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Still... interesting how in talking about the crash 80% of CNN's article is to mention the censorship, as was your own focus, and not the event itself and what is known about it.

NOTHING about the event about which there is a lot of data available.

Yeah WE KNOW THEY CENSOR, CHINA BAD.

It's not even some red scare anymore.

It's like we collectively need the repeated constant mention of "china bad", like some sort of mental pacifier, to not see everything wrong and just as bad in censorship in the west (UK, Germany, sometime the US), or more broadly everything which is going to shit here but is soaring and going well in Asia.

Mental infantilisation to the extreme, to keep our inner frightened and traumatized children in control. Thank you for helping that effort soldier.

Interesting. You use Fisher-Yates extensively. How do you feed it ?

Well, considering the author is Nancy Pelosi's biographer, and nobody involved disavowed the story in 3 years despite its very widespread circulation, and how much the American MAGA right has dissected it since, I'm not quite sure why it would be that hard to believe.

Or :

They are a pay for play publication, which some PR agency associated with Foggy Bottom "contacted" to tout the horn of some group of western capitalists.

Said capitalists got beat at their own anti-protectionist game IRL. They have no easy solution to end up on top, so they are trying their hand at "manifesting" the result they want, like some under-prepared teenagers before a test.

This "you're overproducing" meme is their try at using basic Marxist semantics. According to Marx, Capitalist economic crises are always crises of overproduction of commodities (exchange values).

The meme is designed to sow doubt in minds worldwide which are in the danger of thinking that Chinese Communism might have solved some of the basic contradictions of capitalism.

This meme is an ode to fatalism: even in Communism, ever declining rates of profit are inevitable and so are boom and bust cycles and crises.

With luck, even some people of high rank in the Chinese intelligentsia could be convinced of that...

This is IMHO a trigger warning too far and is also sooo culturaly tonedeaf it's not even funny...

UK, a country with a long naval tradition, destroyed over 25 Russian warships using Ukrainians in Ukraine.

FTFY, I know it's easy to mix up the two when trying to generate engagement.

Life hack wrt Ireland: if you can't calculate profit, you can't calculate tax...

Except that Russian officials up and down the flagpole - including the head honcho just this week - have very clearly and publicly said they'd rather that Poland, Romania and Hungary split up the Western half, and deal with the rebellious Galicians than them.

They don't want the headache and would be rather content to stop their efforts at Kharkhiv-Odessa line (if that's even possible to achieve for them, of course).

No, women might actually be conscripted too, as some presidential office members directly mentioned in interviews, and a couple of TV's had incidentally done impromptu "video polling" in the streets of Kyiv.

If only Canada had let the judicial process do its thing and at least imprisoned the man as properly requested by India, that killer of 28 people and Canadian citizen would be paying for his crimes, alive.

Blows my mind that instead of doing that, I read an article how he was somehow meeting CSIS agents warning him of the danger two weeks prior to the assassination...

"Yuri, you lost another submarine ... ?"

Considering: - US DoD is paying for it as client, and not Ukraine (it's been provided for free as far as they are concerned)

- US DoD can't, in peacetime (wrt the US), technically force an unwilling US company to be complicit in attacking foreign military assets (see below vs status of "war").

- also various int'l treaties on space assets, and various other ones applicable by analogy would bore a deep hole on SpaceX's insurance premiums, and on any derivates liabilities based on SpaceX's stock (6.3 Billion $ loan SpaceX made to Elon so he could buy Twitter/X ahem...).

- Similarly Russia probably privately warned SpaceX about a private company being possibly ^ complicit in an act of war against them outside of the home country of SpaceX being at war with them - huge liability issues SpaceX'd lose big time.

- also the matter the system relies on ground stations in a variety of countries also comes into it.

...not much anybody can do unless US or NATO formally declares war. US and Russia might be in a cold snap, but there is no violence, moreover outside of a declared war zone (surprisingly neither Russia nor Ukraine technically declared war, for a variety of intl' legal reason which are advantageous to both - hence the "Special Military Operation" b---s--t moniker everybody mocks publicly, but everybody respects legal--ly).

And then you have the French, Dutch and Belgian case of the pedocriminal network which was unearthed after the Dutroux affair, which, inspired themselves of these late 70s-early 80s satanic panics, started abusing children in a false satanic ritual settings, terrorizing them, and making thus sure the claim wouldn't be taken as seriously as they should have.

Can't really de-escalate without communicating.

Moreover - and this has yet to be publicly confirmed by some official - the kid, which police couldn't know was a kid - was fleeing because the car was declared stolen, the license plate tagged, and part of a drug money laundering scheme using stolen Polish rent-a-cars the dealer which was employing the young man was running.