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BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 17th, 18th and 19th Communist Party of China central committees and former premier, passed away on Friday in Shanghai.

Li recently had a rest in Shanghai. On Oct. 26, Li had a sudden heart attack and passed away at 00:10 on Oct. 27 after all rescue measures failed. He died at the age of 68.

The obituary will be issued later.

RIP

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago

Free Ryukyu! Revolution of our time!

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Hello, everyone. I felt we could all use a bit of mundane news. Today, North Korea finished producing dozens of rice threshing machines. 👍

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

The nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific absolutely fucked over the people living there. But not all radiation is the same. There's no way this wastewater affects them whatsoever unless they do a pilgrimage to Fukushima Daiichi and start drinking the pre-diluted water.

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago

This is completely ridiculous.

In Minecraft, the immersive game owned by Microsoft, Russian players re-enacted the battle for Soledar, a city in Ukraine that Russian forces captured in January, posting a video of the game on their country’s most popular social media network, VKontakte.

These authors clearly know nothing about Minecraft. Wow, some nationalists re-enacted a battle on their private Minecraft server. Woe is the world! All of Minecraft has been infected by Russian dezinformatsiya!

A channel on the Russian version of World of Tanks, a multiplayer warfare game, commemorated the 78th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in May with a recreation of the Soviet Union’s parade of tanks in Moscow in 1945. On Roblox, the popular gaming platform, a user created an array of Interior Ministry forces in June to celebrate the national holiday, Russia Day.

Defeating the Nazis is good, actually. And commemorating that is also good, actually.

Yes, we live in the Information Age. We've been living in it for decades now, NYT. Nationalist zealots are going to post. They're going to make reactionary content. It's nothing new.

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago

Aw man that sucks

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 year ago

When you start talking about height and hand size, I think you're getting lost in the sauce. Basketball already favors abnormally tall people anyway, but no one is trying to ban Yao Ming from the sport for being 229 cm (7'6").

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 1 year ago

The issue of transgender athletes was basically resolved several years ago when the IOC decided on two years of feminizing hormones before transgender women could compete in the female category. But due to the re-emergence of the anti-queer culture war, sports federations are re-litigating the issue and throwing science out the door.

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 year ago

Since men have been getting support and funding for over a century in sports and games like this, you end up with them dominating the field. Women's categories bring in more female players that otherwise wouldn't have a chance if the entire game was open only. But on the other hand, this enables concern-trolling over "transgender invasion". It's also applied questionably to sports that maybe don't need this such as in the case of Zhang Shan & Olympic skeet shooting. It can reinforce gender stereotypes. Finally, I'd say it's frustratingly slow at leveling the playing field.

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With these new rules, FIDE has managed to

  1. Imply the mental inferiority of women
  2. Validate the existence of transgender men
  3. Destroy the integrity of awards record-keeping
  4. Call transgender women men

Very nice, FIDE, incredible mental gymnastics performance! 👏 Add them to the ever lengthening sports federation shitlist.

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Video uploaded August 14 by a north Korean showing Koreans wearing shorts.

https://youtu.be/tq7iUQu0Y2g

I am a more qualified journalist than Saskia O'Donoghue it seems.

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Here is an update to Travis King, the US soldier who crossed the DMZ. As this is KCNA, it's about the most official statement you'll get from the DPRK. It's also where a lot of other newspapers are getting their info from.

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 75 points 1 year ago

Biden still owes us $600 from his campaign promise lol

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 year ago

Not really news. Of course soldiers are going to say nationalistic things.

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They found extremely high levels of E coli in the waters due to sewage being released, but it wasn't published until after the event.

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sadly I can't find a single news article that discusses likely jury bias. In fact, most articles are just carbon copies of each other

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

This single user's plan does even involve using Hexbear. Lemmy.world would have to defederate from all other instances to prevent this person from trolling.

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Qin-aligned cetacean patriots have taken control of a billionaire submersible. AtlantiSS will fall.

Source.

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They'll be stopping at dozens of locations and will have a rotating crew. The journey will be made by both a double-hulled canoe and another canoe with an engine. The entire route will be 43,000 nautical miles. Very cool!

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Many American netizens on the right-wing social media website Twitter are calling foul play. Could this have been done by the radical terrorist organization known as the "Tyre Extinguishers"? Only time will tell...

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They're saying it's smoke from wildfires, but you never know...

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