Vampire

Vampire , 6 months ago to piracy in Pirate Site Blocking Demands Intensify in the US

Vote Pirate Party

Vampire , 6 months ago to worldnews in No Sign Of Forced Labour At Xinjiang Site, Says VW

I’m sure we can trust Volkswagen

Vampire , 7 months ago to asklemmy in What are some things you would like to see a sort of spiritual successor to?

Jesus

Vampire , 7 months ago to asklemmy in Has anyone else noticed smartphones have got significantly more addictive recently

Even people?

Vampire , 7 months ago to piracy in Most reliable way to download embedded videos?

Could you link to an example

Vampire , 7 months ago to worldnews in China’s carbon emissions set for structural decline from next year | Energy industry | The Guardian

China bad

Vampire , 7 months ago to asklemmy in Are there any communist or socialist societies existing today?

China, Laos, and Vietnam… Suicide rates are so high that suicide nets are installed

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_countries_by_suicide_rate,_WHO_(2019).svg

www.goldengate.org/…/suicide-deterrent-net/

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North Korea: Undemocratically ruled

North Korea is ruled by the Supreme People’s Assembly (최고인민회의) which is directly elected.

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Cuba… Why couldn’t they’ve use machinery imported from the Soviet Union to develop their agriculture and fishery?

No reason not to. Lots of Soviet farm machinery there.

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I can give a longer response when I’m not on mobile, but so I know where to start: what have you read? What sources have you read about China’s economy, for instance?

Vampire , 7 months ago to asklemmy in Are there any communist or socialist societies existing today?

Marx uses the words Socialism and Communism pretty much interchangeably (Engels a little less so). But Europe hasn’t been either since about 1990

Vampire , 7 months ago to asklemmy in Are there any communist or socialist societies existing today?

This is easily looked-up. China, Vietnam, Laos, DPRK

Vampire , 8 months ago to books in Because it's fiction, Susan

Bad take

People like Reagan irl

Vampire , 8 months ago to asklemmy in what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?

humanity generates 16km³ of piss daily.

Vampire , 8 months ago to fediverse in why does the fediverse not serve the authentication problem?

It should be public key accounts like Scuttlebutt, you know it should.

Vampire , 8 months ago to asklemmy in What dog name pairs well with Olive?

Popeye

Vampire , 9 months ago to worldnews in Indonesia debuts southeast Asia's first China-funded bullet train named 'Whoosh'

Trainey MacTrainface

Vampire , 9 months ago to moviesandtv in [Solved] Trying to find a show I watched before

Black Books?