Do you really think he’s the only american politician with these imperialist goals? Do you think he thought of all these ideas himself?
if trump dies, there are dozens of replacements ready to step in and continue these insane policies… amerikkka is rotten to the core. Killing one dude isnt going to fix that
Car dependency is a tax we pay to car manufacturers
They underestimated how much we drink
Its not “secretly” if you can find the information through Freedom of Information act.
These people arent even trying to hide it anymore
Entire generation: [looks at step 1] “… nah…”
never think about how to alleviate it.
they gave up on alleviating it a long time ago…
leather seats, premium sound system, in dash entertainment screen, extra large cupholders, reclining seats…
they’ve already accepted their prison sentence and just do everything to make their prison cell more comfortable instead of trying to free themselves.
I love traffic jams. You can watch the stages of grief in every driver when you pass them on bike or foot.
sure it’s fun to be smug, but those angry drivers will just focus their anger on removing bike lanes or other stupid things. Drivers are too stupid for any kind of self-reflection on their self-inflicted problems.
What makes you think chinese firms wont also jump on the AI bandwagon?
someone with an actual CS/engineering background feel free to correct me, but i feel like the only way out of this for gamers is if someone finds a better type of chip for AI work. GPUs just happened to be the best thing for the job when the world went crazy, they were never designed specifically for these workloads.
If someone like tenstorrent can design a RISC-V chip for these LLM workloads, it might take some demand off gaming GPUs.
I have teeth grinding problems and my dentist told me to either get a new (less stressful) job, or inject poison into my jaw…
Kind of on the fence about botox right now
Sublime - Smoke Two Joints
It’s a song. Go have a listen on whatever music service you use
Wowwwww… cant believe i missed it. Thanks
Yeah the gameplay definitely didnt match the tone. Killing was the only option for most of the game. In the cutscenes, she was portrayed as a survivor or whatever. Then in the actual gameplay she was a stone cold killer.
Same problem with the harry potter game. It’s supposed to be about the school, but then you end up wandering the world murdering 100s of people
I’m full time on linux and have no problem using email and vpn without a desktop client
I hate pedestrians who give up their right of way… you’re making the roads more dangerous for everyone
Because I don’t trust anecdotes from individuals
[proceeds to trust some random patreon website and some youtube travel influencers…]
anyway. it was a fun afternoon of earning capitalist value tokens while pretending to add value at work… thanks all for the discussion
the claim is right there in the OP’s meme… “…china is oppressing uyghurs”. i don’t know why you keep demanding “claims” when it’s right in the meme that i was responding to.
the meme suggests that the only evidence comes from some fucker named adrian, whom i’ve never heard of, and RFA and falun gong.
i merely suggested that first hand accounts from my friends might actually be valid… maybe at least something to think about… but apparently listening to actual uyghur people and talking to my actual family in china is just western propaganda… so discussion is already non-starter
anyway. it was a fun afternoon of earning capitalist value tokens while pretending to add value at work… thanks all for the discussion
it’s a family i know here, who left china due to oppression… nobody said anything about violent genocide.
i really don’t need to type out their whole family situation because why waste my time getting instantly downvoted? you’ve all already decided that talking to uyghurs is fake news…
Clearly you can see that my point is that some criticism is real and some is not, right?
no, it’s really not clear what the criteria is for real criticism, vs. not real… seems pretty arbitrary when looking at two very prominent examples of china oppressing cultural/ethic minorities
“Critiquing” China based on exaggerations and atrocity propaganda is bad. LGBTQIA+ rights fall into the former category, the overwhelming majority of allegations surrounding Xinjiang fall into the latter.
i still don’t understand why you think that oppression of LGBT is real, and oppression of uyghurs is exaggeration and propaganda… why is it so OBVIOUS to you that the uyghurs are flourishing, but LGBT people are actually being oppressed?
i KNOW actual uyghur people and i KNOW at least one actual gay person in china… i am chinese and i have family there… i don’t understand how weird internet white knights can wave away the hardships of one group as OBVIOUSLY FAKE (despite likely having never spoken to an actual uyghur person, or even someone from another muslim minority in china), while just arbitrarily believing that china oppresses LGBT people?
by your logic, there are openly gay chinese youtubers who haven’t been executed yet… therefore, there is no oppression and it’s just western propaganda warping your view of china.
the uyghurs i know are not rich people who fled the country and hate china because communism took away their stuff (that would be my taiwanese relatives who DID lose all their bourgeoisie privilege to the communists…) why would they be making shit up about what is happening over there? and why would you be so inclined to dismiss what they have to say just to white knight for china?
while there’s very little evidence of a supposed genocide in Xinjiang.
again, nobody is saying china is doing an israel genocide on uyghurs… read the original meme post… it says oppression
while also believing China has a long way to go on LGBTQIA+ rights
why do you believe this? i heard that china is amazing at supporting gay/trans people… anything else you heard is just reactionary, anti-communist, western propaganda… you see how that works?
Right now you’re doing the bit where Zionists say queer people shouldn’t support Palestine because groups like Hamas are anti-LGBTQIA+
no, i’m doing the bit where a bunch of woke white people are strangely acting like china has zero credible criticisms… while also strangely admitting that china has a long way to go on LBGTQIA+ rights
not all hope is lost…
my friend’s company is starting to go back to doing things the old fashioned way: in-person interviews. they found that people find all kinds of ways to cheat even with these invasive tools. my friend is a software engineer working in a tech shop.