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zerfuffle OP ,

Commanders in the key battle for Avdiivka in Donetsk fear the town will be lost in a matter of days if more international aid cannot be secured – and that huge casualties will be suffered in the process.

zerfuffle ,

Change work culture maybe?

zerfuffle ,

I feel like China’s political position here is to basically sit by and see who wins, then back their government economically.

China isn’t really in the business of foreign pressure.

zerfuffle ,

Human Rights Watch, truly the beacon of human rights.

zerfuffle ,

Maybe, just maybe, make tuition free for domestic students?

zerfuffle ,

Infinite money does not lead to infinite scale in zero time. China’s nuclear industry is robust and growing, as is their solar and wind industry. Money can’t be wasted if you’re already tapped out on growth in other avenues.

This year, China deployed more solar panels than the entirety of all solar panels in the US.

zerfuffle ,

You’re not even citing the right reactor. LLNL did that experiment, this reactor in Japan is to try to scale it.

zerfuffle ,

Can we ban article commentary on posts?

zerfuffle ,

Methane is going to really fuck with our near-term climate change projections. Our estimates for methane emissions are even worse than they are for CO2.

zerfuffle ,

Now tell me more about that free market globalization…

Train manufacturer intentionally bricks trains serviced by independent service providers (social.hackerspace.pl)

Polish train manufacturer that lost servicing tender programmed train controller to brick itself after train stays for some time in 6 ISP facilities or in 1 their faculity(for testing?) until undocumented button combination is pressed. Some controller versions brick itself after train is idle for 10 days. After news about this...

zerfuffle ,

State-owned enterprises look better every day…

zerfuffle ,

Fucking finally. Like them or not, the Taliban is the de facto government of Afghanistan.

zerfuffle ,

Russia is paying a fee per barrel set by Iraq.Oh no, the horrors!

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20 countries from four continents launched the Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy by 2050

https://www.energy.gov/articles/cop28-countries-launch-declaration-triple-nuclear-energy-capacity-2050-recognizing-key

"Endorsing countries include the United States, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Hungary, Japan, Republic of Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom. "

@worldnews

zerfuffle ,

20 countries but excluding the single largest driver of nuclear energy development in the world: China.

What a fucking worthless declaration.

zerfuffle ,

Never thought I’d defend Trump, but he was in office during the start of the pandemic, one of the largest systemic shifts in society in decades.

zerfuffle ,

The IMF wants to protect private investors at the cost of country-scale investors. Once again, fuck the IMF.

zerfuffle ,

It’s usually an annotation because Internet/phone penetration among the rural, uneducated, and poor in those countries isn’t great. They don’t have means to survey these people. Surveying the people who do have access to Internet is representative of what “normal people” feel.

The US has ~91% Internet penetration, while China only has 73% and India only 43%.

zerfuffle ,

Idk I think I’d enjoy being obscenely rich off of my government’s oil money

zerfuffle ,

Isn’t happiness the goal? Why does it matter what their driver is?

zerfuffle ,

Then your statement doesn’t make sense lol

The rural/urban divide isn’t unique to China or India or Brazil. It’s everywhere. Drivers are always different across the urban/rural divide.

zerfuffle ,

The goal of this comparison is to compare urban-to-urban, because those countries which don’t have this exclusion have relatively tiny rural populations.

zerfuffle ,

Rural populations are negligible and covered under other factors in a number of countries (in the US, Internet access). It’s not worth mentioning because it’s not a relevant part of data.

zerfuffle ,

I don’t really like how HRW does their reporting tbh. It basically consists of “here’s some random Chinese article that suggests something that they might do, which, because China is a single-party state, MUST describe what they do” coupled with “here are some sources from US-funded parties detailing what they claim to be happening in China.”

It’s not a question of whether their statements are accurate, but it’s a question of whether they’ve provided enough evidence to make those statements.

zerfuffle ,

That’s actually not how modern China gained territory. The settlements in Xinjiang were explicitly designed to not step on the traditional Uyghur economic/cultural center of Kashgar. Instead, settlement surrounded Urumqi, a place that used to be a backwater of backwaters (the name meaning “beautiful pasture”). Even today, Kashgar and it’s surrounding areas are majority Uyghur (by far), while Urumqi is majority Han.

zerfuffle ,

Privatization is such a waste of taxpayer money. You spend all those resources developing domestic capability and then sell it off to the highest bidder for a short-term cash infusion.

zerfuffle ,

Good. Everyone knows it. It’s not news unless you’ve been living under a rock.

zerfuffle ,

This is literally American policy idk why anyone’s surprised

zerfuffle ,

You’re a terrorist, you’re not a terrorist. You’re a terrorist, you’re not a terrorist. You’re a terrorist, you’re not a terrorist…

If Yemen and Israel are at war, seizing and even sinking ships is perfectly legal under international law.

zerfuffle ,

Who the fuck downvotes the National Interest?

zerfuffle ,

Intent doesn’t really matter when you have an Apache helicopter with large munitions lol

zerfuffle OP ,

Surely this will not be seen as an escalation and a deterioration of relations?

zerfuffle OP ,

Anyone citing MBFC as anything other than a joke site needs to reconsider. Thing is, we don’t even know who the author of the site is, and from what he has claimed he has no credentials to make any sort of bias or factuality assessment.

zerfuffle OP ,

Repeatedly saying something does not make it a fact

Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza Tops 13,000 as Israel Repeatedly Strikes U.N. Schools Housing Refugees (www.democracynow.org)

Over the weekend, at least 82 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Jabaliya refugee camp, including multiple United Nations schools sheltering Palestinians. At least 85 incidents of Israeli bombing have impacted 67 facilities run by the United Nations relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in the last two months....

zerfuffle ,

I’m sure they were all Hamas.

Now they are all hummus.

zerfuffle ,

Objectively, they didn’t do good journalism and cite primary sources.

Primary sources were the interview with Yasmin Porat on Haboker Hazeh (which was censored by Israel) and the interview conducted with IDF helicopter pilots on, I think, Haaretz. Everything else is commentary on the same evidence.

The fact that the Tampa Bay Times failed to cite those two primary sources really calls into question their legitimacy as an institution for journalism. It’s basic journalistic etiquette to cite primary sources where possible.

zerfuffle ,

The fact that the Chinese navy intervened suggests that it’s likely a Chinese fishing net in contested EEZ.

I don’t know about you, but “Australian warship sails into Chinese waters and fucks up Chinese fisherman’s nets and livelihood” doesn’t sound great.

zerfuffle ,

It says that the top 1% makes 140k USD…

The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality ever undertaken shows that this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500) a year

zerfuffle ,

I mean, I agree as a whole, but I’m assuming that the online population trends upwards socioeconomically. 140k USD isn’t that high of a salary for the US coastal elite.

zerfuffle ,

Wait, I’m confused. So the history of the Ryukyu Islands is that they were claimed by China until the First Sino-Japanese War, at which point they fell to the Japanese. Then, after WW2, the US takes over jurisdiction of the islands as war reparations under the Treaty of San Francisco (which China, naturally, wasn’t invited to and received basically nothing from).

So, today, the Americans have a bunch of military bases there, China claims a few small islands there, Japan claims the entire chain, and the people of the island themselves want independence.

Fuck, eh?

zerfuffle ,

Statement by Hamas’ Izzat Al-Rishq;

“Regarding what the spokesman for the terrorist enemy army said about the arrival of prisoners of the occupation to Al-Shifa Hospital, we said early on that the resistance transferred many prisoners of the occupation to hospitals to receive treatment and undergo surgical operations, especially after some of them were injured as a result of the occupation’s aircraft bombing them.

We risked our fighters to guarantee the injured prisoners the best treatment. Possible in hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

We have published many pictures about this; Now their army spokesman presents it as if they have discovered something great.

What the spokesman for the occupation army says completely condemns them. These are points that are recorded for us and not for us.

Taking care of the prisoners, treating them, and giving them possible medical care is a point for us and not for us.”

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