zephyreks

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[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seymour Hersh is an award-winning journalist who's well-known for uncovering rampant government corruption. His record includes coverage of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, Saudi support for al-Qaeda leading up to 9/11, and the so-called "weapons of mass destruction" and "nuclear materials" used to justify the invasion of Iraq.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Is this the same genocide that's not recognized by any Muslim country?

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Oil lobby makes whatever claim it takes to make more profit

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

The other reply to this post provides a pretty legitimate source.

But, well, it's not exactly hard to Google.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

It's not that different in price, though: the Aussie one is 5k, while this is 10k.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Basically, military service for 16/17yos? I'm against it, but it's honestly not that crazy given that Singapore, the US, and Germany allow military service at 17 with parental consent. Canada also allows people to join Military Colleges at 16. It's unclear how parental consent will play into this in Russia.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago

The victims? Primarily Black. The perpetrators? Primarily white.

There is no ethnocide in America.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

Hundreds, thousands, millions. It's all the same because people died and the people that died weren't white.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 29 points 2 years ago (10 children)

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 4 points 2 years ago

This is indeed me

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

How? A 65 million unit surplus is more or less in line with other countries: 65/1400 = 5%. At an average family household size of 3, that gives an aggregate household vacancy rate of (up to) 15% (ignoring, of course, that not everyone who owns a home has a family). This also ignores how things like second homes, vacation homes, and excess rural housing stock is counted (given that, y'know, China has had a massive rural-to-urban migration over the past few decades).

The US census reports a vacancy rate of about 10%, and even New York has a vacancy rate of 3%.

Approximately 89.6 percent of the housing units in the United States in the second quarter 2023 were occupied and 10.4 percent were vacant.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

China isn't really limited by construction resources. There's a heavier constraint in terms of hospital staff and teachers than there is on construction resources.

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