Idk if it was live but just watched Cuba beat USA in Men's Beach Volleyball. The Cuban's were pumped and really trying to get the crowd into it all match despite the rain.
Looks like it happened in pool play: Olympics Site Match Results
Bulletins and News Discussion from July 22nd to July 28th, 2024 - Fracas in Dhaka - COTW: Bangladesh
Jeez I knew about the rent one. I'm not exactly surprised by the rest of these. I am a little surprised how blatant it is now that even the US Gov cannot pretend anymore.
In NFL News
This Sunday against the Raiders, various people within the Vikings organization will be supporting Israel on their feet. Kicker Greg Joseph’s cleats and sneakers that will be worn by the Wilfs and team CEO Andrew Miller.
Some context is the kicker is a white South African. The Wilfs are NJ based real estate "developers".
So Hakim put out a video I'm getting around to watching. The first book recommendation led me to verso's site where they have like 6 ebooks for free. I'm sure they can be found as pdf's elsewhere as well but figured I'd mention it.
The ebooks for free:
- Ten Myths About Israel
- The Palestine Laboratory
- Palestine Speaks
- Blaming the Victims
- The Case for Sanctions Against Israel
- The Punishment of Gaza
St. Pauli with quite a take on the events, considering their a "left wing" club. What the hell is going on in Germany?
Image from the post gives the gist if you don't want to use the link
Looks like Celtic's green brigade is getting suspended. It's for "safety" reasons and totally not because of their Palestine support.
Checking in on Hasan's stream and I guess they're looking at unedited footage of like 10 minutes of sustained bombing around the hospital. I mean I know it's obvious the IDF did it, more evidence I guess though.
Considering the amount of budget it's wild how many issues there are. I get that the money is used inefficiently/ grifted /gifted straight into the defense industry. It's still continuously funny how all this funding in the world and the barracks suck. I mean who cares about the actual humans when we can have this whiz bang stealth gizmo that doesn't work?
Saw this from SCMP While under US sanctions, where did Huawei get the advanced chips for its latest Mate 60 Pro smartphone?
This was also in the Washington post: New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits
U.S. sanctions were intended to slow China’s progress in emerging fields like artificial intelligence and big data by cutting off its ability to buy or build advanced semiconductors, which are the brains of these systems. The unveiling of a domestically produced seven-nanometer chip suggests that has not happened.
Industry experts cautioned that it’s still too early to tell how competitive China’s chipmaking operations will become. But what is clear is that China is still in the game.
Willy Shih, an economist at Harvard Business School, said Huawei’s breakthrough was evocative of what happened with Global Positioning System technology, now commonly known as GPS. The U.S. Defense Department developed the technology and restricted its export, wary of it in the hands of rivals. But the export restrictions pushed Moscow and other governments to develop their own versions, Shih said.
“So it went from a situation where the U.S. really dominated that technology and everyone would come to the U.S. to buy it, to now there are all these different alternatives,” he said. “And you have to wonder if the same thing is happening now with Huawei.”
Miller says a considerable gap remains between SMIC’s capabilities and those of TSMC, the industry leader that produces the newest chips for companies like Apple. It also remains unclear if SMIC can produce advanced chips at a scale and cost that will make its products globally competitive.
Shih said that regardless if SMIC can reach the cutting edge, the foundry will certainly be able to produce older-generation chips at scale, possibly pushing down prices of chips worldwide. “We will see price pressure and commoditization pressure,” he said.
U.S. companies like Intel and Qualcomm have already lost significant sales in China, the world’s second-largest economy, due to the U.S. sanctions, crimping their research and development budgets. U.S. executives fear this could weigh on their long-term strength, in an industry where only a few of the strongest, fastest companies tend to survive.
This brings the number of unnatural deaths of migrating people to just under 3500 this year, so far.
Any number higher that 0 is too much, but that's just absurdly high and I'm sure it will keep growing. Completely abhorrent.
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Dull_Juice
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Watched it earlier today, and loved every second of it. Especially after learning he beat his former teammate, who was a defector.