if you applied a China reporting filter to this you'd get a "United States Bans Coca-Cola" headline

Isaac sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Isaac reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Let me give you a simple example: A deputy to China's NPC criticized the govt for not including the cost of planting teeth in residents' health insurance. 12000 people commented on this. 8176 people voted. Most people support the deputy. Similar criticisms happen every day.

I found out something on Weibo today that I feel obligated to share with you all. The three Chinese astronauts that just arrived at the Tianhe Space station, all of them are sons of ordinary farmers from small rural villages. 1/9

Crop scientist Yuan Longping is considered the “father of hybrid rice,” the higher-yielding crop that feeds billions. He died in May at 90 years old. Read the nature obituary. go.nature.com/2UshY40

Much of the new wave of pro-lab leak thought is based on the work of Nicholas Wade, a disgraced racist pseudoscientist who thinks black people are poorer because they're genetically more violent and lazy. Wade's theories on Jews have earned plaudits from the KKK and David Duke.

This alpaca is looking quite sophisticated tonight!