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Nowadays its probably best to set up your own VPN server for that. Back when I lived there, most VPNs got occationally blocked, then they would get new IPs and work fine again. But from what I heard, it got way worse since Winnie the Pooh took over.

They show you a BTC address and you send BTC to that address. Whatever arrives at the address is credited to your account. No "invoicing system" involved.

> Now why would that be?

Who donates money to fund the studies?

> The situation in HK is depressing,

It sure is. HK was my favorite city. Great place. I liked to live in China too, but left when Xi got into power, because it was all too obvious, even 10 years ago, what would happen.

The turn to nationlism, xenophobia, and imperialism under Xi is insane. And the lack of reaction to it in the West (with the exception of the Trump administration) is even more insane.

China annexed the Scarborough Shoal 8 years ago. And the guy who will "be at the wheel" soon did nothing back then (despite of there being a defense treaty).

These mass arrests are just China getting ready to annex Hong Kong as soon as "the wheel" is in the hand of the guy they already know will no nothing.

I tell you a secret: The CCP doesn't actually care about the rules of international law.

Who is gonna stop them? Nobody.

When the CCP invaded and annexed the Scarborough Shoal in 2012, the Obama administration ignored the defense treaty between the US and the Philippines and allowed the CCP to keep the land.

So now that Biden is practically in power, it makes sense that the CCP innitiates the process for the annexation of Hong Kong in the comming month.

My guess is that, before the end of the Biden term, the CCP will have made a move on Taiwan as well. And the West will not do anything about it other than "a strongly worded letter".

Do you do nationaly checks before allowing people to have an opinion?

> If the EU does nothing it's useless, if it does something it's just corruption.

Wrong.

Its not about "doing something", its about doing the right thing. And they don't.

Not true.

SpaceX was almost completely privately invested and private risk. Once they had shown that they were serious, NASA awarded them contracts, because it was a great deal for NASA, compared to what they would pay otherwise.

Its sad to see these kind of attempts to trash talk the SpaceX achievements.

It's always been normal in the EU. There is little innovation here based on private risk taking, almost no venture capital, and huge barrieres for banks to lend money to innovators.

I guess the US voters have decided that they like forced prision labor in the US.

As another European: proportional voting has nothing to do with it. Its more about ideologized voters who care more about ideology than merit when voting.

So, after 4 years of constant unfounded public "Russia gate" allegations, now it is too much to look into hundreds of sworn wittness statements, video footage, statistical anomalies, and whatnot, for even a few weeks?

That type of behaviour is what is fishy.