Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/BhadraPunchline/status/1611732162805657601

lol if afghanistan is going to be richer faster under BRI than it ever was under american occupation

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1610337078935719940

I don't think this is true

Truga posted:

a new genocide just dropped

crepeface posted:

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/BhadraPunchline/status/1611732162805657601

lol if afghanistan is going to be richer faster under BRI than it ever was under american occupation

"thekeeshman" posted:

How am I arguing in bad faith? What positions do you think I'm espousing that I don't really believe?

And lol that you blindly take a PR statement from someone in the Kremlin as evidence of anything. Your link doesn't even mention a monetary amount, such solid plans. Russia's been in control of large parts of Ukraine since 2014, how much aid and investment have they put into those regions? What makes you think things are going to be different this time?

But it's very funny to see that you think idle Russian musings are more real than the billions of dollars the US actually put into rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan.

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/BhadraPunchline/status/1611732162805657601

lol if afghanistan is going to be richer faster under BRI than it ever was under american occupation

Fleetwood posted:

https://twitter.com/ChalicothereX/status/1415105613663662083?s=20&t=YY385ST0bOwv4G1x7wdBEQ
lol

Nonsense posted:

https://twitter.com/samueloakford/status/1612594027874127872?s=20

Xi what have you done

mawarannahr posted:

manga https://twitter.com/uyghurproject/status/1612421427218579458

GlassEye-Boy posted:

China is to blame for MATHS!

https://twitter.com/SunSibei/status/1612425315036581888

mawarannahr posted:

manga https://twitter.com/uyghurproject/status/1612421427218579458

quote:

China is putting up a space program as a projection of power and wealth. As long as they can impress someone with their antics and can fool people into investing into their country or taking out loans from them, they'll keep doing this. But they're just scamming people. As long as they get to increase numbers used to compute GDP, even if they're not actually producing anything of value, that's good enough of them. As soon as economists say investing in China is good - they're happy.

Hubbert posted:

The Sum Of All Fears

mawarannahr posted:

didn’t realize the video was up. here it is https://youtube.com/watch?v=URxQ-PvBGYk&feature=youtu.be

I’m not an anime appraiser but it doesn’t seem technically adept

mawarannahr posted:

didn’t realize the video was up. here it is https://youtube.com/watch?v=URxQ-PvBGYk&feature=youtu.be

I’m not an anime appraiser but it doesn’t seem technically adept

gradenko_2000 posted:

mawarannahr posted:

manga https://twitter.com/uyghurproject/status/1612421427218579458

Zodium posted:

quote:

quote:

"A recent study in Nature Astronomy points out that the practice of letting huge stages make uncontrolled falls to Earth creates "unnecessary risk," and that China is not alone in the practice despite international guidelines for falling space debris mitigation.

The United States and most of the major international space agencies have practices governing how to deal with the risk of rocket stages. The American government, for example, governs its falls under Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices (opens in new tab).

The practices require that risk of casualties from a re-entering rocket are below a 1-in-10,000 threshold, but the article notes this is not followed every time. The U.S. Air Force waived the requirements for 37 of its 66 launches between 2011 and 2018, "on the basis that it would be too expensive to replace non-compliant rockets with compliant ones," the article stated.

NASA waived these casualty requirements seven times between 2008 and 2018, including an Atlas V launch in 2015 of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission that carried a casualty risk of 1 in just 600, the article added. The authors said it's important to remember this as both the Biden administration and NASA have condemned China's practices in past years.

"There is no international consensus on the acceptable level of risk, and other spacefaring states — including the USA — make similar choices concerning uncontrolled reentries," the authors wrote. The paper was led by Canadian political scientist Michael Byers, of the University of British Columbia."

To Other mods, your fellow moderator is engaging in propaganda and misinformation again

This is the EXACT URL cited: https://www.space.com/china-long-march-rocket-uncontrolled-reentry-wentian

The actual title is: Huge Chinese rocket booster falling from space after launching space station module

THIS IS THE CORE OF THE ARTICLE quoted by your fellow mod:

quote:

"The inert ... core stage remains in orbit and was not actively deorbited," McDowell wrote on Twitter.

McDowell added that relative to U.S. launch providers, Americans "do a rather better job of upper stage disposal, and China on average a worse one."

That's the CORE of the article, not this whataboutist propaganda, selective editing.

 Where is the integrity if you can spin an article 180 degrees from what it's saying? Where is your integrity if you don't keep a fellow mod from spreading misinformation?

gradenko_2000 posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

As long as they get to increase numbers used to compute GDP, even if they're not actually producing anything of value, that's good enough of them.

gradenko_2000 posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tren...-cryptocurrency

This rocks they expelled a party official who was abusing his post to mine cryptocurrency and made him apologize on national tv.

quote:

From 2017 to 2020, the firm operated 160,000 cryptocurrency mining machines, which accounted for 10 per cent of Fuzhou’s total electricity consumption, according to the report.