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A century ago, there were two distinct domains: Nature and Society. Now there's just one: The Fediverse.

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    Imperial rule

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  • Sorry for being snarky... Of course modern China is an empire. Just without overseas military bases. A soft empire, one might say.

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  • The vile Russian Empire, with its Romanov dynasty, super problematic. If Peter is so great, why does he look so wimpy compared to Joe Rogan? Hah, those stupid tankies don't even realize the Chinese empire has been abolished for over 110 years!

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  • So true! All the peaceniks yapping about the a bomb, flowers and trees are just pinkos. I heard a guy call for ceasefire in Palestine the other day, and I screamed to him: "Fuck off to Iran, if you like it so much".

  • Neo-Pentacostalism With Charismatic Characteristics is Heretical and Needs to Be Stopped

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  • Hedges is a gift to journalism.

  • What desktop enviroment do you use and why?

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  • It's hard to go back after Sway/I3 with pywal coloration, when everything is so sluggish in comparison. It's amazing to see gnome and KDE adding like a second to launch/quit of common applications. Tried hyprland, but animations seemed choppy (beefy AMD desktop), has that changed?

  • Is this true about Generation gap in Piracy?

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  • I think pocket and quite the slew of unrelated features disagrees with you. Seems like most browsers are happy to be the everything app.

  • Is this true about Generation gap in Piracy?

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  • No Herr officer, I was just trying to download my favorite distros, and I don't know where all that Metallica/Disney/Nintendo came from.

  • Is this true about Generation gap in Piracy?

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  • Why can't browsers treat torrents as just another protocol for downloads, so that if you haven't got a default set for torrent out magnet mimetypes, it just downloads it in the included download manager?

  • Any other color

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  • Sounds untrue. Source?

  • Stop!

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  • Why am I crying?

  • Anyone else getting bounced from mainstream websites with Mullvad VPN?

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  • Unacceptable

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  • Never stayed much past lunch, myself. Working in finance

  • Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

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  • France warns of threat to elections from Russian disinformation network with far-right links

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  • No? I'm having a hard time separating actual disinformation and legitimate criticism being McCharty'ed. Eurovision is indeed legitimizing the apartheid state currently committing genocide, while my state is deeming protests Russian disinformation.

  • Bulgaria: Chinese rail maker CRRC withdraws from public tender after EU launched probe into it over suspected state subsidies

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  • Indeed. Seems like EU is dead set on joining the US economic war on China.

  • EU may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs as Commission finds evidence that China has been “unfairly” subsidizing its EV exports

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  • Ad hominem, whataboutism

    There it is, the cry of the beaten information warrior

  • EU may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs as Commission finds evidence that China has been “unfairly” subsidizing its EV exports

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  • And I say this as someone as far left as left goes.

    This is much like beginning a comment with "I'm not racist, but", with the inevitable horrible racism that follows. Your comment is such a gross simplification of history and dismissal of context, that it borders on the malign. For instance the number in your source says 15-55 million, not 55 million. The ideological broadside is very apparent. Facts not feelings, to paraphrase a broken clock.

    1. Yes, China had a terrible famine in the 60s, but far left people tend to consider it in context China's historical famines, as well as the many millions dead to capitalist induced famine.
    2. Leftists tend to consider deaths and consequences of capitalist imperialism when discussing foreign and developing nations.
    3. Today India is listed as a country in "Serious" risk in the Global Hunger Index, while China is of course "Low".

    These are just three aspects of context, of many, which you could have chosen to inform your comment. In stead it is perpetuating a US-vs-Them cold war, black and white rhetoric, making the West out to be exceptionally good, while China is entirely bad. Smart people smell the lies included in such oversimplification a long way. You run fast and loose with your facts, presenting allegations of Uyghur genocide as fact, while you probably know how the UN will not call it that, after long running and thorough investigations, a lack of evidence, etc. On the other hand, we in Europe are very much facilitating the ongoing genocide in Palestine, of which there is ample coverage.

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  • There you go again making blanket statements, giving you a look of either being a little daft and unnuanced or some kind of propagandist. "Nothing good", unless you count biggest lift of people from poverty in history. Imagine two people being born in the sixties in India and China respectively. Both are dirt poor back then. Today one will still be poor, still in a third world country, while the other drives EVs, get their power from worlds largest green energy infrastructure, has working public services, best train system, etc.

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  • I think it's hard to tell and would advise against bombastic blanket statements like this, especially on China. We're talking about one billion people and the world's largest economy, after all. Our ability to clearly analyze China is hindered by its own opaqueness, but one should not forget the thick layer of propaganda we in the West are served whenever we're talking about one of the so-called strategic adversaries.

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  • Ok, I misunderstood you.