Ask HN: If I travel to China, does China have all of my iCloud data?

Post by yesenadam » Mon, May 24, 2021, 5:28 AM UTC

bellyfullofbac wrote: post #30

dtx1 wrote: post #29

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I feel great about them because the reality is the choice between funding these holding camps or doing nothing at all like most countries. Germany took in literal boatloads of refugees and still helper turkey with their cost. Could we have done better&more? Fuck yeah, but you'll be hard pressed to find a country that did more for the refugee crisis than Germany

Yeah, see, you're just spinning this "let's accept Erdogan's blackmail and give him 6 billion euroes" as a positive thing ("We did good!"), and ignoring all the shit aspects. People are always so biased...

Post by approxim8ion » Tue, May 25, 2021, 4:06 PM UTC

jmpman wrote: post #21

BelenusMordred wrote: post #14

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Ok, so by that measure of "travel or not" I should avoid all the top countries on the incarcerated per capita list[1][2]? China comes in at 129th. The US is number 1. While Black people only make up 10% of the population, they make up over 50% of prisoners, 4/5ths of people in American prisons haven't even been convicted of a crime. Should I avoid the United States because of this? Have you not travelled to the Unite…

Interesting statistics. I’m an American, and out of everyone I’ve personally ever known to have gone to jail, one was for rape, another for methamphetamine production, drunk driving, financial crimes. They were all white, and many of them were offered plea bargains and accepted instead of a full trial. Is the plea bargain part of your “haven’t been convicted of a crime?” I don’t personally know of anyone who’s been i…