No. The river runs into the ocean anyway, and even if a new source of freshwater were to run into the ocean, the oceans are so massive there wouldn’t be any measurable change in salinity. A canal like this probably won’t have much flow anyway, as it’s meant for shipping and transportation rather than water diversion or irrigation.

The article does note some concerns in terms of additional pollution and disruption of wildlife due to increased traffic and more industry.

The entire EU supply chain is subsidized.

Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.

The Silicon Valley thieves are just copying and stealing from over a century of US industrial strategy.

Full disclosure, I’m not a metalhead by any means, and Metallica isn’t always considered pure metal, but this one hits just right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvLsifMZIE

To be fair, it’s not hard to beat expectations when the expectation of the western press is “imminent collapse!!!”

They can’t, the economy would drop into a sinkhole.

The US has already demonstrated, by seizing Russian central bank assets denominated in USD, that the USD isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on and can’t be trusted further than you can throw it.

The Euro is already getting hit hard by the growing trade and balance of payments deficit with regards to the USD, showing the world the Euro isn’t a safe and trustworthy currency by unilaterally seizing the assets of a sovereign central bank would only make the problem worse and add longer term consequences.

Republicans aren’t pro-Russia. Some just think war against Iran or China is a higher priority.

All countries will confiscate illegally obtained income. Want to work cross-border? Do it with the proper visas, permissions, tax reporting, residencies, etc. There’s no story here, just more China hate to help beat the drums of war.

Laowhy and serpentza are racist dirtbags grifting off all the China hate that’s everywhere in the west. They had to run for a reason, and that reason was that they were and are spreading hate speech.

Katherine’s Journey to the East, Li Jingjing, or Daniel Dumbrill will much more accurately present life in the different parts of China.

In the Name of the People is on YouTube.

In terms of dramas you may find In the Name of the People interesting.

For documentaries, I’ve recently seen mentions of How Yukong Moved the Mountains, although I haven’t yet found a place to watch it.

There’s also a large collection of leftist movies which includes fictional dramas and documentaries about USSR and PRC over on hexbear. https://hexbear.net/post/9615

Edit: CGTN also has some good documentaries on modern and historical events.

I’m not opposed to standard mid or full towers for a home NAS, but the common ones have so few 3.5" bays.

My understanding of Group 2B is that it’s assigned to whatever IARC researchers get enough lobby money for to classify in some way. They’ll give some lab rats a gargantuan dose of the substance, something will happen, and 2B can be assigned.

Put another way, they found all the Group 1 definite carcinogens by the early 2000s and needed a reason to keep researching after that. Of course there are some new substances that pop up regularly that need to be investigated but beyond that there’s a significant established base of knowledge.

With the RF specifically its interesting that some groups have correlated it to negative health outcomes, but nobody as of yet has shown how it can even affect the human body, let alone cause cancer.

It’s always fun when definitions of anti-semitism include anti-zionism.

Liberalism allowed this, what Americans understand as conservativatism is included under that umbrella. Capitalism and its ideology liberalism are killing us and the planet.

Welcome, stay a while and chat with us. You can expand your horizons or you can go back to reddit where anti-imperialist analysis and opinion are censored.

So a few things.

If the election weren’t legitimate, why do Crimeans still stand by the decision they supposedly made at gunpoint to this day? Why don’t they remember there being Russian soldiers being present during the referendum? Why would Ukrainian citizens be welcomed into Crimeans communities now if this had simply been a nationalist land grab? Why didn’t Ukraine invest in Crimean infrastructure and social services between 1991 and 2014? Why would Russia invest in that same infrastructure and social services post 2014? Why weren’t Russian citizens allowed to vote in the referendum, only Ukrainians with Crimean residency?

https://www.mintpressnews.com/return-russia-crimea-story-referendum-lives-since/262247

Comparing this situation to the relationship between the US and Iraq/Basra is grotesque and intellectually dishonest so there’s no point in discussing that further.

Not only that, elected and career US officials were present and active in the events.