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2·4 days agoThat’s right - that’s what the article is pointing out, and what my comment was pointing out: that despite usage of 50% capacity on current coal plants they are still building more. They are building capacity for the long term - for AI data centers which are giant power consumers. Power generation and transmission capacity can’t be built over night. That’s where top-down planning comes in.
China has been ramping up building of coal power plants, many of which are operating at 50% capacity: https://lemmy.ca/post/49779092
1·5 days agoChina is building capacity for what’s coming: all those gigantic power-hungry AI server farms.
2·5 days agoUS has snuck these mobile missile systems into the Philippines. At first they said missiles were there temporarily as part of joint military exercises, but delayed removing them. It’s now been a few years since and these missiles have become a fixture over there. Chinese are going to come out with a warning about this “provocation” by the US and Philippines soon.
Oh look at this. Trump is making friends out of enemies! He surely deserves the Nobel Peas Prize! (sarcasm, intentional misspelling)
2·5 days agoThis is a significant development in Arakan State. ARSA since driven out of Arakan to Bangladesh by the junta back in 2017, have been rebuilding their corps and gathering strength with the help of Junta in recent years, and also allegedly, by some forces in Bangladesh. This is the first large scale attack by ARSA since 2017 which triggered the Rohingya crisis.
Meanwhile, the market thinks this inflation report is good news for rate cuts.
Since last Trump presidency.
26·7 days agoTrump used tariffs to get a sweetheart golf course deal in Vietnam. Is this part of that $3.4billion New Yorker counted? How many more deals like this has he gotten from other countries?
He’ll probably sell it as “a merger of equals”, that “America will now be across 3 continents and the sun will never set on America.” “The greatest America it’s ever been!”
I’ve only seen the hit TV show, never read it. Yeah I’m a fan of the show. lol
Was there ever a doubt about who he’s been working for?
This location is highly strategic due to location of Junta arms factories.
6·12 days agoYes Biden’s chips act did create a ton of new investments in chip building in the US. Only for Trump and Maga to kill it upon taking power. Now he’s going to claim the credit for all the investments made from the time of Biden’s chips act.
He will exempt companies who makes chips in the US - as long as they make some of them in the US, their imports are exempt from the tariff. A quick glance says major chip makers (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) have some production facilities in the US.
The body count isn’t from the paper. If you read, it is a direct quote attributed to a general of the Thai military.
I am not sure there are any center-left newspapers left in Thailand. The nation isn’t a rag as you claim to be. It is a reputable news outlet.
The Nation is an English-language daily online newspaper founded in 1971, published in Bangkok, Thailand. It is one of two English-language dailies in Bangkok, the other being the Bangkok Post. On 28 June 2019, it published its final broadsheet edition, leaving only its online edition.[5]
Though The Nation has a right-of-centre opinion page, which welcomed the 2014 coup and military rule, its daily news coverage is more center-left, criticizing, for example, Thailand’s lèse-majesté law.[8] According to acclaimed, left-of-centre journalist, Pravit Rojanaphruk, who worked at Nation for 23 years: “The Nation, at least during its heyday …, was a bastion of committed journalism and tolerance.” But over the past decade, it “morphed from a progressive newspapers into a coup-apologist cheerleader for military intervention,…” Pravit was fired from The Nation in 2015 after release from a three-day junta detention without charge for “attitude adjustment”, his second such detention.
lost no fewer than 3,000 men.
Holy crap. I didn’t realize the battles were that huge. Even if only 10% of Thai estimates are true, that’s still a lot of deaths for a few days of what I thought were border skirmishes.
For those unfamiliar with the political situation on the Arakan front - which is where the world’s attention on Myanmar has been due to the Rohingya crisis, this is a small lifting of the rug so to speak to the complex history of the area and its political participants.
Good god. Enough is enough.