[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago

The Indian position on Sikhs is more radical than the Chinese position on Uyghurs. That's.... Depressing.

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 70 points 1 year ago

All Ukraine said is that Russia deployed 15000 men to Bakhmut and that Ukraine fighting in Bakhmut keeps them from being redeployed to the Zaporizhzhia front... Sensationalist titles, much?

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago

Didn't a bunch of Muslim countries actually ask China about Uyghurs (and even visit Xinjiang) and they left unanimously content with the response?

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 30 points 1 year ago

Caps on Russian oil price, restoration of original Ukraine borders, prosecution of Russian "war criminals"

It's what you'd expect from a country that's completely winning the war and not stuck in a stalemate while losing support

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 58 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, because everything you do is to meet societal needs and not to make more money for the 1%. That's why 34% of wealth in Canada goes to the top 1%.

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 34 points 1 year ago

The "let's poison Ukraine... For Ukraine"

This war helps neither Ukraine nor Russia.

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 38 points 1 year ago

That's the cost of designing education for the worst students.

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 45 points 1 year ago

So Meta recently released their Adversarial Threat Report... Am I right to be cautious about the rather high density of ex-US intelligence as authors on the report?

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm going to take the adversarial position on Fukushima fears and point out that according to this paper published in Science, the variance of concentration of other radioactive isotopes is rather high between tanks... And while on average they do meet legal guidelines, there are tanks that exceed the legal limit for discharge. For what it's worth, the concentrations allowed for discharge also seem to not entirely be coupled with the bioaccumulation factor of these radioactive isotopes in fish... which isn't great when the goal is to avoid eating toxic fish with radioactive isotopes that will accumulate in the human body.

Plus, Tepco has a record of cutting corners in the name of profit and the Japanese government has a strong incentive to stop bleeding hundreds of billions of dollars into the cleanup... So the incentives aren't really lining up to give confidence in Tepco's ALPS system.

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 34 points 1 year ago

A dystopian surveillance state... You mean like the US and UK?

Here I was thinking a dystopian surveillance state was a requirement for modernization. My bad.

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 42 points 1 year ago

But the government actually cares about stamping down on cars. Congestion policy in big cities is actively hostile to cars.

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 48 points 1 year ago

You don't have to support Russia to question the validity of news sources...

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