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davel , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Medical practitioner influencers who are spreading FUD and pseudo-science, can they be held liable in the USA? Do platforms they're on have no obligation to protect users from such harm?

It’s not that hard to understand what c/asklemmy is supposed to be about: it was one of the first communities created on the original Lemmy instance (this one) as a clone of r/AskReddit.

davel , 3 months ago to memes in A helpful graphic about writing alt text

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/82e42a23-a644-4727-97e5-dd4a95a904e6.jpeg www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ROhf5Soqs

davel , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to worldnews in Chinese students in US tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations

China files more patents than the next nine countries combined: www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents

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China is first country to hold over 4 million domestic patents

The number of China’s domestic valid patents does not include those held in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Chinese students in US tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations

Newsweek, 2022: Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans

davel , 3 months ago to memes in A helpful graphic about writing alt text

A capybara in the library with a candlestick.

davel , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Medical practitioner influencers who are spreading FUD and pseudo-science, can they be held liable in the USA? Do platforms they're on have no obligation to protect users from such harm?

I don’t think this question is in the spirit of c/asklemmy. Some recent posts which I think are in the spirit:

• What are your favorite metal song covers?
• What movie trailer ruined the movie with how much it revealed?
• What are actual good movie trailers that get you hooked without spoiling everything?
• Was there ever a internet comment that actually really hurt you?
• What’s your best unconventional “blessing” like when people tell an actor “break a leg!”

I’m not a fan of posts that use c/asklemmy as a catch-all community, but unfortunately the mods have gone AWOL.

davel , 3 months ago to memes in I’m a man of many talents

Obviously you do, and obviously the Bolsheviks and Maoists and the Cuban communists successfully did.

davel , 3 months ago to memes in I’m a man of many talents

I’m as left as they come, and anyone to the left of me is a MAGA troll.

davel , 3 months ago to technology in RIP : Zilog Z80, 1976 – 2024.

I assume there are Z80 clones still in production. The Z80 itself was a copy of the 8080.

davel , 3 months ago to memes in I’m a man of many talents

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ea9a3348-c5c4-4442-b1d9-38543b16f5f0.png hammer-sickle

davel , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Why are Stop Lines (in the US, at least) often set too far back to see any crossing traffic?

I see it a lot where there shouldn’t be any pedestrian activity.

This is a carbrained perspective. If an intersection is designed for cars to the exclusion of other uses, then others are unlikely to use it, which perpetuates car dependency. Even if all cars were electrified, car dependency would still be a massive problem in the US.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Affairs

Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations […]

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Funny how “Russian talking points” are being parroted by the very people who called them “Russian talking points” until recently.

davel , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to worldnews in NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine

Russia has been aggrivated by the US for 80 years

The Soviet Union aggravated the US for ~70 years by being anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist. After the its dissolution, Russia was the US capitalists’ favorite thing… to plunder. Russia didn’t become an aggravation until it put the kibosh on the US’s neocolonial plundering of it. NPR, 2022: How ‘shock therapy’ created Russian oligarchs and paved the path for Putin

( thread How is this conversation still going on two weeks later and over 30 layers deep? 😆)

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Facebook designates Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg a ‘dangerous individual’ - The Grayzone

They don’t downplay the “Uyghur genocide”, they refute it entirely. Copypasta time:

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China is in the process of ethically cleansing their own population

This is not true at all, despite what our governments and corporate media keep feeding us. As part of China’s affirmative action policies, the Uyghurs and other ethic minorities were excepted from the One-Child policy, and in Xinjiang they have grown in numbers relative to Hans as a result, and this happened similarly with other ethnic minorities. The “Uyghur genocide” (“cultural” or otherwise) psyop is BS.

• The Xinjiang Genocide Allegations Are Unjustified
• The Uyghur Human Rights Project is a product of the National Endowment for Democracy, which is the American government’s main regime change NGO.
• Uyghur genocide allegations
• American Debunks All Major Western Propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang
• US-Funded Uyghur Activists Train as Soldiers of Empire
• A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
• The blueprint of regime change operations

We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ‘Uyghur genocide’ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ‘genocide’, all day, every day. People whom we’d never heard of before were brought in as experts — Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.

Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany […]. From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs — presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.

The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.

Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ‘up to 1.3 million’ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didn’t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.

Sanctions were enacted against China — Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).

Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies — aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.

davel , 3 months ago to memes in I'm the worm in the apple car.

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