Stay safe comrade, always appreciate seeing your comments around here.
This is uh Not Good huh. Seems like a huge escalation, directly striking military targets. Thus far India's excuse has been that they were only striking "legitimate" targets ie "terror camps." You can't really wave away striking Pakistani airbases as "terror camps."
I mean he's like 95% of the way there; he already did an order deputizing a bunch of law enforcement adjacent folks. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/23/trump-deputizes-federal-agents-arrest-immigrants/77914576007/
Thank you for this analysis, love your posts here. Really interesting to watch the development of Chinese anti-air performing in this conflict.
From the Economist :
Pakistan shot down 12 drones that entered its airspace from India, warning that its neighbour would “pay dearly for this naked aggression”. Earlier Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s prime minister, vowed to “avenge each drop of blood” after India launched air strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. India was responding to an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir last month. Pakistan denies involvement.
So thus far the entire conflict has been mostly India failing in breaking Pakistan's air defenses.
The big jump with Deepseek honestly is the cost. Deepseek isn't like better than the cutting edge Western models, it's basically on par. The key is it cost 20 times less to train. Deepseek cost around $5 million, whilst gpt-4 was around $100 million.
Can't wait to have all my sins wiped by participating in the sack of St. Louis.
It's like eurodollars 2.0, huh. Interesting.
Completely untrue, yes. This was a rumour going around in mid-April in China, but it was debunked by Chinese financial media and the state bank. https://finance.eastmoney.com/a/202504183381053098.html
Love the username, but yeah I agree. It's well agreed that DPRK hackers are some of the best in the world. They've robbed literally billions of dollars of crypto, and even publications like the Economist have admitted that DPRK hackers are top tier.
North Korea has several strengths. One is talent. This could appear counterintuitive: the country is desperately poor and ordinary citizens have severely restricted access to the internet or even computers. But “North Korea can take the best minds and tell them what to do,” says Kim Seung-joo of the school of cybersecurity at Korea University in Seoul. “They don’t have to worry about them going to work at Samsung.” At the International Collegiate Programming Contest in 2019, a team from a North Korean university came eighth, beating those from Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford and Stanford.
Per https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/03/19/why-are-north-korean-hackers-such-good-crypto-thieves
It's not so much that Francis ruthlessly purged reactionary cardinals (which he absolutely did), but more importantly he created various new seats for cardinals from the Global South appointed by him. This will be the first conclave in historical memory where less than 50% of the electors are from Europe.
Following the 2024 consistory, 110 of the cardinal electors had been appointed by Francis, 24 by Pope Benedict XVI, and 6 by Pope John Paul II. Each of Francis' consistories has increased the number of cardinal electors from at or less than the set limit of 120[b] to a number higher than 120, as high as 140 in 2024, surpassing the record 135 set by Pope John Paul II in 2001 and 2003. Since 2 June 2023, two-thirds of the cardinal electors have been cardinals created by Francis. The December 2024 consistory increased that to about 79%, and 80% of the electors who may participate in the 2025 papal conclave were created by Francis.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinals_created_by_Francis
Don't wanna overreact or anything but uh this seems Very Bad. Lahore is like 10 km from the Indian border and is Pakistan's most populated city. That's when the nukes start going.