It seems that it agreed with it, as I don’t see anything in the “corrective action” field.

Strictly speaking, China has gone from encouraging Chinese to have as many children early on, when IIRC Mao felt that population density encouraged industrialization, then to restrictive birth policy under One Child for a long time, and then back to trying to get people to have kids in the mid-2010s as demographic concerns rose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

It’s more that China is state-interventionist than that it has consistently favored few or many children.

I’d argue that banning abortion is probably state interventionist, more in line with the consistent thread of overall Chinese policy over the years.

Context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxuUkYiaUc8

SNL skit: Sexual Harassment and You

Summary: be attractive, don’t be unattractive

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https://forward.com/fast-forward/675325/pete-hegseth-tattoos-christian-crusades-trump/

One of Hegseth’s most prominent tattoos is a large Jerusalem cross on his chest, a symbol featuring a large cross potent with smaller Greek crosses in each of its four quadrants. The symbol was used in the Crusades and represented the Kingdom of Jerusalem that the Crusaders established.

Hegseth also has “Deus Vult,” Latin for “God wills it,” tattooed on his bicep. The phrase was used as a rallying cry for the First Crusade in 1096. It is also the closing sentence of Hegseth’s 2020 book, titled “American Crusade.”

Hegseth also has a cross and sword tattooed on his arm, which he says represents a New Testament verse. The verse, Matthew 10:34, reads, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”

He later added “Yeshua,” or Jesus in Hebrew, under the sword. Hegseth told the site Media Ink in a 2020 interview that the tattoo was Jesus’ Hebrew name, which he mistakenly said was “Yehweh,” a Biblical spelling of God’s name. He told Media Ink that he got the tattoo while in Bethlehem, Jesus’ birthplace, which is located in the present-day West Bank, where he was reporting for Fox Nation.

“Israel, Christianity and my faith are things I care deeply about,” Hegseth told Media Ink.

Hegseth opposes the two-state solution and supports exclusive Israeli sovereignty in the Holy Land. He has also said the idea of rebuilding the biblical Temple on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is a “miracle” that could happen in our lifetimes. The First and Second Temples stood on a site where the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine, now stands.

Hegseth expressed these views in a 2018 speech delivered in Jerusalem at a conference organized by the right-wing Israel National News, also known as Arutz Sheva.

The speech laid out a vision of a world beset by a growing darkness that can only be saved by the United States, Israel and fellow “free people” from other countries.

The amusing thing is that OP’s article didn’t even get to him because it was talking about other nominations.

Man, we live in a world which probably has more immediate and ready access to nude images of any particular sort one might desire – and we’re getting to the point that one can computers can synthesize stuff that doesn’t even exist – and you’re committing crimes and risking your job to get a low-quality cell phone picture of a cell phone screen of an amateur nude photo?

Hmm.

I’d think that that’d also affect Lemmy instance operators were it to enter into force.

The text and its scope would also be interesting, because I can’t see a practical way for, say, an instance operator in Bakersfield, California, to have any realistic way to evaluate the truth of claims about an election, in, say, Malaysia, if it extends to all elections. I suspect that even in California alone, acting as an arbiter of truth would be tough to do reasonably.

I don’t think that the military uses much TNT directly, but military explosives may be derived from TNT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT

Yeah, there’s a list under “Applications”.

Composition B, for example, is a mix of TBT and other stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_B

Composition B (Comp B), also known as Hexotol and Hexolite (among others), is a high explosive consisting of castable mixtures of RDX and TNT. It is used as the main explosive filling in artillery projectiles, rockets, land mines, hand grenades, and various other munitions.[1

Susie Wiles as White House Chief of Staff, I believe. She didn’t serve in an office before, but was high-level in his campaign in 2016, 2020, and 2024, so she’s around for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie_Wiles

Didn’t just show up with Trump, has done Republican campaigns for a long time.

That’s good, but those are still pretty high levels compared to the historical situation.

Lower-case “L”.

Capital “L” would be, like, the Libertarian Party.

Whether or not he gets the slot, based on Trump’s first term, a lot of the cabinet members aren’t gonna last long anyway.

https://www.statista.com/chart/15071/how-does-trumps-turnover-compare-to-other-presidents/

I wonder what CSIS does? Don’t know what Canada considers threats.

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Man, the US think tank CSIS dominates the Canadian intelligence agency CSIS in search results.

Okay, here’s their jobs page.

https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/csis-jobs/available-jobs.html

And their language people:

https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/csis-jobs/available-jobs/foreign-language-communications-analyst.html

CSIS is looking for individuals with the following language proficiency:

• Arabic
• Mandarin
• Russian
• Punjabi
• Urdu
• Hindi

Mmm. So Middle East, China, Russia, and India/Pakistan.

EDIT: Looks like India/Pakistan only made the list recently. Using Archive.org to go back to 2018:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180222080221/https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/csis-jobs/available-jobs/foreign-language-communications-analyst.html

The Service is looking for individuals with the following language proficiency:

• Arabic
• Somali
• Farsi
• Mandarin
• Kurdish
• Sorani
• Russian

I mean, they’ve done this when places charge them money to index the news articles there.

It hardly seems reasonable to both mandate that they index a given piece of news media and that they pay a fee to do so.

Finally, the documents claim, White admitted that he had injured JW himself because he was angry that he was two points down in the videogame NBA2K.

I’d hate to see this guy lose a game by eight points.

The downside of building the phone/tablet into the car, though, is that phones change more quickly than cars.

A 20 year old car can be perfectly functional. A 20 year old smarphone is insanely outdated. If the phone is built into the car, you’re stuck with it.

Relative to a built-in system, I’d kind of rather just have a standard mounting point with security attachments and have the car computer be upgraded. 3DIN maybe.

I get the “phone is small” argument, but the phone is upgradeable.

And I’d definitely rather have physical controls for a lot of things.

Plus, even if you manage to never, ever have a drive fail, accidentally delete something that you wanted to keep, inadvertently screw up a filesystem, crash into a corruption bug, have malware destroy stuff, make an error in writing it a script causing it to wipe data, just realize that an old version of something you overwrote was still something you wanted, or run into any of the other ways in which you could lose data…

You gain the peace of mind of knowing that your data isn’t a single point of failure away from being gone. I remember some pucker-inducing moments before I ran backups. Even aside from not losing data on a number of occasions, I could sleep a lot more comfortably on the times that weren’t those occasions.

I think that Trump Term 2 is likely to look a lot like Trump Term 1.

Whether-or-not one calls that “that bad”, of course, involves some matter of perspective. The article here is about a Term 1 guy coming back for Term 2, which is pretty much in line with things being like Term 1. I expect a lot of the same stuff that I didn’t like the first time. I expect him to make outrageous statements, violate a lot of Presidential norms, probably do some questionable things legally to try to benefit himself. I expect him to play into conspiracy theory where he thinks it might benefit him. I expect him to make a lot of self-contradictory statements. I expect him to bluster and make crude statements. I expect him to be constantly in the news for doing something outrageous.

I expect that a lot of his outrageous statements are going to just be political theater, the same way they were the first time around. A lot of very firey talk about immigration and free trade agreements, making sure that he’s seen by supporters saying things, not a lot of dramatic actual effective change in most policy.

I don’t expect some of the predictions that are often thrown around here about the end of democracy or the free press or a long list of other things to come true.

One of the points that I want to see is what happens on Ukraine policy. This isn’t a major popular issue for Republican voters the way policy on Israel is. Vance has been pretty vocal about opposing support for Ukraine, but I also don’t know (1) the degree to which that is an actual concern for Vance, (2) the degree of influence that Vance will have, as the VP’s power is usually almost entirely dependent on what the President wants to delegate to them and listen to them, and (3) the degree to which the bureaucracy will affect this, as politicians don’t simply go craft foreign policy on their lonesome, and there are going to be a lot of the same domain experts that were present under Biden. It’s possible that there could be very material impact for Ukraine, but I could also believe that the impact is muted.

My guess is that four years from now, I’m probably going to be pretty happy to see the last of him. But that was pretty much the case in 2020, and I remember no shortage of dire predictions in the opposing press and social media all through his first time through that didn’t pan out.

I think that the age data there is the most interesting bit.

There’s very little difference in perception for the 18-29-year-old demographic, with 16% of Republican/lean-Republican voters saying that the economy is excellent/good, and 21% of Democratic/lean-Democratic voters.

But every time the age cohort rises, so does the separation in perception of the economy. For 65±year-olds, it’s down to 7% for Republican/lean-Republican voters, and 55% of Democratic/lean-Democratic voters.

Just searching Kagi, like googling on Google.

Kagi provides a subscription-based service; the user pays a subscription fee, rather than the search engine generating a return via data-mining and profiling users, which is something that I’d wanted for some time; at some point in the past year or so someone pointed me to it. It also provides some other features, but what I really care about is the no-log aspect.

If Google would sell some kind of analogous subscription for YouTube (rather than just ad-free service with their “YouTube Premium” stuff) I’d happily get “YouTube Private” as well, as I think that that’s probably the other major source of online data-mining that I very regularly use and don’t have a great way of dealing with today. But as things stand, that’s not something that they have on offer.

Bill Kristol really dislikes Trump.

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This looks like a recent article. He’s not exactly pulling punches.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-will-trumps-win-mean

The American people have made a disastrous choice. And they have done so decisively, and with their eyes wide open.

Donald J. Trump will be our next president, elected with a majority of the popular vote, likely winning both more votes and more states than he did in his two previous elections. After everything—after his chaotic presidency, after January 6th, after the last year in which the mask was increasingly off, and no attempt was made to hide the extremism of the agenda or the ugliness of the appeal—the American people liked what they saw. At a minimum, they were willing to accept what they saw.

And Trump was running against a competent candidate who ran a good campaign to the center and bested him in a debate, with a strong economy. Yet Trump prevailed, pulling off one of the most remarkable comebacks in American political history. Trump boasted last night, “We’ve achieved the most incredible political thing,” and he’s not altogether wrong.

Certainly, even before he once again assumes the reins of power, Trump has cemented his status as the most consequential American politician of this century.

And when he assumes the reins of power, he’ll start off as a powerful and emboldened president. He’ll have extraordinary momentum from his victory. He’ll be able to claim a mandate for an agenda that the public has approved. He’ll have willing apparatchiks and politicians at his disposal, under the guidance of JD Vance and Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson and Stephen Miller, eager to help him advance that agenda. He’ll have a compliant Republican majority in the Senate. And it looks as if Republicans may narrowly hold the House.

It’s hard to imagine a worse outcome.

If you think, as I do, that Trump’s agenda could do great damage to the country and to the world, if you think of deportations of immigrants at home and the betrayal of brave Ukrainians abroad and you shudder, if you think that turning our health policy over to Robert Kennedy Jr. will cause real harm, you’re right to feel real foreboding for the future.

And of course there is no guarantee that the American people will turn against Trump and his agenda. They knew fully well who it was they were choosing this time. Their support may well be more stubborn than one would like. It certainly has been over the last four years.

Sounds like this website he’s currently writing for is also pretty opposed to Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulwark_(website)

Following the end of publication of The Weekly Standard in December 2018,[6] editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes said that “the murder of the Standard made it urgently necessary to create a home for rational, principled, fact-based center-right voices who were not cowed by Trumpism.”[7] The site was created in December 2018 as a news aggregator as a project of the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a 501©(3) conservative advocacy group led in part by The Weekly Standard co-founder Bill Kristol.[8] Several former editors and writers of The Weekly Standard soon joined the staff and within weeks of launch began publishing original news and opinion pieces.[5] The website has frequently published pieces critical of Donald Trump and of pro-Trump elites in politics and the media.[1]