If you go to China, get a burner, or buy a Chinese cell phone, the same you're buying a plane ticket, or paying for a hotel. If it's for work, ask your company to pay for it.
Yeah, you also need to subscribe to the Grey Service (tm), which simulates correspondence to your specifications. Tell them I didn’t send you and they will also throw in “for free”* a bug out bag disguised as an ordinary plastic shopping bag from a grocery store.
*Shipping and handling extra, depending on your jurisdiction a paper shopping bag may be substituted.
Wokeism shows all the hallmarks of a cult or organized religion, and it's being spearheaded by academia:
- Strict adherence to dogmas (_eg all whites are racist, not dating trans is transphobic_), under penalty of excommunication (_banished from academia and/or society_).
- Dissent is not permitted (_if you deny it, you must be racist/bigot/transphobic_).
- Cult of the leader as individual (_eg BLM founders, the Squad_), while at the same time arguing the group is paramount.
- Sacraments (eg _struggle sessions, street performances_).
- Colleges as main places of cult. Pilgrimages to holy places (_eg police brutality incidents_).
- Saints (eg _George Floyd_).
Academia is funded by the state via:
- Grants to projects not necessarily resulting in any benefit, apparent or not, to society. Projects lead by professors not teaching.
- Loans to students, knowing well many won't be able to pay in years, if at all, which end in the pockets of colleges.
Wealthy regions like Madrid have abolished it. Non coincidentally, the regions that are economically doing better, and more contributing, per capita, to the central State.
En concreto, la región de Díaz Ayuso recibió de la caja común apenas el 23% de lo que ingresó en 2019.
Meaning that Madrid out of the 100% taxes it collects for the State, only 23% end up in Madrid. But that's still fine, because of the higher economic activity.
Madrid has been accused of "tax dumping", by having way lower taxes than other regions, and still:
Tanto es así, que Madrid aporta en torno al 68% del sistema de solidaridad interterritorial (más de 4.000 millones) frente al 25,5% de Cataluña o el 6,6% de Baleares.
Meaning that, even with low taxes, Madrid funds 68% (+4 billion Euro) of the inter-region fund system.
Power requirements on a sub vs a civilian power plant are on a different scale. A vessel reactor is small enough it easily contained and shielded, by comparison. You get free cooling. And it doesn't have to be cost effective.
I'd like more civilian reactors too. But scaling is an issue.
One major drawback is the lack of Java native tooling vs e.g. Swagger/OpenAPI springdoc project. Document generation + API validation can be part of the same build, instead of having to have a separate Node toolchain and build.
