What are you on about?

African countries have been flooded by Chinese goods, to the point that it has killed the local manufacturing in Africa. Look it up.

They don’t have the service industry the west has, so the only thing they can offer in return are raw materials, which China is happy to take.

Lemmy seems to hate went a western company exploits natural resources in Africa, but when China does it, they are somehow saving those poor people from the goodness of their hearts.

China isn’t really desperate for cheap natural resources as much as they are desperate for markets to export their manufactured goods.

Thus killing local manufacturing.

Why someone keeps chasing the latest gadgets when the old ones work just fine is beyond me.

Nobody is waiting every year for the brand new line of washing machines. Why is there a need to swap phones this frequently?

I imagine it wouldn’t take long until someone finds a way to disable that LED.

The CEO of Unity was also CEO, COO, and president of EA. So, is anyone surprised?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Riccitiello

Or even better: buy soon to expire put options just before the announcement. 10x your money.

For the studios releasing a game in a few months, it’s probably too late to ditch unity, but would make sense to start looking at alternatives for their next projects.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Godot explodes in popularity in the next 5 years.

The EFF has supported the prosecution of Kiwi Farms, but not by using ISP blocks.

They understand that setting a legal precedent like this may cause serious harm to other people in the future (e.g. women).

Once an ISP indicates it’s willing to police content by blocking traffic, more pressure from other quarters will follow, and they won’t all share your views or values. For example, an ISP, under pressure from the attorney general of a state that bans abortions, might decide to interfere with traffic to a site that raises money to help people get abortions, or provides information about self-managed abortions. Having set a precedent in one context, it is very difficult for an ISP to deny it in another, especially when even considering the request takes skill and nuance. We all know how lousy big user-facing platforms like Facebook are at content moderation—and that’s with significant resources. Tier 1 ISPs don’t have the ability or the incentive to build content evaluation teams that are even as effective as those of the giant platforms who know far more about their end users and yet still engage in harmful censorship.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it

Playing racism on hard mode.

also the “oh i am so worldly and wise” liberal condescension act is beyond tired. if you’re so old and venerable then just fucking die already, ghoul.

😘

Or I could… not base my views on history entirely off of Wikipedia articles?

So… first you believe Wikipedia, now you don’t, based on whichever articles suit your views?

The Irish Famine was a genocide, because it was intentional. I should’ve clarified I mean that famines can be genocides, but are not inherently genocidal.

I’ll note that your own source says in the very first line:

While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made, whether the Holodomor constitutes a genocide remains in dispute

Here’s a quote from the Irish Famine (same source: wikipedia)

Virtually all historians reject the claim that the British government’s response to the famine constituted a genocide, their position is partially based on the fact that with regard to famine related deaths, there was a lack of intent to commit genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Genocide_question

So you have two options:

1. You either accept both as a genocide

2. Or you basically pick-and-choose based on whichever country was responsible for the genocide.

My guess is that you’ll take the second option.

Famines are not genocides lol. Though I suppose you could make the case that the embargo on the USSR caused a lot of excess deaths. Famines were extremely common before the USSR took power because it was a pre-industrial society, the USSR ended that. Also, the USSR is a completely different government from the Russian Federation.

How do you feel about the Irish Famine?

I’m not sure what genocide you’re referring to in any case.

Have fun:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Cossackization

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_famine_of_1930–1933

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification

lmao Russia had nothing at all to do with January 6th buddy, that was all Trump

I wonder where Trump got his support from. 🤔

The Russian anti-war activists are clearly holding up their end of the bargain. Why are you not holding up yours?

Ah! To be young and naive enough to believe that the anti-war activists in Russia have any leverage. They will all end up in Siberia or jumping out of a window.

Any regime change in Russia will come from the oligarchs, and the Russian working class will still be in a bad position (if not worse).

In both cases there was Russian meddling involved.

I guess Ukrainians are just better at rioting?

Ukraine’s parliament had overwhelmingly approved of finalizing the Agreement with the EU, but Russia had put pressure on Ukraine to reject it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan

How is this in any shape or form analogous to the Jan 6th?

I disagree that the previous government was a puppet government.

Of course you do, that’s my point.

Tankies will support whichever government aligns with a power that is not the US. Even if that power is a capitalist oligarchy like Russia.

The US has a long history of installing far-right governments, has an atrocious record of human rights, and violates sovereignty left and right

They do, but the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.

Specially when you take into account what Russia has done. They have a long history of erasing East European cultures (i.e. Russification), and genocide. So I do not trust them when it comes to Eastern European affairs, and neither do native people from those countries, most of support for Russia in those areas comes from Russian minorities (I wonder how they got there).