Favorites November 26th 2022
beijingers tearing down quarantine wall, they’ve had enough of xi’s zero covid. biggest threat of his rule to date. (ht @whyyoutouzhele)
A lot of coverage of protests against zero-COVID policies in China today. Clashes in Xinjiang, chanting against the party in Shanghai, and university students of course.
A retired general, @WarintheFuture commented that even today, war still "comes down to soldiers fighting in close combat in muddy barren landscapes"
Threads
• Thread with a survey of the various ways to ship hydrogen. TL;DR: there are essentially no good ways to ship hydrogen, it's just not dense enough, and there aren't really any tricks for it.
• Thread discussing the ways in which zero-COVID enforcement appears to be breaking down, and here's a short thread discussing how that relates to increasing case numbers in China.