Higgs boson

Out of curiousity, what does that get you that Pixel+GrapheneOS wouldnt?

Well sure, but it is more than that. Advertising ,broadly, is literally there expressly to manipulate your emotional state. Social media just gives them more info about your state so they are much more effective at it.

Smart. Anything to avoid learning!

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/group-of-teenagers-using-mobile-phones-in-hallway-at-high-school-gm1500076836-521623716

I suppose it is possible the submitter used AI uncredited, but I doubt it. For one thing, there are other images of the same models in the artist’s page. Second, the state of AI image generation when this was submitted (June 2023) was pretty terrible for things like this.

More likely is that the image “looks like AI” to you because most image generation models were trained on Common Crawl, which includes at least tens of thousands of curated (royalty-free) images. In other words, AI models generate images that look like stock photos because that is what they know how to generate.

I agree that China is on the side of China.

My sentence was poorly worded. I was referring specifically to “the chinese” who were in Ukraine fighting for Russia. I would have written China if i meant the nation.

Im normally the one wishing for less politics on Lemmy, but at some point you have to draw a line and define what you actually mean by “too political.” Of course, then you’d need to have someone curate media just for you that adheres to that standard… because simple keywords aint gonna cut it. Orrrr, I guess you could just cut off ALL new media.

This isnt some petty political scuffle. This is a trade war that is currently crashing the global economy. China cutting off minerals isn’t really “politics”, per se, at least in the way most people mean it. It is war: An economic war that looks increasingly likely to end up in the shooting kind.

If that is the case (meaning they are not PLA active duty,) it is not functionally different than the Americans and other nationalities who volunteer for Ukraine.

Obviously (to me, at least) the Chinese and the orcs are on the wrong side of history, but regardless this isnt really “new news” at all. It has been effectively a global war since the first month of this phase of the conflict (started more like 2014 or arguably much earlier.) Call it WW3 or not, all the major players are involved one way or another. I guess it differs primarily in the scope of their involvement.