“#Trump’s talk, in his familiar discursive style, also included digs at former President Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris. He also falsely claimed a mandate to hire transgender executives under the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act caused its failure.” #news
the #JPEG #file-format can actually include a sequence of image updates
#humor #video giving an overview of the difficulties of learning Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, and Korean. But the title is misleading because these aren’t even close to the hardest languages.
#news #video about how the world didn’t have a huge #oil shock from the #Iran war just now. Proposes a theory that #China’s Xi Jinping averted disaster.
Incorrectly states that 10% of the world oil supply is “more than a tenth of global #energy usage”. Misleading plots with nonzero baselines to exaggerate drawdowns of strategic petroleum reserves. Purportedly China’s oil imports dropped by half (5.5 million barrels per day) between March and June, though given the previous falsehoods I’m not going to trust anything out of this “Max Fisher” bozo until I verify it. Reportedly there’s a Reuters article from March entitled, “China orders immediate ban on March fuel exports, sources say,” about refinery outputs, and a Wall Street Journal article from June, “China is propping up the world economy by importing a lot less oil”. And reportedly China was burning a record amount of coal by April, perhaps shutting down liquid-fueled power plants. Oh, and supposedly China had a 1.4 billion barrel secret strategic oil reserve, larger than the strategic oil reserves of all other countries put together.
Another boner toward the end of the video: “trading in US dollars means those transactions have to be processed by a US-based bank.” No, no it doesn’t.
#video about how #C-Pop #music has changed in recent decades
#video about zero-views YouTube videos, found by searching for autogenerated filenames like HPIM0021 or DJI0053 or 4834.MP4. #toread