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Shadow Heart

@yogthos yeah just not in the way they claim.

China leading US in technology race in all but a few fields, thinktank finds

Year-long study finds China leads in 37 of 44 areas it tracked, with potential for a monopoly in areas such as nanoscale materials and synthetic biology

theguardian.com/world/2023/mar

voronoi potato

@yogthos
Of course you can tell that the US conservatives don't really care because despite the fact that we are going to be lapped, we're still not interested in improving public education.
@Sh4d0w_H34rt

Thea(?) 🏳️‍⚧️

@yogthos Nice.

On a side note... I really wish the geteral population could understand nuance.

That you can dislike a foreign government without invoking racism against their people.

But I might be biased. I married into a chinese family and am learning Mandarin :P

Yogthos

@psiie the worst part is that pretty much all the dislike is based on the propaganda diet people consume. Most people in the west don't know the first thing about China from what I've seen and just regurgitate the tropes they hear in western media.

I've been learning Mandarin here as well, it's not easy but slowly getting the hang of it. :)

Thea(?) 🏳️‍⚧️

@yogthos Nice! I'm not conversational, but I can follow 1/5 of what my mother-in-law says :P

Yogthos

@psiie I practice with my wife, and can follow basic stuff so far, but yeah not quite conversational yet either. Hopefully by next year.

I find tones are still tricky for me, and just memorizing all the words is a challenge. A lot of the words either sound similar or same, and you have to remember the meaning within a context.

That's a new challenge from other languages I've learned. :)

Thea(?) 🏳️‍⚧️

@yogthos Tones are tough :\.

I have a hard time hearing tones at times too.

Yogthos

@psiie oh yeah same here, thankfully you can generally figure the meaning from context, but it does add a level of challenge.

And I sort of use mnemonics with the character memorization. I try to associate each character with some object it reminds me of.

Siberian

@yogthos The danger of Russia was also joked about at one time

Yogthos

@sknvlv and the west continuously escalating tensions eventually created conditions for a war, now exact same story is playing out with China. Seems like US just can't learn.

Siberian

@yogthos poor Putin, he was forced by the United States. what else will you tell me about my country?
the only thing the United States is guilty of here is the underestimation of Putin's danger. in that they turned a blind eye to his crimes.

Yogthos

@sknvlv that is such an incredibly simplistic understanding of why the war started. I recommend minimally familiarizing yourself with the background which is decades in the making.

youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS

truthout.org/articles/us-appro

truthout.org/articles/noam-cho

currentaffairs.org/2022/09/ign

Your country is a terrorist state that makes the world a dangerous place for all of humanity.

@sknvlv that is such an incredibly simplistic understanding of why the war started. I recommend minimally familiarizing yourself with the background which is decades in the making.

youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS

truthout.org/articles/us-appro

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