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davel , 10 months ago

How did the decision makers who set this stunt up think it was going to play out?

davel , 10 months ago

Maybe they were hoping corporate media wouldn’t notice or wouldn’t cover it, and that social media algorithms would squelch it if anyone outside corporate media noticed it. Maybe the lower house speaker was the designated fall guy as a plan B.

davel , 10 months ago

It’s almost as if reality has a well-known Russian propaganda bias.

davel , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

First of all, we’re not getting jack shit: capitalists in the military-industrial complex are. And second of all, that’s not how US federal taxes work.

Edit: And third of all, Ukraine isn’t getting any of this for free but as lend-leases which their people will be paying off for generations while living under neoliberal austerity measures.

davel , 10 months ago

Spicy… pad thai 🤣 I said my tapioca pudding wasn’t spicy last time.

davel , 10 months ago

NO RAGRETS

davel , 10 months ago

I ordered the only non-spicy dish on the menu and it wasn’t spicy ★☆☆☆☆

davel , 10 months ago

6 out of 7 ain’t bad.

davel , 10 months ago

1989 Tian’anmen Square riots

The 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots (天安门事件) were a CIA-backed attempt at a color revolution against the People’s Republic of China in 1989. Reservations over Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening up policies sparked peaceful protests, which the CPC negotiated with, but soon a foreign-funded faction of students joined the protests and, due to their promotion by Western media, took over the protests and took them in an entirely different direction than what was originally envisioned.

[…]

As the protests were winding down and many protestors went home, the Chinese government sent unarmed PLA troops the clear the square of remaining protestors as the Beijing police was overwhelmed due to their sheer numbers throughout the city. On June 2, rioters burned and lynched unarmed soldiers trying to enter the square. The troops were initially unarmed, but were given weapons on June 3 after the students took some soldiers hostage. They were blocked from entering the square by crowds armed with petrol bombs, iron clubs, and Molotov cocktails. The rioters destroyed over 400 vehicles and destroyed a convoy of over 100 vehicles in western Beijing.

[…]

The riots in Beijing resulted in approximately 300 total deaths, including 36 students, 10 PLA soldiers, and 13 police officers. All of the deaths occurred outside of the square itself.

davel , 10 months ago

No you see it was just a few bad apples.

davel , 10 months ago

My fellow American, no u.

davel , 10 months ago

It’s just weird that nuclear bombs came to your mind, but somehow the nuclear annihilation of two civilian cities was less salient to you than uninhabited islands.

davel , 10 months ago

In contrast, when’s the last time you met someone who knew of “Bikini” as anything other than swimwear?

Not sure as it seldom comes up in conversation, but I knew.

davel , 10 months ago

It’s not unreasonable to have skepticism of ProleWiki.

You might think Wikipedia lacks ideology or bias, but in my opinion it tends to have a Global North/Atlanticist bias. This is probably because of the place of its birth and the people who created it, like American libertarian Jimmy Wales, and the people who have managed it, like Katherine Maher, who has worked for National Democratic Institute and the Atlantic Council, and currently works for the U.S. State Dept.

davel , 10 months ago

And obviously the English language Wikipedia is generally going to have an anglo-Atlanticist point of view, as virtually all L1 English speakers and most many L2 English speakers do.

davel , 10 months ago

I’m sorry to hear you learned nothing.

davel , 10 months ago

And metaprogramming and tail call optimization and and…. At least other languages are starting to catch up with this 60 year old language, by for instance implementing lambda expressions.

davel , 10 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0815ddd3-c6f5-40ad-a4af-f3cb6a95ea03.jpeg

davel , 10 months ago

@offby1: I think we really missed an opportunity a couple of years ago when we didn’t call NFTs “grift certificates”.

davel , 10 months ago

I hate this meme but I love your execution so 👍

davel , 10 months ago

fry meme a river

davel , 10 months ago

Deep dive by Ben Hawkes at Isosceles Blog: The WebP 0day

davel , 11 months ago

Organizationally it’s had leadership with abominable politics. Jimmy Wales is a self-proclaimed libertarian. Katherine Maher was CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, then joined The Atlantic Council, and currently serves on the US Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. [edit: apostrophe’s]