Re: Job Offer

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:48:47 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:27:18 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:30:35 -0300, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:
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I think Jeff Liebermann has been watching some real news. Poor
guy.  He's become a victim of depressive realism. Which DOES exist,
even if "freedom of speech" assures you it does not.

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Quite correct.  I get VERY depressed with the current political
reality in the US.  The situation reminds me of the economic and
political realities of the 1930 in Europe as discribed by who lived
through the 1929 to 1939 Great Depression.  If I really want to engage
in self-abuse, with an overdose of "depressive realism", there are
thousands of AI generated YouTube videos available that have been
carefully (some not so carefully) crafted to present extreme points of
view depending on the politics and biases of the authors.  Freedom of
speech is useless if the "facts" are filtered and edited by an AI to
be compatible with the agenda of those who own the news media.
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I could use some opinions here.  Is this video of China for real?
"This Video Will Change Your View of CHINA! (no more lies)"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED9iaYliMSg>  (11:17)
It presents a very positive view of China from the point of view of a
resident who emigrated from England 13 years ago.  Is all of urban
China like that, or is he cherry picking the best and most modern
areas?  Do the videos look like they have been "improved" with AI?

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I suspect it's real. I also suspect that it's not like that everywhere
in China. China is a modern country. It's also a dictatorship.

My Nephew and his girlfriend recently made a 1 week tourist visit to
China and what he described when he got back was similar to what that
video showed.

I would comment that this is what a tourist would see and probably has
little relationship to what other regions are like.


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Cheers,

John B.