Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:
* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.
There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.
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Mochten we even veel tijd besteden aan het nadenken over het creëren van meerwaarde dan over een meerwaardebelasting, dan was het begrotingstekort in België al lang weggewerkt.
Misschien moet er eens aan de politiek, op gemeentelijk, regionaal en federal niveau gevraagd worden ...
waar het technisch rapport is van de hulpverlening na Ghislenghien, na de overstromingen in de Vesdervallei, na eerdere overstromingen in Aalst, Geraardsbergen, ...
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Trump has won this war 7 times.
He’s negotiated a peace settlement 12 times.
And he’s opened the Strait of Hormuz at least 4 times.
What more do you want from him?
En die van overheidsinstanties waar de productiviteit te laag ligt? Het ACOD is tenslotte niet voor niets de vakbond van de luiaards.
ABVV wil bedrijven waar werkdruk te hoog ligt financieel bestraffen https://t.co/hJe1CBf961
Within one 24 hour period, Trump:
- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion
All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.
But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."
Remember: it was like pulling teeth to get Republicans to fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.
But it took them no time at all to create a $1.8 billion Insurrection Slush Fund to pay off the legal fees of the January 6th rioters who beat cops.
These are sick, corrupt people.
So, just for some perspective: Yermak is accused of laundering $10.5 million dollars in a corruption scheme.
Trump and his sons, meanwhile, have pocketed $60 million in non-refundable deposits for a “Trump phone” that was never delivered. ⬇️
Getting caught posting from an alt account that’s supposed to be your own mother. I’d feel sad for his loneliness and neediness if he was literally anyone else on the planet.
@MerelHazebroeck Als je het verkoopt als Full Self Driving dan verkoop je het als Level 5. Die levels zijn wel degelijk relevant. Europese wetgeving is duidelijk: hoe ze het verkocht hebben is illegaal. Ik hoop dat ze verpletterd worden met rechtszaken.
FSD is een ramp. Het camera gebaseerd systeem is niet meer dan een level 2 assistent. Druppel regen? Valt uit. Mist? Valt uit. Beetje zon? Valt uit. Grijze gebouwen? Zet ruitenwissers aan.
Maar loop gerust mee in de waan van de dag.
📢 Breaking
Ik heb naar aanleiding van het Tesla FSD-testproject in Nederland aan @Tesla gevraagd hun dossier aan ons over te maken. Dat ligt nu bij mijn administratie, die ik de opdracht heb gegeven om tegen het einde van de week duidelijkheid te verschaffen over een mogelijke snelle homologatie. Want innovatie moet je niet afremmen, maar doordacht en veilig mogelijk maken. Zo houden we Vlaanderen op kop als vooruitstrevende regio.
@elonmusk
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@MerelHazebroeck FSD wordt verkocht als Level 5 volledig autonoom. En het ging werken op HW3.
Beloftes verbroken. Tijdlijn nooit gehaald. Het geraakt niet verder dan Level 2.
Moest mijn Tesla niet verkocht zijn begon ik een rechtszaak om mijn gled terug te krijgen.