Not really surprising, colonialism often includes exchanging foods. Britons are racist towards Indians but curry is popular there. Rijsttafel in the Netherlands is really just nasi padang from Indonesia, and Indonesian restaurants are, I believe, popular in the Netherlands. Obviously there’s a lot of French influence on contemporary Vietnamese cuisine (banh mi!) and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it also went the other way. I mean spices were a major reason that south/south east Asia were colonised in the first place.

It really is the proof that they’re controlled opposition. “We had to deal with those dastardly Republicans!” Well, not really. The things you claim to want are overwhelmingly popular. If you actually worked towards them, the Republicans would be finished in pretty short order. Not overnight, sure, but you would have an overwhelming electoral advantage. Democrats don’t compromise with Republicans because they need to in order to get what they want, they compromise with Republicans because they need to in order to be democrats.

I suspect that the majority of these people are shitfaced, not ignorant…

He truly was peak white guy, the whitest guyest anyone could ever be.

I was thinking

It gave me great big boner/now I am extremely ill

PLIERS STUCK TOO

The term “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” is also anti-Marxist in nature, as the general laws for building socialism would be the same everywhere, even if localized material conditions were taken into account.

Uh huh. And hey maybe we could even have a snappy name for the process of considering and accomodating those localised material conditions.

mine eyes have seen the glory/of the gas station dick pill…

Grindr won’t magically crash because of an influx of users, that’s not how it works.

I agree with your overall point but an online service crashing due to a huge spike in users is definitely a thing.

No doubt

someone point out to him how much mineral wealth we have in Australia, I wanna see how that goes

The article says they, and another facility in France, achieved over 1000 seconds last year. I dunno, we’ve been told we’re getting close to fusion power for about 70 years, now. I’m not optimistic.

I saw an article claiming north of 15 minutes of fusion at CAS - https://www.the-independent.com/tech/nuclear-fusion-china-artificial-sun-b2896015.html - admittedly not a scholarly article.

Love those guys, except in swooping season. Beautiful song, too! An all-time favourite bird. https://youtu.be/t6uRhXQGj2U

Australian magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen - they’re not particularly closely related to the Eurasian magpie - in fact they’re not even corvids!

Yeah, I’m being generous to the liberal.

I dunno…

Not exactly , and nor do you, but there’s no reason to think he would be allowed to berate a tank commander for iirc ~15 minutes including climbing up on the tank, then be secretly killed later. You believe the CPC had no problem killing however many people openly in the streets, in front of foreign diplomats and journalists, but this one dude had to be spirited away and secretly murdered? Please use a little common sense. I’m guessing you believe there were thousands killed in the protests. I’ll allow that, it’s hard to tell exactly what happened in Beijing over 30 years ago. You also believe I assume that those were peaceful protestors killed in cold blood. I don’t know if you realise this but the events were documented by non-chinese sources including the Belgian ambassador to China - and the government knew that was going on at the time. What makes you think they suddenly became so squeamish around this one guy? Far more likely it’s exactly what it looks like - he was led away by neighbours and the government just let sleeping dogs lie. There’s nothing to be gained from going after him and no evidence that it happened.

Yeah, that’s basically what I had understood to the the case, I guess my real question is - is there anything unusual about this new Chinese project? Or is it just more of the same?

So, does anyone know where fusion is at right now? I believe we’ve achieved fusion reactions now, but last I checked they weren’t sustained and they consumed more energy than they released. Has the research known to the world at large advanced, or is china potentially sitting on something big (or is this perhaps speculative)?

I understand not being ready to physically fight back, I really do! It makes sense. People care about their own lives and the lives of the people around them, we worry about who we will leave behind if we’re arrested or worse, etc. If all that a group of people are up for at this point is peaceful protest, okay. That’s where some people are at. But for the love of god, at least just… Protest. Make some signs and march. This “clever” human banner stuff is, surely, less effective than just walking down the street with a sign saying “it was murder”. It doesn’t achieve anything except to make you feel better. Just… Do that.

There probably is a place for this kind of performance art as “protest”, but it really feels like Americans think this is where it’s at, that the more clever their protest is the better it will work. Do we really think there’s a large group of undecided people out there who will be swayed by a protest if only it’s smart enough?!