LordOfTheChia @ LordOfTheChia @lemmy.world

Posts

14

Comments

451

Joined

2 yr. ago

drove them so insane

This Onion story/video from right after Obama's 2016 2012 win is very relevant and oddly prescient:

https://youtu.be/jjonGtrCyVE

Trump: "They claimed that Mar-a- Lago was worth only $18,000,000, when it was worth 50 to 100 times that amount".

Florida property tax assessor:

From the article:

Under the timeline proposed by Smith, the court — if it decides to step in — could hear arguments and issue a ruling in a matter of weeks.

There is precedent for such an outcome, with Smith citing the 1974 U.S. v. Nixon case, in which the court ruled on an expedited basis that President Richard Nixon had to hand over tape recordings sought during the Watergate scandal probe. Nixon resigned soon after the ruling.

...

In a brief order issued just hours after Smith's filing, the court asked Trump's legal team to respond by Dec. 20. The court also said it would consider on an expedited basis whether to hear the case, an indication that it takes Smith's request seriously.

Really poor journalism

It goes beyond that. They took news that broke 4.5 months ago:

https://midvalleytimes.com/article/news/2023/07/25/investigation-on-reedley-building-uncovers-bio-health-hazards/

Then they remove any and all mentions that the facility was manufacturing testing kits for COVID, HIV, and pregnancy tests (do a cntrl+F for test in the OP article). Now, without informing the users that testing kits were being manufactured, the presence of disease samples and rats sounds more nefarious.

It would be like reporting that tons of fertilizer were found in a building, and not reporting that the facility belongs to a landscaping company.

It definitely is. They go out of their way to avoid mentioning that they discovered they were making testing kits for various infectious diseases (which explains why you'd want samples of said diseases).

This information was in the original report that broke the story and the in the charging report:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/arrest-made-central-california-bio-lab-investigation

According to court documents, between December 2020 and March 2023, Zhu and others manufactured, imported, sold, and distributed hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 test kits, in addition to test kits for HIV, pregnancy, clinical urinalysis, and other conditions in the United States and China.

As I mentioned in a comment below, the word "test" appears nowhere in the "Scripps News" report.

Almost a month ago that charges were brought up. Interesting that this article from 3 days ago is claiming so many unknowns and mystery about this facility since it's really old news and most of those questions have been answered:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/operator-central-california-bio-lab-indicted-distributing-adulterated-and-misbranded

The original discovery was made 4.5 months ago:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officials-believe-fresno-warehouse-was-site-illegal-laboratory-rcna96756

Edit: This might be the original news source that broke the story:

https://midvalleytimes.com/article/news/2023/07/25/investigation-on-reedley-building-uncovers-bio-health-hazards/

Even in doctors offices. I had researched and bought pulse oximeters a few years ago (mainly on ali express).

You start to see the same designs with different branding as they're made by only a very few companies in China.

Since then I can recognize the same ones in use at every doctor appointment I've been at.

It's because the article is withholding information* to "guide" the viewer towards conspiratorial explanations. Especially with lines like this:

What China’s lab was targeting with so many dangerous pathogens remains a mystery

Meanwhile, elsewhere, this was already answered:

https://apnews.com/article/california-biolab-covid19-test-kits-china-arrest-3ee30af1548356e017276860ebb21f53

The Chinese owner of an unauthorized central California lab that fueled conspiracy theories about China and biological weapons has been arrested on charges of not obtaining the proper permits to manufacture tests for COVID-19, pregnancy and HIV, and mislabeling some of the kits.

Also note, the OP article is not originally from AOL. AOL is quoting another article from a "Scripps News", practically in its entirety without any additional journalism on their part. If they had done any journalism, they would have found the AP article I linked with more info or the DoJ article on the charges that were brought up.

Edit:

This story broke in July 25, 2023:

https://midvalleytimes.com/article/news/2023/07/25/investigation-on-reedley-building-uncovers-bio-health-hazards/

investigators discovered that one room of the warehouse was used to produce COVID-19 and pregnancy tests

Note, the words "test" or "tests" do not appear anywhere in the OP article.

Looks like they were manufacturing unapproved tests for various diseases:

https://apnews.com/article/california-biolab-covid19-test-kits-china-arrest-3ee30af1548356e017276860ebb21f53

There's been updates and charges:

https://apnews.com/article/california-biolab-covid19-test-kits-china-arrest-3ee30af1548356e017276860ebb21f53

The Chinese owner of an unauthorized central California lab that fueled conspiracy theories about China and biological weapons has been arrested on charges of not obtaining the proper permits to manufacture tests for COVID-19, pregnancy and HIV, and mislabeling some of the kits.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/operator-central-california-bio-lab-indicted-distributing-adulterated-and-misbranded

Edit: Original discovery article was from July 25, 2023:

https://midvalleytimes.com/article/news/2023/07/25/investigation-on-reedley-building-uncovers-bio-health-hazards/

investigators discovered that one room of the warehouse was used to produce COVID-19 and pregnancy tests

This is my go to if I have to score high to pass the class and I'm running out of study time:

https://youtu.be/OMiw1dgVNk4

It's 10 hours long.

IMDb link: https://imdb.com/title/tt1910272/

It's on Hulu, Funimation, and Crunchyroll

It has a really good dub

Edit: Might also be on Netflix in Japan and UK

It's probably accurate that they can manufacture 10 20 to 90 new tanks a month, the bulk of what they have been putting on the field now are tanks they have pulled from long term storage.

I'd imagine they would have to be checked over, relubricated, and have any decayed rubber components (hoses and such) replaced.

The main thing is the loss of the trained tank crews they had at the start of the war.

Also, the older tanks they're fielding now require more of the crew (less automation, no modern optics) and can be more fatiguing to the crew as comfort was less of a design concern of the time period.

Edit:

Found an article that claims they can produce 20-90 tanks a day month.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/10/06/russia-is-losing-more-of-its-best-t-90-tanks-perhaps-because-it-has-more-t-90s-to-lose/

Lay his sweet head to rest in a bed of sauerkraut.

Yeah, but you can squeeze 285,000 corporations in one office building!

https://medium.com/knowledge-stew/how-one-address-in-delaware-is-home-to-285-000-companies-32d963a2b706

In September 2022, the estimate was that Russia had 3300 operational tanks at the start of the 2022 Invasion (plus their thousands of non operational or retired ones).

If those numbers are right, Russia has lost the equivalent of their initial total force of tanks plus 2200 they un-mothballed...

The picture in the article he's shown holding a cell phone shooting what looks like a selfie video but with the back camera.

There is a need for some home rentals. Like taking a job in a new city that may or may not pan out long term but you still want to bring the whole family.

Or you need a few more years to save up for a down payment.

Or you are ready to buy a house, but the current mortgage rates are frikkin' insane and you want to wait a year or two for the rates to come down.