niph [she/her]

The idea of time running out is an illusion to keep us in the state of despair. There is no countdown to doomsday.

Even as the climate catastrophe hits it won’t be all at once. It’ll be a slow decline and there will be many opportunities to make a difference at a local level for all of us.

Look for what we can do, even if it’s small, even if it seems hopeless. Revolution doesn’t necessarily produce results immediately. It may take a generation or five. But we do it because we hope that someone will be able to benefit, even if it’s not ourselves.

Thanks for the helpful response. I was probably a bit too quick to jump on the bandwagon this time I think

Didn’t they literally murder a Sikh activist in Vancouver a year or two ago?

I take your point that nothing in the paper provides compelling evidence for the origin being from the US, but you originally said there was no reason to believe it didn’t cross over to humans in Southern China, based on circumstantial speculation.

The evidence does make a case for there being a) no COVID in Wuhan prior to Dec 2019 and b) the circulation of COVID in the US around Dec 2019. The position is therefore that COVID was contemporaneously in the US and China, which substantially weakens the case for a Chinese human crossover.

As for your assertion that China is home to larger populations of the kinds of animals that carry coronavirus, the document also presents negative testing results in bats and deer of the region as part of the origin tracing research.

In any case the authors of the paper don’t actually assert that it came from the US, but rightly point out that China has co-operated with the WHO in allowing and carrying out studies to trace the origins while the US has refused to even entertain the idea.

Did you actually read the document? There’s plenty of reason to doubt

However, some US politicians showed no appreciation for China’s magnanimity and generosity. Since they could not conceal China’s aid to the world – including their own country – they smeared it as “mask diplomacy” aimed at influencing the international community. The US was unwilling to assume its responsibility to help other countries, yet it was opposed to China stepping up with such initiatives. Its approach was neither serious nor dignified.

lmaooo China literally calling burgerland deeply unserious

I think a lot of people were put off by all the weird mod/admin drama a few months ago tbh (nothing to do with news mega but just the site generally)

Interesting to learn about the effect on climate change. I had thought this was likely a provocation to start an essentially proxy war with China who has always sided with Pakistan

Sounds like poor operation planning at the very least then by India. Thanks for the info and for all your posts, very informative as always

These were 4th gen jets right? Does India or Pakistan have newer generation fighters?

I was not expecting Kashmir to pop off. Maybe a bit tinfoil hat but the whole “little known militant group provokes regional conflict by random act of terrorism” stinks of CIA/western provocation to me

The first IP law was created by Elizabeth I so that her favourite boytoy could have a monopoly over selling playing cards

I think we have to start with an education campaign of just basic fucking concepts.

The propaganda is more sophisticated than just quality though. I have a friend who insists that using Temu is evil because it’s all made by “slave labour” and even though she accepts Amazon is also bad, “it’s not the same”.

This seems stupid on the face of it but would just be used as more cover to prosecute people based on social media posts. Fascism 101

There were barriers at the event, they had been moved as part of normal procedures to let vehicles resupplying food trucks into the street.

Friend of mine lives right on the block where it happened, heard screams and saw the aftermath out his window.

I somehow missed this but fuck that shithole. I got out of terf island luckily but many trans friends suffering there. We don’t need their bs here

They’re not even complaining about us not seeing important ideas, they’re complaining that they won’t get the privilege of feeling like they’re getting a balanced diet by occasionally entertaining a little communism as a treat. It’s self centred af

As a lifelong Tolkien fan, it’s abhorrent.

I hate the passive representation here. As if it’s all driven by some ineffable force of nature that no one can predict or control