zephyreks @ zephyreks @lemmy.ca

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Spoils indeed

It's not like cartels are stupid. Their front businesses have enough plausible deniability that it's usually impossible to isolate them from legitimate requests.

Put it this way: if you sell a bag of fertilizer at Home Depot, how would you know if it's going to be used for a bomb? You'd require surveillance of that individual's purchases at every other store in the country... But that individual might be registered under an entirely different corporation when shopping at Lowe's.

This problem sits at the import side, not the export side. Mexico has exponentially more information they can use to determine the purpose of imported materials. China doesn't.

The thing is, the flow of chemicals to Mexico is not illegal and condemning it as such would cause a massive international response. There are Mexican companies building solar panels, for example.

What are they going to do? Put police stations in Mexico and staff them with Mexicans?

Usually people would consider within a few degrees (1? 2? Certainly less than 5) to be an acceptable margin, but the pole itself is a well-defined point along the axis of rotation.

Some of us went home, but the school also offered a program - Vancouver, BC

We would fit in... Probably better than we fit in with the US lol

The solution to the housing crisis is to just build more housing. Anything else just creates loopholes that people will exploit.

He's an MP, his job is in service of the country.

China is primarily a source of precursor chemicals that drug cartels buy and use to make fentanyl.

I'm not really sure China has much legal ground to stand on for policing how people use the chemicals they buy tbh. China isn't going to operate a surveillance state on foreign soil to find out because that would cause an international incident.

For example, methylamine hydrochloride can be used both to make meth and to make solar cells.

This is what happens when your incentive structure doesn't reward actual proper journalism.

Might as well have quoted my own asshole

American media is legitimately just extremely unreliable. British, Chinese, Russian, French, German, Middle Eastern, and Southeast Asian sources all got the detail that the recent Indian moon mission landed near the South Pole, but most American media picked up that they had somehow landed on the South Pole and put that in their titles.

They were 21 degrees of latitude off, for reference.

Satellites have some degree of mobility and space junk follows trajectories that can be computed basically infinitely into the future.

Except you really are LMAO

Where are you from? Genuinely curious which part of China you're from.

Space junk is highly deterministic, though. No atmosphere to fuck with.

At least someof us here know China from own experience, have worked for Chinese companies, lived in the country.

Oh hey, are you describing me? I'll admit I've mostly lived in tier 1/1.5 cities, so my experience isn't exactly standard. I'll also gladly admit that top Chinese companies have worse culture than top American ones in web development. Where are you from?

You do understand that you can help someone without wanting to befriend them... Right?

How is any of this comparable to Nazi Germany? Violation of reproductive rights is literally CPC policy and was used on the Han majority for decades. Forced sterilization, forced abortion, all were used for enforcement of population control policy. You're not criticizing the CPC's treatment of Uyghurs, you're criticizing the CPC's policies in general. Conflating that with Nazi genocide is rather disingenuous, especially given that people haven't been killed en masse (far from it).

Second, Chinese extremism is pretty well-defiined: actions supportive of those involved in the 1992 bus bombings, 1997 bus bombings, the attempted airplane hijacking in 2008, the truck attack in 2008, the taxi attack in 2008, the stabbing attack in 2008, the bombing in 2010, the police station storming in 2011, the truck hijacking in 2011... Do I need to go on? Pretending that terrorism wasn't a problem in Xinjiang in the past decade or two is simply wrong, and pretending that China's policies haven't basically eradicated domestic terrorism would also be wrong.

So... Never?

Wonderful how people who don't know shit about a country seem to be the most confident talking about it.

No, the USSR never joined the Axis. When Hitler had raised the issue, Stalin gave him a list of demands he couldn't possibly meet (basically mocking him)... And a month later Operation Barbarossa started.