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- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
The same group that’s talked about in the first article has built the highway I’m talking about, but I can’t find an article with a good overview.
Google “developing countries debt trap China” and you’ll find plenty of articles on the overall scheme, this are just some examples from my country.
balkaninsight.com/…/modus-operandi-chinese-firms-…
serbia-business.eu/ssp-criticizes-slow-pace-and-h…
balkaninsight.com/…/like-prisoners-chinese-worker…
balkaninsight.com/…/us-bans-imports-from-chinese-…
greeneuropeanjournal.eu/chinas-rush-for-serbias-m…
Then we have the tragedy that started off the mass protests to take down the corrupt regime
en.wikipedia.org/…/Novi_Sad_railway_station_canop…
chinaobservers.eu/the-novi-sad-railway-station-co…
If you don’t like my sources, you know what to search for now, this is just what I found quickly.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
And you have the audacity to blame them for polluting the environment.
So I should be fine with Chinese companies doing whatever they want in my country?Tire factory releasing toxic waste directly into a river? Not a problem… The absolute ecological destruction from a copper strip mine? It’s an improvement over farmland and forests…
The infrastructure cracking might just be your prejudice, meaning you already believed they would be low quality.
Sure buddy, 16 dead people is my prejudice. A railroad bridge with breaking supports must be my racism. Tofu dreg practices like filling cracked foundations with foam must be the standard in developing countries?
About slave labour, Chinese labour is paid more than Indian labour but I’ve never heard anyone call Indian labour slaves. It implies, it’s just CIA propaganda to bad mouth China. To be fair, their low wage is enough to live a better life than most Americans since everything is so cheap in China.
Read again, PRISON labour. And I don’t need the CIA to see the prison camps with my own eyes, and I most definitely don’t need it to smell the camps in the winter since they have no hot water. Again, standard practice in the developing world, we’re certainly not the first to have imported Chinese prisoners…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
Sure, they built a shit load of infrastructure here as well. For example we had the most expensive highway built by Chinese prisoners, and paid for by Chinese loans. It not only started to show wear less then a year in, but there are sections that are literally expected to collapse.
We had the most expensive reconstruction done by Chinese workers, the ceiling collapsed and killed a bunch of people.
And so on, etc…
Now they’re in talks to turn over every remaining national resource to them, to cover a part of the great work they’ve done so far, while Chinese companies are literally releasing unprocessed toxic waste into rivers.
I think I prefer one over the other.
It’s nice to have a preference in the taste of the boot standing on your face…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s great we built the most expensive highway in the world using Chinese prison labour, on Chinese loans, and it’s falling apart less then a year in. It’s perfectly fine that there are a 1000 different schemes draining the budget and literally killing people with tofu dreg construction. I guess we should feel lucky Chinese companies will take over national parks, waterways, and exploit every single resource until there’s only a toxic wasteland left…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
Giving all power to China, would corrupt it almost instantly, and turn it into USA V2.
China is already extremely corrupt, they’re simply using militarised corruption instead of a military to exploit developing countries.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 weeks ago:
I mean, we did legitimately save a lot of money this summer. Catch of the day in an overpriced seaside vacation area is not cheap at all.
The rest of the year though…
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 weeks ago:
Well if I stop buying fishing gear, at some point it’ll be financially worth it. I mean I’ve already “paid off” the license for this year. Yup… Ignore the brand new rod and reel I got for black Friday, it was on discount. Or the fact that I got a gold membership discount at the local tackle store because I spent enough money in a year.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 5 weeks ago:
But the inclusion of Peter Wohlleben as a plant makes perfect sense?
- Comment on Summoning the Beast of Big Pharma 1 month ago:
I’m splitting hairs by defining modern as an electronic device whose design was copied in essence by all future makers.
The essence of every vape is to move hot air through the herb. In that regard it doesn’t matter how you heat it, so the chalice beats it out.
As for the specific technology, aren’t the only designs that copied it in essence volcano like bag desktops? A tiny fraction of modern devices pushes air.
Now compare that to the majority of modern vapes, from dyna and terpcicle, over ball vapes, to electric conduction and convection. All of them move the hot air by having the user draw it, just like the steam chalice.
- Comment on Summoning the Beast of Big Pharma 1 month ago:
More like one of the sons of modern vaping. The steam chalice predates his experiments by a few decades, and it looks like a direct derivative.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Changes in the water pressure and current cause organic matter to rise. It feeds the prey, and provides cover so fish feel safer to eat the prey. The change in temperature promotes activity because there’s more O2 in cold water.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 months ago:
I don’t know about how they compare in scale, but corpos were spending billions on business AI solutions, and there were specialised technologies that died when the bubble burst.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 months ago:
Have you seen any comparisons to the previous AI bubbles and winters?
- Comment on I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee 2 months ago:
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
The Cavendish banana is a monoculture
Who could have guessed a banana cultivar is a method of growing crops
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
and is demeaning to those who work hard to enable this privilege for us.
For real! Keeping countries colonised in this day and age is hard work
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 3 months ago:
Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.
Lisp is the true God’s programming language…
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 3 months ago:
According to the dude, people with no foreknowledge also saw the same things. “Seeing the code of the matrix” definitely sounds better than “DMT enhances random patterns”.
- Comment on Oops I inked 3 months ago:
To ward off mammalian herbivores, because birds can spread their seeds over a wider area. So the task was successfully failed.
- Comment on True Facts: Bats, The Science of The Hunt - Ze Frank 4 months ago:
It’s as much of a meme as most of the content here, like any of the funny screenshot posts for example.
- Comment on sentence 4 months ago:
Skin them all the same?
