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So, similar to, if not the same as with the build up to Iraq 03.

The even shorter, more direct version is:

‘Local community’ actually means ‘Official representatives of the local community.’

EDIT: And ‘great relationship’ means ‘we do business with whatever entity regularly, and that business we do is more advantageous to us than it is to them’.

… Also… I’m in America so… maybe this is somehow different in various Euro countries, but I seriously doubt it…

There’s no way Amazon invests in local roads.

I’m from Seattle.

Our roads are absolute ass, I’m talking worse than the average road in a small town in South Dakota or Montana.

They certainly don’t directly fund any roadwork around Seattle, despite having many logistics hubs in and near the city.

They’re more likely to strong arm a city, even literally sue them, into upgrading their roads than they are to… like directly contribute some share of their revenue or profit directly into the city’s road maintenance or construction budget.

0 chance Amazon directly funds building of any roads beyond the roads on their property.

Provide computers to schools? Sure, I believe that.

But I am highly doubtful that Amazon directly contributes to building local roads.

Only way I can even see that kind of making sense in a roundabout way is if the city has some kind of specific tax on heavier vehicles or vehicles used in delivery/logistics…

In which case … this would apply to any delivery/logistics vehicle of any kind that either transits through or is based out of the city.

By that logic anyone that pays a sales tax or property tax in the city pays for new roads, likely significantly more, as a group.

“Amazon wont pay a living wage due to its great relationship with the local community”.

So, taken by a normal person, not aquainted with corpo speak… that is some astounding anti-logic.

But if you know a bit of corpo, what that actually means is something like:

We have the local city government by the balls, greatly overexagerated the economic benefit our warehouse would bring to the city, got them to subsidize our construction costs, relax zoning laws or fees, change tax laws or give us a special carve out so that we pay less than if anyone else tried to build a warehouse here…

… and now if the city gov goes for policies/laws we don’t like, we’ll just shut down this location, I’ll go work the same job somewhere else, everyone else is unemployed, and then we’ll tell the media that’s because of the city government, and they’ll likely lose their elected positions.

We have new feature, use it!

No, its broken and stupid, I prefer old feature.

… Fine!

breaks old feature even harder

Neither of the two articles are well sourced.

But you acted like yours was credible, until I presented another one, whereupon you admitted they are both equally valid.

That’s assuming that the random article you found is correct, the veracity of which I can’t verify any more than the interesting engineering article…

That is to say, you cannot verify either of these articles at all, ie, they are both of dubious legitimacy.

You accused someone of being racist based of an article you admit you cannot verify, posted a bunch of related research papers that indicate, sure, they’re trying to develop the thing your article claimed they did… but doesn’t indicate that they actually developed it.

…

I can link you a patent for a triangular shaped aircraft, listed as filed by a US Navy Scientist that claims to outline how to create an electromagnetic, gravity negating field around the craft.

That would not be evidence that the US Navy officially announced that they basically built a UFO, that it works, and there’s a video of it, all officially documented and released.

But to you, it would be, if China had done all those things.

…

I am not saying China certainly has or has not developed a hypersonic passenger liner.

I am saying your source for this claim is dubious.

I am saying that you believe(d?) it credulously, without any skepticism, got very hostile with people who doubted its claim less tactfully than I did, and now you admit you got hostile based on a claim that you now admit is dubious, and shifted the burden of proof from the article making the claim to the skeptic questioning it.

Again, this is the logic of a fanatic.

If we just pick which dubiously sourced claims we believe based on vibes, truth stops existing.

So, you just assumed a unsourced, unverified story is true because you have a bias in favor of China, and put the burden of proof onto the other person to disprove it, and are completely fine with calling the other person a ‘sad racist’, despite now admitting that the veracity of the claim they are skeptical of is in fact not well established.

This is the argument/personality style of a fanatic, a religious fundamentalist, a QAnon adherent, an Elon Musk simp.

This is how we got ‘the Trump assasination attempt was staged!’

Please stop posting trash tier misinformation as ‘technology news’, please stop jumping to ‘everyone who disagrees with me is rascist’, this level of unjustified vitriol only makes you appear manic.

So… then… you agree that this entire Interesting Engineering article you posted is wrong?

Are you going to apologize to Sarah Brown for calling her a ‘sad racist’ when she expressed doubt as to the veracity of the dubious article you posted?

Ok so 24+ hours later and I now see a few different websites I’ve never heard of before that basically have the same article as this:

https://scienceinfo.net/chinese-hypersonic-aircraft-prototype-reaches-mach-6-speed.html

Still no actual link to the apparently original source somewhere on some social media site.

Now whats being said is that this was a flight test that actually occured 3 years ago, and was classified until now.

And they do provide an image, and credit it to CAS (without an actual link, I still can’t find this on CAS’ english site, but again maybe they are still writing a proper English post?)

This is a test article, that doesn’t appear to have any intakes for scramjet. I think I can make out two small rocket bells inside the thing, but the image quality is very low.

It’s just a test article, launched by a rocket, that Inwould guesstimate to have a wingspan of about… 4 meters, ish?

This new article also mentions that Cui, the team lead, did not mention anything about the current status of the hypersonic passenger jet which this was a test article for.

So… this test article got up to mach 6.5, 3 years ago.

Absolutely nothing about whether or not a successful test flight of a passenger jet sized craft achieved hypersonic speeds with an air breathing turbo ramjet / scram jet or something like that.

Completely different than the originally report.

… This is why I wanted an actual source.

If this very poorly sourced article from this random, clickbait style website is more accurate than the OP article (another poorly sourced article from another clickbait style website) is more accurate, that would mean SCMP, and everyone in this thread saying China has built an air breathing hypersonic jet liner is wrong, and everyone saying that this is basically comparable to the X15 is correct.

(Differences being the X15 was carried up to 45 thousand feet by a B52 instead of a rocket, and the X15 was manned, and this test article is presumably unmanned.)

I mean sure, thats a related research paper, but that isn’t the same thing as an official press announcement or video saying ‘Hey we actually built this thing, it works, take a look.’

I know that the CAS has specifically been researching/developing a hypersonic, passenger liner sized craft for around a decade… and the US has been doing the same with the SR 72, both attempting to develop … something like turbo ramjet that transitions to scramjet at high speeds/altitudes.

But a link to a research paper from 6 years ago is not actually a primary source to what your original link claims, but does not actually source.

I am willing to believe that this may have actually been developed…

But a better source sure would be neat.

Interesting/Wonderful Engineering both claim this was posted on ‘Social Media’ by the Chinese Academy of Sciences… with no link.

South China Morning Post also claims a video posted by CAS on social media… with no link, no video.

The english version of the CAS website is updated every couple of days, but this isn’t on it.

Granted, they could be taking their time doing a proper translation.

Does anybody know where to see this video?

Yep.

If its possible for someone to choose an older, less expensive game, then that means those games are market competitors for similar modern games, with more mechanics designed to coax money out of you.

Its basically a hyper charged version of planned obsolesence.

Legitimately did not know a cat could assume that pose.

What a goober.

Ahaha! I did not catch that.

And its difficulty walking and using my right arm/hand.

Still recovering from homelessness/being assaulted more times than I can remember.

Top Triangloid: Excessive cursing and crassness.

Lower Left Triangloid: Lives with more than one cat.

Bottom Left Right Triangloid: Occasionally has some difficulty standing up straight and walking properly on dry land.

Take one of the vases and put it on the auctioneer/shopkeep’s head, prices drop considerably.

I don’t think I specifically posted about it on lemmy but yeah, I also concluded youtube would be going further ‘pay to win’ around this time 2 years ago.

Twitch will keep getting more and more monetized / ad heavy as well, until it just gets shutdown.

I’ll be amazed if it still exists by the end of 2026.

The sun is fairly low in the sky, just a bit to the right of the guy on the dirt path, whose shadow is almost but not quite straight vertical.

The guy casts a darker and more crisp, or less diffuse shadow because he is less translucent, or more opaque, than tree leaves, and because the total distance from the heighest tree leaves to the ground is greater than the total distance from his head to the ground.

The lines of the tree trunk and lamppost shadows all converge toward where the sun is, if extended toward it.

The illuminated square in the one tree’s shadow is likely a reflection from a window or some kind of metal fixture from a building or object behind the pov of the camera.

Probably the tree is shadowing the same area that a window in or near the building the picture is being taken from is illuminating.

A lot of universities with large campus grounds take the approach of observing the natural foot traffic wear patterns on grassy areas, and then build walkways where the most worn down parts are.

Its… pretty obvious.

If everyone is taking an alternate, non designed path… your design sucks, modify it to facilitate what people find more effective.

Unless you really want to split hairs on a per article basis, in general, it is both.

If your subject for parody is ‘news about current events’, then you can argue that anything presented in the format you would expect from a newspaper, but comically exaggerated, counts as parody.

If a certain Onion article is fairly clearly a modification or exaggeration of a specific news event, it fulfills another common attribute of parody by having a specific thing it is parodying.

But sure, some of their stuff falls more into satire.

Satire more often has a more … thorough and deliberate alteration of a base material or style, with the intention of conveying a more intentional critique of or commentary on the source, a fairly obvious prescriptive moral message, by subverting it in specific ways…

… as opposed to parody, which, by itself, doesn’t really need to have a ‘message’, it can be just a level of exaggeration that is humorous in and of itself.

Generally, most of the Onion’s produced content is both parody and satire.