Worse, some of them are Ethical Altruists, just like Sam Bankman Fried of FTX

That’s the one. The possessed one.

Any megachurch, to be honest. Any thing Pat Robertson did, that guy with the crazy demon eyes, Joel Osteen, etc

That was France, not the EU

Paradoxically he ended up in a sort of care facility. Some “care” but maybe not the care he needed

4Gb is not much under Windows 11 and running Chrome

oh, that looks like ascites… hope he can recover, cancer is shit

I guess both given the massive scale of the business and its massive impacts on the whole economy is reasonable

The root cause that all comments here in Lemmy miss is the Chinese approach to tax funding, which is entirely built on cities and provinces being expected to generate tax income through land sales to property developers, and then public officials competency and rise inside the party being measured by the size of that tax income generated trough land sale.

China needs to adopt a western style of income and consumption taxation if they don’t have one but I understand that internal enforcements is very lax (to prevent popular protests) and corruption (that ends up siphoning off any revenue raised through taxes).

In short, that housing stock will remain unused and, without maintenance and continued use, will only deteriorate over time, leaving cities with a terrible burdensome legacy

Open elections when there is only one party in practice are moot

Apple can’t or Apple won’t?

Ukyo Katayama was a Xenix user then

UK consumers are always welcome to import seafood from those waters

Brazil “eu caguei e andei” (I shat and walked). Functionally equivalent to “I don’t give a shit” but in Portuguese one actually shits but doesn’t care to wipe and walks away or walks at the same as is shitting.

I do agree that curse words/expressions based on diseases seem very unique

Great opportunity to sentence the orangebutt in absentia for treason

One developer was so broke, but it still tried to make do:

The group’s real estate development income plummeted from 1.1 billion yuan in 2021 to zero in 2022, according to China Chengxin Credit Ratings. It has even started selling corn and jujube fruit as a new business.

The attitude of the medical director is so British

After three minutes of nothing, caused by a command to remove the French language pack:

sudo rm -Rf /

On the other hand that low fertility may help reduce the youth unemployment rate in 20 years from now. The same rate that the Chinese government decided to give up computing…

/s obviously but it is really bad for them