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Didn’t China seize firearms from the Filipinos? Talk about bringing knives to a gunfight…
Didn’t China seize firearms from the Filipinos? Talk about bringing knives to a gunfight…
That’s what the West thinks about Duterte?
Damn. Y’all are so far off base it’s absurd. Talk to a Filipino one of these days.
Lmao this is coming from the same safety organization that approved the Tesla Cybertruck?
I’ll take my chances with a car that’s seen EU approval.
Lmao the Philippines is really out here pissing off all of its neighbours
Duterte’s domestic policy was fucked up, but at least he had sensible foreign policy
Italian company blames Turkish company blames Chinese company. Typical.
No country in that entire supply chain is known for being reliable lmfao this was plain cost-savings and corruption all the way down.
The US disrupting foreign affairs in order to prevent an ally from swaying towards a rival? I’ve never seen this one before /s
I mean, isn’t that the goal? If you’re accruing wealth but spending it to better the country (building infrastructure, blah blah), why does it matter?
It helps that China’s also clamping down on corruption from the politician side.
Dude there’s videos online but they’re obscenely graphic.
sigh
You want to talk about methane emissions? Let’s talk about underreported methane emissions.
As you we’ll know, natural gas has been the most significant contributor to the US’ emissions reductions in recent years. Natural gas use has skyrocketed, supplanting coal because of its “50% reduction in CO2 emissions.” This is true at the consumption point, but what’s often forgotten is that methane, CH4, is small and leaky, and methane is a much worse GHG than CO2 (~80x worse over 20 years).
What does that mean? A 1.25% leakage rate for methane over the entire extraction/distribution process would double methane’s GHG effect. What’s a realistic leakage rate, then? Well…
Stanford estimates 9% leakage over the Permian Basin
The EDF estimates methane leakage to be 3.75x to 8x worse than the EPA estimate of 1.2%
Remember that natural gas makes up the most significant part of the US electricity supply (as well as a significant portion of primary energy for heating and industrial applications). Draw conclusions appropriately.
The US is significantly underreporting it’s own methane emissions.
Edit: in case it wasn’t clear, natural gas is methane
Lmao a big problem is that a lot of these influencers aren’t actually wealthy. They can’t actually afford their lifestyles, and the Chinese government has been trying to control “fake Internet personas” for a while.
China views social media as an extension of in-person relationships rather than it’s own independent entity.
Economic coercion, like:
the embargo on Cuba?
legislation to raise EV tariffs by 100% and block semiconductor exports?
sanctions on India?
sanctions on Pakistan?
tell me more about this “economic coercion”, because it seems like we’re talking to an expert in the matter.
First human trial for a treatment strategy passed (notably, we know that placebo treatments for diabetes fail). This more than passes the bar to justify further large-scale human trials and, clinically, is a very strong indicator of success.
What, is it not a cure until it’s available to the public?
Ooo “mysterious”
Who the fuck cares? Every major space power does weird shit in space.
Tax dollars at work everyone
Is this supposed to be a response to the propaganda leaflets that got dropped on North Korea?
I wasn’t aware that had happened recently, but I know it was a thing in the past.
shh The Guardian had a slow news day ok
No, there’s many many Hui Arabic-style mosques.
Maybe The Guardian doesn’t know about them and doesn’t consider them “major”, but that sounds like The Guardian’s problem.
It’s motherfucking happening
Ahead of schedule
With accelerating velocity
It’s fucking happening AHHHH
I’m sure this has nothing to do with the $600 billion water megaproject that IIRC is supposed to route the Red Flag river through that village…
Names come with utility and meaning. If a village has a new utility, it typically takes a new name (New Amsterdam -> New York, Ville-Marie -> Montreal). Guardian at its finest.