zephyreks @ zephyreks @lemmy.ca

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Spoils indeed

It's not like cartels are stupid. Their front businesses have enough plausible deniability that it's usually impossible to isolate them from legitimate requests.

Put it this way: if you sell a bag of fertilizer at Home Depot, how would you know if it's going to be used for a bomb? You'd require surveillance of that individual's purchases at every other store in the country... But that individual might be registered under an entirely different corporation when shopping at Lowe's.

This problem sits at the import side, not the export side. Mexico has exponentially more information they can use to determine the purpose of imported materials. China doesn't.

The thing is, the flow of chemicals to Mexico is not illegal and condemning it as such would cause a massive international response. There are Mexican companies building solar panels, for example.

What are they going to do? Put police stations in Mexico and staff them with Mexicans?

Usually people would consider within a few degrees (1? 2? Certainly less than 5) to be an acceptable margin, but the pole itself is a well-defined point along the axis of rotation.

Some of us went home, but the school also offered a program - Vancouver, BC

We would fit in... Probably better than we fit in with the US lol

The solution to the housing crisis is to just build more housing. Anything else just creates loopholes that people will exploit.

He's an MP, his job is in service of the country.

China is primarily a source of precursor chemicals that drug cartels buy and use to make fentanyl.

I'm not really sure China has much legal ground to stand on for policing how people use the chemicals they buy tbh. China isn't going to operate a surveillance state on foreign soil to find out because that would cause an international incident.

For example, methylamine hydrochloride can be used both to make meth and to make solar cells.

This is what happens when your incentive structure doesn't reward actual proper journalism.

Might as well have quoted my own asshole

American media is legitimately just extremely unreliable. British, Chinese, Russian, French, German, Middle Eastern, and Southeast Asian sources all got the detail that the recent Indian moon mission landed near the South Pole, but most American media picked up that they had somehow landed on the South Pole and put that in their titles.

They were 21 degrees of latitude off, for reference.

Satellites have some degree of mobility and space junk follows trajectories that can be computed basically infinitely into the future.

Space junk is highly deterministic, though. No atmosphere to fuck with.

No, the USSR never joined the Axis. When Hitler had raised the issue, Stalin gave him a list of demands he couldn't possibly meet (basically mocking him)... And a month later Operation Barbarossa started.

Fighting the Soviets doesn't make you a Nazi, being in the Waffen-SS does. The fact is that Nazi Germany launched a war of annihilation against the Soviet Union and millions of Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht soldiers were involved in war crimes.

What the fuck is this Nazi apologism?

Good.

Tell me what the US has done to sanction India for their assassination of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil, then.

Oh, right.

Jack fucking shit.

Economic growth doesn't happen on its own. The Canadian economy isn't some entity that magically sees growth without investment.

But with a tax break in an emerging business, that revenue wouldn't otherwise exist because the company wouldn't have opened operations here when it could take advantage of egregious US subsidies instead.