Sounds like yet another app to fuel excessive-consumption.
Letting us trade our children’s planet for manufactured waste, while enabling billionaires move elsewhere when the earth inevitably die in their hand.
Sounds like yet another app to fuel excessive-consumption.
Letting us trade our children’s planet for manufactured waste, while enabling billionaires move elsewhere when the earth inevitably die in their hand.
I think clear signage and message on the bill indicating “tipping is optional, service charges is included in the menu price” should suffice.
Making tipping illegal goes too far, but I am okay with implementing it for couple decades, in order to correct a bad habit.
since most western outlets are causally dismissive of the claims.
It is interesting you didn’t give any western media the benefit of the doubt, while giving CCP plenty.
After a quick google search, it seems like there are several court documents for Zhang’s case circling the internet:
There are two different versions, one judgement, one indictment (copy). Their contents seems to match, and they also match the reports of various media articles.
The indictment mentioned neither “the lie” nor “the truth”, which, in my mind, is probably why most media never reported it.
The document only mentioned:
故根据现查明的事实可以证实 张展通过微信、“twitter”(推特)、“YouTube”(油管)等网络媒介发布的相关文章、视频及接 受采访内容均与武汉市实际防控疫情的客观实际情况不符。
according to current known fact, the related article, videos, and interview by Zhang Zhan on wechat, twitter, youtube, differ from the objective truth of situations in Wuhan.
I was not able to find any court document from official source from China/CCP. Since all these articles are either photos or transcribed from photo, I don’t imagine the original documents are easy to find. It seems like the original document can be obtained from: https://wenshu.court.gov.cn/ (according to the title of the website, and Chinese government owned domain name), but they require personally identifiable information (like phone number, which is connected to ID in China) after I typed in 张展 (Zhang Zhan).
But since you clearly know more about China and CCP than I do, so you might want to give it a try.
According to https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/arrest, “arrest” means
If the police arrest someone, they take them away to ask them about a crime that they might have committed
And in https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arrest
to take or keep in custody by authority of law
Dr. Li was taken to police station because the police has deemed his action is against the law.
He was later released because he signed a consent about “stop spreading misinformation”, which I showed in my response. We wouldn’t know how he will be treated if he refuse to sign such consent. But I might hypothesize that the police wouldn’t simply let him go.
And he has never spread any misinformation, the patient record he sent to his friend clearly indicated the patient has tested positive for SARS; and as we know later, the disease is indeed caused by SARS-cov2.
Yeah, the final ECMO was indeed controversial in Chinese community. Other than that, I have not heard any indication of mistreatment.
Given his high social status, and he said “一个健康的社会不该只有一种声音” (a healthy society shouldn’t only have only one voice), some people suspect CCP likely wanted him dead. But so far, I am not aware of any evidence that his death is man-made.
You know who else was arrested for “spreading misinformation”? The doctor who tried to warn his friends about covid privately, before the government took any action.
Source (in chinese): https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51371586
The form he filled out at police station, clearly stating his action is against the law:
couple related articles in english:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang
I don’t think he isn’t properly treated, at least according to wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang#Illness_and_death
There is a bench in New York central park dedicated to him: https://www.westsiderag.com/2023/02/07/central-park-bench-and-gathering-honor-covid-19-whistleblower . If you are near the central park, you can stop by to pay tribute to him.
So this is how our money is spent, wiping the butt of some power-trip cops. No wonder why we cannot get free education.
What if I am allergic to cicadas? The article doesn’t seem to specify that case.
I think this is just 表弟 (younger male cousin). 老表 is too casual to be used as a tag in phone book.
This is why you buy laptop from companies that officially support linux.
It is definitely protest. But they choose these outfit to protest because they are comfortable, as oppose to vampires costume, which would also violate the dress code.
This is related to what OP is saying. These outfit already exists because of toxic work culture, they are taking it to the extreme.
Another woman said the best part of wearing her fluffy sweater to work is that she can head straight to bed once she gets home.
“It’s so convenient for both work and home. I have essentially reached a state where the office and my home have become one,” she said.
It is not protest for the sake of protest, but mostly “convenience”.
24k tuition? Are we living in 2015?
It is ironic that google touts RCS as a “open platform”, when you have to use google’s implementation of it.
And this is the real game of monopoly, of course.