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Yeah, which is why I prefaced that it was weird he specified "most western". I'm sure there are some Ethiopian Jews in the west, but I'm also sure they're not a majority.

Lol, the whole post is confusing as I'm pretty sure most western Jewish people self identify as white.

Crazy how many racist don't understand the difference between ethnicity and race.

Don't forget that they also denied the Armenian genocide for years.

Ain't nobody got any time for that. Imo smokers are overrated for the amount of time and effort you have to deal with them.

If I want to do a fancy steak I'll usually just do a sous vide.

Also as Yogthos alluded to, China doesn't have eminent domain, they can't just take your house like in America. This has lead to people who refuse to sell having highways diverted around their house, parking lots, and in 1 case, a shopping center surrounding the house.

They don't have eminent domain because their legal system isn't designed off of common law. They do however have forced evictions and land expropriations, which basically boils down to the same thing.

It's just academically dishonest to claim that the Chinese government can't just take your home, as that is by far the most common reason for organized protest in the country.

1993-2003, Shanghai From 1993 to 2003, 2.5 million people were evicted in the city of Shanghai.[9]

2008, Beijing Olympics In preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, many of Beijing's densely populated neighborhoods were torn down in order to make way for new developments and infrastructure projects. The Center on Housing Rights and Evictions estimated that 1.5 million people in and around Beijing were forced from their homes, often with inadequate compensation. Chinese authorities maintained only 6,000 families were relocated, and that all received proper compensation.[10]

1995-2005, Chongqing Three Gorges Dam From 1995 to 2005, an average of 86,754 people were evicted annually in connection to the Three Gorges Dam,[9] totaling an estimated 1.4 million people.[11] Recalcitrant residents in the city of Chongqing had their water and electricity turned off in order to force them to move; the residents said they had not yet left because proper resettlement hadn't been arranged.[12]

2013-present, Beijing "Limited Property Right" houses From 2013 to present, 108 communities that are listed as "limited property right" houses, with over ten thousands households are forced evicted. At the same time, thousands of households with "limited property right" due to historical reason, which are not included in the 108 communities list are also being evicted illegally, such as XiangTang village and JiuhuaYuan community eviction. During the winter of 2020, the city of Beijing and government of Xiaotangshan township cut off water and electricity of the residents, and send unpermitted security guards to the community, in order to force the residents to leave. The security guards and excavators go to residents' house when they go out for food and water, and demolish their home without any negotiation or arranging settlement.

Every government that has transitioned to an industrialized economy has some sort of way of land procurement for public works. One of China's main economic advantages compared to the west is this procurement can be done at scale via a centralized apparatus of the government.

To say there is no way for the government to procure "private property" is either very ignorant or very dishonest. Especially considering that the procurement and sales of rural property is a large part of how local governments create funding in China.

I personally see nothing wrong with governments procuring private property for public works, it's just part of securing economic growth for the nation. However, claiming that it doesn't happen at all is just inaccurate.

Yeap, kinda the epiphany on my end. Had a steak I was wanting to reverse sear but already had the oven set for something else. Figured the air fryer was just a fancy oven and gave it a shot. Steak came out better than normal and have been doing it ever since.

I haven't tried finishing it in the air fryer yet, been worried it might not sear correctly since it's not getting direct heat.

It's actually really good for a reverse sear. The air circulates at a more even temp than a regular oven and can be kept at a nice low consistent heat.

Just pop it in the air fryer at 250f and bring the steak 10 degrees from your desired cooking temp and then finish it off on some cast iron.

enact genocidal policies like the US still does on the indigenous peoples of the mainland and occupied Hawai'i which has been gentrified and settled to the point of being unlivable for most of the locals.

And the same has been said about tibet, inner Mongolia, and xinjiang. I mean you can look at Chinas own census data and see that han Chinese are migrating to cities in xinjiang, displacing ethnic minorities to move away from their cultural cities.

The claims of China's abuse of ethnic minorities are a scam espoused by the same people profitting off the genocide in Palestine. Anybody who takes the evidence seriously instead of treating accusations as trustworthy because of the volume of them doesn't understand (or chooses to ignore) how the US propaganda machine has always worked.

You are conflating the accusations of genocide in one region with the accusations of ethnic discrimination. Even in that grey zone article it is conflating the study from some weird neocon group with all investigations into ethnic discrimination in China.

Han chauvinism is an established concept that even Mao took aims to curtail. Something they are still combating considering there has only been one ethnic minority to serve in the central committee in the last 35 years.

An actual criticism that I have about Xi is that he is a bit culturally conservative. The belt and road initiative utilized a lot of han centric language and the current central committee is notably the first committee that has no women serving on it in the last +25 years.

In 1824, a man called Vallance took out a patent and built a short demonstration line; his system consisted of a 6-foot (1.8 m) diameter cast-iron tube with rails cast in to the lower part; the vehicle was the full size of the tube, and bear skin was used to seal the annular space.

Back in the days before vulcanized rubber and plastics if you wanted to make a somewhat air tight seal you had to soak an animal skin in fat. With the amount of pressure you need to move a train, you need a pretty big and durable animal skin.

Same to you!

what do you suppose the Taliban would have done to those same people and more if the US had not pulled out when Trump told them we would?

I don't really think slowing down a pull out a few weeks or even months would really upset the Taliban anymore than what we had already done, I mean we've been there for more than a decade.

The point would be that it would have given more time for people to make their way to the airbase, and for more than just a couple airplanes full of people evacuate.

The only reason the Taliban was able to capture Kabul so quickly is because they and the security forces knew that the US wasn't providing any air cover.

Eh, I guess it's a matter of opinion. To me knowingly finishing your opponents mistake is worse than making an honest one yourself.

I may be a little biased though, as I have had the opportunity to provide healthcare to a few of the Afghan interpreters that were lucky enough to evacuate and make it state side.

I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation, so they had all been pretty banged up, missing limbs, or had lower limbs injuries that affected their mobility. But their personal injuries were nothing compared to how much uncertainty they faced about not knowing about the well being of extended family and friends still in Afghanistan, a home they will likely never have the chance to ever visit again.

don't see how this is laid on Biden since Trump agreed to the withdrawal and timeline

Trump made the original withdrawal date and Biden arbitrarily stuck to it when he came into office.

He was under no real obligation to stick to the timeline and it was a betrayal to every Afghan citizen that worked with us. I don't really care what Republicans bitch and moan about.

Yeah, not really comparable when it comes to war crimes. If someone wanted to conflate a topic that makes both countries look similarly bad in an honest light, it would be the treatment of ethnic minorities.

Oh yeah, the people mover is really cool. Always been a goal to actually ride it if I ever make it down to Brazil.

It's a little bit easier to make them work nowadays with modern materials, rubber is probably a little more pleasant of a sealing material to work with compared to the og bearskin and lard.

Though one of the benefits of the lard is that the og one always smelled like a fry up when in use.

Feel like that speech would have meant more when he still had the power to do anything about it. Instead of going to war against this oligarchy he chose to cash his political capital on a rushed pull out of Afghanistan, and to kill a bunch of Palestinians.

Pneumatic transit and atmospheric rail were kinda a fad in the 1800s. Even if it had been built it would have mainly been an attraction rather than a mode of transport. They were never really able to hammer out the kinks with maintenance and safety.

Funnily enough an atmospheric rail incident on the Dalkey atmospheric railway was more than likely the first time a human sustained a land speed over 100mph.

The son of the owner accidentally loosed the break on a single carriage that was supposed to convey a whole train and accidentally shot himself off alone, covering about 2 miles of track in less than 75 sec. Which in the 1840's would have been like engaging a Victorian warp drive.

Man, these old heartless fucks just won't die. Part of me thinks we have shot ourselves in the foot coming out with the vaccine so quickly. Maybe if we would have let COVID cook a little longer we could have shaken off a few of these parasites.

More likely that conservatives just use it as "proof" that the deep state is attacking conservatives, and then use that as an excuse to further defund the FCC.

At some point you wonder, why not just prevent them from owning homes if they're not citizens?

Money. Foreign investment also appreciates the value of domestic property owners as well. Aka fuck you I got mine syndrome.