You also described Glenn Youngkin. (He actually is from the state he represents though.)

Oh yeah, and also- and this gets overlooked- but China has a HUGE number of underground coal seam fires. Those are impossible to put out and can burn for 100's of years. 200 MILLION tons of coal burn in these seams every single year and none of it of course is treated. Its just raw smoke.

Meanwhile China has more coal-fired power generating capacity currently under development than the rest of the world combined.  They can say whatever they want about emissions control, and trust me they will, but at the end of the day growth and development will always trump public concerns about pollution.

Yes- bring them out of poverty and into a dystopian authoritarian 1984 style hellscape....

But on the positive side, bringing China into the twentieth century also resulted in the biggest drop on worldwide poverty pretty much ever.

As a supply chain manager for over 10 years I have to add...nothing really...you’re both on the money I think.  The only thing forcing us back to the USA is freight costs.

This comment section is giving me a pain.

I agree on what you said wholeheartedly seeing as how air pollution in all Chinese cities even on a good day is often worse than the air pollution we experienced here in California at the worst of the fire season. Every single day of the week air pollution there is awful. That said, the CCP knows its a problem. They…

All your points are true, but there is an additional detail that is often overlooked. A lot of the industry that was out-sourced to China is very dirty and damaging to the environment. Think of the Pennsylvania steel industry, and how it wreaked havoc on that region’s ecology for decades. That’s China’s problem now.…

They named the child. They knew what was coming. The child was alive outside the womb briefly. While an abortion, this was a (necessary) loss of life and a loss for them. This still was their child. This is the only tangible recording of this experience. This is heartbreaking, depressing, and a loss known by too…

While you personally might not *share* photos like these, it is not that unusual to have photographers document these occasions. Photos can help the family grieve, process, and remember. Having the “ceremony” of a photographer can feel like it’s giving gravity and respect to the life of the child and the significance…

It’s gross to me that you feel compelled to lay judgement over someone’s handling of an incredibly painful, emotional experience. You can not like her. But if they found solace and comfort in documenting this and sharing her story, it’s absolutely their right.

We have ourselves to blame for situations like this. We spent years pretending China was anything other than an authoritarian regime that brutally cracks down on dissent and commits genocide against its own people because for years it was super easy to go there and make shit tons of money. Companies from around the…

This is what shows up if you wish for a 300ZX on the monkey’s paw. No dice. 

1) It’s a bloated slushbox 300ZX, not a lithe 240Z or 260Z.

why though? Every car we get off the road is good. If Warren Buffet wants to ride the bus, we are already paying for, why pull out a card reader just to charge him?

Watering flowers is obvious and the exact opposite of suspicious. They could have easily just observed and reported. Instead they threw another innocent person’s life into temporary and uncertain turmoil for shits ‘n giggles.

That’s not exactly how it works.  The judge has to determine if there was a violation of a Constitutional right at all.  If there was and if they raised qualified immunity, the judge has to see if any court had previously ruled similar conduct was a violation of a Constitutional right.  In this case, arresting someone…

But that’s along the lines of the “first them came for the XXX, but I did not speak up because I wasn’t XXX” death by a thousand cuts route. They WANT you to simply comply.

Seems pretty slam dunk.  As long as the judge doesn’t allow the “qualified immunity” claim ... which would be bullshit.