#( beidou : data )

[cinnq-bxnni]

WHY AM I NOW HEARING ABOUT THE GENSHIN IMPACT X MCDONALD'S COLLAB??? 😭😭

BRO MY FRIENDS WENT TO MCDS AND BROUGHT ME AN APPLE PIE. THEN. BAM.

BEIDOU AND KAZUHA JUMPSCARE 😭😭😭

[zvaigzdelasas]

There’s little doubt that the American government has decided to slow China’s economic rise, most notably in the fields of technological development. To be sure, the Biden administration denies that these are its goals. Janet Yellen said on April 20, “China’s economic growth need not be incompatible with U.S. economic leadership. The United States remains the most dynamic and prosperous economy in the world. We have no reason to fear healthy economic competition with any country.” And Jake Sullivan said on April 27, “Our export controls will remain narrowly focused on technology that could tilt the military balance. We are simply ensuring that U.S. and allied technology is not used against us.”

Yet, in its deeds, the Biden administration has shown that its vision extends beyond those modest goals. It has not reversed the trade tariffs Donald Trump imposed in 2018 on China, even though presidential candidate Joe Biden criticized them in July 2019, saying: “President Trump may think he’s being tough on China. All that he’s delivered as a consequence of that is American farmers, manufacturers and consumers losing and paying more.” Instead, the Biden administration has tried to increase the pressure on China by banning the export of chips, semiconductor equipment, and selected software.

It has also persuaded its allies, like the Netherlands and Japan, to follow suit. More recently, on Aug. 9, the Biden administration issued an executive order prohibiting American investments in China involving “sensitive technologies and products in the semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies, and artificial intelligence sectors” which “pose a particularly acute national security threat because of their potential to significantly advance the military, intelligence, surveillance, or cyber-enabled capabilities” of China.

All these actions confirm that the American government is trying to stop China’s growth. Yet, the big question is whether America can succeed in this campaign—and the answer is probably not. Fortunately, it is not too late for the United States to reorient its China policy toward an approach that would better serve Americans—and the rest of the world.[...]

Since the creation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, several efforts have been made to limit China’s access to or stop its development in various critical technologies, including nuclear weapons, space, satellite communication, GPS, semiconductors, supercomputers, and artificial intelligence. The United States has also tried to curb China’s market dominance in 5G, commercial drones, and electric vehicles (EVs). Throughout history, unilateral or extraterritorial enforcement efforts to curtail China’s technological rise have failed and, in the current context, are creating irreparable damage to long-standing U.S. geopolitical partnerships. In 1993 the Clinton administration tried to restrict China’s access to satellite technology. Today, China has some 540 satellites in space and is launching a competitor to Starlink.

When America restricted China’s access to its geospatial data system in 1999, China simply built its own parallel BeiDou Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) system in one of the first waves of major technological decoupling. In some measures, BeiDou is today better than GPS. It is the largest GNSS in the world, with 45 satellites to GPS’s 31, and is thus able to provide more signals in most global capitals. It is supported by 120 ground stations, resulting in greater accuracy, and has more advanced signal features, such as two-way messaging[...]

American measures to deprive China access to the most advanced chips could even damage America’s large chip-making companies more than it hurts China. China is the largest consumer of semiconductors in the world. Over the past ten years, China has been importing massive amounts of chips from American companies. According to the US Chamber of Commerce, China-based firms imported $70.5 billion worth of semiconductors from American firms in 2019, representing approximately 37 percent of these companies’ global sales. Some American companies, like Qorvo, Texas Instruments, and Broadcom, derive about half of their revenues from China. 60 percent of Qualcomm’s revenues, a quarter of Intel’s revenues, and a fifth of Nvidia’s sales are from the Chinese market. It’s no wonder that the CEOs of these three companies recently went to Washington to warn that U.S. industry leadership could be harmed by the export controls. American firms will also be hurt by retaliatory actions from China, such as China’s May ban on chips from US-based Micron Technology. China accounts for over 25 percent of Micron’s sales.[...]

The U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association released a statement on July 17, saying that Washington’s repeated steps “to impose overly broad, ambiguous, and at times unilateral restrictions risk diminishing the U.S. semiconductor industry’s competitiveness, disrupting supply chains, causing significant market uncertainty, and prompting continued escalatory retaliation by China,” and called on the Biden administration not to implement further restrictions without more extensive engagement with semiconductor industry representatives and experts.

The Chips Act cannot subsidize the American semiconductor industry indefinitely, and there is no other global demand base to replace China. Other chip producing nations will inevitably break ranks and sell to China (as they have historically) and the American actions will be for naught. And, in banning the export of chips and other core inputs to China, America handed China its war plan years ahead of the battle. China is being goaded into building self-sufficiency far earlier than they would have otherwise. Prior to the ZTE and Huawei components bans, China was content to continue purchasing American chips and focusing on the front-end hardware. Peter Wennink, the CEO of ASML, stated that China is already leading in key applications and demand for semiconductors. Wennink wrote, “The roll-out of the telecommunication infrastructure, battery technology, that’s the sweet spot of mid-critical and mature semiconductors, and that’s where China without any exception is leading.”[...]

Former State Department official Susan Thornton, who oversaw the study as director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security at NCAFP, said: “This audit of U.S.-China diplomacy shows that we can make progress through negotiations and that China follows through on its commitments. The notion that engagement with China did not benefit the U.S. is just not accurate.”[...]

One fundamental problem is that domestic politics in America are forcing American policymakers to take strident stands against China instead of pragmatic positions. For instance, sanctions preventing the Chinese Defense Minister, Li Shangfu, from traveling to the United States are standing in the way of U.S.-China defense dialogues to prevent military accidents.

19 Sep 23

[glassrowboat]

Michi Character Story.

“I must confess I find Michi unsettling. She is a woman I know little about, but everytime I come face to face with her it's like she barely perceives the world around her and yet also sees it in a way I cannot even begin to fathom. Many seem to ignore that because of her crass nature but…nevermind. I am simply saying you should err on the side of caution with her. No one needs to know what it's like to be held at the end of a gun's barrel.”

-Prudence Shawn as she shines the claymore Michi had forged for her.

A blacksmith with a penchant for letting their smithy go unmanned for days as the sound of hammers beating against metal suddenly go missing only to return again like nothing ever happened. Some say this is because Michi takes it too easy and she simply doesn't care for her work, but a select few can recognize her sharp eyes watching the crowd as it passes by, but you'd never suspect is as she kicks their feet up and watches the day go by all the way from sunrise to sunset.

Introduction.

Those who actually have stepped inside know the place is covered wall to wall in all types of weapons - Still, that doesn't change her attitude. She would rather toss back a drink or two with Captain Beidou at the wharf than chase someone down for the sake of harassing them into buying her goods. It's made a few people wonder how her business stays afloat when it only had a few habitual customers to the point some suspect foul play.

Even worse are those flies that always seemed to buzz around the shop that Michi never cared enough to swat down even as they landed on her shoulder, nearly glistening in the sun as their wings beat with each passing second.

Only those with eyes as keen as the owner of the Yue Guang smithy would know those dragonflies aren't as organic as they originally seem.

Character Story 1.

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Bruises blooming as a broken voice begs for someone to stop.

Tears filling hazel eyes.

Confusion at being hurt by her own family after being told they were supposed to be a never-ending source of love and protection.

A head banging back against a wall as blood spills from the gaping wound. Only then was someone called for, a number being dialed in as her mother's voice begs for someone to come help her little girl for the first time since this started years ago.

A single paralyzed vocal cord.

Error.

Data incomplete.

Character Story 2.

The names had been getting annoying. Mute, dumb in the head, retarded, and so many more echoed in Michi's ears every time she walked through her school's halls. It was like they thought she was deaf, too.

To her chagrin, she wasn't, but having a pair of static filled ears would certainly help tamper down the annoyance she was feeling. Not a single glare seemed to deter anyone from shutting their mouths, so she had to simply grit her teeth through it and march on.

Error.

Her head whirled around at another name being called out, almost shouted right into Michi’s face like they felt the need to make sure she heard it, because what's the point if they're not one hundred percent positive, right?

After all these times people still haven't learned, then, at least not enough to block when her hand reaches out to grab the collar of this person's shirt and shove them to the wall behind them with a thud. Their pained grunt didn't even deter her from kneeing them in the gut.

The rest…well….the small group of friends she had at the time to pry Michi off the moment blood had fallen to the ground and someone was shouting how she broke their nose.

Meaning….

“Another fight occurred.”

That's what the principal said when Michi had to be picked up by her mother from school. The entire drive home had been silent except for the hum of the radio filling the air between them; neither of the two wanted to disturb it. The lyrics were familiar, annoyingly enough, making Michi tap their fingers to the beat.

“Again, Michaella?” Lorelei asked.

“Again.” She nodded, barely getting the single word out.

“I can't keep doing this. Leaving early work to pick you up to just-” Her hands left the steering wheel when the car finally jostled into place as they parked. The garage light above them flickered with every passing minute. “I put you through therapy, didn't I? I did everything a good mother was supposed to, but it's still not enough for you.”

Therapy she sat in on, Michi wanted to add, but she refused to humor this conversation when she already knew how it was going to end. It always had to be her mother's way, so it came to no surprise when Michi didn't even so much as look shocked when Lorelei said “I'm pulling you out of public school.”

With Michi's stubborn silence, Lorelei looked over at her daughter, taking in her slumped form and a new set of bruises on her knuckles, framing the skin splitting apart between the blotches of color.

“It'll be a good school, I promise. We can get you into one where you can learn to navigate your disability and when you're come, you can come back to the normal world and integrate yourself back into everyday society.”

Still, Michi said nothing as she tapped her fingers to the beat.

In turn, the radio was turned off with a resounding click.

“Please, Michaella, I- you know what? Fine. Throw another fit like always, but this is happening either way. That's that.”

The car door opened and closed with a resounding slam.

Sighing, Michi slumped further in her seat, trying to get the leather to swallow her whole.

“If I ever slammed a door I'd be getting a real stern fucking talking to, but if she does it….”

With one last flicker of the garage light Michi forced herself to get out of the car.

Character Story 3.

A baseball bat met a window, shattering it into pieces as the stained glass once picturing a god fell apart before their very eyes. Under her feet it only broke apart further with a crunch as Michi walked back to the endless pews lining the nave all the way up to the other teenager watching her.

They shared a smile, even if Michi had to force hers as she had to look back and forth between the wreckage under her and back to the one person who had stuck around after she had been dropped into an ASL school for her own convenience. Or so Michi has been told.

“Jennifer.”

The glass crunched under their feet again as Michi approached the other girl, her eyes narrowed to block out the last few rays of shining sun peeking through the abandoned chapel's windows. From beyond the walls of their makeshift safe haven, they could both hear the sounds of cars driving past and a single person, most likely a drug addict, cursing away like they just saw an angel descend.

“Remind me why you want to do this again?”

“I need practice.” Jennifer responded in turn, a lighter already flicking on to birth a flame now licking at a needle she was holding. “I can't go around asking for money for giving people piercings if I'm not any good at it.”

“So I'm your victim in this?” Michi asked.

“Yes. And don't blame me if you get infected.”

The bat clattered to the floor, almost hitting Michi’s black and blue legs on its way down before filling the stone room with its echo. Right next to the gleaming wood sat Michi's knees as she kneeled down with a painting of the all holy himself facing her back. His eyes watched every movement as the needle Jennifer was holding caught a stray beam of light.

It shined beautifully.

“You better know what you're doing, Jen. I'm no good with pain.”

“You can get me back in a moment. You always do.” Jen patted Michi'a cheek, right before taking their lip between her fingers and refusing to let it go.

She didn't even relent as Michi tried to pull away.

Error.

A simple song filled the abandoned chapel again after all the years it had gone without hearing a choir: Michi's whimper as a pointed tip pierced the skin under her bottom lip.

“Just a little more.” She was assured, so Michi held tight and let the burning sting send shocks all the way down to her toes and back up to her head leaving her mind feeling hazy; swimming in a feeling Michi could never forget.

Error.

Error.

Error.

The moment the needle was pulled away from the second piercing Jennifer had jabbed into her once soft flesh Michi pushed the other girl's hand away, forcing her back until they both fell off the pews and down to the ground below. Dust from the unswept floors tried to cling to their clothes, but it barely mattered when Michi was already pulling Jennifer's shirt off.

With a single golden piercing in her lip and an empty wound waiting for a new piece of jewelry to join it in a matching set, a kiss was pressed to the wound, blood spilling from the new puncture in Michi's already scraped skin to Jennifer's mouth before the two filled the chaoel with a new song.

Their moans, one sweet and one broken, echoed together as a single spider pin fell from Jennifer's shirt tucking itself under the various pews as their clothing fell away.

Character Story 4.

The right to speak properly had been robbed from Michi fairly young, leaving her with a rasp in her throat, a single functioning vocal cord, and a scar on her neck to prove she had tried to at least get it fixed through surgery.

Another failed attempt at trying to integrate herself back into normal society, just as Lorelei wanted, had passed when Michi woke up to find the surgery was a groundbreaking failure.

Things had gotten worse after that. Michi's patience for vocal therapy had finally snapped in half as she tossed a chair at a wall and stormed out, refusing to look back no matter how many times her name was called.

And it was all because of one person: her sister.

The one who had robbed everything from Michi. Who forced her to have to get injections shoved into her throat every few months even though the prick of the needles left her as nauseous as ever. Who robbed the feeling of home right from under Michi's feet the first time her closed fist met Michi. Yet she was still welcomed into what was supposed to be Michi’s safe haven time and time again with ease as their mother cried with relief every time that -error- returned.

Like there was nothing wrong between them all.

Like everything was picture -error- perfect.

The right to feel safe in her own home was robbed from Michi once again, so they did what anyone would and found somewhere else to turn to. At first it was Jennithe's place before her parents banned Michi from coming over, then it was the church before it was torn down, and now it's the back of a classroom as Michi tries her best not to draw the teacher's eye.

He had welcomed Michi in without a single hint of hesitation every time she snuck past him only to drop before one of the many winking monitors of the, quite frankly, old computers. The light would reflect on her face for hours at a time as she stationed herself away, trying to delay the inevitable.

“If you're going to stay here, you might as well work on something.” He had once told her that before pulling out a course class, his regular students went over and left Michi to her own devices.

Truly, he had too much faith in someone known to cause trouble, but she wasn't going to complain.

So Michi stationed herself before a computer in the STEM lab and went over the courses to fill their time to avoid going back to a place she could only bring herself to view as a house rather than a home. Her fingers flew over the keys, adept as ever after all her years using ASL, and typed away.

The labs came easy, it was just taking something simple and putting it into practice, the coding took a moment to get used to, and everytime she had the chance to put her hands on something and make it from scratch with nothing more than a few bits and bubbles made the time seem to fly by with the same ease as a dragonfly until each course was complete everyday after school until there was nothing left to do.

‘Complete’ the monitor read out before her.

Eventually the teacher overseeing it all came by with a stack of college entrance exams and asked one simple question: “Would you like to do more with your life than this, Michaella?”

With her eyes flickering back and forth between the screen and the pen held out to her she could only ask one thing, her words coming out broken and hoarse. “Where do I start?”

Character Story 5.

Things had been easier and worse all at once.

A new life had opened up before Michi all from a few measly hours she had spent every afternoon after school trying to keep herself safe from the harm she had become so familiar with. Like doors finally being unlocked for the first time after she had gazed at them with a fierce curiosity to learn what was hidden away by their existence.

Coding was natural to her, making little gadgets for work was easier after all the practice she had getting her hands dirty- in multiple ways- and it all seemed to perfectly fall in place like it was meant to be from the start. Even if the one person she had who stuck around all those years left because Michi decided to go her own way.

But things were good.

They had to be.

Error.

So why did they just hear…that?

The phone in her hands slipped from Michi’s hold as the words echoed in her hold, bouncing around like they were trying to shatter her skull from the inside with each hit to the porcelain white dome.

“What are you talking about, Michi? Your mom knew what was happening. I remember telling her.”

Michi's mouth opened only to fall closed again, the metal of her piercings clicking against her teeth as she struggled to not only talk but to breathe.

“Michi?” Her cousin called. The same one she had over for sleepovers and birthday parties when they were both younger- who had seen everything.

Mom knew.

Mom knew.

Error.

Michi's hands reached up to their throat, shaking as they wrapped around the long column to feel the scar she always hid behind chokers or turtle necks. Beneath her fingers it was easy to find, almost laughably so as her nails grazed against the white patch from where she had been torn apart on an operating table for the sake of….fixing something that could have been avoidable if her mother had been aware what was going on.

But she did.

She-

Error.

The voice called her name again, but it was drowned out by the sound of jingling keys and a door slamming shut behind Michi as she marched down to her car with a stumble to each step. Being drunk would be easier, she surmised. The years of throwing back the contents of a full bottle while Jennifer encouraged her to chug it all down had proven that, but now Michi could barely manage a straight line all the way to the cheap Ford she bought second hand.

In its windows Michi’s frantic image was reflected.

“I just need to talk to mom. That's all.” Michi swore, already pulling out to go drive to the same house she had grown up in. The same one with a blotch of red in the carpet her mother had never been able to get out despite years of trying. Like she was trying to erase the entire event despite it leaving an everlasting mark on Michi.

Maybe a call would have been better, but it was hard to think right now as her foot slotted against the gas pedal.

Error.

Error.

Trees and buildings seemed to fly by with ease as she sped through the roads, trying her best to think straight even when she was barely able to feel the steering wheel through the layer of nervous sweat coating her skin.

Five more minutes and she would be back home- at the house? She would arrive.

Just five more minutes.

Error.

Headlights.

A single loud honk.

Error.

“Five more minutes….” Michi whispered as her car lay flipped over in the middle of the highway with scraps of metal laid out all around her, and everything went black.

Error.

Blacksmithing.

The flat face of a hammer slammed down on the bright red metal before her causing flakes to fall off the steel rod Michi was trying to shape. They flew through the sky, fireflies in the middle of the day until they fell back down to the ground to be smothered by the world around them; swallowed by the dirt.

Drawing out the bar had been an issue of hers despite it being such an important step, so here she was swinging the same hammer that had been forced into hands the moment she arrived at this dingy little summer camp.

Lorelei had been the one who sent her off here.

Michi had just gotten home from the hospital, the would on the back of her head from where it met the corner of a table still aching when she had tucked herself into her bed for a single night only to wake up the next day to find Lorelei had decided Michi shouldn't be at home right now. Her sister, however? Oh, she could stay. Of course-

Another swing.

This time it dented the metal, leaving the print of the hammer in what's supposed to be a simple dagger as it rattled against the tongs Michi was struggling to hold properly. They didn't even fit properly in her hands leaving them aching at the end of each day as they shook in her hold every time she stepped before the anvil to get to work.

This was her one way of releasing her anger.

Another swing.

Because how was she supposed to scream when it left Michi coughing and tears in her eyes from the pain that would rip through her?

The hammer fell from her grasp, dropping onto the upsetting block with a clang.

Why wasn't she home right now?

Why was Michi the one who was sent away?

A shaky breath left her as Michi looked back and forth between everyone around her. There were boys and men, but not a single girl like her, and back to the rod of steel slowly growing colder with each passing second as that bright red fades away.

She would have to throw it back in the forge, but for now, Michi could barely bring herself to move as she stood there trying not to cry.

Vision.

The subtle heat coursing through her as Michi held a single glowing gem in her hand was the only comfort she had as snow whirled around her. Its red light pulsed, a beacon through the storm she had trudged through with a pink nose and chattering teeth as she tried to see through the swirling haze of falling flakes.

The storm was like nothing she had ever seen before. All encompassing. It left her with a surety she would freeze to death even with this odd gem she had woken up with tied around her neck. It had been her one saving grace even as she had tripped and fallen into the patch of snow beneath her. Knee high, but like this, it might as well have swallowed the woman whole.

Would she be just another body lost to the cold in some place she didn't even recognize?

It was a haunting thought.

Even then, her mind seemed to compete over if the storm or her mind was more concerning as she tiptoed between a lingering sadness Michi refused to acknowledge and a festering hatred. The feeling was an old friend greeting Michi and holding out its hand to her in its one show of compassion as she was told to stand tall once again. To refuse to let this be her end.

So Michi got herself back up with a sputter and trudged on. All the way to a camp full of chatter and bright lights nearly as blinding as the one she had seen before it all turned black.

The symbol fluttering in the wind on a blue banner barely meant anything to her in comparison to the promise of a proper fire rather than the one sparking at her fingertips and a hot meal. If anything, it was the promise of a saving grace she desperately reached out for.

It didn't even matter they came face to face with a sneer that failed to hide sharp teeth as a figure covered in a white cloak stared down at her only to ask “And what's this?”

The last thing she remembered before succumbing to the cold, the gem in her hand nearly scalding her skin with how hot it burned in an attempt to keep her blood flowing properly, was red eyes peeking out from behind a mask. They narrowed as Michi fell into the ground, her short stature nearly swallowed up by the powder surrounding him before Dottore turned and moved to walk away.

With a single gesture of his gloved hand, two more men in masks came and dragged this strange woman back with them as they whispered under their breaths where she had come from.

Their talk filled the journey all the way back to the room Michi was forced into after having woken back up. Feeling had returned to her fingers, still intact from what she could feel. Though, admittedly, it was hard to tell when they were tied behind her back as she was being tugged and pulled along by these people who called themselves Fatui.

They jostled her and forced her down onto her knees before a woman who seemed to radiate ice and snow while sitting high up on a throne.

Michi’s head bowed, mocking the actions of the man with the red eyes next to her as the frosty woman spoke all as a single glowing red gem hung from Michi’s neck.

“Welcome to Teyvat, Outlander.”

Silly little Michi facts.

-The spiked piercings she originally wears before Baizhu gifts her a new pair is to represent spider fangs

Michi and Aloy have the same vision casing

-Michi 100% would have been pissed if she didn't get isekaid through a car crash because it ruins all her jokes so I am just letting her have that one

-Dottore gives Michi injections for her vocal chord now that she's in Teyvat, but she's refused his offer to get another surgery. She doesn't want her hope to bubble up only for another disappointment.

-Michi is a flirt cause one of the few ways she's learned to receive attention that doesn't involve any pity

[m1d-45]

you think genshin characters get their vision and then create an outfit to match it? or their vision just so happens to match their color palette?

but like,, what if their chosen signature outfit is blue themed and they're a pyro??? how will everyone know that they're a pyro vision wielder and not a hydro or a cryo????? god forbid its a teal blue and they're mistaken as an anemo and their friends are dead!!!!

- curse anon

on god fr, i have not given this anymore thought than surface level. random bullshit go

i think that the outfits we see aren’t their day to day colors. albedo’s is the closest one off the top of my head to what he typically wears, but most everyone else has… it’s like their more formal outfit?

like baizhu. man doesn’t have the time nor energy nor patience to go through all those charms, but for more formal occasions, such as news of the creator visiting the pharmacy…

ayato and ayaka may be an exception just cause they are both heavily involved in politics, but like. kujou sara? we all know how impractical the genshin outfits are, it’s insane sometimes

if i had to make a sort of ranked, non exhaustive list, then it would look kinda like this:

outfits closest to day to day wear: venti, albedo, xiao but that’s a bit of a stretch, the raiden shogun but idk if that technically counts

outfits are a ‘formal’ attire, but it’s still somewhat feasible that this could be somewhat daily wear: ningguang, kazoo, heizou, diluc, tighnari, a good proportion of the male cast

outfits are clothing reserved for special occasions/events: baizhu, yun jin, beidou, kokomi, noelle, nilou, a good proportion of the female cast (cause GOD knows how mhy feels about practical outfits for their fem characters)

the way i see it, they would want to make a good impression, typically by dressing up in their best! obviously there’s some bias what with hoyoverse and their failure of a believable design team, but we make do with what we have. i ranked them based off my entirely subjective opinion, so obviously this isn’t set in stone or any sort of authority, but hopefully that wasn’t a waste of your time to read.

to address visions… perhaps that ties into the prior chart. bringing back up albedo, our lab-safe king, nothing about him really says ‘geo.’ you could recolor his vision to anything and it would likely fit him fine. his design isn’t centered around visions, its about character and practicality. he’s an alchemist, he wears a uniform, it’s all plain white so he knows when there’s a spill, he wears gloves and tall boots with low heels, i went on a rant about his design before and i’m .2 centimeters away from doing it again.

the archons get free passes on their colors for obvious reasons, and klee is a borderline pyromaniac so she gets one too. jean, lisa, amber, and kaeya (to an extent) all fall in the last category from before, which would translate as.. like a way to signal “hey, this is what i’m good at”? i’m losing the words for it, but a “this is my vision, this is what i offer” sort of deal?

of course, this is biased data since from a game design standpoint, hoyoverse would obviously want it clear that gorou is geo, yelan is hydro, hu tao is pyro, etc etc so it makes sense i can’t explain everything (barbara isn’t all that obviously hydro, yet keqing is clearly electro, and yet their characters would clash on that… but whatever i’m not an artist). however, from a purely sagau standpoint, the best solution i can come up with is sometimes it’s because their formal attire draws attention to their vision (notably lisa, ningguang), and sometimes they just have a sense of style that differs (heizou, beidou probably), or sometimes it’s just for practicality’s sake (razor, albedo), and i have a feeling this is directly proportional to how close their outfits are to day to day wear

[kittydcoxx]

RAAAHHHHHHH BEIDOU FIC I WROTE ON THE BUS beidou simps come get ur meal pspspsp

GUYS IVE LOST MY MOJO??!?!?!! IDK HOW TO WRITE SMUT ANYMORE??!?!?! TERRIBLE!??!?!?!!!!!!! AUGHHHHHHH but here is the food for my poor little fellow beidou simps who are fed nothing but mere crumbs. I offer you a really shitty beginning of a fic that i literally wrote on the bus home bc i didnt have data. 😮‍💨

Not proof read WHATSOEVER and whatever beginnings of smut there is is at the very end of the post bc 😭😭😭 i was procrastinating it bc im soooo rusty but wanna get back into the groove of it again.😒😪

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The floor beneath you booms with the rhythm of the music blasting from the speakers. The lines to the bathrooms are backed up, and your friend had informed you that it is in fact not because that many people need to use the washroom, but because people are using substances or hooking up. This was the last thing ever on your bucket list, partying just wasn't your thing, but as per your friend's birthday wishes, you were met with pleas from her for "just one club night pleaseee!" And you had denied her far too long that you decided "what the hell, why not."

A few drinks in your system (though not intended, the peer pressure of your friends begging you to join just one round eventually led to... a few) left you more lax than usual, and to everyone's surprise, you had the incredible capacity to actually dance. This is the first time you've really lost yourself in the music, every other opportunity ruined by the idea of people watching and judging you, but with a little liquid courage and a confidence boost as a result, it actually seemed as if you wanted to attract attention, though you had no idea who's attention you had just wrapped around your finger.

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She had just come back from another expidition. It wasn't intended to be a long one, just a short trip from liyue to inazuma to transport a couple items, yet rumors from the crew about treasure and the ever repeating teasing that the captain had "replaced her sense of adventure for domestic living" had gotten under her skin enough that she made room for quite a few detours. She doesn't frequent clubs very often, usually opting for a drinking party aboard the Crux with the rest of the crew, yet tonight she wished for a different experience, and truthfully, she also wished for an excuse to be away from the crew for a while. This club seemed to have opened during her few-months venture on the grand seas of teyvat, and of course as an avid enjoyer of all things alcohol and parties, it was a necessary measure to make sure this club was up to par.

Striding over from the club doors to the bar counter, the atmosphere hits her face. This place was god damn huge. It seemed to be a spot for the younger generations, and the rest of those who are trying to fit in, albeit desperately. There were many foreigners, but still a decent amount of locals inhabiting the club as well. The music from the stereos blasting with a genre that would definitely take her to get used to, the rapid pace of the rhythm and lyrics and new assortment of melodies definitely would take one aback had they never heard it before. The sheer amount of people dancing and drinking and lining to the washrooms was almost overwhelming, even to our party-headed captain. The bar had never been so inviting. Resting her body weight on a bright red faux leather stool, she orders just a simple mixer, skeptical of the specialty drinks being served, the otherworldly-ness of it all taking her by shock. After knocking back a few of the same drink, she sits and observes the crowd, waiting for some sort of buzz to kick in, her energy zapped from the long months at sea but aware that after a few drinks she will be as rejuvenated as she was before she left. As she scans the dance floor, her eyes lock on a particular figure dancing the night away. Jumping, swaying, waving and just having what seemed like the time of her life, her animated moves enticing and entertaining to watch. Every change of the music makes her movements change, and at this movement the dancing changes from upbeat to passionate, sensual.

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The music had transitioned into a one that you were definitely sure was in some form naughty. The way the vocals whined and whispered, as if entrancing you into slowly swaying your hips and dragging your hands up and down and across your body to the rhythm, completely unaware of the attention you had just gotten from a not so secret admirer staring from accross the club. Sitting at the bar was a muscular woman, her furthest eye covered by a burgindy eyepatch, her uncovered eye locked upon the sight of your body moving to the music. Almost immediately you tense, and she notices, your eyes meeting, your's communicating a sense of alarm, her communicating intrigue. Once finally able to shake off the trance in which you fell upon meeting her gaze, you realize she had disappeared. Perhaps she went to freshen up? Or perhaps she just straight up left. Either way, no one else was obviously watching you now, and the music began calling to your body once more, continuing your slow movements to the rhythm.

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Her toned body looms over you, your arms rested on the pillow under your head. She pauses for a moment, taking in the image of you underneath her, so perfect and so pretty, just for her to see. Your clothes lay on the floor and it sets in that you are now completely on display for her to see, set out in front of her like a warm, steaming meal ready to be devoured. It had not completely registered that you had become in this position, but did it really matter? In this moment, nothing matters except for her.

Her hands trace paths along the sides of your body, trailing from your hips, to your waist, resting slightly underneath the lower part of your ribs as her head lowers into the crook of your neck, leaving kisses and marks into the plush of your skin, trailing down to your collarbone before making a beeline of kisses from the front of your neck, pausing again right before your lips touch, feeling the heat of your staggered breaths against her face, a smirk growing as she prides herself in how quickly she stripped and made a mess of you without actually even touching you.

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I love I love the alchemy event in genshin, so sad that it's over now. spoilers down below!

finished the event, was so devastated that it's done now. I guess you can still play, but you'll not be meeting anyone anymore and there will be no more objectives.

I love this event so much? since I started playing genshin only on january last year, I didn't get to experience the past events that older players might deemed the best. so, I think it's pretty understandable why I think this event is the best one for me so far. It was so well done and not just some random event that they threw in the patch, a lot of back and forth yes but it was fun.

the puzzle kinda confused me sometimes specially the expert exam for sucrose my god. there's like full on data with your sales, there were distributors! they really thought of everything.

one more thing I love is we got to see some characters we haven't seen for a long time or atleast other characters visiting a nation, I'm talking about inazuma. I kid you not, I squealed when I saw that the visitors from inazuma were gorou and kirara, I was expecting it to be itto and shinobu once again. another thing that surprised me is it's not only someone from inazuma but from watatsumi island and the reasoning why they visited is because of watatsumi island. I don't know, I just love it so much. was giggling so much when lisa reminded gorou of miko, he cannot escape that fox.

beidou and eula was a surprise, is this a rarepair in the making? also, BEIGUANG CRUMBS! JEANLISA DATE! diona and venti's dynamic is also really funny, an alcoholic bard and a bartender that wants to ruin the wine industry, very interesting.

overall, really good event, enjoyed it so much and was glad that they remembered that there other characters from other nations. my only problem was it was too short? no people from fontaine and sumeru that visited, hopefully they bring this back again soon!

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A passo tranquillo e con la mia tazza di tisana calda, mi stavo dirigendo verso la classe di letteratura. Al mio fianco Xingqiu, mio amico di lunga data e compagno di corso, e assieme il suo silenzioso ragazzo dai soffici capelli azzurri.

Chiacchierando, arrivammo alla porta dell'aula e distrattamente notai di fronte a noi una formosa figura femminile che stava parlando con qualcuno. La riconobbi quasi a malapena come compagna di corso, non ne era una grande frequentatrice.

Si scostò e voltò lo sguardo nella nostra direzione. La lunga frangia castana le ricadde sull'occhio sinistro, accentuando il colore vivido di quello destro. Mi scrutò da testa ai piedi e girandosi fece un sorrisetto al ragazzo con cui stava parlando. Dopodiché alzò i tacchi incamminandosi nella classe lanciando nella nostra direzione un cenno.

Ricambiai cortesemente il veloce saluto. Era proprio figa. -Beidou si chiama giusto?- aprì bocca Chongyun. - Sì è esatto! Frequenta anche sociologia con me, una persona davvero carismatica.- rispose il ragazzo dal caschetto asimmetrico. Riuscii finalmente a posizionarla nel mio archivio memorico - Ma ha tipo uno struso con Ningguang giusto!?-

I due si guardarono perplessi e insieme chiesero -Uno struso?- - Siii! Mannaggia qual'e il termine? Si stanno... ~ frequentando ~ ecco! - affermai con fierezza, e forse, troppa foga. - Mi fa piacere sapere che sa usare la nostra lingua signorina. - disse Lui Siu, il docente di letteratura. Ci stava pazientemente aspettando all'entrata. La coppia si guardò nuovamente ed entrambi ridacchiarono.

Dopo scuse e saluti entrammo in classe e ci sedemmo al nostro solito posto.

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Visible, stable, and manageable, Haige Communication launches the "Tianteng" low altitude flight management service platform

Visible, stable and manageable Hager Communications launched the core guide of "Tianteng" low altitude flight management service platform, and the fifteenth China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition was held in Zhuhai on November twelve-seventeen, two thousand twenty-four. Yu Qingsong, Party Secretary and Chairman of Haige Communication (SZtwo thousand four hundred and sixty-five), attended the opening ceremony as a representative of the main exhibitors. As the main carrier of low altitude economy in Guangzhou, Haige Communication brings new means to the development of low altitude economy and smart applications, promoting the deep integration of communication and navigation industry with low altitude industry. During the air show, Haige Communication launched a flight management service platform for low altitude activities - "Tianteng", which can provide comprehensive services of "terminal+connection+application+supervision", ensuring that various low altitude aircraft are "visible, stable and manageable", and helping to promote high-quality development of low altitude economy. Hager Communication participated in the fifteenth China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, bringing a new means for low altitude economic development and smart application "Tianteng" low altitude flight management service platform. As low altitude economic technology continues to mature and the scene continues to expand, low altitude aircraft such as UAVs gradually become important "partners" in people's production and life, and new products and technologies such as electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL), flying cars, etc. make dreams come true. Li Bai's ancient poem goes: "Half the wall, you can see the sea and the sun; in the sky, you can hear the rooster." By extension, the "rooster" refers to a drone flying in the sky, which cannot only be "heard" or "heard," but also "visible, stable, and controllable. In the process of gradually deepening application, it is particularly important to build a regulatory "escort network" for low altitude flight. Based on its profound technical expertise in wireless communication, Beidou navigation, aerospace, unmanned systems, simulation training, artificial intelligence, big data, and other fields, Haige Communication brings new means to the development of low altitude economy and smart applications, promoting the deep integration of communication and navigation industry and low altitude industry. During the air show, Haige Communication launched a flight management service platform for low altitude activities called "Tianteng". As the main carrier of Guangzhou's low altitude economy, the "Tianteng" low altitude flight management service platform built by Haige Communication is the intelligent center in the low altitude field. It uses spatiotemporal grid technology to weave multi-dimensional low altitude data such as airspace, routes, and facilities into a precise three-dimensional picture, presenting a panoramic view of low altitude flight in "one picture", making flight management within reach. The "Tianteng" low altitude flight management service platform focuses on providing full process services for low altitude flights before, during, and after flight, achieving multi terminal collaboration, one window quick processing, and one network access for flight activities, greatly simplifying the flight application and approval process, and doubling efficiency. Based on artificial intelligence algorithms and big data governance capabilities, the platform creates an intelligent management service system, providing comprehensive services such as flight simulation and deduction, real-time conflict warning, intelligent optimization of flight paths, emergency coordination, etc., to ensure that low altitude flights are "insightful, effectively controlled, and unobstructed". Relying on the capabilities of the "Tianteng" low altitude flight management service platform, Haige Communic

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Industry trend｜China Telecom and Huawei Complete the Nation’s First 5G Low-Cost High-Precision Positioning Commercial Pilot

Recently, China Telecom Guangdong Company and China Telecom Research Institute, together with Huawei, completed a 5G indoor low-cost high-precision positioning commercial pilot in Guangzhou. This is the first commercial case in China to achieve indoor high-precision positioning based on the 5G UTDOA low-cost 1-point X solution. While ensuring the positioning service experience, it greatly reduces the cost of achieving high-precision positioning based on the 5G cellular network.

5G network naturally has the advantages of one network for communication positioning and one network for indoor and outdoor. It can support high-precision positioning capabilities based on the deployed 5G network upgrade. 5G high-precision positioning is also one of the core capabilities of 5G-A.

For indoor scenarios with low capacity requirements, such as parking lots, 5G network deployment usually adopts a low-cost 1-point X solution, that is, the deployment method of active indoor pRRU with external passive antennas; for scenarios with high capacity requirements, such as stations and hospitals, a pure active indoor solution is used. 5G UTDOA positioning products with pure active indoor deployment have been widely used in commercial applications, while the low-cost UTDOA positioning solution has not been commercialized due to technical difficulties such as signal identification and time synchronization of external passive antennas.

According to the announcement of China Telecom, relying on the Beidou+5G national key R&D plan project led by China Telecom, China Telecom Guangdong Company, China Telecom Research Institute and Huawei will cooperate to carry out Beidou+5G technology research and development and application promotion. On the basis of jointly completing the first verification of 5G macro and micro station positioning in 2023, it will further promote the maturity of low-cost solutions. Based on Huawei's 5G commercial equipment, the equipment deployment and technical verification will be completed in two typical indoor application scenarios: the parking lot and floor shops of Guangzhou Taihe Jinbo Tiandi Shopping Mall.

Test data show that in the open area of the parking lot, the overall positioning accuracy reached 1.35 meters @ 90%, while the overall positioning accuracy in the light partition area of the shop was 2.97 meters @ 90%. These data show that 5G networks can not only provide high-quality communication services, but also effectively support the realization of high-precision positioning.

China Telecom has been committed to the construction of Beidou + 5G integrated high-precision location service capabilities. During the 2024 World Mobile Communications Conference Shanghai (MWC Shanghai), China Telecom and industry partners released the "5G + Beidou High Trust Space-Time System", and released the "Beidou + 5G Space-Time System Empowering Digital Economy High-Quality Development White Paper", and took the lead in establishing the first Beidou + 5G Special Committee and Industry Alliance in the national communications industry, aiming to achieve the deep integration of Beidou and 5G dual strategies and promote the large-scale application of PNT (positioning, navigation, and timing).

In the past two years, China Telecom and its partners have jointly completed the interoperability of 5G UTDOA indoor pure active positioning solutions among different manufacturers and the promotion and implementation of commercial cases. In the future, China Telecom will continue to promote the standardization of 1-point X products together with companies in the industry, realize the decoupling of base stations and positioning core network elements LMF, further reduce network transformation costs, and improve the 5G low-cost positioning industry chain. It will also carry out verification of integrated positioning technology in combination with more scenarios to promote the widespread application of Beidou + 5G integrated positioning technology.

This paper is from Ulink Media, Shenzhen, China, the organizer of IOTE EXPO (IoT Expo in China)

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KTT Internasional Ketiga tentang Aplikasi BDS Dibuka di Zhuzhou

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Zhuzhou, China (ANTARA/Xinhua-AsiaNet) - KTT Internasional ke-3 tentang Aplikasi BDS (BeiDou Navigation Satellite System) diselenggarakan di Zhuzhou pada 24-25 Oktober. Dengan tema "Berbagi Dunia, Berbagi BDS," KTT ini bertujuan untuk membangun platform bagi kepemimpinan industri dan pengumuman kebijakan, promosi internasional dan kerja sama, pertukaran teknologi mutakhir, serta integrasi industri dan demonstrasi pencapaian aplikasi.

Hunan, sebagai kekuatan utama dalam pengembangan Sistem Navigasi Satelit Beidou (BDS), telah berpartisipasi dalam pembangunan sistem Beidou-1, Beidou-2, dan Beidou-3 secara menyeluruh, memberikan kontribusi kebijaksanaan dan kemampuan Hunan terhadap jaringan global dan operasi stabil BDS. Dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, Hunan telah mendorong terobosan teknologi, transformasi pencapaian, kolaborasi proyek, aplikasi berskala besar, dan pengelompokan industri di bidang teknologi Beidou. Hunan bercita-cita menjadi pemimpin nasional dalam inovasi teknologi Beidou, kawasan percontohan aplikasi besar-besaran Beidou, dan klaster pengembangan berkualitas tinggi bagi industri Beidou.

KTT ini menarik 9 akademisi dari Akademi Ilmu Pengetahuan China dan Akademi Teknik China di bidang sistem satelit domestik, roket, kontrol operasional, dan aplikasi data, serta 85 delegasi asing dari Uni Afrika, Laos, Korea Selatan, Prancis, dan Pantai Gading. KTT ini juga mengundang beberapa perusahaan untuk berpartisipasi dalam kegiatan pencocokan industri, menghasilkan penandatanganan dan pengumuman 142 proyek dengan total investasi sebesar 58,2 miliar yuan

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In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, precise positioning capabilities have become a core requirement for various applications. The GPS01-TD module, as an advanced quad-mode GPS module, integrates multi-system compatibility supporting BDS/GPS/GLONASS/Galileo/QZSS/SBAS, with a special emphasis on fully supporting the BeiDou III signals. It provides users with a high-quality, interference-resistant, and low-power positioning and navigation solution. This module is not only technologically advanced but also environmentally friendly and energy-efficient, making it a rare high-performance GPS module choice in the market.

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The GPS01-TD module supports BDS/GPS/GLONASS/Galileo/QZSS/SBAS, allowing it to provide accurate positioning services globally with its quad-mode compatibility.

It fully supports BeiDou III signals, enhancing positioning accuracy and reliability in the Asia-Pacific region.

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The GPS01-TD module offers high-precision positioning with a tracking sensitivity of -163dBm and a cold start capture sensitivity of -147dBm, ensuring rapid positioning even in weak signal environments. It supports A-GNSS assisted positioning, enhancing startup speed and positioning accuracy.

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The module is suitable for personal positioning and navigation products like smartwatches and fitness trackers. It can be used for vehicle and maritime navigation, improving the safety and efficiency of transportation. In IoT devices, such as freight tracking and smart logistics, it provides real-time, accurate location data. Additionally, it is ideal for handheld portable devices like outdoor adventure gear and emergency response equipment, ensuring reliability in various environments.

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The module employs advanced signal processing technology to enhance interference resistance, maintaining stable performance even in urban areas with tall buildings or complex natural environments.

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The Amazfit T-Rex Pro smartwatch is equipped with GPS+GLONASS, GPS+BeiDou, and GPS+Galileo to offer rapid positioning with a high degree of accuracy. With this feature, buy amazfit smartwatch online and you can easily know your location.

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