Organic Maps is great but there is also the option of OsmAnd+ which can be more detailed and can also download maps.

This masterpiece comes with an amazing soundtrack, too. Artemiev was an amazing Soviet composer.

Oh, where is this located?

Let’s do it, tavarisch! 🫡

Unfortunately it might be phased out in 2030.

Hey there, welcome aboard!

It seems as if you are absolute in your beliefs and not willing to actually understand others’ viewpoints. A lot of comrades have replied to you in this same post but your answers say a lot about you. And since you mentioned being somewhat of a capitalist yourself in another comment, it looks like you’re predisposed of blindly accepting western brainwash. I don’t like to judge people but you do give off that kind of impression.

Maybe staying in touch with a Marxist-Leninist instance will be of long-term benefit for you. Maybe not. Politics are not as simple as you seem to think.

Best wishes.

So coMputer becomes coMEputer instead?

Yes, I desire English to be an official language in all of the EU countries. We need unity. I don’t care what happens outside of the EU.

Isn’t it already? And where is the unity then?

But I only met my wife outside of my continent because she spoke English. Communication connects people.

You are very lucky. Communication is indeed important, and English does pragmatically help a lot with international exchanges. I only disagree with your claim that we need (only) English for that. But even so, not all content produced on a platform is meant for international consumption. So it is only natural that it will be in the language of the target audience.

I’ll look up XHS, thanks.

Hope you enjoy it :)

Being strict is not how I’m going to handle my life. Now that I need to guide younger employees, I’m not going to order them around. I’m just going to talk to them and try to make them understand. If they refuse, then I’ll take a step back. If shit hits the fan then I’ll offer help. When the shit is cleaned up, I’ll communicate how they can prevent the shit in the future.

My wife’s pregnant, I don’t feel like being a strict parent. I want my kid to be able to think for itself.

The actions of a government cannot be judged on the same basis as the actions of an individual. I agree that you should be foremost communicative and helpful as a manager, an employer, an employee, a person, a parent. But the government operates on a different level. It can’t be too lax with ensuring smooth operation of its society, economy and law enforcement. On the other hand, being too strict like some Muslim countries or the DPRK, the former due to their cultural background, the latter due to a state of belligerency with its neighbour and the constant danger of a war breaking out, is also not the ideal that governments should strive for. I’ve been to Russia and China before and spoken with people from both countries, online and offline, admirable people with great critical thinking. They don’t consider that the laws are too strict; on the other hand, they think that we in the west are strange or even funny when it comes to legislation and law enforcement.

Don’t get me wrong, usually I am the one talking good about china. Their economy boomed tremendously. Poverty went down by far.

We actually both agree in a lot of aspects. :)

She’s indonesian and a lot of Chinese people are near her area where she grew up. She doesn’t like them. That’s her choice, I guess she’ll have her reasons. Mainly because she worked for Chinese owned law practices and had many Chinese clients. I’m guessing it’s just typical employee disliking their boss stuff.

Understandable, but still one should not judge a book by its cover, or a people by speaking with a few persons.

Those platforms will be filled with mandarin instead of English.

If you consider this a problem, do you also believe that everyone should abandon their own language for English? Translation tools are available nowadays and their accuracy has increased a lot in recent years, so there is no need to use an intermediary language.

They need a global social media where they speak a language that people outside of their country understand.

XHS has a lot of content in different languages if that is what you seek. Otherwise, translation tools do a good enough job nowadays so they don’t even need to speak another language to communicate.

If china is so strict and such a large powerful entity, then I don’t wanna be there.

Is being strict bad? If you’re not strict you can’t enforce the laws and if you can’t enforce the laws you’ll eventually end up with a society which has normalised crime and believes that they can get away with it. “Authoritarian” is a very misused word and often used in western propaganda to refer to cultures which are more collectivist and law-obedient than us. Plato in the Republic, if I recall correctly, notes that sacrifices have to be made for the sake of the many because the common good is more important than an individual’s gain, and that thought is actually embedded in the Chinese culture.

But you cannot deny that aiming at blocking VPNs is quite dystopian.

Sometimes measures need to be taken that take away convenience. The Chinese do have limited access to some western sites and apps but it has had a great effect on their technological and economical sovereignty and independence. Chinese platforms are thriving. The Chinese are actually in control of their own data. Can the same be said about our governments where we face a “vendor lock” by FANGAM which have their claws over our data?

It has also kept them away from toxic anti-China sentiment on western platforms.

My only contact with Chinese people is buying their products. A shame, because they are 1,4 billion people that could impact the globe with their ideas.

That’s strange because there are Wechat, Weibo, Xiaohongshu, BiliBili and other Chinese platforms. If you really wanted to socialise with Chinese people you’d already be on one of those platforms and not writing such a cynic complaint. Still, I’ll assume good faith and recommend you to check out these platforms for yourself. Registering an account on XHS is very easy and it is definitely worth it. :)

KissAsian?

The land of the penguins

Fascist granting citizenship to fascist, not really a surprise.

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“In the Future, people won’t have to deal with numbers, for the mighty computers will do all the numbers crunching for them”

The mighty computers:

People who make fun of LLMs most often do get LLMs and try to point out how they tend to spew out factually incorrect information, which is a good thing since many many people out there do not, in fact, “get” LLMs (most are not even acquainted with the acronym, referring to the catch-all term “AI” instead) and there is no better way to make a precaution about the inaccuracy of output produced by LLMs –however realistic it might sound– than to point it out with examples with ridiculously wrong answers to simple questions.

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This needs to be a real command.

Regardless of political subtext, I found Master and Margarita a fun read. Nevertheless, Heart of a Dog of the same author was not pleasant to read.

Soviet literature was not worse than the works of pre-Revolution authors and ranged across many genres, from socialistic realism works to fantasy (Soviet sci-fi was great) and also many children books that are loved till this day. Unfortunately, same with other kinds of works, Soviet literature is disregarded by the West, as are many works that don’t conform to the Western values.