Thai PM says Burmese dictatorship is 'losing control'
Heartfelt, To All (regardless of belief)
A good rule for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.
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All of those parachute deaths (28 and counting) could have been prevented if someone just stayed home and did something else. [https://t.ly/cMti4]
-- Bill Dause, former owner, America's most dangerous skydiving centre, in Lodi, California (a state in America)
THAILAND ROYALTY OPINION
This issue is not going away, no matter how many lese majeste cases that the Thai government pursues.
OPINION: The debate about the appropriate place for the Thai Monarchy in the 21st century:
Khao Sod [Fresh News] https://shorturl.at/rDMNZ
THAILAND MYANMAR
Burmese junta on its back foot
For at least the past two months, armed rebels have defeated troops of the Myanmar military dictatorship in battle after battle.
In the latest fiasco, 600 junta soldiers were pushed out of their 'stronghold' across the border from Thailand'z Mae Sot district of Tak province.
They came begging Thai authorities to let them in, to escape the rebel onslaught.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/video/thailand/2773446/
In an interview with the Limey 'news' agency Reuters,
Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said that 'Now is a good time to open talks with the Myanmar junta,' because the military regime that seized power in a 2021 coup is losing control.
VIDEO: https://www.bangkokpost.com/video/thailand/2773446/
TECHNOLOGY
The city of San Francisco is upgrading its light rail system. (The Register)
From floppy disks. (not joking)
Which aren't made anymore.
So probably a good idea.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/san_francisco_muni_floppy_disks/
Intel has announced the name of its 6th generation Xeon server processors: Xeon 6. (AnandTech)
That's it. That's the story.
Slow news day.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21339/intel-unveils-new-branding-for-6th-generation-xeon-processors-intel-xeon-6
TSMC knows which side of its bread is buttered (AnandTech)
TSMC Of Taiwan is to receive $6.6 billion in direct funding and $5 billion in loans under Biden's CHIPS Act.
In return, the company will construct a leading-edge 2nm fab in Arizona as well as increasing its total US fab investments to $65 billion.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21337/tsmc-to-receive-6b-us-chips-act-set-to-build-2nm-fab-in-arizona
The Maiyunda M1 is a mini-PC with a difference. Two, in fact. (Liliputing)
At the front it has four quick-access drive bays - for M.2 SSDs.
At the back it has four 2.5Gb Ethernet ports. And USB and HDMI and DisplayPort.
https://liliputing.com/maiyunda-m1-is-an-alder-lake-n-mini-pc-with-four-2-5-gbe-lan-ports-and-four-nvme-ssd-slots/
Upcoming AMD and Intel CPUs will have less cache and more cash than originally planned. (WCCFTech)
Instead of using die space on memory, it's been reallocated to provide much faster AI units. Which, again, is not the worst thing in the world; you can use that extra compute power to do whatever you want, so long as it's low-precision arithmetic.
https://wccftech.com/ai-craze-may-have-nerfed-amds-intels-upcoming-chips-strix-apus-originally-had-big-cache-which-boosted-cpu-igpu-performance/
Solidigm's new 60TB SSD... Basically just works. (Serve the Home)
 Instead of having four 20TB 3.5" hard drives in RAID-5, you can use one 2.5" SSD, and get access times measured in microseconds rather than milliseconds.
Although, at around $6,000 it's not exactly cheap -- 218,000 baht in real money.
Interesting ANALYSIS from a U.S. government-supported media source:
Why China's Economy Can't Collapse
 ... Going by official Chinese understanding of economic 'hard landings' in the past -- when the economic growth rate is far below 8 percent or the adjusted figure of 6 percent -- it has already occurred or is occurring.
https://www.chinafile.com/viewpoint/why-chinas-economy-cant-collapse
CHINA POLITICS ECONOMY
[Related to the above Analysis] How China Bungled Techno-Development -- https://t.ly/YoJP4
 Since the mid-2000s, China has been moving away from a manufacturing-heavy, export-led growth model toward a technology-driven economy. But China’s significant technological advances have been overshadowed by its political landscape, leading to inefficiencies, legal unpredictability, and rising social inequality.
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CORONAVIRUS FAUCI WUHAN
United States Senator Rand Paul: I Have Evidence That Fauci Knew That His Partners in Wuhan Were Attempting to Create a "Highly Transmissible" Virus Since 2018.
 In fact, 15 U.S. federal agencies knew but kept Government Omerta.
https://shorturl.at/vACDO
All along, people pointed to the furin cleavage site as a feature of this virus that almost never appears in naturally-occurring viruses, thus indicating it was likely cooked up in a lab.
 Fauci explained that all such people were conspiracy theorists.
Not to mention that the U.S. CDC predictably hid information about the vaccines.
Epoch: https://t.ly/GvJiD
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its partners uncovered signs that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines might cause the persistent condition called tinnitus but never disclosed the findings to the public.
Nature.com: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-00908-w
 The furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is required for transmission in infected ferrets.
With multiple Google Images at https://shorturl.at/xKRT0
USA POLITICS
Code Pink and various pro-terrorism Jihadist allies take over senate dining hall, forbidding senators from eating there
Which is not even slightly insurrectionist. https://t.ly/QgDb6
GLOBAL WARMING USA POLITICS
This reads like sheer Malice Aforethought https://t.ly/nt4I1
Here's How Biden's EV Agenda Will Take From The Poor And Give To The Rich.
 EVs benefit from direct subsidies, such as the IRA's $7,500 consumer tax credit, but they also will increasingly benefit from a hidden cross-subsidy whereby manufacturers drop their prices and offset those losses by boosting prices of ICE vehicles, experts explained to the DCNF.
ICE = cars of internal combustion engine, whose manipulated prices are rising.
The Eerie Sight Of A Solar Eclipse -- Seen From Space (NASA occasionally gets things right)
 Darkness, slivers of sunshine, and crescent shadows: The 2024 total solar eclipse put on quite a show down here on Earth.
 The current residents of the International Space Station watched not only the actual eclipse, but what happened to Earth as the eclipse occurred.
 VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1777420419311493356
But if you missed it, no big deal. Set your alarm for the next one on August 23, 2044.
You can't often watch Lefties vs. Lefties in a title bout of who's the most useful tool, but it's fun to watch.
Ana Kasparian Melts Down Over Identity Politics War in Massachusetts School
Watch her begin to realise that her beliefs are stupid, insane, and evil.Â
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