I totally agree with you that United States should also stop all virus gain-of-function research. Actually you know what? The Obama administration became so concerned with the potential for a worldwide virus pandemic arising from an accidental release at a lab, that the White House banned all virus gain-of-function research in the United States. Yeah. I'm not a fan of Obama, at all... but this is one thing that he did right. I applaud him for that.

Oh and the same Obama administration was informed by a team of US scientists and intel people, waaay back when Trump was just a B-rated reality TV personality and COVID was not a thing, that after visiting the Wuhan lab in China, they had extremely grave concerns about the lax safety procedures there and the very real possibility of an accidental virus release.

Kudos to these Chinese researchers for what seems to be a significant new achievement in fusion research.

Now if we the rest of the world could force China to stop monkeying around with virus DNA and doing gain-of-function research on deadly pathogens, and instead concentrate on more useful stuff like fusion, maybe in the future we will be spared of global disease pandemics like the one we just went through.

Taiwan has been awesome from start to finish. But for some strange reason the mainstream media in the US has completely ignored Taiwan's success.

I think it's because the big money corporatists (and the Democrats that they own) love Communist China because they make too much money off China, and they don't wanna piss off the CCP by ever mentioning Taiwan.

China also owns the WHO, that Tedros guy is dirty as fuck. It's actually quite funny, there was news guy interviewing some WHO people about the coronavirus and the reporter mentioned Taiwan and the WHO guy (not Tedros but one of his underlings, a British guy) said,

"Yeah... I think we're gonna end this interview. Buh bye!"

China didn't accidentally release the virus on the world. They did it intentionally.

Think back to late January 2020. Coronavirus is exploding through Wuhan and scary videos of bodies piling up outside hospitals are going viral on Liveleak. I remember it like it was only a few months ago (well actually I suppose it *was* only a few months ago)

The Communist Party leadership finally realizes that this virus is a super serious problem, they panic, and they give the order to put the city of Wuhan on lockdown. The military puts up roadblocks and stops anyone from leaving the city on foot or by car. All domestic flights are shuttered. And rightly so; you wouldn't want infected people hopping on a flight to other cities and spreading the disease.

But wait a second, they shut down domestic flights, but allow INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS to continue. WTF? What possible rationale could be behind such a move? Why would you prevent people from flying out of Wuhan to Beijing, but keep allowing them to fly to New York or Paris?

The only thing that makes any sort of sense is that the Chinese leadership realized that their country is now fucked by this new virus, so might as well infect rest of the world and bring them down also. Share the misery.

Case in point. A few days later the United States and Australia banned travellers coming into their countries who had been in China within the past 14 days (14 days being what was commonly thought at the time the maximum incubation period of this disease). What did China say in response?

"THAT'S RACIST. There is no reason to ban travelers from China." And for some unfathomable reason, the World Health Organization repeats exactly, verbatim, what the Chinese Communist Party says. "There is no reason to ban flights from China. This is not a pandemic. Restricting travel doesn't work anyways, it could interefere with medical personnel and make the situation worse."

Wow I really wish I had some mod points. Parent being modded down to 0 is a travesty on the same scale as China covering up the coronavirus outbreak and hauling concerned doctors down to police stations to shut them up.

I've been watching C-Milk and Serpentza's Youtube videos for 6 years. These guys are about as honest and down-to-earth as you will find anywhere. They are not tinfoil hat conspiracy theory guys.

C-Milk found evidence of China Communist Party trying to cover up an embarrassing mistake. Why is this shocking to anyone? Other communist countries do this all the time. Were you guys shocked when Soviet Union covered up Chernobyl? We only found out something bad happened when Swedish people started noticing the high levels of radiation.

Please watch C-Milk's video. It is beyond travesty for some slashdot basement neckbeards to try and mod the parent down to oblivion. Here is the link again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

ACA is the insurance companies' wet dream. It was designed to generate thicc profits for them.

Case in point: health insurance companies are trying to steer dialysis patients who are on medicare, away from medicare and on Obamacare. Why on earth would they do that? Because they can charge a lot more money and get a lot more money from Obamacare than they can from medicare. This is true, google it if you're skeptical.

It's people like you that resulted in Trump becoming the president of the USA. Really unlikeable asshats calling people dumb, just because they don't share your taste in mobile devices.

It's people like you, and Don Lemon, that will result in Trump being re-elected. That's right, Trump is going to be your president until 2025. Dwell on that for a while, motherfucker.

The pro-democray protesters in Hong Kong look to America and President Trump for inspiration. https://s.yimg.com/tr/i/b7bcba...

However very little (or none) of this has been reported in Western mainstream media. That's because they hate Trump for existing and being in office, when they feel it should be one of their own leftists who should have power. They actually believe it's their right to appoint heads of state.

and Assange should be a free man. It's a travesty of misjustice.

Assange did nothing wrong, he never swore to uphold American laws or guard U.S. secrets. He's not even an American citizen and quite possibly never even set foot in the U.S. before. He didn't break any laws, and he didn't steal U.S. government data. It was relayed to him by a whistleblower and he merely published it. Exactly like how New York Times and other journalistic outfits do.

Snowden on the other hand DID sign an agreement to protect U.S. secrets when he became an NSA contractor. He went through an extensive background check. He might have even sworn an oath to protect and defend the U.S. constitution like all government employees do. So for him to copy classified data and dump it on the internet was a flagrant violation of U.S. laws. He knew it and he did it anyways.

You are not supposed to put OIL into your Juul and vape it. The 7 people who died did just that.

Apparently THC is oil-soluble so they mixed it in vitamin D oil and then inhaled it. They just wanted to get high, and figured this would be a cheap/inconspicuous way to do it (as opposed to lighting up a traditional MJ joint). Unfortunately nobody told these kids that yor're not supposed to inhale oil into your lungs, EVER. It's very very bad, mmkay?

No reputable company sells oil-based vaping products, these kids either did it themselves or got it from a shady character in a street corner.

Kids are known to do extremely stupid things. For instance, ingesting Tide pods and sniffing plastic cement glue to get high. Both are examples of idiots using perfectly useful and safe products in ways that they weren't designed or intended to be used. Using vaping equipment to inhale oil into your lungs is just the latest example of this kind of idiocy.

is it really a zoom lens? Or do they not know the difference between a zoom and a telephoto?

Better late than never I suppose.

Now how about correcting all of their earlier communist support and hushing up of communist atrocities committed in the USSR? Or is the NYT still staunchly pro-communist?

I am failing to understand why shipping garbage (plastic or otherwise) to another country thousands of miles away is a thing. It can't possibly be cheaper to do that than simply digging a big hole in the ground in your own country and burying the garbage.

Only exception I can think of is very small countries like Singapore that has no remote unpopulated land to bury the garbage. For them it would make economic sense to ship their garage to foreign lands. But clearly US is not lacking such places.

Is it because shipping products is mostly one-way? Like, ships leave China (or Malaysia) full of products bound for US, but on the return trip are mostly empty since US does not export much to these countries. Therefore the price to ship stuff from US to China is very cheap because those ships have to go back to China anyways even if they're empty? Is that it?

There is hope all those journalists suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome... it may be possible to find a cure by growing new neurons for them!

There is nothing unprecedented here, unless you're a newb to aviation. Shit like this happens once in a while, and life goes on. Air France pitot tube disaster didn't bankrupt Airbus or Air France.