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That is a true statement. However, as the article points out they produce 90% of the world’s supply of Rare Earth materials.

And just to remind people. “Rare Earth” materials aren’t actually rare. They’re common. However, they are distributed in very very low concentrations, so you have to go throw mountains worth of material to extract measurable amounts of Rare Earth materials. This is typically energy intensive and ecologically destructive, which in most of the work equals “expensive” which is why the nations of the world have been happy to shut down their own Rare Earth extractions facilities any paying China to destroy its ecology instead.

China is free to set up its restrictions on exports. Other nations are free to restart their own extraction operations (with the costs that come with it).

Just don’t fuck like a monkey and you will be safe

You can keep your slut shaming to yourself.

Among other things your advice isn’t an option for victims of rape, and in some parts of the world HIV is as widespread as rape.

“lenacapavir, a twice-yearly shot developed by Gilead Sciences for the prevention of HIV.”

So its not a vaccine, but it would still be incredibly helpful in reducing the spread of of HIV.

because we all know that Biden will ship harder for Netty-Boo

Don’t forget your fight is also with the House of Representatives now. Biden did stop shipping some weapons to Israel and Congress forced the shipments of weapons to start again.

“House passes bill to undo Biden’s partial Israel weapons hold”

A US prison guard, if they were to help a prisoner escape, would themselves be hunted down as a criminal.

It does happen in municipal or state jails/prisons, and the jailers that helped are captured and charged. Here’s one example

According to Torres, the Filipino sailors were under orders not to show their weapons in a confrontation, and one of them lost a thumb.

I’m guessing that policy is about to change.

I would have liked it to end sooner, but there was a lot to undo that first year.

Go on. Complete your thought.

This was bad policy by the USA. The Chinese vaccines weren’t as good (lower efficacy) than others available, but they were much better than nothing. Where there was no availability of better vaccines, this discouraged people from getting any protection. People died because of this stupid program.

The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency, Reuters found – even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.

Why is there zero surprise this was done by the Trump administration and undone by Biden?

What is the espionage device in my pocket actually going to do to me on my day to day life of browsing Lemmy and playing music?

In your case its not so much the device in your pocket, but the telecom switching gear on the backend that all that corporate and government data flows though. Huawei makes lots of that gear.

In specific cases of phones, while your job may not be high value for espionage , there are lots of people that do work highly sensitive positions. If the specific handset redirects email, txt, or phone conversations then that would be a problem at the national security level.

Sanctions aren’t the only tool in the toolbox. In this case it was a Presidential Executive Order

This isn’t a discussion on just what cell phone a person is using, but instead on network switching gear used on the backend where all the data flows through.

could you fill me in on what threats Huawei poses to I, a random poor person going about my day in the US?

One example: You are likely employed by a business here in the USA. If you were to lose your job, that would be a large negative in your life. The NSA isn’t going to ruin an American business unless its the extremely small chance that there’s a national security reason. The CCP would absolutely ruin an American business if it helped a Chinese one. Unless you work for a Chinese employer, the NSA snooping on you would be more beneficial to you than the CCP.

This is a good example of geopolitics.

Better than coal, but thats about all that can be said positive about this.

“Toyota Motor Corp., based in Toyota city, central Japan, suspended production in the country of the Corolla Fielder, Corolla Axio and Yaris Cross. The deceptive tests were also found on discontinued models.”

Pump toothpaste! I forgot all about those. Why did we think that squeezing a tube was so hard we needed a pump?

Which is largely what happened, and it was very disruptive to the company, but again, their rules, their consequences.

Oh certainly! I’m not suggesting that its reasonable for someone to drop hours of work on your desk at the end of the day and expecting you to stay late to finish it.

This was more of a 2 minute task, and not even on a Friday. Office workers worked only the 7am-5pm, but hourly non-office workers had 3 shifts. So it wasn’t uncommon that large tasks for the non-officeworkers which might be done overnight went undone because the office worker didn’t do a 2 minute tasks. This had downstream impacts to deliveries and client reception.

In any other org I’ve worked in, the office worker would maybe stay until 5:09pm to kick the task forward for overnight completion and perhaps come in 10 minutes later the next day. In this org if the office worker came in 10 minutes later (even if they worked 10 minutes later) the office worker would be written up!