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Ursus 6 points ago +6 / -0

Xi Jinpings daughter is one of the students.

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Ursus 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's interesting that Communist China doesn't enforce any kind of legal drinking age. Still, or perhaps because of that, young people are very responsible with alcohol. They drink it at an early age but they think it's uncool to be drunk. Uncool old people are drunk.

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Ursus 89 points ago +90 / -1

A Swiss friend at uni told me that while the US murder rate is 250 time the Swiss one, still most violence were imported over unprotected land borders and short distances. The typical gun crime was failing to have one. It was mandatory for men of a draftable age to have his governmentn issued assault gun ready.

If you went to a ski resort and left it at home you were fined. This was some time ago.

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Ursus 6 points ago +6 / -0

They are not likely ever to publish the real numbers. They are not likely to find out. The false statistics is pervasive. Everyone lies on his own initiative. The Chinese Communist Party rewards those who bring good news and punish those who bring bad news.

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Ursus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Amusingly, for a hands on day, last year in highschool, we made a very limited basic digital programmable computational device in hydraulics because we could. Except for swimming in PE this was my wettest day in school but it was extremely educational.

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Ursus 1 point ago +1 / -0

I did some programming in COBOL for a while a long time ago. You needed JCL as well to make it go. Those were the times you allocated files in cylinders on your coal fired steam mainframe and scheduled big jobs for the weekend because of the cheaper CPU-time. Memories!

That was just after I discovered fire and invented the wheel.

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Ursus 299 points ago +301 / -2

Does anyone really believe that she is a woman of faith? As a Christian she wouldn't devote three years of her life to bearing false witness against her neighbour.

You cannot be absolved from a sin you have no intention to stop comiting.

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Ursus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sometimes you get the impression that in Germany there is always a werewolf lurking just under the friendly, pleasant, polite and polished surface and occasionally, like in this case, the fangs come out and the monster manifests itself.

Machtübernahme explained! Never again they say, but under any other brand name... And they refused to convict SED Quislings and human rights criminals for treason after the fall of the wall.

It was the allies that brought the WWII criminals to justice. The Germans were content with having them in their society. A particularly revolting butcher that died in the seventies had his war veteran free buss pass questioned. The mother of one of his victim took the matter to court and was sneered at by the public for it.

That is a suitable punishment for crime against humanity: to have to pay for your buss ticket.

But I like being in Germany and every single one of them is nice, friendly and polite.

by neoPede
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Ursus 6 points ago +6 / -0

and what about the mysterious habit of skin bleaching? They actually do that while we tan on the beach. In Africa too. There are are adds for it in fashion magazines.

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Ursus 2 points ago +2 / -0

Didn't a researcher publish an article a couple of years ago about accomplishing that artificially by attaching a part of the HIV-1 virus to a Corona virus. I think I remember that they were from Wuhan but I don't remember what journal it was. It was criticized for creating a biohazard.

There was also something about boosting cross species infection.

They seem to have far too much fun in that P4 lab of theirs.

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Ursus 4 points ago +4 / -0

Xi will not get away only with prison.

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Ursus 6 points ago +6 / -0

It's not about him getting funding, it's not about him getting fired, it's about him getting to prison.

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Ursus 3 points ago +3 / -0

Now fat plum soon no yuang.

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Ursus 2 points ago +2 / -0

Dum con soon gon.

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Ursus 9 points ago +9 / -0

Harassment of those who take a solitary walk saves no lives. It might give a bad cop some bullying pleasure.

The British press quite frequently reports of police harassment of good middle class members of honest society while refusing to do anything about those praying on them.

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Ursus 3 points ago +3 / -0

The virus is easily transmitted when four illegal families live in a standard three room flat while subletting bed-space. Dark skinned people don't have much of an immune system at the end of the winter when the light is just coming back unless they take vitamin supplements, especially if they dress up as little black tents.

A problem with an easy remedy but it is even easier to deny it.

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Ursus 2 points ago +2 / -0

It hasn't really started yet according to the models but who believes them anyway.

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Ursus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Supposed the virus has been engineered to go easy on the Han-chinese. We know they have done such research. Experts say it doesn't look generically engineered but that might have been actively concealed in ways the experts are not aware of. There are other methods than genetic engineering. The BCG-vaccine didn't require genetic engineering.

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Ursus 2 points ago +2 / -0

Her family got a lot of money from the Chinese Communist Party and its fronts like the Bidens.

by Graylik
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Ursus 1 point ago +1 / -0

That is interesting.

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