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    Quote Originally posted by Chris View Post
    Not a lot of people agree with me, but I see Communist China as the biggest evil on earth currently. It is as bad as the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany were in their time.
    Today's China is a technically very sophisticated country, but just as with its sophistication, its shadow side has become amplified, and they have become Huxley's "Brave New World", or ─ ironically ─ the Romulan Empire at its worst. The irony is that the late Gene Roddenberry did actually create the Romulans as a metaphor for Communist China, and that they seem to be headed for exactly the kind of society he predicted.

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    Meanwhile, Huawei devices spy on us on a daily basis
    Are you so certain of that? All I know about it is that those claims were made by the Trump administration as an excuse for a trade war, and that in itself is already shady enough.

    The US nationalists have been complaining for ages about "American jobs being lost to the Chinese" over the fact that US companies were having their stuff manufactured in China, so as to be able to cut down on production costs and maintain broader profit margins. Trump did exactly what the nationalists have been demanding for decades, and I see the Huawei spying claim as merely yet another lie from the US government. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has presented any solid evidence yet.

    I own a Huawei phone, and I've kept it pretty stock. I've only installed Firefox as an alternative to Google Chrome ─ which does spy on us, and Google is a US-based company ─ but I don't believe it would be spying on me. In fact, it has very detailed permissions settings and it doesn't do anything that you've not explicitly allowed it to do.
    = DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR =

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    Quote Originally posted by Aragorn View Post
    Today's China is a technically very sophisticated country, but just as with its sophistication, its shadow side has become amplified, and they have become Huxley's "Brave New World", or ─ ironically ─ the Romulan Empire at its worst. The irony is that the late Gene Roddenberry did actually create the Romulans as a metaphor for Communist China, and that they seem to be headed for exactly the kind of society he predicted.
    Yes, I also noticed that. Apparently the Klingons were based on the Soviets, the Romulans on the Communist Chinese and the Cardassians on the Nazi Germans. The Ferenghi were apparently based on freelance Yankee traders, but to be honest, I think it may be a hidden anti-semitic trope. They swapped the big nose for big ears, but otherwise all the usual stereotypes are there and they were mostly played by Jewish actors.

    Are you so certain of that? All I know about it is that those claims were made by the Trump administration as an excuse for a trade war, and that in itself is already shady enough.

    The US nationalists have been complaining for ages about "American jobs being lost to the Chinese" over the fact that US companies were having their stuff manufactured in China, so as to be able to cut down on production costs and maintain broader profit margins. Trump did exactly what the nationalists have been demanding for decades, and I see the Huawei spying claim as merely yet another lie from the US government. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has presented any solid evidence yet.

    I own a Huawei phone, and I've kept it pretty stock. I've only installed Firefox as an alternative to Google Chrome ─ which does spy on us, and Google is a US-based company ─ but I don't believe it would be spying on me. In fact, it has very detailed permissions settings and it doesn't do anything that you've not explicitly allowed it to do.
    I am certain about the Huawei thing, though it may very well be a collaboration between them and Google. It happened again a few days ago, where a friend with a Huawei phone casually mentioned a very specific type of power tool whilst his phone was in his pocket. Almost immediately he started getting targeted facebook ads about it.

    It's not that the Red Army is necessarily listening in all the time, probably they have listening algorythms that look for keywords and use it for commercial purposes to better be able to target ads. Google Now has an always on function, which constantly listens, unless you switch it off manually, but I'm sure it can easily be hacked to work in the background anyway.

    However, the more serious accusations against Huawei, that their telecom towers contain backdoors and are listening in on conversations in western countries, is beyond doubt. Several countries (Canada and France, I think) have actually uprooted their Huawei telecom towers and installed new ones at considerable expense. I doubt they would have done that if the threat wasn't serious.

    Huawei is also a de facto branch of the PLA (people's liberation army). But, it is worse than it seems, because all Chinese-made electronic products contain secret backdoors that allow the PLA to take them over remotely. This has been utilised by Iran (with PLA assistance) and they were able to hijack US drones from Iraq remotely and land them in Iranian territory. All recent US weapon systems are vulnerable to Chinese backdoor manipulation, so the Armed Forces actually had to rip out Chinese-made cpus from their weapon systems and procure secure ones from reliable countries at massive expense.

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    It's ok for "Jhina (as trump pronounces) to send/flood the drug Fentanyl into the U.S.
    unabashed (causing literally) thousand of overdose deaths in recent years ...

    But (god forbid) support the Hong Kong protesters - then you are 86'd quite fast !



    They can keep their (stolen) tech gadgetry ...

    BTW

    Happy 70th Birthday Anniversary Communist Jhina ...


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    Those wonder years ...


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    Taking A Nap For 20 Million Subscribers

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    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zz8tyRHKZY


    Net Worth: $5 Million
    Age: 32
    Born: September 15, 1986
    Country of Origin: United States of America
    Source of Wealth: Professional YouTube Personality

    Last Updated: 2019
    Introduction

    Jenna Nicole Mourey, known as Jenna Marbles, is an American actress, comedian and YouTube personality from New York. She initially gained recognition when she released her debut YouTube video in 2010, that got over 5.3 million hits in one week.

    Jenna Marbles’ net worth is estimated to be roughly $5 million as of 2018, and she currently has over 2.6 billion viewers in YouTube as of 2019.


    Early Life

    Marbles were born in Rochester, New York on the 15th of September, 1986. Her father is a chemist, and she has one older brother. She graduated from Brighton High School in 2004.

    Jenna relocated to Boston to go to Suffolk University. She got a bachelor of Science and Psychology at Suffolk and relocated again to Boston University where she received the title of Master of Education and Consoling.


    Career

    Marbles started her career with Barstool Sports where she wrote on a site called StoolLaLa. In 2010 she released her first debut video on YouTube with the title “How To Trick People Into Thinking You’re Good Looking”, and in its first week, the video was viewed 5.3 million times.

    In her second video “How To Avoid Talking To People, You Don’t Want To Talk To” was featured in ABC News and The New York Times. She stated, “I’m sick and tired of guys thinking that just because I showed up at a club or a dance or a bar, that I want to have their genitalia touching my backside.”

    The days she usually uploads new videos on YouTube is on Wednesdays or Thursdays. Her name “Marbles” is a surname from her mother. As of 2018, her YouTube channel has had about 2.6 billion viewers and 18.1 million subscribers.

    In 2013 she played the role of Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” for a YouTube segment. Marbles has appeared in TV-shows like The Annoying Orange, Epic Rap Battle of History and Smosh: The Movie.

    She released a brand Kermie Worm & Mr.Marbles which is a company for dog toys, she also created items on the toys with some of her famous quotes. In 2016 she became an executive producer for Maximum Ride, a movie based on several novels, by James Patterson.

    Every week she has a podcast with her husband Julien Solomita formerly called “The Jenna and Julien Podcast”. The focus of their podcast is things such as conspiracy theories, growing up stories and small talk about YouTubers.

    As of 2019, Jenna Marbles’ net worth is $5 million.


    Highlights

    Here are some of the best highlights of Jenna Marbles’ career:
    Awards and Nominations

    Young Hollywood Award (Viral Superstar, 2014)
    Streamy Award ( Best Comedy Series, 2015)
    Teen Choice Award for Choice YouTuber (2015)
    Shorty Award for the Creator of the Decade (2018)

    Most popular and viewed videos on YouTube

    “How To Trick People Into Thinking You’re Good Looking” (67,3 million views, 2011)
    “What Girls Do In The Car” (32,2 million views, 2012)
    “How To Avoid Talking To People You Don’t Want To Talk…” (36,3 million views, 2011)
    “Things Girls Lie About” (29,3 million views, 2013)
    “Drunk Makeup Tutorial” (23,1 million views, 2012)
    “How Girls Get Dressed” (20,4 million views, 2014)
    “How To Get Ready For A Date” (20,1 million views, 2012)
    “White Girls At The Club” (19,1 million views, 2012)


    Favorite Quotes from Jenna Marbles

    “If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There’s steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.” – Jenna Marbles

    “Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character and your personal life as your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?” – Jenna Marbles

    “In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.” – Jenna Marbles“

    “When I’m feeling sad, or lonely, and I don’t know what I’m doing and I don’t know where I’m going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, ‘It’s okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out.” – Jenna Marbles

    “The days I’m not doing videos, I always have random stuff. We do production meeting stuff. Everyone’s like, ‘We like you; we don’t know what to do with you.’ I’m like, ‘Cool.” – Jenna Marbles


    Summary

    Jenna Marbles is one of the most successful female YouTubers of all time. She has the incredible count of 20 million subscribers and 2.6 billion viewers which explains her incredible net worth.

    She is the 32nd most subscribed channel on YouTube, and she is the only YouTuber that has herself as a wax figure in Madame Tussauds Museum.

    As of 2019, Jenna Marbles’ net worth is estimated to be $5 million, and currently, she’s continuing her career as a YouTube star with upcoming videos every week.

    https://wealthygorilla.com/jenna-marbles-net-worth/

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    Good Actor and Deepfake AI Technology Create Disturbingly Realistic Results ...

    'Actor and impressionist Jim Meskimen shows impressive skills impersonating famous celebrities, which combined with the latest deepfake AI technology creates shockingly convincing results ...

    Deepfake is the technology that allows to change the face of any person in an existing video footage with the face of someone else if there were enough photographic images of them shot from similar angles. Deepfake technology can be used to imitate once's voice too, but that's not needed if the actor did a good vocal job. That AI gimmick is getting more and more available to the general public and with the abundance of data we have of famous persons almost any face can be replaced with that of a celebrity.'

    In the video below Jim Meskimen of (Parks & Recreation, Whose Line?, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) recites "Pity the Poor Impressionist" poem in 20 celebrity voices, with the help of SHAM00K ...


    Pity the poor impressionist by Jim Meskimen

    Oct 4, 2019

    2:28 minutes


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    'He earned his spurs from a doctor': Gen James Mattis mocks Donald Trump ...



    The ex-defence secretary is laughing off an insult hurled at him by the US president. Speaking at a New York charity event a day after Trump demeaned him as 'the world's most overrated general', Mattis joked that he took it as a compliment. 'I'm honoured to be considered that by Donald Trump because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress,' he said. 'So I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals'
    Oct 18, 2019

    1:11 moments ...



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    True Facts : The Sand Bubbler Crab

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    Enjoyable little guys making balls all day. Finally I've got it explained, thanks Gio!

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    At 1:45, "Oh, we're going to the club." These are the best. Thank you Gio.

    Sally would have a ball with these guys...

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    Video Shows Moment Oregon Coach Disarmed And Hugged Student With Gun

    NBC Nightly News



    Oct 19, 2019

    2:05 minutes



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    A once in a lifetime ...

    Video Shows Moment Oregon Coach Disarmed And Hugged Student With Gun

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    Way to goooo! Hugs...

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    Letter from the U.K. November 4, 2019 Issue



    How Brexit Will End




    "Until recently, it was possible to believe that there was a middle way, or to
    be in denial that a decisive moment would come. That’s no longer the case" ...


    Listen/read more/Here

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