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Cake day: April 9th, 2023

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  • I believe the USA has “astroturfing squads” for this kind of work. This is one more evidence of it. Social media is likely flooded with astroturfing activity from the USA government. They also likely manipulate the social media software to help in this. For example, YouTube has a comment filter that automatically deletes comments that contain certain words; because of this filter, if you say certain things, the comment gets deleted, and you don’t know it unless you look for the comment. Most comments I make on YouTube about geopolitics get deleted. A way to get the comment delivered is to hide likely banned words or expressions by inserting a space in the middle of the word. For example, the comment “China wages developement. America wages wars.” will likely get deleted. To deliver it, you could write “Chi na wa ges developement. Ame rica wa ges wa rs.”.






  • The jaguar (onça-pintada) should be higher. They are arguably the most powerful predators of the Americas. They can run up to 80 Km/h; they can climb trees; they have jaws strong enough to crush bones; they are proficient swimmers, being able to hunt prey in the water, including alligators; their roar is bone-shivering; they are stunning and iconic; they are important for the ecosystem balance. Note that while the jaguar may be phisically similar to the African leopard, the jaguar is faster and stronger, and a better swimmer.






  • Perplexity summary: The article from Bloomberg[1] reports that Huawei’s latest smartphone, the Mate 60 Pro, is powered by a new Kirin 9000s chip that was fabricated in China by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC). This chip is the first to utilize SMIC’s most advanced 7nm technology, which suggests that the Chinese government is making some headway in attempts to build a domestic chip ecosystem. The article also notes that Huawei is reportedly developing its own Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and power management chips. Other sources, such as Swarajya[2], ThinkChina[3], TechHQ[4], and The Verge[5], speculate on how Huawei was able to develop its own chips despite US sanctions. Some sources suggest that Huawei may have used its inventory from 2020, while others speculate that the chips were manufactured by SMIC or even Huawei itself. Chinese benchmarking website AnTuTu has identified the Mate 60 Pro’s CPU as the HiSilicon-designed Kirin 9000s, which supports 5G[6]. Overall, the article and other sources suggest that Huawei’s use of domestically produced chips in the Mate 60 Pro is a significant development in China’s efforts to build a domestic chip ecosystem and circumvent US sanctions.


  • That’s in part because of all the anti-China propaganda on big media and youtube. In youtube, anti-China content, specially content from big media (BBC, sky news and the likes) and CIA-backed content, is recommended to much more users than pro-China content. Just look at the number of views of anti-China videos vs neutral or pro-China channels. Anti-China videos easily get millons of views, while the best of the best pro-China videos only reach tens or hundreads of thousands of views (one or another may reach millions by using a super catch thumbnail and title). The pro-China videos are mostly recommended to people that already watches pro-China videos, while anti-China videos get recommended for everyone on youtube. The result is that a huge amount of youtube users believe anti-China crap.


  • Not-so-fun fact: Rick Sanchez was possibly created with the same name as the news anchor Rick Sanchez (from CNN and RT) deliberately to hide him in the internet. Rick Sanchez himself made a video about this. He found a video made by an RM creator before RM creation in which there is a news transmission with an anchor called Rick Sanchez, showing that the creators of RM knew who him was before creating RM.



  • Artisanal burgers are much tastier than McDonald’s. In fact, it’s not hard for a real burger to be tastier than a McDonald’s one, at least in my country (I’m not sure if McDonald’s quality is the same in all countries). Here, McDonald’s isn’t very good, and even so it’s quite expensive. Even the most affordable option on the menu is pricey, and it barely has anything inside. Not to mention that these fast food burgers are tiny.

    Hambúrgueres artesanais são muito mais gostosos que McDonald’s. Na verdade não é difícil um hambúrguer de verdade ser mais gostoso que um McDonald’s, pelo menos no meu país (não tenho certeza se a qualidade do McDonald’s é a mesma em todos os países). Aqui McDonald’s não é muito bom e ainda é bem caro; a opção mais acessível do menu já é cara, e não têm quase nada dentro. Sem falar que esses hambúrgueres de fast food são bem pequenos.




  • Their use of nominal GDP while ignoring GDP PPP reminds me of the Tokyo olympics. While China had more gold medals than USA, American news were using the total medal count to sort countries, instead of sorting them by gold medal count. At the final day of the olympics USA surpassed China in gold medals (39 vs 38), and thus the American news returned back to the traditional gold medal count for sorting the countries.