He/him. Chinese born, Canadian citizen. University student studying environmental science, hobbyist programmer. Marxist-Leninist.
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Like, they don’t need this for spying. Have you seen surveillance satellite technology lately? Like, we’re down to sub-centimeters of spatial resolution and clear enough images for a picture of a person taken from outer freaking space to be recognized by humans and facial recognization alike.
Also, as far as I know there was never anything in the way of steering it right? So if they wanted intel on anything specific like a military base or a research/development institution, this is totally useless. Depending on how far away they released it they wouldn’t even be able to know if it would pass over the American continents, let alone any specific target, and if they released it really close to the US coast wouldn’t the US have found out by now? High atmosphere winds are so unpredictable that there’s a reason it’s the poster child for what is called a “chaotic system”.
Also also, do you think China’s stupid? What, they just didn’t think the US would find it hovering in their airspace eventually and trace it back to them? If this was how they spy on other countries, then they’re so comedically bad at it that they post no threat to anyone, yet China’s supposed to be this super spying powerhouse? And then as soon as news broke out they just proceeded to acknowledge it was theirs? You’re allowed to lie and deflect in espionage. It’s a thing.
There’s a really funny scene in a Canadian standup routine that hits the nail on the head.
A Canadian is talking to a British person and the British person is ranting about how he hates a town near him, and then asks the Canadian who he hates.
“Rogers?”
Then the Canadian realizes that “to roger” means something completely different in British.
“Oh yeah, if you go to (town name) you’ll be rogered for sure!”
“Never mind, he knows exactly what I’m talking about.”
(The actual show is obviously funnier than my description here. I’d post the clip, but can’t find it.)
Nope, it’s definitely one piece.
https://www.reviewed.com/laundry/content/lg-washtower-wkex200hba-review/
It is a fully integrated laundry center (meaning it’s all one piece rather than two stacked pieces)
If you track the actual costs of raw goods and what they’re being sold to consumers for, you’ll quickly realize the “Russia sanctions” narratives are actually bullshit.
In short, things haven’t actually gotten more expensive since the war, they’re just using the war as a cover to siphon more money from you.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fetus-feast/
And in the comments of that article there are people rejecting this. “Dude, Snopes is the hoax.” Also, the fucking comments in general are so racist and vile.
They desperately want this to be real so China is seen as this monster lol.
Fun fact, there was an art piece about eating babies in China that fooled tons of people.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=pG1ulFD7ELQ – You think if a random YouTuber can figure this out, the FBI would too.
I’m more hoping that other people see this and realize the BS that’s in the marketing of this and similar “wellness” products. I hate medical disinformation and the distrust of actual medical professionals that has arisen lately (but a random for-profit company that says this random thing is a wonder drug is totally trustworthy, apparently). Also, it’s fun to complain about stuff!
Here’s the thing: blood in a healthy human is almost always at near full oxygen saturation, even when heavily exercising. IIRC something like 98% saturated pretty much at all times. Breathing faster and heart beating faster? That’s your body’s way of keeping your blood maximally oxygenated. You can test this easily with a $20 pulse oxymeter that you can find online or at the pharmacy. Put it on, run like hell, and watch how your blood oxygen doesn’t really drop. If it does, call your doctor because it’s very likely something’s wrong.
And if the blood leaving your lungs breathing regular air is already very near saturation, that means it doesn’t have the ability to pick up much more oxygen even if it’s available! You only absorb about a quarter of the available oxygen in regular air in a regular breath to begin with, adding more oxygen is pretty much useless and will just get exhaled! We specifically have re-breathers for diving and space suits because we can’t absorb all the oxygen in one breath, and you don’t want to waste any to exhalation when your supply is highly limited! The reason your muscles run anaerobically when exercising is the bottleneck in delivering oxygen from blood to muscles, not a bottleneck in gas absorption in the lungs because the oxygen concentration is too low!
Humans evolved with 20% oxygen in the air, that’s the optimal concentration for us and the most we can take advantage of! The only people this is useful for is people who have trouble absorbing oxygen, but those people should be getting recommendations from their doctor and not buying random “health” products. Or, maybe if you’re a dinosaur and you evolved under something like 60% air oxygen, which was actually why animals were so big back then. /rant
No. Those aren’t something you can just buy from a random shelf next to a Red Bull fridge, they need to be rated by a regulatory body and fitted for each climber, so definitely something you’d need at ask a store consultant for. Also, they would include equipment similar to a scuba system, including a refillable tank, regulator, and mask. Not just a standalone canister you hold to your face when you need a boost.
Something like this:
And if you’re using it medical purposes (it does say “respiratory support”), you should only get it at the instruction of a doctor, because the majority of people don’t need it and will be throwing their money (and a bunch of disposable canisters) away. Whereas the marketing for this is clearly “you, YES YOU, need this!”
And a proper medical oxygen system that a doctor might prescribe doesn’t look like that either. It would also have a complicated regulator, and would also be refillable, so you don’t have to go through can after can every day because you need it to live.
Or, for chronic need of supplemental oxygen, you wouldn’t even bother with a canister. Instead, a continuous oxygen concentrator would make more sense, which can give you fairly enriched oxygen from regular air and wall power, so you don’t need to constantly refill it:
(Source: My grandmother used supplemental oxygen for some time. We had one of those oxygen concentrators and I was always fascinated by it.)
I hate this timeline.