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How do I subscribe to a community within sync?
  • Is sync relying on lemmy.world even when my home instance is somewhere else? Doesn't make sense to me, but I'm not familiar with the sync architecture

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    How do I subscribe to a community within sync?
  • Strangely, this might be a bug. The community is on kbin.social, which my home instance is definitely federated with. Searching through the history of my kbin account from lemmy shows no posts or comments to that one specific community (!WanderingInn @kbin.social). @ljdawson, any clue about this?

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  • The community does not show up in search, and when I enter the full link (!community@ instance.com) , it seems to treat it as a string to search for rather than an address.

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    Los Angeles may have more homeless people due to renters being kicked out
  • The article is about unpaid rent from the covid era. You can only make the landlords take on the debt for so long before larger financial repercussions occur. The right solution would have been for the state to take it on, but that would require *gasp* socialism

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    Officials bust illegal lab containing 20 infectious agents, hundreds of lab mice
  • I don't see how it's cheaper to maintain an entire facility and staff just to take care of unwanted items, but I concede it's a possibility, bureaucracy and inertia being what it is.

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    Officials bust illegal lab containing 20 infectious agents, hundreds of lab mice
  • In your extensive experience, how common are unlicensed biotech R&D facilities being run in secret? And I see no reason being capable of biotech R&D would preclude it from being capable of more malicious purposes. If anything, I'd assume a significant amount of overlap between the two capabilities.

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    Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in California
  • Buddy, see my username? Yeah, that's a Chinese name. I of all people know exactly what the difference is between Chinese ethnicity and Chinese nationality.

    With that said, the majority of Chinese business people have some connection or other to China, be it family, business, or otherwise. Combine that with the context here of mysterious purpose (but probably bioweapons), unknown funding source and complete lack of any commercial purpose, etc etc, and it's not a hard conclusion to draw.

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    Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in California
  • Chinese listed owner. Chinese representative. Mysterious purpose with unknown source of funds. Not too hard to connect the dots.

    Edit: Apparently people don't realise Chinese can refer to ethnicity as well as nationality. Yes, it would be ideal if we had different terms for the two.

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    Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in California
  • Both the owner and representative of the company are Chinese, so why wouldn't she think that?

    Also, how many other countries would be interested in maintaining a bioweapons facility in the US?

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