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Cake day: September 15th, 2022

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  • It’s not like Chinese capitalists don’t hold any power in China. Capitalists and non-capitalist bourgeois hold their wealth in USD. (And the working class also have a lot invested into their savings, though in RMB). So it’s unpopular to do anything to drastically affect their savings. But on top of that, China and Chinese businesses obviously trade currency with the outside as a matter of operation. What are the effects on that trade if the world’s wealthiest country suddenly completely recontextualised the value of it’s currency?

    (I liked the meme by the way).







  • So ignoring the censorship aspect entirely: Admins are asked if they wish to block right wing domains, and then if they say yes, the software blocks (some right wing domains and) left wing investigative journalism sites like The Gray Zone. Russian news sites like RT, Sputnik and TASS, Harry Potter related sites, all of Telegram, vk.com (Russian-language social media site), Video hosts like Peertube and Rumble.

    Is the whole reason you made this list so you could sneak in some personal vendettas? Also pretty suspicious that the BBC isn’t on there. Or CNN. Or WaPo. Or Ynet. Or Mako. Or Times of Israel. Or DW. Given the era we live in, and their complicity in genocide, surely that’d be a higher priority than almost any other website if you’re aiming to block harmful news sites with right wing editorial lines.


  • Steam used to upload your whole resolver cache to Valve (So they could sidestep things not showing up in history when you use private-browsing). And they’re mandated to share everything they have on you with the NSA. So if you’re coming at this from a “I’ll trust Steam but not Wukong” angle, then yes, you are unreasonable. If you’re coming at this from a “All these private Chinese companies have insane privacy policies and send me hundreds of cookies, I’m not trusting anyone they work with!” angle then that’s completely reasonable. Closed source software is never safe, and capitalism doesn’t reward treating your customers well.


  • Do you think OP is presenting this street, completely full with people, as an example of normal pedestrian traffic? This is the inauguration. Nobody lives in these flats. The people on the street are having a party, following a plan by the party organisers, and then at the end they will move in to their new flats.

    Most likely the party organisers have made deliberate choices to discourage people attending from watching from behind the stage, on account of how stages work.



  • Aria@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlnK bAd!!!
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    2 months ago

    How can you say North Korea is good? Don’t you know they have to push their trains to work? You even get executed if you have the same haircut or a different haircut than WPK’s General Secretary. They’re so evil that they’ll execute people with a 76mm cannon and then sew the mist back together and medically resurrect the person and re-execute them and then they’re forced to go back to work afterwards.