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US takes action against Chinese companies, people tied to fentanyl

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As every large scale economic action is state sanctioned, so this is a sanctioning of all party members? It's payback for the opium war after all..

I thought the payback was the Chinese Boxers trying to kill all foreigners and Christians around 1900?

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Sanctions are are easy now, help now, and easily justified in the short term, but they bring a serious and destructive cost in that their maintenance relies on oppressive surveillance. This is detrimental to the value of the currency and payment network over the long run as it will as surely be abused for political purposes as mass surveillance in any other context. (Eg. Messages)

We should start feeding addictive, poisonous stuff their citizens as revenge, and I have the perfect weapon:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37625703/

As a Brit who naturally has milk in tea, what is “milk tea”?

Is it something else other than the drink I’m used to?

If it isn’t, the UK and Ireland are nations of junkies. Myself included.

Milk tea, specifically with tapioca pearls, is a Taiwanese way of drinking tea which has taken the world by storm. See Boba/bubble tea.[0]

Also, the Brits didn’t invent adding milk to tea, the Tibetans did. The majority of the world, for most of history drinks tea without milk.

To answer your question, it’s the drink you are used to but with even more sugary additives and usually in a significantly larger serving :).

We are all sugar junkies.

[0] https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/03/bubble...

> The majority of the world, for most of history drinks tea without milk.

Don’t know about history, but currently India consumes the most tea or perhaps second most (in total, not per capita) , and almost all of tea in India is consumed with milk.

>50% of Indians are lactose intolerant, so I don’t believe you on that.

I was going to say two wrongs don't make a right... but I think you're joking about getting revenge with milk tea!

I thought the severe mismatch between the two situations would make the joke obvious, but apparently not.

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