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AndrewJ said:

(A rare footage shows) Chinese soldiers wrote their last words on paper, preparing for sacrifice, before fighting with Indians in Galwan Valley, 2020. If any of them died in the conflict, these letters will be sent to their parents/family.

One of these letters said:

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I'm honestly surprised they took the Indians so seriously. Fighting America? Absolutely. Intervening against Israel, sure, just in case. Fighting India? It's gonna be chuckles all the way there and back. But I guess that's their admirable professionalism, to take every fight like it could be the toughest opponent and the last. And that's what the Pakistanis were saying, that their air force training far far overestimated Indian capabilities and I guess that's what you have to do to come home delivering total destruction on the enemy without taking any loses.

tygyg1111 said:

What if we have multiple kids in multiple western countries and do a runner, so they have to be provided for by the local government?

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Nahhhhh don't try. Chinese intellectual genetics are too powerful. Leave a kid here in a poor situation without parental guidance to get corrupted by American society, you might end up making a self-hate-driven hyper-overcompensator like Alexandr Wang. Wanna do a runner, do a runner with your whole huge family, everyone highly educated in STEM and brought up with the correct cultural education, and run right to China.

manqiangrexue said:

I'm honestly surprised they took the Indians so seriously. Fighting America? Absolutely. Intervening against Israel, sure, just in case. Fighting India? It's gonna be chuckles all the way there and back. But I guess that's their admirable professionalism, to take every fight like it could be the toughest opponent and the last.

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Such letters should not be interpreted as an acknowledgement of whatever threat Indian forces may or may not pose, but rather as a manifestation of and testament to these soldiers' and officers' commitment to lay down their lives, should that be necessary, in the fulfillment of their solemn duties to the Party, the Motherland, the People's Liberation Army, and to their brothers-in-arms.

Nothing to make light of.

gaussgun said:

To have one kindergarten screw up is one thing. To have multiple health institutions produce falsified or distorted test results is worse, and is evidence of high levels of corruption in the area.

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I read it's one hospital and the local CDC. While not good, it's not multiple national health institutions.
I'd wait for the final verdict to see how high the crime goes.
I think china should start doing a very public checking of every school for lead and heavy metals, publish all data, that's the only way to regain trust.
This stuff happens everywhere unfortunately

According the survivor of Ha Long boat capsized the weather is nice but the suddenly strong winds tilted and flipped the boat. Therefore no one is able to put on life jacket and some survive because they cling on the floating chair?! Wtf. Is those people don't know after you boarding the boat you need put life jacket immediately and wear it until you reach land again? There law is having long time ago in Vietnam but maybe the boat sailor don't enforce it. I remember 5 year ago when i have short boat trip to vacation islands the others tourist mock me because i immediately put life jacket on, they say trip is short, weather is nice don't need life jacket. Sorry but life don't have do again button. Take care yourself.

tamsen_ikard said:

I am personally against dams like this. Especially this one is so complex. Taking all the material there will be difficult and costly. Not worth it for hydropower. This will never payoff the investment.

But I think China is doing this dam to have leverage over India.

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Some of the water diversion to xinjiang will convert desert into green pasture lands for millions of cattle. This is the most important benefits for this project, besides $billions of revenue annually from electricity production.

supercat said:

A concise table of China-smearing speech:

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Seems like atypical plebs of flyover country.

zyklon said:

One of the principal challenges with crypto, including BTC, are the boom or bust cycles. This will become less of an issue as the broader crypto industry, as well as applicable regulatory frameworks mature to a "sufficient level." However, that might not be for a while, if ever given the decentralized nature of the most prominent blockchains.

In other words, the ongoing embrace of BTC by nation states like El Salvador and Bhutan — in particular given the relative size and existing vulnerabilities of some of these crypto crazy countries' economies — will grant hostile state or even

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new and exploitable vulnerabilities for destabilizing, if not outright crashing and/or couping these countries' economies and governments, respectively, especially if threat actors are positioned to time and aggravate, never mind instigate a market crisis.

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Upcoming, if not recent Trumpian missteps in embracing crypto — especially should they start escalating in severity and increasing in frequency — will inevitably create and expose new attack surfaces for Chinese, Russian, British, Israeli and/or even North Korean threat actors to "fuck with."

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I can't wait for Indian call centers to inevitibly scam the Bhutanese king to the point that he has to sell his country to India and become the new sikkim.

henrik said:

Some of the water diversion to xinjiang will convert desert into green pasture lands for millions of cattle. This is the most important benefits for this project, besides $billions of revenue annually from electricity production.

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Why cattle? Amongst all common livestock consumed by humans, beef produces the highest amount of greenhouse gas emissions per pound of meat. Pork and chicken produce much lower amounts of greenhouse gasses. Beef consumption is a Western habit that the Chinese should best avoid. Beef doesn't even taste good (unless its Wagyu), even lamb would be a much better option. One pound of lamb results in only half the amount of greenhouse emissions as beef, and lamb is also about four times more delicious than beef. Pork is the best choice, in terms of greenhouse emissions, pork is only slightly worse than chicken and offers superior taste to beef at only 1/6th of the greenhouse emissions per pound of meat.

zyklon said:

Religion when intertwined with governance is usually, if not always harnessed as a source of political legitimacy.

To some of us "for the party" and "for god" are effectively two sides of the same coin.

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Party is accountable, and fallible. God is not. God by definition is perfect and if it is ever wrong, either you lie for it or the religion ends. Party on other hand is like a person, you can accept it make mistake and learn from its mistakes.

henrik said:

Some of the water diversion to xinjiang will convert desert into green pasture lands for millions of cattle. This is the most important benefits for this project, besides $billions of revenue annually from electricity production.

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50% of all beef eaten in the US is by boomer white males.