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The Ipsos Global Happiness Survey was released: for yet another year, China remains the happiest country in the world with 91% of its people rating themselves as happy.
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The Wall Street Journal: 2019 - "Manufacturers Move Supply Chains Out of China" 2023 - "Manufacturers Move Back to China" Canadian Government Ad™: Cleaning up the Oil Sands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEEcYzRIDhw Citing a report that Pace Analytical prepared for Ohio's neighbor Indiana, The Guardian reported Friday that "East Palestine soil showed levels of '2,3,7,8 TCDD toxicity equivalence' of 700 parts per trillion (ppt)," potentially stemming from the controlled burn of vinyl chloride in the wake of the crash. "I certainly wouldn't be comfortable living there," said one organic chemist. https://www.commondreams.org/news/east-palestine-dioxin-levels  Love too have opinions so repugnant that I have to clarify by saying "and that's a good thing" because everyone would otherwise assume the opposite.  @yogthos Let’s hope they mean the real communism this time… (Lenin betrayed the revolution!) Younger Canadians' views of our country and its institutions getting progressively worse: Nanos survey Front page of the Sunday Age accidentally does the meme. According to war secretary Marles, Australia is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to protect our trade with China... from China. 43 years later, it comes out. To sabotage Carter's reelection, the Reagan camp went to the Middle-East "to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html  @yogthos The right wing has but three pathways to power in a democratic society: lies, secret deals with hostile actors, and outright force. A “wall of dead fish” spanning tens of kilometres is moving along a stretch of the Darling-Baaka river near the town of Menindee, with temperatures forecast to reach 41C in the area on Saturday. ChatGLM-6B is an open bilingual language model based on General Language Model (GLM) framework, with 6.2 billion parameters. With the quantization technique, users can deploy locally on consumer-grade graphics cards (only 6GB of GPU memory is required at the INT4 quantization level). A list of totally open alternatives to ChatGPT a good explanation of the financial crash in US and why there aren't any good options left to the Fed at this point @yogthos If anybody doesn't have the patience to follow it all, I think this single frame will do as a summary. More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809 Baidu unveils ERNIE Bot, its ChatGPT rival https://www.engadget.com/baidu-unveils-ernie-bot-its-chatgpt-rival-105509006.html |