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China Can’t Cut Electric Vehicle Subsidies It Isn’t Paying

1y 7mon ago in worldnews@lemmy.ml from www.bloomberg.com

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport

1y 9mon ago in worldnews@lemmy.ml from www.bbc.com

U.K., U.S. ambassadors to skip Nagasaki peace ceremony

1y 10mon ago in world from www.asahi.com

U.K., U.S. ambassadors to skip Nagasaki peace ceremony

1y 10mon ago in worldnews@lemmy.ml from www.asahi.com

Is a Chinese celebrity dissident really a con man?

1y 10mon ago in worldnews@lemmy.ml from www.npr.org

World Bank warns 108 countries risk being stuck in ‘middle-income trap’

1y 10mon ago in worldnews@lemmy.ml from www.theguardian.com

IDF says slain Al Jazeera reporter was a Hamas commando, took part in Oct. 7 massacre

1y 10mon ago in worldnews@lemmy.ml from www.timesofisrael.com

US lawmakers threaten cuts to Olympic anti-doping funds

1y 10mon ago in worldnews@lemmy.ml from www.reuters.com

I've been looking at this data for reference:

https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/2021_anti-doping_testing_figures_en.pdf

Where do you get your claims?

Either way, as another guy pointed out US athletes have a really quite absurdly high rate of TUEs. Maybe that's just because the average American is unhealthy, maybe that's just because the US healthcare system catches more of those things, but it's still odd that those athletes coincidentally take performance-enhancing drugs as medication for their medical condition. It's also odd how low the TUE rate is in other countries in comparison - WADA seems more willing to approve requests from the US, which maybe explains part of the discrepancy.

Flagrant violation of the rules knowing that the US national agencies won't give a fuck. The rules themselves might be questionable (but really, cannabinoids are still illegal in most of the world...), but it demonstrates that US athletes feel like they can basically ignore the rules because nobody will enforce them.

Friendly reminder that China has one of the lowest positive WADA doping test rates in the world. The US tests positive at more than 5x that rate. India tests positive at more than 15x that rate. Russia tests positive at a similar rate as the US.

The US just can't accept that WADA, which receives more funding from the US than from any other country in the world, isn't biased towards Americans. We know that 6.5 to 9.2% of US athletes are doping, anyway: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11102888/

But sure, those 6.5% to 9.2% of US athletes are all acting on their own and there's no system in place to encourage doping (as if the fact that almost 1 in 10 US athletes get away with doping isn't a system to encourage it).

Zelenskiy signs law allowing Ukraine debt payment suspension

1y 10mon ago in worldnews@lemmy.ml from www.reuters.com

Default incoming?

Ok but they're so cute it's amazing

Did an Israeli Iron Dome missile cause the Majdal Shams massacre?

1y 10mon ago in worldnews@lemmy.ml from english.almayadeen.net

no, clearly it must have been a 50kg warhead

people have no grasp on the scale of high explosives and it shows

Exit polls run by US actors and by the opposition

Ah yes, my favourite. It's been a while since we had a good old colour revolution. The CIA's getting their mojo back.

Increased use of Mandarin, however, obviously infringes of Chinese minority rights.

Edit: just to be clear, many Chinese dialects have a lower lexical similarity than European languages. The standardization of Mandarin in education has had impacts on these dialects as well.

How Trump Dominated His Own Party on a New G.O.P. Platform

1y 10mon ago in worldnews@lemmy.ml from www.nytimes.com

You can't make it to lead an American political party without being at least one standard deviation smarter than the average American.

China to Achieve its 2030 Installed Clean Energy Target in July 2024

1y 11mon ago in worldnews@lemmy.ml from climateenergyfinance.org

They're also poor and economically disadvantaged. Do you like keeping poor people poor? Jfc