Wang and Sun operated the news website U.S. News Center, aimed at the Chinese American community, and were instructed by Chinese government officials to post pro-PRC content on it.
So was she acting as a Chinese agent in her role as mayor, or just as the operator of a website posting PRC propaganda?
If I had to coin a term, I’d call it “aesthetic ergodicity”.
As in, a culture that keeps revisiting every combination of aesthetic parameters over and over with no long-term trend.
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Even if it worked perfectly… isn’t clerking the way future attorneys and judges are supposed to get experience?
There’s nothing preventing businesses from changing their hours over time as well (and in the long run, I suspect they’ll eventually settle on the same physical hours regardless of whether we choose standard time or permanent DST).
I agree—I’m drinking tea with some kava in it right now.
On the other hand, from people I know who worked in Army medical I get the impression that soldiers will find ways to abuse anything they possibly can.
For anyone who doesn’t want to read the whole article, the ingredient is kava root.
Permanent DST is equivalent to permanent standard time with business hours moved an hour earlier. I assume that standard business hours were originally set by businesses to maximize profits—so if permanent earlier hours are better for business than permanent standard hours, why didn’t businesses set earlier hours to begin with?
USA, too—Spanish and French.
If we’d had a third language it probably would have been Chinese instead of German—the cultural influence of German was minimal in the part of California where I grew up.
So maintain chip volume, but switch production from memory chips to corn chips.
The account starts reporting unexpected transactions.
TASS is Russia’s state-owned news agency, so there’s no expectation of neutrality or journalistic best practices.
It can still be informative, as long as the stories are taken as the best plausible narrative they can construct to account for whatever it is that actually happened.
as well as a Nobel laureate in economics
So a fake Nobel, then.
I thought Homo sapiens and Denisovans were both descended from Homo erectus as well.
Are they talking about some late-surviving Homo erectus lineage that was contemporary with Denisovans and Homo sapiens?
If one is opposed by 53% and the other is opposed by 71%, a title suggesting that either is “popular” is a bit misleading.
I think the group of people spending the majority of their lives communicating online would be the first to insist that people who spend their lives online shouldn’t be put in charge of anything in the real world.
Good point.
Is the publishing journal a better indication of low-quality research than the research institution that conducted the study (the Tokyo University of Science, in this case)?
The killer feature is the lack of connection to Meta.
What if the risk of self-harm is a result of using ChatGPT?
Her Wikipedia page says she was a Republican until 2022 (the year she left the pro-PRC news site and joined the city council), but then switched parties.