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Food safety scandal rocks China as report claims cooking oil carried in same trucks as fuel

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I'm the first one to hate on the CCP, but people have been saying that China is going to collapse anytime now for 20 years.

The demographics are a real problem, but nothing that will cause an immediate collapse. Housing, youth unemployment and inequality are real imminent issues, but the CCP has survived much worse and I think they will survive this as well.

Economical they have made some good bets, investing in solar and batteries, for that alone we should hope they don't collapse, it would be a setback of several years or maybe decades.

I believe China will more go the way of Japan, stagnate but not collapse.

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Disaster is nearing. Mass displacement. Mass starvation. Mass death. It is all imminent. Do you understand?

While I get the sentiment and believe action is necessary, this is the wrong way to approach it. Panic is not the way we will solve this crisis.

There's a way out, and if we get through we'll be in a better place than we've ever been. We need to mass invest in green technology. Solar, wind, nuclear, throw everything at it and see what sticks. Solar is already on the right track to save us, but it's better if it goes even faster and have a few back up plans.

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Linux is the reason Windows apps are bloated these days

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The user land API/ABI is stable to a fault in Linux. The kernel API/ABI is unstable

It's the other way around. The kernel API stable to a fault, the kernel ABI isn't. If your application only relies on the kernel API you won't have many compatibility issues. If you rely on userland stuff such as C++ stdlib, GTK, QT, Python, ... Good luck.