from the French Defense Dpt. on the war. (www.marianne.net)

TLDR...

China, in 2023 alone, installed more solar capacity than the US has ever done in its entire history, surpassing expectations. (lemmygrad.ml)

Sources:...

Different Clowns, Same Circus (media.mas.to)

Theory vs Practice (lemmygrad.ml)

the state of US dystopia in one picture (media.mas.to)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told CBS News today that the so-called Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. seven months ago wasn’t spying at all. (www.cbsnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/1886024...

China AI and Semiconductors Rise: US Sanctions Have Failed (www.semianalysis.com)

Russia and China conduct freedom of navigation exercises near Alaska (web.archive.org)

Nazipedia gotta whitewash quick (lemmygrad.ml)

archived link web.archive.org/web/…/Yaroslav_Hunka

China beats US for first time in global scientific ‘hot papers’ ranking (www.scmp.com)

Where's the lie (lemmygrad.ml)

Russia got richer even as the war in Ukraine raged on last year, while the West shed trillions of dollars of wealth (www.businessinsider.com)

Oh no, anyways... (lemmygrad.ml)

Democrats (lemmygrad.ml)

libs and elections gaslighting

The notion that Biden represents a lesser evil compared to the chaotic reign of Trump is a common argument. However, we must not forget that there exists a moral threshold below which neither choice is acceptable. To suggest that enabling a literal genocide can be considered a lesser evil is a morally bankrupt stance....

“We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South,” said one senior G7 diplomat. "Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.” (www.ft.com)

archive archive.ph/ctAhD

Heads up: a new codeword for "genocide" has just dropped. (media.mas.to)

Some interesting stats about Russia's economy after 2 years of unprecedented sanctions (en.thebell.io)

Most Russians have never lived as well as they do now. Nor do people believe that things are about to get worse. The fact that Russians are living better is evident from their outgoings. Spending at cafes and restaurants, for example, is increasing....