Daily News Thread 3/17

Both of those articles were reporting on the exact same statements. The news is fake mate, and reading it makes you less informed and less able to determine truth.

LOL

==Trump increases tensions with North Korea
President Donald Trump has accused North Korea of “behaving very badly” and “playing” the US for years, shortly after Secretary of State Red Tillerson hinted military options were on the table during his visit to South Korea. After meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se on Friday, Tillerson told reporters that the US “policy of strategic patience has ended.”

US, Japan and South Korea are currently holding naval exercises off the coast of the peninsula. Washington is also deploying armed drones and the THAAD missile defense system to South Korea, in an effort to defend from North Korea’s ballistic missiles. China has voiced concerns over the THAAD, suggesting it might threaten its own nuclear deterrent and encourage US first-strike capability. The US insists the system is purely defensive and intended solely to deter Pyongyang.

rt.com/usa/381137-trump-china-north-korea/

Not sure what you are responding to or how you got that out of the quote in the pic you posted.

And yet you seemed to have read them and seem fine. I hate that "reading fake news" is just shorthand for "I have trouble reading past the headline and fall for editorial spin". The news isn't fake you just have to fucking read it, jfc.

Assad isn't secular ? You're retarded.

He's responding to the first headline in the thread, and the pic is a transcript from a recent interview with Trump.

Read what I responded to again dumb ass. I'm clearly laughing at the idea that Isreal WANTS a more secular government.

Seriously, learn to read before you responding.

Israel wants the surrounding nations to be broken up into smaller bite size factions all fighting each other rather than Israel

I'm not sure how much I'd really trust the numbers the Japanese are giving out. They're fairly infamous for manipulating government reports to create favorable numbers, most known in their crime system.

This sounds a lot like the so called "STEM shortage" that American companies complained about, and continue to complain about

Interesting how only RT is willing to explicitly say "US, Korea and Japan" instead of vaguely referring to "US and its allies in the region"

Also, the US has been building up its first strike capabilities for a long time now and it's just gone ignored. THADD is obviously and explicitly (if you include leaks) targeted towards China, the military threat posed to ROK from the DPRK is from conventional weapons and tactics and THADD will do nothing to hinder it.

They can't keep getting away with it!

How do you outright say that the news is fake and then deny that it is? The news is and has always been fake, long before Trump said so. Read manufacturing consent.

When did I say that the news is fake? I've read manufacturing consent, and I know how spin and narrative meddling works. I'm just saying that an astonishingly large amount of the time it works simply because people refuse to read past headlines.

Well he would know too that the US has already admitted that it did indeed bomb that mosque, which contained 300 people, and killed 50 of them. Doesn't make anything he said less of a non-sequitur.

And before you get on my case, yes I know there is news that is actually fake that long predates Trump. But that's not an excuse for simply being misinformed because you can't read the body of an actual article

Hey man I'm not defending his take I'm just telling you what it's about

of course not, all these systems are totally in place to defend us from the global Iranian-North Korean threat
If we didn't have them, they would literally be landing troops on our shores and forcing us to adopt big government and publicly funded roads

You really never take a break
Keep it up

if you read the NYT cover to cover every day you would be an incredibly well propagandized idiot. To see through a narrative you have to already be predisposed to challenge almost all of the assumptions and editorial positions embedded in the framing of an article that are encapsulated in its headline. Reading past the headline is by no means a deterrent against becoming the victim of fake news.

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I doubt that they're that far off given the ongoing testing, and more importantly that teh dept of transportation is run by the companies that are heavily invested in self driving cars, plus the more traditional car companies are starting to play catch up in that field too

I do sure hope this happens. It will be a joy to see, and maybe it will be an incentive to try other things.

Is Japan worth it? I'm fucking tired of Commiefornia and a friend there told me there were good chances in Japan.

I'm going to take the JLPT (n3) in December and I work as a programmer wagecuck, but I wonder if all the stories about Japan being a late stage capitalist nightmare with 14 hour work days and social isolation are true.

TBH it's probably not that bad in Japan, or any worse than America. A lot of the doom and gloom predictions are orientalism

Because it's too hot in there thanks to pollution.

Thing really are moving faster than anticipated. This sort of technology is the future and should be made available for everyone.

The US economy is going to implode in the next 4 years. The fallout will be beautiful. I wonder who Holla Forums will blame?

Obiviously those shifty French-Canadians

Oh it's definitely right around the corner and the accelerationist in me is aroused when seeing how unprepared people are. It's gonna hit them like a freight train.

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that's a stretch.

They've been in debt deflation for 20 years and they have a huge demographic aging problem.

On the bright side, less workers means more pay.

Driverless cars are already here, they work, and they work better than drivers.

how is it a non sequitur, it was literally the first headline. my point is it's hypocritical for the US to be calling America out. And I posted the pic because it's a rare glimpse into Trump's actual mind (not just the caricature) that I find interesting, on the topic. He basically realises that the US is as bad as anyone else unlike Obama et al., he just doesn't care and uses it for his own power.

Hypocritical for Russia to be calling America out*

And the pic was a paralell to that the other way round.

that's because most drivers are 90 Autism Level bug people with atrophied amygdala's and terriblen visuo-spatial awareness and reaction times

not because they're better, driverless cars are predictable and thus deterministic and fucked by large accidents. driver cars have people who can make choices, in a split second that might save others lives. automation is fake and gay

Trumps thinking is very simple, if you are going to go to war, you better be getting a hell of a lot more than democracy out of it, if not leave it out. That's why he said 'take their oil'

Will it actually mitigate climate change though, I wonder? Doubt it.

The fact that you have a NSFW pic for every anime picture OP posts, is distressing enough.

not him, but how many lewd images does the average leftypol user have saved? Is it next to none or a lot?

how the fuck is it 'retaliation' to shoot down enemy bombers?

Quite a bit I imagine

Only reason I open these threads tbh

Israel normally carries out airstrikes on Hezbollah convoys or positions because Hez are positioning themselves and amassing the needed supplies for the next war with Israel, which will be soon

My old porn folder has about 200k images in it collected over the course of about 10 years or so, so all in all I'd say I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 500k saved total.

It really seems like the Platonic ideal of "farcical", doesn't it? One day they'll "save" someone from suicide by inflicting him with locked-in syndrome.

Of course there is, and eventually society will have to come to terms with it. Hopefully before Gattaca tech is reached, which will render the debate moot.

The fact that japan can have such a labor shortage and still have such shit hours, benefits ect boggles my mind. Collectivism + Capitalism may be even worse than individualism + capitalism.

Still I think it's better to have a labor shortage than a job shortage tbh.
Even if you have to work your ass off at least you know that you will find a job when you need one.

Sound like a fun and new way to deliver ANFO.

Don't tell him that. Porky needs his organ banks blissfully unaware that they're buying automated coffins.