China is like the punk house of the first world.

Okay, China, your firewall is so draconian as to be absolutely silly¹, and it causes me extra work to send Tor bridge addresses to your citizens. And your hackers, the ones you scoop up by the dozen and put on government payrolls simply to cause havoc for hackers and activists in your own and other countries… yeah. That’s a little annoying. And your cute little botmaster who has been sending bad requests to my server for the past week or so: meh, whatevs.

But I just found out, China, that y’all are planning to send a robot to an asteroid to deflect it from a collision course with Earth in 2036. And how are you going to do that? Oh, okay. The robot is going to windsurf the asteroid away from Earth.

I’m willing to forgive the above transgressions, because you just earned +9000 punk points with that idea. You guys are not a country — you’re a giant punk house.

¹ The Great Firewall of Chinese uses a method very similar to this.