I think I have said it before but the west likes creates a monster state(Iran, Russia and China etc) that has everything dialed up to 11 so they can go to 9 or 10 and still say atleast you guys aren't living in that monster state so shut up and do your work.
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Cringe take. A country cannot afford to be suspicious of everyone. That kind of self-isolation leads to North Korea, and even North Korea has to trust China to some extent. What matters is who to trust more than others. Russia clearly trusted EU more than China, so they saved their US assets in Euros, and it backfired big time.
Is it Eurocentric racism? Evidently they decided to forgive west Europeans of hundreds of years of rivalry and collapse of Soviet Union, and instead focus on what truly matters, squabble with China in the 1960s!
So no, it was not right for Russia to be suspicious of anyone, it was a huge huge mistake. A mistake others ought to never repeat.
It took almost a hundred year to enact child labor laws to protect minors but just a few years for such laws to get dismantled because rich and powerful want cheap labors that they could take advantages of.
Working in hazardous environment is never for minors. Serving alcohol as minors what can go wrong. For Republicans who claim that they want to protect minors from sexual predators, it is a joke when you allowed minors to work in alcohol establishments.
China should take a hard look into this and enact sanctions against any companies that hire child slave labors.
Federal officials investigating accident
Josh Marcus
San Francisco
3 days ago
A Wisconsin teen’s recent death while working at a logging company is bringing new attention to the state’s efforts to roll back child labour protections.
On 29 June, a 16-year-old male working near the Michigan border in the town of Florence was injured while working at Florence Hardwoods, according to the Florence County Sheriff’s Office.
The boy was taken to Marshfield Medical Center-Dickinson, then Milwaukee Children’s Hospital, before succumbing to unspecified injuries and being pronounced dead on 1 July.
A GoFundMe page identifies the teen as Michael “Mikey” Schuls.
“Our small community is in absolute shock,” the page reads. “Even if you cannot donate, please lift Mikey, his family, friends, and medical team up in prayer.”
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends, students and co-workers," Florence the County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement following the tragedy.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated the incident and made a referral to the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour division.
Under Wisconsin state law, minors are prevented from holding a number of occupations related to logging, including working in sawmills, felling timber, and using chainsaws.
Between 2018 and 2022, child labour complaints in Wisconsin quadrupled, according to Wisconsin Public Radio, while federal complaints increased by 69 per cent during that same period.
In the past two years, 14 states have introduced bills seeking to roll back anti-child labour laws, including Wisconsin.
"The trend reflects a coordinated multi-industry push to expand employer access to low-wage labor and weaken state child labor laws in ways that contradict federal protections," according to an article by the Economic Policy Institute, which recently released a report on the trend. "And the recent uptick in state legislative activity is linked to longer-term industry-backed goals to rewrite federal child labor laws and other worker protections for the whole country."
In Wisconsin, lawmakers have proposed allowing 14-year-olds to serve alcohol in bars and restaurants, making them the state with the lowest threshold in the nation.
In May, Iowa governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill that loosened child labour laws and extended the hours in which teens can work and allowed teens as young as 16 to serve alcohol in restaurants with the permission of a parent or guardian.
Working in hazardous environment is never for minors. Serving alcohol as minors what can go wrong. For Republicans who claim that they want to protect minors from sexual predators, it is a joke when you allowed minors to work in alcohol establishments.
China should take a hard look into this and enact sanctions against any companies that hire child slave labors.
Federal officials investigating accident
Josh Marcus
San Francisco
3 days ago
A Wisconsin teen’s recent death while working at a logging company is bringing new attention to the state’s efforts to roll back child labour protections.
On 29 June, a 16-year-old male working near the Michigan border in the town of Florence was injured while working at Florence Hardwoods, according to the Florence County Sheriff’s Office.
The boy was taken to Marshfield Medical Center-Dickinson, then Milwaukee Children’s Hospital, before succumbing to unspecified injuries and being pronounced dead on 1 July.
A GoFundMe page identifies the teen as Michael “Mikey” Schuls.
“Our small community is in absolute shock,” the page reads. “Even if you cannot donate, please lift Mikey, his family, friends, and medical team up in prayer.”
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends, students and co-workers," Florence the County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement following the tragedy.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated the incident and made a referral to the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour division.
Under Wisconsin state law, minors are prevented from holding a number of occupations related to logging, including working in sawmills, felling timber, and using chainsaws.
Between 2018 and 2022, child labour complaints in Wisconsin quadrupled, according to Wisconsin Public Radio, while federal complaints increased by 69 per cent during that same period.
In the past two years, 14 states have introduced bills seeking to roll back anti-child labour laws, including Wisconsin.
"The trend reflects a coordinated multi-industry push to expand employer access to low-wage labor and weaken state child labor laws in ways that contradict federal protections," according to an article by the Economic Policy Institute, which recently released a report on the trend. "And the recent uptick in state legislative activity is linked to longer-term industry-backed goals to rewrite federal child labor laws and other worker protections for the whole country."
In Wisconsin, lawmakers have proposed allowing 14-year-olds to serve alcohol in bars and restaurants, making them the state with the lowest threshold in the nation.
In May, Iowa governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill that loosened child labour laws and extended the hours in which teens can work and allowed teens as young as 16 to serve alcohol in restaurants with the permission of a parent or guardian.
I would be careful with extrapolating those interviews onto entire generations of people. Notice this statement:
This person is definitely aware that his opinion isn’t popular.
And this is from a Russian student in the same video:
Finally, I only found two pro-US people in the entire video while the rest believes China is more or less neutral (1 interviewee states that Iran is an ally, another interviewee isn’t too sure what common interests China and Russia share) or is an an ally, or want Russia to be self-reliant (which interestingly is a perspective of almost everyone here but for China). The kids are also just kids, aka ignorant. I wouldn’t ask kids who just exited puberty and have little knowledge about more complex matters. Taking two kids’ opinions and extrapolating them onto an entire generation is like me taking some SDF users’ dream of China invading Vladivostok and extrapolating that onto all of China’s young generations. Sounds ridiculous no?
Plus, if you go back into the older posts, according to a several surveys, the mass majority of surveyed Russians support China. So clearly the Russians at the very least aren’t negative.
Be very careful about watching some interviews and thinking that it applies to entire group of people. People are not hive minds like what Americans and Westerners think. People are complex and have different perspectives nowadays due to the sheer amount of information that they receive.
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Okay you start off with talking about how Russian engineering inheriting Soviet legacy is a lie. Then you talk about Arab engineering and how France is attracting talent, then.......Um, is it possible for you to pick a topic for your OP and stick to it, and also write more clearly?
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Just switch to a Huawei phone.
Equation
Lieutenant General
How much did it cost tax payers money to fly "grandma Yellen" to China in that big private plane?
I mean that's a little unfair to them when it is just an aesthetic they mimic for their job, not their actual identity. I think in general "military intelligence worker" tend to be at least okayishly adjusted to society. They have to be in order to pass basic training (right?).
Nah, these kinds of groups tend to attact those who have absolutely nothing going for them besides their nationality. I am not surprised in the slightest that they tend to resemble a rancid blob of fat on a hot summer day.