Between Whompy Wheels and the steering wheel coming flying off, I’m like 50% sure the engineers are doing it on purpose.

Depends on how democratic the mechanisms of the party is. Cuba’s party has only become more democratic as time has gone on, and resulted in better outcomes for the people and enshrining gay rights in a constitutional referendum, which passed with 90%+ in favor. China’s party has certainly became more democratic than in the 2000s when politicians were openly controlled by business.

It’s not useful to analyze parties and states in a vacuum independent of each other, the ultimate proof of how democratic a system is is whether its results favor the people or capital.

I will never, ever trust a one-party government

It depends on the party. Being able to pick from of a dozen different parties of capital is no different from picking from a dozen brands of peanut butter that came out of the same factory.

Laptops above 100W don’t need a USBC charging port.

Gaming laptops can continue to use the typical barrel power connector on models that exceed 100 W of power

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I don’t think that’s all. A friend and I spent half an hour debating whether an object was the moon or a huge billboard, because it was aligned with a building on the horizon. But I took a picture and it wasn’t nearly big enough to span the roof of the building we were looking at.

Why does it always photograph so much smaller than it looks?

My god 30 million years, trapped in amber, alive? What madness lies behind those eyes? Can we only pray he never escapes his prison?

So the article referenced a “chronicles labor shortage”, but nobody can afford the little luxuries they afforded 10 year ago.

Have they tried just paying people more?

What blows my mind is that you read an article, and brought it up months or years later, and applied zero critical thinking.

What’s more likely? China set up fake police stations in America, where they have no authority, so they can be mocked by people they have absolutely no power over?

Or they’re there to provide legal services to Chinese citizens living abroad?

I mean for hundreds of thousands of dollars? I quite like traveling to China, but I like having hundreds of thousands of dollars too.

South China Sea

Not giving up your territory to minimize the number of adversarial military bases off your coast is entirely normal. Hell Taiwan still claims the 13 dash line, since China gave up some dashes here and there, including a couple to Vietnam once it was clear they weren’t going to host foreign troops.

America’s ability to do spy shit in other countries is unrelated to their ability to catch spies. But yeah no in the past, such as when China caught the CIA using an unsecured wordpress site to communicate with assets, the CIA just blamed some random chinese guy.

It kinda is, since it implies chinese assassins either don’t exist or are so small and super-competent they haven’t left any evidence. Billions of people have phones and we don’t have footage of alien abductions or Bigfoot, the absence of evidence is evidence of absence

If China was assassinating foreigners in foreign countries, every lemmy user would hear about it, there’s multiple dedicated accounts that do nothing but post anti-chinese articles.

lol maybe, but given that America has immigrant populations from nearly every country, I would be shocked if another country managed to have a more effective spy network, though the USSR had a shot due to their support of internationalism. “There’s a Chinese assassin among us? That Chinese guy is kinda sus.”

The Chinese government has been pretty careful about following the rules when dealing with other countries, largely out of a naive belief that if they follow them, other countries will treat them accordingly, not understanding international norms is just America playing Calvin ball.

See: China joining the WTO, followed by the US simply breaking the organization to prevent any rulings against itself, or China’s support for the Philippines and Indian governments instead of ideologically aligned communist movements, as if helping them stabilize themselves would benefit China in future dealings.

I seriously doubt China assassinates foreigners on foreign soil. They’re not America or even the USSR.

Is it worth placing a huge target on yourself for less than a million dollars?

Depends on your citizenship and where you live. If the answer to both is “not China”, what would you have to be afraid of?