We really do.

Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact” or a variation of that sentiment. Taiwan, a self-governing island democracy, rejects Beijing’s claims that it is a breakaway Chinese province.

Did it also refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America?

“CCP talking points”? Get the fuck out of here with this “China == bad” horseshit. This article isn’t journalism, just scaremongering.

It told a child how to safely sharpen a knife. Oh no.

It told a child how to safely light a match. Oh no.

I was unaware of the EB-5 visa. Thank you for mentioning it. Makes me hate this even more.

Seems like bribery to me.

I’m in Virginia. I’ll go for the water one. Get all that Atlantic up in me. Between the microplastics and bioluminescent life- I think that’s the right choice for me.

I like this and now wish I had a problem to solve with your solution.

The addition of the backstory on Zuko’s crew was a very nice touch. Cautiously optimistic on season two.

I think my comment, and the person I responded to, were being a bit … light hearted (not sure if that’s the right term) about it.

Speaking for myself, don’t let use dissuade you in any way at all. More Americans need to be:

1. aware of how shitty the for profit medical system is. It’s the most expensive healthcare in the world and not even close to the top in healthcare outcomes.
2. Aware that countries much poorer that it dignify all of their citizenry with healthcare. (And zero countries that have done so have ever gone back on that choice)
3. Much more vocal, including in deciding who to vote for, about ending the predatory, immoral profit imperative in healthcare.

Personally I don’t think America can vote its way out of a damn thing, but the corporate propaganda seems to be so terrifically good at getting people I know and care for who I believe have fully functioning brains to believe that somehow this shitty healthcare system is the best in the world.

Thank you for posting the video.

I’d encourage you to continue to recycle, because - it’s important and good for the environment. Just not most plastics. Glass and aluminum are both very recyclable.

I’ve had a certain person accused of a certain thing as my lock screen for about a year because of how much I hate it. Maybe we’re already maxed out and not the target audience for this.

Hail you!

A whole lot of Hava Nagila from the grassy knoll right after.

Anyway, I’m downvoting OP. Stupid post about a serious topic.

I don’t disagree with Mr Fraser’s observations, but … hasn’t Hollywood always been this way? If one wants cinematic art, it’s never come from these big studios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#Commons_in_historical_reality

Wikipedia also recently asked AI companies to start using its paid API instead of scraping it, which would be management of its own commons, but that seems unlikely that anti-Wikipedia Musk projects would spend money on the very thing that it’s trying to destroy.

Anyway, I’m just agreeing with you.

If they were real Christian’s they’d know about Proverbs 26:11.

Leaves from the Vine

I’m sure it is. My point is - what do Lemmy users expect out of a for-profit company operating inside of a capitalistic economic system? Saying “no” to China’s LGBT hating demands is impossible in this situation.

Please please please be a good phone. I feel like that’ll be great. I’d like a Linux phone, but I can’t see that shaping up as a Linux reliable daily driver in the next couple of years.

I’d love to give this a simple upvote. What is Tim Cook’s choice here? Operate illegally in China until the government shuts down their entire source of revenue in an entire market which, also, is the one that produces nearly all of its hardware?

If he doesn’t do it - shareholders will remove him in the blink of an eye and replace him with someone who will.

Where I’m agreeing though is - my current phone is my last Apple phone. I’ll be going with Graphene after this. I don’t want corporations telling me what software I can and can’t run on my decides while surveilling me.

Late to the party, Jacobin. Who doesn’t already know this?

The same people ago told me as a child that television would “rot my brain”, turns out, has no information literacy or critical thinking abilities when it comes to what the Facebook told them.