Technically the US (the country) gets +2 bronzes (Puerto Rico) and China (the country) gets +2 golds and +2 bronzes (Hong Kong)... but this whole comparison is stupid.
Why, exactly, do you think THC and cocaine are illegal for recreational consumption in most of the world? Someone decided one day that they really didn't like the way it looks?
Not unless you want to die
THC is illegal in most of the world still. It's like how testing positive for cocaine probably isn't good for your odds.
Food contamination is a real issue. It helps that everyone tested positive for the exact same substance in basically the exact same concentration, because usually it's better to design your doping protocols tailored to each athlete's body and training. Just intuitively, it's not exactly standard practice to have your entire Olympic-level team shoot up on steroids at the same exact time.
Nevertheless, the pool isn't slow: the US set the 1500m free and 4x100 medley women's records. Meanwhile, WADA has been testing Chinese athletes far more than everyone else.
Edit: just to be clear, I don't think his spread is even unreasonable in context. Phelps swam a 22.93 50m and a 47.51 100m (1.65s pace difference). Pan swam a 21.92 50m and a 46.40 100m (2.56s pace difference). For reference, Dressel did 50m in 21.04 and 100m in 46.96... but while Dressel is basically specialized at training for short stints, Pan also trains for 400m events so his back half is expected to not fall off as hard anyway (not to the level of Michael "my lactic acid doesn't build up" Phelps, though).
Because the mods on this community would rather choose a source that they agree with than a source that's reliable.
Yes but have you considered that by using a fixed source you can shift the Overton window to where you want it to be?
At least I acknowledge that the Overton window on lemmy.ml leans to the left. This is just slowly tilting the Overton window on lemmy.world to the right.
This is a really well-reasoned response... Which probably means the mods will ignore it
There's a reason lemmy.ml mocks MBFC daily lmao
When your community is built from Redditors it's sort of bound to happen
Well, it's more that the mods know that people don't have an alternative
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Factor that a lot of people miss is that Chinese companies have been building cheap EVs at scale before Tesla was even an idea.
Sure, they were two-wheeled, not climate controlled, lacked creature comforts, and whatever… but those are simple problems when you have a big battery to run things off of.
Electric bikes and mopeds built up expertise in China that carried over naturally to electric cars.