This is the first I hear about this territory being claimed by France, and there’s no mention of it on the French Wikipedia page for the Mont des Oliviers. Is there any source whatsoever to corroborate that?

Vaxry who got banned from Freedesktop for being an asshat? https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

Elon looks like one of the pointing soyjaks in that pic.

The EU could easily take on Russia militarily even if the latter weren’t already neck-deep in Ukraine.

It was fueled, as always, by white people.

Surplus of young single men?

There is one mega-union (the only permitted one) with officials appointed by the CCP. It’s essentially a sham, like the non-CCP parties in Congress that are nominally a type of opposition but can never hold any real power.

And yes, it is ironic and sad. Nordic countries are more communist than China is. China doesn’t even have truly free healthcare like Canada etc.

Yeah, it’s bad. There are fewer worker protections and unions are illegal.

In large part yes, but younger generations are also not especially motivated to have kids when they already have to deal with a soul-crushing workplace (much worse than in the west).

Gonna leave this here from a reply I made to a similar thread weeks ago. China’s demographics are in very bad shape.

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Well that’s good news — at least it’s one-and-done and won’t divert resources and money from SNW.

Whaaa… Wasn’t this going to be a show? When did that happen?

My expectations for this show could not be any lower.

Exactly, especially to placate a country with no electronics manufacturing industry to speak of. How would Apple even meet that 40% target, and how is that number defined? Is it by % of material cost, or size, or weight, or what?

Blackmail is a terrible way to attract investment to your country. This is like Elon suing advertisers who left Twitter after he told them to fuck off.

Jakarta is seeking to boost investment from foreign tech companies with restrictive measures that require their phones to be 40 per cent sourced from parts in Indonesia.

Absolutely ridiculous policy. Imagine if every country pulled this stunt.

Same. I wouldn’t put this past Hamas at all, but I’m going to need another source.

I don’t know how price sensitive you are, but check out Asket.

Who are these articles for? All those MAGAs who feel strongly about climate change, or Dems who would have voted for Trump if he’s commit to GHG reduction?