The court nonetheless ordered Shein to implement age-verification measures before resuming selling "sexual products that could constitute pornographic content."

Pakistan is targeting January to issue its first panda bond tranche, part of a planned programme of up to $1 billion, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday, as Islamabad seeks to diversify funding sources and tap China’s onshore debt market.

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Recently, there was a leak of the footage of the non-public trial of General Xu Qinxian, who was charged and convicted of insubordination and sentanced to a stripping of his military ranks and 5 years in prison.

It has gone semi viral, with the full 6 hour trial reaching 1 million views on youtube.

I have begun watching it myself [currently at 1 hour] and taking notes as I see important, and read a couple articles on the matter.

A few things I've noticed off the bat

1. The issue Xu has seems to both be a use of force issue, but also an issue of whom the orders originate from.

Xu in fact states that he was fine with deploying the army to the outskirts of Beijing to encourage a "political solution" to the matter.

Xu has also stated multiple times that he wished for the NPC to meet and deliberate on the action and use of the army. He, at least to me, implies that if the NPC ordered him to, then he would have complied. He seems to have a major problem with the army taking orders from the party.

2.Xu also seems concerned less with the morality of the situation, but with the potential for him to lose face should the operation have gone badly. I don't think this is entirely unfounded, and at a certain point I think it's fair that the orders be given in writing [although obviously I don't know standard procedure in the PLA]. At one points he states "If this could be pulled off, one could be seen as a hero. If it goes poorly, then one could be seen as historical sinners." Or something to that effect.

Xu does have conscious objections, but those seem to be less of a concern. For instance, he states that he believed that the the police and garrison forces could deal with the situation on their own. He also questioned the equipment being brought into the city [LMGs, HMGs, AA guns, etc.]

I'll hold off on a full judgement on issues until I've watched it fully, however. If anyone else has any input feel free to add anything to what I've said here.

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Recently, by accident, I set the subtitles of some anime to Spanish, and to my surprise, for the first time in who knows how long, I could focus fully on an episode. Tested over the days, and indeed it was helping.

After that, it got me wondering why.

Being able to understand some Japanese, the impression I get is that it's in a weird position where it's too straight to the point and too verbose at the same time. Meanwhile, in languages like Portuguese and English, it seems to me as if the speaker needs to walk around ideas a lot to explain them. And almost like they'd be in the other side of the spectrum, languages like Spanish (oddly enough despite being Portuguese's sister language) and the Scandinavian ones feel very straight to the point.

Perhaps then, less information added in helps at not straining one's focus, specially when the person's focus is already on the weaker side?

And going by that, it makes me think, if the person is struggling at focusing at something, despite the medium, maybe changing to a less verbose language (when possible and the person knows the language) could help?

Hey,

I'm looking for the Fediverse alternative of Strava. Something which could :

• track running/walking, etc, with maps
• track workout without map (like bodybuilding, etc.)
• sharing with friends, with ActivityPub
• have history, and totals of activities, like total of kms, total of hours per activities, etc.

I've found those, but: wanderer.to -> not really to record workouts, running etc. This looks like to have a catalog of trail maps intervals.icu -> not with ActivityPub Fittrackee.org -> not with ActivityPub, and looks only for travelling sports, not for sports without maps.

Have you any clue ?

I'm unsure how long they've been floating around in Chinese*, but Political Logic, National Sovereignty, and Wang Huning's Collected Works were all published this year and are currently available on Amazon [just Amazon for some reason].

I'm unsure if these are official, given that they're simply listed as "independently published" rather than being from the Foreign Languages Press [also, they seem to be in a similar format to America Against America, which was published in 2022 but was in a bit of a shoddy condition, being in a weird font and not having page numbers]. But in any case they seem interesting enough [although I would expect the translation to not be as good as if it were done professionally, also hopefully they aren't just fabrications]

[Also unfortunately Amazon is the only place I can find them currently. I'll see if i can buy them and maybe upload them to the internet archive]

*I did do a search of Political Logic/ 政治逻辑 and did find something in Chinese describing Wang as just a professor, it's possible these have been around for a very long while in China. But that's going off of rough shod Google translate for now.

i do feel very moist though 🫠

Source u/ellyhateseverything https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/q4COk2V3kb

Context: PugJesus often spams low quality posts across the dozen or so communities they mod, apparently downvoting low effort spam on my frontpage is trolling. The only other action in the modlog is a different ban for 74 years for "Mass downvoting innocuous content," so it definitely seems they are just banning people that dislike their spam. Glad we're not missing out on the reddit mod experience here.

Anything that helps increase your will power and dopamine levels.

The development will allow the Chinese unit, which declared itself independent of Nexperia's European management two months ago, to continue manufacturing Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) power chips and modules, switches that regulate current in electric vehicles and industrial equipment.

Direct quote from the page:

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Mine has to be the kind of laws that get passed. Where they are titled in such tongue-in-cheek fashions that just slaps you in the face in a metaphorical way. Like how laws such as the Patriot Act and Freedom Act got to be passed the way they are. They sound like they're to uphold the values of what the USA should be about.

However, you take a closer look into the wording and intent of the laws themselves, they are anything but against what those values should be about. We see this all of the time when bills get drafted and they come up with all of these similar-sounding names to pass them with. And there are still people out there who probably believe that there is good intent just by the name alone.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40557525

Juan Cole
12/16/2025

The disdain for mindless violence exhibited by most of the world’s 2 billion Muslims is exemplified by Ahmed al-Ahmed. He interrupted the negative stereotypes of Muslims so powerfully that white nationalists spread false allegations that he was actually a British IT specialist with a Christian name. Others attempted to maintain that he was a Christian Lebanese, which his name makes impossible. The New York Times declined to mention his religion. That there should have been a Muslim Schindler, a hero who followed the toleration promoted by the Prophet Muhammad, was so insupportable to Islamophobes that they felt constrained to make up fantasies and obscure reality.

The Gaza genocide weighs heavily over the Bondi Beach attacks, but it shouldn’t. ISIL shot up Paris in 2015 before the recent Gaza conflict, and massacred Shiite cadets in Iraq.

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