I am not surprised and I agree with a lot of the article. I have always said that China's time "in the sun" will be relatively short.

I have a f riend that works for a US tech company. As part of selling in China, they have to take on a Chinese partner. They always sell technology that is at least one generation old as they know the Chinese will steal their technology and start promoting it as their own.

Love this elephant theme, George! Keep 'em coming, please!

@George-K what is the legal foundation for seizing the assets of (supposedly) private citizens?

Convicted drug trafficking.

pwn3d!

https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/16409/steelers

@George-K WOW! So is there a chance he gets released? Wasn’t there supposed to be evidence of him drugging some of the members of his cult, too? Of course, how reliable is that?

@Horace said in Sometimes the "they" pronoun seems to work.:

She seems like a good person.

I bet she would make a great forensic psychologist.

Have the Dolphins surrendered yet?

looks like an archaic measuring device using that prehistoric passe non metric imperial system to try to give perspective to a an organic specimen from a living thing.

Reminds of my wife's aunt who was a nun in Belgium. She told family she hoped her end would come by being hit by a bus. Ended up, she was killed by being hit by a taxi. The guy in the sky works with what's handy. One can only hope for the swift end to it all.

Ok, now I really don’t care about 5 million chickens getting cooked.

Wow, what a rebel! Silicon Valley used to be all about looking forward, but the maverick is making it about bringing back old things. Visionary!

@Klaus said in Elon Musk to buy TNCR:

Elon told me that he was active in this forum a couple of years ago. He didn't tell me the user name, but he told me that he had teh sex with 7 women.

Sounds right.

There is a standing joke that Ringo wrote into the Posleen War series...It concerns a soldier named Buckley. All through the series of books, Buckley undergoes a series of extremely unfortunate events (blow your arm off with an antimatter grenade, anyone?) culminating in his death and subsequently being electronically reborn as an AI so paranoid that the invading aliens can't hack it.

He's often referred to as the unluckiest man in the universe.

I suppose it's better than an outbreak of avian flu, and the legal liability...

How else would you handle it?

CNN: US left behind $7 billion of military equipment in Afghanistan after 2021 withdrawal, Pentagon report says

Aircraft worth $923.3 million remained in Afghanistan. The US left 78 aircraft procured for the government of Afghanistan at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul before the end of the withdrawal. These aircraft were demilitarized and rendered inoperable before the US military left, the report states. The US military conducted its non-combatant evacuation from Afghanistan in August, primarily through that airport.
A total of 9,524 air-to-ground munitions, valued at $6.54 million, remained in Afghanistan at the conclusion of the US military withdrawal. The "significant majority" of the "remaining aircraft munitions stock are non-precision munitions," the report states.
Over 40,000 of the total 96,000 military vehicles the US gave to Afghan forces remained in Afghanistan at the time of the US withdrawal, including 12,000 military Humvees, the report states. "The operational condition of the remaining vehicles" in Afghanistan is "unknown," the report states.
More than 300,000 of the total 427,300 weapons the US gave to Afghan forces remained in Afghanistan at the time of the US military withdrawal, according to the report. Less than 1,537,000 of the "specialty munitions" and "common small arms ammunition," valued at a total of $48 million, are still in the country, the report states.
"Nearly all" of the communications equipment that the US gave to Afghan forces, including base-station, mobile, man-portable and hand-held commercial and military radio systems, and associated transmitters and encryption devices also remained in Afghanistan at the time of the withdrawal, the report states.
"Nearly all" night vision, surveillance, "biometric and positioning equipment" totaling nearly 42,000 pieces of specialized equipment remained in the country, the report adds.
And "nearly all," of the explosive ordinance disposal and demining equipment, including 17,500 "pieces of explosive detection, electronic countermeasure, disposal and personal protective equipment" also remained in Afghanistan, according to the report.

It’s a smooth career transition from catalytic converters farming to truck farming.

Financial records reveal Biden had $5.2million in unexplained income - as emails show he paid Hunter's legal bills

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