BoxedEmpathy (u/BoxedEmpathy)

BoxedEmpathy commented on Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub bbc.com/news/articles/c86... · Posted by u/1659447091

curseofcasandra · a month ago

For those unfamiliar with the history, Taiwan’s (ROC) own constitution says it is part of China. Its dispute is with the CCP, not China itself.

Conflating the PRC vs ROC conflict with a China vs Japan conflict is just ignorant.

BoxedEmpathy · a month ago

“We have no choice but to cut off that dirty neck that has lunged at us, without a moment’s hesitation. Are you ready?”

- Chinese Consul-General in Osaka, Xue Jian, addressing Japan

BoxedEmpathy commented on Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub bbc.com/news/articles/c86... · Posted by u/1659447091

laughing_man · a month ago

"Once China solves the Taiwan problem"? Then I suppose Japan has nothing to worry about.

BoxedEmpathy · a month ago

“We have no choice but to cut off that dirty neck that has lunged at us, without a moment’s hesitation. Are you ready?”

- Chinese Consul-General in Osaka, Xue Jian, in reference to Japan

BoxedEmpathy commented on Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub bbc.com/news/articles/c86... · Posted by u/1659447091

numpad0 · a month ago

Traditional threat to Hokkaido is Soviet tank battalions, not Chinese. It's roughly due east to Vladivostok and to south of Sakhalin island. Unless Russian Federation actually falls and these regions change hands into hostile entities, it should be okay. And there will be more important things to worry than continuing economical chip production if that happens.

BoxedEmpathy · a month ago

“We have no choice but to cut off that dirty neck that has lunged at us, without a moment’s hesitation. Are you ready?” -Chinese Consul-General in Osaka, Xue Jian, directed at Japan

Is that not a threat?

BoxedEmpathy commented on Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub bbc.com/news/articles/c86... · Posted by u/1659447091

riffraff · a month ago

since WW2: Annexation of Tibet, Taiwan Strait Crisis, Sino-Indian War, Sino-Vietnamese War.

BoxedEmpathy · a month ago

Also Korean War, 1959 Tibetan Uprising, Nathu La and Cho La clashes, Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, Paracel Islands conflict, Sino-Vietnam border clashes, Johnson South Reef Skirmish, China–India border clashes (Galwan), South China Sea standoffs.

BoxedEmpathy commented on Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try techcrunch.com/2025/11/13... · Posted by u/perihelions

BoxedEmpathy · 2 months ago

Fantastic news! I hope to live long enough to see LEO become more accessible to everybody.

BoxedEmpathy commented on Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks sherlockproject.xyz/... · Posted by u/leonry

dylan604 · a year ago

Until some ML process is learned to give a probability that accounts are the same based on writing styles

Staying anonymous is very difficult

BoxedEmpathy · a year ago

I specifically write with different perspectives, tones, and opinions on different sites in a probably vain attempt to mitigate this.

For example, on YouTube I use twitch slang, and on Reddit I use TikTok slang, and on TikTok I use reddit slang. On hackernews a use a slightly whimsical pedantically-infused undergrad tone.

BoxedEmpathy commented on Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study news.mit.edu/2024/study-b... · Posted by u/topato

smitelli · a year ago

If the world were flat, cats would’ve knocked everything off the edge by now.

BoxedEmpathy · a year ago

If the world was flat imagine the 5 star hotel on the edge. It would be awesome.

BoxedEmpathy commented on Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study news.mit.edu/2024/study-b... · Posted by u/topato

m3kw9 · a year ago

Gotta learn to filter the news on various ways. Climate change? You gonna make the earth temp decrease? Then stop worrying. Microplastics? Just drink more from glass and less junk which come from plastic containers. Lots of violence on the news? It’s been like that ever since man has evolved from cells. Stop worrying

BoxedEmpathy · a year ago

For me, none of that stuff bothers me. What gives me the social media heartbreak is seeing the hate. Seeing commenters get so upset with each other over misunderstandings and miscommunications.

I've tried completely avoiding comments, and I admit it makes my life less stressful, but it feels like closing your eyes to solve littering.

So now what I do is try to assume every positive commenter is a human and every negative commenter is maybe a LLM/hatebot. This has given me just enough magical thinking to avoid the stress but not so much as to distort my world view... hopefully..

BoxedEmpathy commented on Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study news.mit.edu/2024/study-b... · Posted by u/topato

BoxedEmpathy · a year ago

I'm ready to migrate back to digg, after coming from digg to reddit so many years ago..

BoxedEmpathy commented on I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100 elliott-king.github.io/20... · Posted by u/thunderbong

etothepii · a year ago

It is very unusual for AWS not to issue refunds in situations like this, so I don't think it's a function of them finding an edge to milk thousands from user mistakes. More likely they've found that issuing refunds is less onerous than it would be to provide accurate and cheap tutorials.

Perhaps that does not excuse the behaviour but AWS reversed a $600 charge I incurred using AWS Textract where the charges were completely legitimate and I was working for a billion dollar enterprise.

BoxedEmpathy · a year ago

I very recently had a run away SageMaker issue that wasn't refunded. Wasn't much, only $50, but they said no.

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