[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Doesn’t China have one too? Like identical to the US space force?

All either branch does is cyberwarfare, they aren’t really doing anything in space at all. It was mostly for PR.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not disclosing HIV status is classified as sexual violence and a heavy crime in many jurisdictions that can land a person in prison for over 10 years.

A person cannot consent to something they are not aware of, and purposefully not disclosing HIV status can change the course of a persons entire life or kill them.

Also the Hep -C comparison is a terrible one. Damage such as whats mentioned happens only with long term infection without treatment. Same with STDs such as syphillis. HIV is incurable, will cause severe damage in the stages it is normally caught, even if the person uses all options that medicine has, and will irrevocably change their lives. Also, they can now spread it to other people unknowingly. Comparing HIV to other STD’s is a Coughing Baby v Hydrogen Bomb scenario.

Also HIV antivirals can cost from 700-4000 dollars A MONTH, for a person with HIV. The medicine is rare, difficult to develop, and must be fine tuned to each person or they not work. What if a person cannot afford this? Or they are in an area that doesn’t have access to that extremely rare medication?

ALL STDs should be disclosed.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

China would absolutely step in.

Even in a selfish and self serving view of the situation, having a U.S. presence along the current northern North Korean border would be a security disaster of catastrophic proportions. The US would be able to station land based troops a stones throw away from Beijing itself and threaten cutting off the entirety of Manchuria in the event of a conflict. Further, the US could solidify an unshakable grasp on the Yellow Sea with land based aircraft, and safe harbors along the coast.

In a more nuanced look, China would never let North Korea fall for the massive historical and cultural tie between the nations.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 9 months ago

Stalin and Lenin

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 10 months ago

Wikipedia is decent for getting surface level information on non political topics before doing a deeper dive.

Conservapedia are actual Neo-Nazi’s

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Are downtown areas really the best type of data to analyze potential "ghost cities"? This feels like a misrepresentation. The residential designated areas in San Francisco and Los Angeles for example are over capacity and there has been a shortage for over 2 decades at this point.

Downtown areas by definition are the commercial enterprise and business sector of a city. The “vacancy” number here is looking at dead office spaces and commercial real estate, it isn’t even possible to build designate residential areas in a downtown commonly.

This is also mostly due to the pandemic, and increasingly larger numbers of workplaces switching to remote work.

Further, the death of brick and mortar stores, shopping malls, and other commercial enterprises also contributes to this number.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 10 months ago

Completing quests? Beating raids? Playing the game???

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You’re Australian I’m guessing? It’s because the Burger King Oceania franchise license was bought by Aussie billionaire Jack Cowin, and the Burger King name was trademarked by Adelaide, so they renamed the company after Jack.

Basically, Burger King was already taken.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Empty gestures. I’ll believe that the Saudi’s are “fed up” when they stop gladly using American bombs to commit genocide, and stop accepting American money to destabilize the Middle East.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Because China has laid their foreign policy positions bare and have stood by them for over a decade at this point. A core tenant of that policy is a primary focus on local security, and a strong non-interference policy.

Further, directly supporting Palestine offers no real benefit to China and its policy goals, and it would be needlessly poking a hornets nest for little to nothing in return.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Weird how a lot more Russians, Belarussians, and Kazahs starved when the government was trying to specifically target Ukraine supposedly.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because that's not British food? That's food that was brought over from colonized peoples? That's like going to a truly authentic Japanese restaurant in Brazil and saying, "That was the best Brazilian food I've ever had".

Also that second one looks... interesting. Its nice to know that seasoning is still a mystery to the British isles.

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