On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
That's the latest in B&W Reddit user weirdalfan16 updated this little bit of information on the TIL (Today I Learned) section. The post had this information to share, that if you were from the past generation of people who grew up watching black and white TV then you dream in Monochrome. Before the invention of color TV 75% of people dreamed in black and white. In fact it says that 12% of people still dream in black and white. Color television changed everything and also changed the way people dream. Black and white dreams where changed to color. The post has drawn a lot of humorous comments like one user saying that maybe they had silent dream from watching silent B&W movies. There are also other users saying that they dream only in black and white and never knew that people had dreams in color. Which leads to the next assumption now that we have HDTVs and 3D TVs will we now be able to dream in 3D. There are other users who say that everyone dream in B&W but during re...