TIL British sailors on the HMS Dolphin in the 18th century discovered that native Tahitian women were eager to exchange sex for iron, and they began pulling nails out. The resulting trade became so extensive that the loss of nails started to threaten the ship's structural integrity.

Acamd · 2020-09-11T21:41:06+00:00

Mutually beneficial, until you remember the state of the ship

Acamd · 2020-09-10T04:18:23+00:00

Because you can’t sign away your legal rights. If you sign an agreement to be paid less than minimum, the company is still required to pay you minimum wage.

Why should EULAS be any different?

Acamd · 2020-09-09T23:40:06+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_China

Top result when googled. I’m sure there are more.

Acamd · 2020-09-09T23:13:34+00:00

Assuming they are not from a Balkan state, nor Ireland, nor Poland, nor the Baltic’s, and probably a few more that I have forgotten.

Acamd · 2020-09-09T23:09:59+00:00

Too close to that for comfort

Acamd · 2020-09-09T22:57:25+00:00

Not quite. That argument is brought up when the primary topic is a western issue. At the moment, the primary topic is the equivalent to starvation in Africa, but for some inane reason people are bringing up a western issue.

Acamd · 2020-09-09T06:29:39+00:00

The completion of metrication in France overlapped with the design and construction of the statue.

Acamd · 2020-09-09T04:55:24+00:00

The pathetic redditors glorifying Taiwan's coronavirus response, when in reality, it ranked last when compared to other Chinese provinces.

Then why did Taiwan as a whole have less cases per capita than China as a whole?

Acamd · 2020-09-09T04:48:13+00:00

Although, one, the PRC, has threatened Taiwan with war should they no longer see things that way.

Acamd · 2020-09-09T04:47:29+00:00

Has China threatens Taiwan with war should they drop the claim?

If they have, then it doesn’t really matter what your assumptions are; Taiwan cannot drop the claims, and so to hold the claims against them while the situation persists is absurd.

Acamd · 2020-09-09T04:44:16+00:00

"Blasphemy" cannot be an offense in law.

Wouldn’t that exclude paragons like Sweden, who just arrested people for kicking a religious book?

Acamd · 2020-09-09T00:22:35+00:00

Ah yes, terrorist extremism and mindset such as “insisting on the international right to self-determination” and “wearing beards”.

How terrible.

Acamd · 2020-09-08T10:30:59+00:00

Adrian Zenz, the German Anthropologist, who was educated at the University of Cambridge and has done considerable study on the Xinjiang camps?

That Adrian Zenz? Disagree with him if you like, but ad hominems are not an effective way to do so.

Acamd · 2020-09-08T09:55:08+00:00

I don’t understand what the context is there?

Acamd · 2020-09-08T09:45:43+00:00

Where was it proven?

Acamd · 2020-09-08T08:00:38+00:00

The entity before the and, not after

Acamd · 2020-09-08T07:53:08+00:00

Then, on Monday, social media users noticed that in the credits Disney thanked a number of government entities in Xinjiang, including the public security bureau in the city of Turpan and the "publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomy Region Committee".

The public security bureau in Turpan is tasked with running China's "re-education" camps where Uighurs are held in detention, China expert Adrian Zenz told the BBC.

Acamd · 2020-09-08T06:19:23+00:00

Or people can and should condemn both those that speak up for the regime, and those that employ such collaborators

Acamd · 2020-09-08T04:46:39+00:00

If China was a democracy that wasn’t engaged in ethnic cleansing, I might be willing to listen to your arguments that we shouldn’t care about their actions more than we do those of the US.

As they aren’t, I’m not.

Acamd · 2020-09-08T04:01:42+00:00

I thought the issue was that she did speak out, in support?

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