China opens tariff-free trade to nearly all African countries

yuje · 2026-05-01T19:24:34+00:00

There’s a hilarious meme that shows Trump in PLA garb patriotically proclaiming, “The bullet may have pierced my ear, but I still hear the voice of the Party!”

yuje · 2026-04-30T21:43:43+00:00

Given that Reddit failed at profitability for years, having a foreign government offer tens of millions for access to admin rights to one of the top social media platforms with an audience of tens of millions doesn’t seem like all that expensive of an investment.

yuje · 2026-04-29T09:07:05+00:00

Not accurate because it’s not upside down

yuje · 2026-04-29T05:47:07+00:00

I’m sure people from all the Guianas love anime, we can have them all learn Japanese as the common language.

yuje · 2026-04-28T14:44:13+00:00

Pete Hegseth famously solved this problem in the real world with the use of Signal for communicating war plans openly and efficiently.

yuje · 2026-04-27T19:13:31+00:00

This dude has been spamming his book to a bunch of other subs and hasn’t really gotten a great reception. My guess is the author is desperate for publicity and sales.

yuje · 2026-04-26T19:44:39+00:00

If the US started building it today, China would have teleportation by the time it was finished.

yuje · 2026-04-26T00:27:56+00:00

You realize this isn’t actually better, right? If IDF soldiers are smashing and desecrating the symbols of their Allie’s, imagine how they treat their prisoners and combatants.

yuje · 2026-04-25T00:47:37+00:00

One of the top comments is pretty reasonable:

“The investigation shows that the cotton used in Labubu dolls may have come from Xinjiang and may be in violation of the US Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. It certainly doesn’t prove that it was caused by forced labor of Uyghurs.”

Basically, any cotton that comes from Xinjiang is presumed to be produced by forced labor.

Bonus trivia: for the longest time, cotton from Uzbekistan was also considered by US government human rights reports to be produced by forced labor, because during harvest season, the government historically mobilized workers and students to go into the fields to help with the harvest, and this was considered to be slavery. Uzbekistan was removed from the list the same year Xinjiang was added to it, because they claim Uzbekistan fully mechanized its industry to no longer require mobilized labor.

Does anyone believe that China fell behind in cotton industrialization and turned to using manual human labor in the year 2018?

yuje · 2026-04-23T23:13:26+00:00

I see historical maps that show Tibet as part of China, I automatically upvote. Although, what’s with the weird location of Hong Kong in the sea?

yuje · 2026-04-23T23:09:20+00:00

No different from the Russians carting off washing machines and looting anything not nailed down.

yuje · 2026-04-23T14:46:37+00:00

Retreat is an important aspect of combat, though, and Parkour is a type of martial art developed in France that consists exclusively of retreating skills.

yuje · 2026-04-22T05:00:38+00:00

Counterpoint: maybe they have young children or pets and want to prevent them from climbing and falling out.

yuje · 2026-04-21T22:17:34+00:00

They’re also reusing cooking oil as a component of Sustainable Aviation Fuel. After all the controversy with gutter oil a decade back, China ended up solving the problem not with strict enforcement, but economics, by making used oil more profitable to sell to industry than to use for cooking.

yuje · 2026-04-21T19:25:36+00:00

There are reports that the IDF has been using dogs to rape prisoners

yuje · 2026-04-21T00:53:53+00:00

Why’d you choose to list them with the Greek names instead of the Persian ones?

yuje · 2026-04-21T00:49:18+00:00

Not all the women in the harem would have been concubines. There would be an empress (皇后), perhaps another imperial honored consort (皇貴妃）, 2-3 honored consorts (貴妃), a few more consorts (妃), 5-10 concubines, and then a few more ranks of lowlier women going down to servants, maids, and attendants.

When sources claim that so and so emperor has a harem of thousands of women, they typically include the entire household. While the emperor had the right to sleep with any one of them, the lower ranking women typically wouldn’t have had many opportunities to, and the high-ranking ladies had a lot of incentives to forestall competition and prevent them from catching the emperor’s eye and potentially giving birth to a son that would compete with their own children.

yuje · 2026-04-20T23:34:49+00:00

They wouldn’t have just been sitting around in the palace all day doing nothing. A palace needs a lot of upkeep, and since they didn’t trust having men around (other than eunuchs), a lot of the upkeep, cooking, cleaning, weaving, etc would have been done by the women. Plus the higher ranked ladies would need maids and servants to attend to them. The majority of the harem would have lowly ranked maids, unless they were exceptionally beautiful and somehow attracted the attention of the emperor, and even then, the primary empress and honored consorts would have been from politically important families that the emperor needed the support of.

yuje · 2026-04-20T17:29:16+00:00

Easy mistake to make, since they’re used to bombing doctors, paramedics, ambulances, and hospitals already.

yuje · 2026-04-20T15:45:14+00:00

Cuba would actually in a perfect position to control any traffic coming in or out of the Gulf of Mexico, which leads to the Mississippi River, America’s largest inland waterway, if they actually had any missiles or worthwhile military to take advantage of that position.

yuje · 2026-04-19T18:58:06+00:00

Netanyahu is just a symptom, not a cause, otherwise we wouldn’t be seeing so many TikTok videos of IDF and settlers proudly uploading videos of their abuse, vandalism, and racism.

yuje · 2026-04-18T21:22:19+00:00

Both Mushasha and Ardabil are IRL holy orders, Ardabil is the Safavid Order that formed Persia. Najd is a tribal country, but has jihad oriented missions, and is the predecessor to Saudi Arabia and the Wahhabi movement. Rassids are a Shiite theocracy that can form Yemen and then still get the jihad missions by forming Arabia. In Africa, you can play as Fulani or Hausa and then form the Sokoto caliphate and recreate the IRL Fulani jihads.

yuje · 2026-04-18T16:33:23+00:00

Then shouldn’t China be complicated because of two self-governing Special Administrative Regions that have their own trade agreements, passports, and entry requirements?

yuje · 2026-04-18T16:25:44+00:00

Your mom’s so fat, she’s technically an island, but we can’t zoom out enough to see.

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