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Overbom

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For example, the rivalry between the US and the USSR (the Cold War) did not cause a global hot war. Something similar can happen again. So there's some hope for those of us who want to live.
There were a lot of near misses that almost caused a nuclear war during the Cold War. Its a miracle we passed that period without a nuclear disaster happening
 

FriedButter

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That is why the US has plans to break the Russian Federation into loads of tiny little pieces.
Good luck at that though. Someone did it to Germany once, and it lasted for quite some time, but it glued itself back.

This is probably the Western “Russian” dream which is probably what they want to do with China to by splitting it a few dozen times.

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zhangjim

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Which I stated already, reading comprehension.
I read it wrong, so I deleted that paragraph.

I just want to explain the difficulty of returning cultural relics and the seriousness of the loss of cultural relics in the past.
You can see from the news that this judgment was issued by the Chinese court. Unfortunately, the Amsterdam court rejected the appeal in 2018.
This means that how to enforce the law will be the biggest problem.
If foreign governments favor those who buy stolen goods for various reasons, it will be very difficult to return cultural relics.

Today, there is still a lack of care and compassion for cultural relics in society. Some netizens even call archaeologists "official tomb robbers", but I don't understand the logic behind this. Maybe they just hate that they can't get these cultural relics.

But it has to be said that many wrong practices in the past have brought many difficulties to the protection of cultural relics.The government, which is supposed to bear great responsibility, has made a poor "demonstration role" in cultural relics protection.
 
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FriedButter

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BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month​

The auto industry is racing towards a future full of microtransactions

BMW is now selling subscriptions for heated seats in a number of countries — the latest example of the company’s adoption of microtransactions for high-end car features.

It’s not clear exactly when BMW started offering this feature as a subscription, or in which countries, but a number of outlets this week reported
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in South Korea.

BMW has slowly been putting features behind subscriptions since 2020, and heated seats subs are now available in BMW’s digital stores in countries including the
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. It doesn’t, however, seem to be an option in the US — yet.
A monthly subscription to heat your BMW’s front seats costs roughly $18, with options to subscribe for a year ($180), three years ($300), or pay for “unlimited” access for $415.

Other features that BMW is locking behind subscriptions (as per the company’s digital UK store) include
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, from $12 a month; the option to
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, priced at $235 for “unlimited” use; and the “IconicSounds Sport package,”
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for a one-time fee of $117.

In the latter case, BMW notes that “the hardware for this feature has already been installed in your vehicle during production, at no extra cost.” How generous

Give it a couple more decades and everything is going to behind a micro transaction paywall. $10 subscription for your blanket, $40 for your underwear, $80 for your shoes, etc.
 

Sardaukar20

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crazy and those trucks some have AC either if I understand correctly
Seriously. In 2022, the standard UPS trucks in the USA still don't have AC? Especially the ones in hot places like Arizona? Not surprised that the same thing could be happening in FedEx and US Mail trucks.
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But damn, even UPS Thailand can provide their drivers with air-conditioned trucks.
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Is it so expensive to procure air-conditioned courier trucks? UPS Thailand was able to convert standard pickup trucks into a courier trucks.
 

Sleepyjam

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I read it wrong, so I deleted that paragraph.
I use my mobile phone to surf the Internet outside, so it's more difficult to edit the content, so I can only delete these parts.

I just want to explain the difficulty of returning cultural relics and the seriousness of the loss of cultural relics in the past.
You can see from the news that this judgment was issued by the Chinese court. Unfortunately, the Amsterdam court rejected the appeal in 2018.
This means that how to enforce the law will be the biggest problem.
If foreign governments favor those who buy stolen goods for various reasons, it will be very difficult to return cultural relics.

Today, there is still a lack of care and compassion for cultural relics in society. Some netizens even call archaeologists "official tomb robbers", but I don't understand the logic behind this. Maybe they just hate that they can't get these cultural relics.

But it has to be said that many wrong practices in the past have brought many difficulties to the protection of cultural relics.The government, which is supposed to bear great responsibility, has made a poor "demonstration role" in cultural relics protection.
Sure you read it wrong just like you remembered wrong. Not true, most people care about these cultural relics, they wouldn’t have won this case without the support of the people and government. It’s just another attempt to generalize and blacken the whole Chinese society. China is also a member of UNIDROIT Convention which is an international treaty that covers the illicit trafficking of cultural property so there is international legal framework here.
 
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