Fending off a horde of zombies while standing on your partner's overpacked bag, as they try to squish all the loot together so the zipper closes.

I suspect so; China has better conditions and need for nuclear than any other country, and so far its not even 5%, and they're only planning to triple it by 2035.

France got lucky they didn't stop building reactors when everyone else did and benefitted for the last 40 years, but wind and solar have just gotten so cheap.

What does italy's prospects for nuclear power look like? Buying fuel from France and reactors from Westinghouse that come up 10x over budget and 50 years behind schedule?

For everyone wondering, the country that coordinated what time and location to shit in the river to maximize the number of turds the mayor swam with when he sceduled his swim to prove the water was fine for the Olympics is third last.

residents hung their clothing in garderobe shafts specifically to rid them of fleas, using the ammonia from urine as a natural fumigant. The toilet and the wardrobe occupied the same small stone room for reasons that made complete practical sense at the time.

They fumbled it less than literally any other country. Nobody else built the infrastructure to test, contact-trace, and implement precise lockdowns as efficiently. I have numerous criticisms, but in the context of other countries that did a half-hearted lockdown, then sent everybody back to work and stopped masking, it would be borderline deceitful to bring them up in a context like this.

A common theme when you have first or second-hand knowledge of anything in China is that any criticism you hear in the west is entirely orthogonal to actual issues, like its been filtered through a combination Telephone and then Qanon-style yes-and- confabulation.

As far as concealing the deaths of millions, let alone hundreds of millions, with hundreds of millions more family, friends, coworkers, etc, its too absurd to contemplate.

The democrats were pushing hard for a tiktok ban during Biden's entire term. You are rewriting history as if Tiktok shutting down preemptively wasn't in response to a ban that was going to hit in a couple months under the Biden regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_ban_TikTok_in_the_United_States#Biden_administration_(2021%E2%80%932025)

Its weird how you're rewriting history as if the democrats weren't pushing a ban under Biden, complete with a confused Pelosi going "We're going to make Tik Tok, Tic Tac Toe!", and 80% of Lemmy supporting it, as if it wasn't going to decrease dem's own voter turnout.

Biden was in the process of banning it.

Trump wanted to ban it during his first term after TT users organized RSVPing a Trump event he booked an entire stadium for. TT responded by hiring a bunch of natsec ghouls to run moderation, and someone in Trump's staff did the very basic math of "promoting a ban of popular thing hurts election chances and has literally no benefits".

Its only slightly inconvenient to get around The Great Firewall. Alipay and Wechat, which literally every phone in China have can be used to buy a HK-based esim@ ~40 cents/gb in 2 minutes, vpn services are also a thing, but less convenient. Its only necessary for blocked websites like google-owned ones though. Heres some dogs I saw in Nanning.

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