The efficiency of this is amazing, instead of actually sending it up, and waiting for it to blow up, they have figured out how to blow it up on the ground BEFORE launch. This is the kind of efficiency we need in government programs.

This wasn’t much more than a toy rocket:

6.3 m in length, 85 cm in diameter,
The test was completed successfully, the first time Honda landed a rocket after reaching an altitude of nearly 300 meters.

But still they were successful on their first try, so we will have to see where they take it from here. 🚀

LOL American staff is also working to embarrass Trump. 🤣

I think being a democracy is a requirement for being in the G7, I’m not sure we can still say USA is a democracy. They sure are breaking almost every ideal that comes with being a democracy.
With what USA is now we might as well invite China into G8.

Oh did he shit his diaper again?

People have a right to be stupid, though.

Yes but regarding culture people always talk about how we need to preserve culture, obviously we shouldn’t actively work to preserve stupidity.
And religion is stupid superstition and doesn’t deserve to be preserved, and where it is demonstrably harmful to others, it should definitely not be allowed.

It’s no different than Nazi propaganda and organisations being illegal in most countries.

Can I decide which parts of your culture don’t agree with MY values and take that away from you?

If parts of our culture is demonstrably harmful, it is in our own interests to remove those parts. Racism would be a good example. And we are working on it, but somehow people keep being racist.

So you are saying that instead of closing the monastery, they should relocate the towns!
Are you aware how much people are against being relocated?
Also that’s like punishing the victim instead of the villain.

I’m not concerned about the economy but the logistics.
They will hopefully get it done, but I doubt they can do it in 3 months.

The article states it’s 30000 users! Doing that is 300 users per day! People who probably also want extra support initially.
It would be extremely impressive to do it that fast.

PS: The CCP sucks donkey dick.

I absolutely agree, the only thing worse is religions and their harmful practices and child abuse.

Which I don’t give a shit about, I’m just so fucking tired of people screaming about protecting harmful religious practices.

I asked for specifics on how children in monasteries are abused,

Really? Are you sure you really want to go there?
Taken from their parents or abandoned, and forced to a life in religious insanity and celibacy?

There is no way any sensible child care worker wouldn’t take those children away.

That’s whataboutism and unrelated. Although I agree that was horrible.

Would that be worth taking away his autonomy and will without consent?

Wow congratulations, first real argument in any response I’ve received until now.
But they are not really taking away his autonomy by closing the monastery, they are only putting an end to a harmful practice that is illegal.
Now the part about harmful may be a matter of opinion. But personally I believe religious practices are mostly harmful.

Now you are being stupid: What slaughtering is that?

The systematic control and surveillance of Tibetan monasteries by Chinese authorities represents one of the most calculated assaults on religious freedom in the modern world.

This is what it is about, and religious special pleading needs to fucking end. Especially when it’s harmful to children. You can abandon a religion, it’s not like for instance protection of nationality, gender or sex.

Adults that have been brainwashed since childhood do not decide for themselves. They do what they are conditioned to do, just like you are doing right now.
Yes the CCP does that too, I never said I like the CCP, but on religion they are mostly right. Just because it’s a bad system, it doesn’t mean they are always wrong. There are probably also good religious people.

Superstition is also a large part of Steve Jobs history, it’s what killed him.
So would he have been better off if he had not been superstitious?
Exercising religious superstition is not culture, it’s stupidity that harm both society and the individual.

Stupidity is a significant part of our history, that doesn’t mean we should preserve stupidity.

Finally someone that acknowledge that a harmful culture is not necessarily always worth preserving.👍
I sure hope China will become more politically democratic, but we must also acknowledge that China has made huge progress in improving conditions for their population these past 50 years. But I think the time for Communism has passed, or whatever it is they have in China.
On the other hand I don’t see the 1 party system as that much worse than a 2 party system. To make a real difference, it needs to be a functional democracy.
But the 1 single advantage China has over most democracies, is to NOT accept religious special pleading.

Superstition and kidnapping of children is not “culture”.

To live there the rest of their lives in celibacy?

That’s a false equivalence.