From the sound of it, this was a commercial Filipino fishing vessel that likely rammed the Chinese ship by accident because the Chinese navy damaged that ship with powerful water cannons.

I have windows 11 because it came with a new pc. The damn thing crashed so much it reminded me of bad windows from the old days. Don’t get it YET if you don’t have to.

It’s stupidly written like AI.

Sorry Guardian. It’s been long known around the world about these scam centers. Only the Guardian and its reporters may have been the ignorant ones. There are also massive centers in Cambodia. Chinese crime syndicates have been setting these up in other parts of South East Asia and Africa as well.

China is also building coal power at an unprecedented rate. https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-power-plants-reached-10-year-high-in-2024/

Large companies (defined as having more than 250 employees) have reduced their AI usage, according to the data (click to expand the Tweet below). The slowdown started in June, when it was at roughly 13.5%, slipping to about 12% at the end of August.

Someone explain to me how I am to see this “rate” as - is it adoption rate or usage rate? IF it is adoption rate 13.5% of all large firms are using it? and it’s declined to 12%? Or is it some sort of usage rate and if so, whatever the fuck is 12% usage?

Barbaric. Uncivilized.

US has snuck these mobile missile systems into the Philippines. At first they said missiles were there temporarily as part of joint military exercises, but delayed removing them. It’s now been a few years since and these missiles have become a fixture over there. Chinese are going to come out with a warning about this “provocation” by the US and Philippines soon.

Oh look at this. Trump is making friends out of enemies! He surely deserves the Nobel Peas Prize! (sarcasm, intentional misspelling)

He’ll probably sell it as “a merger of equals”, that “America will now be across 3 continents and the sun will never set on America.” “The greatest America it’s ever been!”

I’ve only seen the hit TV show, never read it. Yeah I’m a fan of the show. lol

The body count isn’t from the paper. If you read, it is a direct quote attributed to a general of the Thai military.

I am not sure there are any center-left newspapers left in Thailand. The nation isn’t a rag as you claim to be. It is a reputable news outlet.

The Nation is an English-language daily online newspaper founded in 1971, published in Bangkok, Thailand. It is one of two English-language dailies in Bangkok, the other being the Bangkok Post. On 28 June 2019, it published its final broadsheet edition, leaving only its online edition.[5]

Though The Nation has a right-of-centre opinion page, which welcomed the 2014 coup and military rule, its daily news coverage is more center-left, criticizing, for example, Thailand’s lèse-majesté law.[8] According to acclaimed, left-of-centre journalist, Pravit Rojanaphruk, who worked at Nation for 23 years: “The Nation, at least during its heyday …, was a bastion of committed journalism and tolerance.” But over the past decade, it “morphed from a progressive newspapers into a coup-apologist cheerleader for military intervention,…” Pravit was fired from The Nation in 2015 after release from a three-day junta detention without charge for “attitude adjustment”, his second such detention.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation_(Thailand)

lost no fewer than 3,000 men.

Holy crap. I didn’t realize the battles were that huge. Even if only 10% of Thai estimates are true, that’s still a lot of deaths for a few days of what I thought were border skirmishes.

Why now? Because they have finished rigging everything for this to happen. And the dictator running the junta - Min Aung Hlaing - have always had the desire to be called “President” of the country. Head of Junta isn’t sexy enough for him. And this election will force some of the countries to recognize the military government (who have their own political party) allowing him to go on overseas as head of state and host foreign dignitaries on visits in Burma. Currently, the only countries he can visit are Russia and Belarussia as head of state. Even China while allowing him to visit for the first time this year didn’t host him as head of state but just another foreign dignitary at a regional meet in a minor city. He’s an ass who’s in love with the trappings of being president of a country.

The military’s ambition was always to legitimize their rule through an election system that’s rigged in their favor - the constitution was written by them, the electoral system was set up by them. They won the first election in 2011, but to their surprise, lost to the NLD in 2016. They thought they would win in it in 2021 with an ultra-nationalist policy, but again lost to NLD so they staged the coup. This time they’ve banned most of the opposition parties, disqualified them from running and put them in jails, and made conditions that are almost impossible for others to participate in the election. And on top of that, I am sure they will cheat. This will legitimize their rule. They will seek recognition from other nations on the back of this election. China is pushing for elections too for whatever reason.

In the early days of the coup, Burmese people naively asked for US intervention of the coup, in similar ways we saw the US intervene in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Korea in the decades past that led to a democracy. The cynical and popular answer was that Burma held no oil, i.e. no strategic value for the US. Rare earths may soon change that.

While all the production from Burma goes to China for processing due to proximity to China, there is a way for the exports to be coursed to Thailand, via the same routes opium and other narcotics have been shipped out of Burma in the decades since CIA encouraged opium farming in Eastern Burma to finance the Chinese Republican army fighting the Red Army.

Or like the Chinese, he will play both sides - the junta and the rebels.

Honestly, someone hurry up and launch an alternative! Chinese are setting up one but I wouldn’t trust them either.

So much for “liberal” government.

Why has liberal-ruled Britain become attack dogs for Israel?