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China's Chang'e 5 enters lunar orbit for historic attempt to return moon samples | Space WWW.SPACE.COM I haven't seen this posted here yet (sorry if it has been posted elsewhere). I think this is pretty cool.

there’s no time!

I support this solely because it makes chuds sooooooo mad. I mean it seems like good policy too but I like that it makes chuds mad.

Judging by the past 20 years, the 21st century is going to belong to China. I'm thinking a one party state, with democracy only existing at the lower levels is perhaps the ideal solution. Local politics tends to not have the partisan bickering that occur at provincial/state and federal levels, and from what I can see things actually get done when partisan bickering is removed (when the provincial and federal governments don't interfere).

To parahphrase Field of Dreams, if you open it, they will come. The question isn't so much "who the fuck wants to go to a sauna," the question should be "why the fuck are saunas open in the middle of a pandemic?"

If Moe hadn't said "if you're going to meet with a friend, I encourage you to do it at a restaurant," I wouldn't have been very bothered by today's press conference. Shutting down visiting to long term care homes sucks but probably makes sense. Mask mandate for the whole province makes sense. Limiting gatherings to 5 is an extreme but we need to take extreme measures. "Please don't invite a family member to your apartment for coffee. Instead go to a restaurant where there's 50 other people" does not make sense. I guess it's just him signaling that he's not going to shut down restaurants.

I don’t think @CitizenVectron posted about this yet... Our provincial government just had a press conference this afternoon and the summary of what the premier had to say is as follows: 1) Long Term Care facilities are being closed to visitors for the next month. 2) the limit for gatherings in private households has now been reduced to five. 3) the premier says if you want to meet with your friends or family, he strongly encourages you to meet in a public area “such as a restaurant.” RIP. Good thing I just built a gaming PC I guess because I don’t see this getting better any time soon.

I don't really get your point? "Germany tore down their monuments immediately after WW2 and that was a good thing. And therefore, we should leave our statues standing."

One million a day by New Years. And from the looks of things, Canada won't be much behind (per capita anyway).

The problem with these stories is so few of these guys end up like Herman Cain.

Extrapolating that forward, it looks like you guys will be hitting 1 million new cases a day in time for Christmas.

I just can't believe that a car company that has barely sold a million cars in it's entire history is somehow one of the most valuable companies on the planet. It just doesn't make sense.

i hate this.

Daily Mail and New York post are the only outlets reporting this from what I can see. I think this would be a bigger story if it had any credibility.

I just really miss traveling.

Damn if this pandemic ever ends and I can travel overseas again I'm gonna try that.

China is back to normal — the US and Europe are not. Here's how it succeeded. WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM China stamped out COVID-19 within months and has responded to small outbreaks by testing entire cities in days. This should (but won't) be seen as a strong condemnation of western society. China showed us the way to control this pandemic but we just couldn't do it. They were able to clean up this virus in a few months, while we're probably not going to even have this mess cleaned up by next year. It's not just this pandemic I'm thinking about. This is just the first chapter in the book of how China wins. There's going to be more problems like this in the future, and every time China will do what they do best and that's working together as a country to solve it. All the while we'll repeat our bang up performance we've shown with coronavirus: We'll bicker rather than listen, we'll fight against any slight inconvenience, and we'll continue to show that we just... don't care about each other.

James Randi, dazzling magician and skeptic, dies at 92 CA.FINANCE.YAHOO.COM Magician James Randi, whose daring escapes were later eclipsed by his work as the country’s foremost skeptic, has died. The Florida-based James Randi...

The Chinese government is trying to use a "maintaining law and order" justification for its change to the extradition laws. I don't know if it's new for China to use that rhetoric to justify more stringent laws (I doubt it) but it certainly shouldn't be a new form of rhetoric to anyone on this board. It's a huge stretch to say that he's "threatening" Canadians. What he's saying is no different than someone saying "we need to increase restrictions for sex offenders; if you care about your children's safety, you should agree with me." It's not a threat at all, and it's completely absurd to suggest it is. And based on the discussion in this topic, I guess Chinese troll farms are going to be the next liberal boogeyman.

Bolivia President Anez Says Socialist Luis Arce Won the Election CA.FINANCE.YAHOO.COM (Bloomberg) -- Socialist candidate Luis Arce won Bolivia’s election on Sunday, according to interim President Jeanine Anez.“I congratulate the victors and urge them to govern with Bolivia and democracy at heart,” Anez wrote in a post on Twitter.As of 1 a.m. local time, results from fewer than 10% of

The call is coming from inside the house...

keep that border closed!

I don't know what the polling is on the border closure but I can't imagine there's much opposition to it in Canada. I haven't heard anyone I know personally say that they want the border opened. On the other hand I've heard quite a few people make jokes like "Yeah I want it to open it in November.... 2022." If Trump was to try to make a public spectacle of this, it would probably increase Trudeau's approval rating among Canadians. That border is not going to open any time soon.

I thought I’d try to find a new gym because my old gym shut down just before covid (the guy was supposed to move to a new location but ran into financing issues blah blah) and the first one i went to had like 60 people there and I was the only one wearing a mask! Damn!