At least 11 Israelis were injured early Tuesday while rushing to shelters after a missile launched from Yemen targeted central Israel, according to Israeli public broadcaster KAN.
The Israeli army said its air defenses intercepted the missile before it entered Israeli airspace. Air-raid sirens were sounded across central Israel, prompting hundreds of thousands to seek shelter.
Medical teams treated 11 people for injuries sustained while running to shelters, with four others receiving treatment for panic, the broadcaster reported.
The Houthi group later confirmed that it had carried out the strike, saying that it targeted the Israeli Defense Ministry with a hypersonic ballistic missile.
Medical teams treated 11 people for injuries sustained while running to shelters,
At least a hundred thousand people have been slaughtered, and we're expected to feel bad for 11 settlers who tripped and fell running to their shelters from a single return missile?
Also they got hit because Israel intercepted the missile above them instead of allowing it to land on the military target. At least some of them were hurt by debris from the interceptor missile instead of the Houthi missile.
After developing wrist issues and plateauing at 65 WPM on traditional keyboards, I decided it was time to improve my typing form. My technique had always been a hybrid of touch typing and hunt-and-peck, heavily favoring my left hand while only using 2-3 fingers on my right.
Twenty plus years of ingrained typing habits needed a complete reset, and what better way than switching to an entirely new format? The ergonomic mechanical keyboard scene had caught my eye since college, which led me to the 42-key split Corne.
I opted for a pre-built model, and despite the current learning curve (hovering around 15 WPM), I couldn't be happier with the decision. The only minor issue
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After developing wrist issues and plateauing at 65 WPM on traditional keyboards, I decided it was time to improve my typing form. My technique had always been a hybrid of touch typing and hunt-and-peck, heavily favoring my left hand while only using 2-3 fingers on my right.
Twenty plus years of ingrained typing habits needed a complete reset, and what better way than switching to an entirely new format? The ergonomic mechanical keyboard scene had caught my eye since college, which led me to the 42-key split Corne.
I opted for a pre-built model, and despite the current learning curve (hovering around 15 WPM), I couldn't be happier with the decision. The only minor issue is with the tenting stands I added - they tend to slide during pinky key presses. While I have a few spare double-sided adhesive pads to experiment with, I'm still working on finding the optimal tenting solution through trial and error.
Choc brown switches Sculpted keycaps ZMK firmware
Unfortunately, I'm already eyeing other ergo mechs like dactyl, totem, and the KLOR polydactyl but I'm going to try to restrain myself, at least for a few months 🤣
wishing you much patience, I also did the switch to unlabelled, ortholinear and colemak DH all in one go about two years ago, and the first month is the hardest. Keep plowing through, you will be fully up to speed in 3 months and start to feel like a witch/wizard after that!
Part of the reason I did it all in one go as well was so I still had the proper muscle memory for QWERTY mechs/laptop Krebs, and I've read that doing it all in one go was a good way to achieve that. Are you still able to type on qwerty boards without a hitch?
I'm most likely going to be unable to actually use these for work for a few weeks. These came in on Saturday and I've spent about 3hrs on kebr and I'm about halfway unlocked with the letters with a target wpm set to 15 lol.
Figured I'll use kebr for initial letter learning and then start switching to other platforms like monkeytype and one that i saw suggested with common n-grams after that
Looking forward to getting over this initial hump, but its definitely been a bit demoralizing.
I switch between conventinal qwerty and colemak dh ortholinear on the daily! The different layouts is how I keep them apart :P
15wpm is great for 3 hours! At some point u gotta take the plunge, I used to switch back to qwerty for screensharing since I didn't want to make anybody watch me struggle to type one word for 10 seconds lol. But the sooner you start at work the sooner you will be comfortable with it. Maybe when you've unlocked all the letters on keybr :P
Yeah I've been playing with it a bit at work today with my mappings printed outaround me. Noticing a few that I'm not in love with (mainly symbols and some hotkeys) going to try to adhear to the miryoku mantra of hotkeys alternating sides, as I find some of the defaults I need to move my whole hand to be inefficient.
Adding these rubber feet resolved all sliding, but I'm sure if I angled the kickstands properly the first go around that it would have worked as is
Pic incase someone runs into the same issue in the future:
Since I type for money, and its not like my wpm were anything to brag about, I figured I might as well take some time to optimize so I don't end up hurting myself further down the line
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Numerous performance improvements throughout the code base.
We are excited to announce the release of OpenZFS 2.3.0.
Key Features in OpenZFS 2.3.0:
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It strikes me that we are witnessing a self-fulfilling prophecy in the making. It started out as mere act of trolling that the media ran with in its insatiable hunger for spectacle, amplifying it beyond reason. And now, what began as frivolity has turned into a subject of earnest debate.
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I'll never understand American politicians. Sure blah blah blah the Chinese are the devil, but its not like this actually stops anyone from selling to them. Nvidia will just make a quadro D and sell that instead.
Not only that, but the so called "free market" capitalistic ideals that both establishment Republicans & Democrats defend on behalf of their corporate overlords, has made it so other countries are now surpassing us in almost every way. Rather than adapt, the US is like naw we'll just buy everyone off or kill them.
They really think AI chips are a breakthrough. It's Fking FPGAs, empty lookup tables, they don't know what to put in there, and we train ML on GPUs... Also China knows how to make those, they also can do their own CPUs and GPUs, they don't need US for that.
If you think they don't know how you're delusional. First research is globally shared and second, China has always found ways to get information they need from companies, either because they just give it to them or because US accept people that will give information back to China.
Exactly. It takes tens of thousands of discrete pieces of technology from hundreds of companies in 30+ countries to put a fab together. If you are missing a piece, no fab for you. So yes, if you can manage to block some part of that chain, you can effectively block that fab from being built.
That argument makes more sense, but manufacturing is their strength. How many parts of ASML are actually done outside Asia? I don't know honestly but as we manufacture most electronics and tools there, the only option to hide technology from China for US is working exclusively with Taiwan (Korea and Japan maybe but expensive) to make those.
That's why Chinas manufacturing is being targeted too. Otherwise they will inevitably develop the process for bleeding edge in house chip fabrication. Technology is only a matter of time. The US is trying to stall any way they can.
It's absolutely hilarious how we now have Raimondo openly admitting that trying to hold back China technologically is a fool's errand, and yet there's no change in policy. This is the definition of idiocy.
"Unlike Communist China, the US believes in free market capitalism and that the market will regulate itself, the US would especially never threaten other governments to tow the party line unlike those communists."
I don't know how China can hope to match the US in global power and influence if they don't have access to the most generic anime softcore porn you've ever seen
I agree it was expected but it's important that it happened.
I've always assumed Meta's investment in Threads's ActivityPub compatibility was purely to show the EU, "Hey look, we're trying to follow the open standard."
For that reason I've believed that giving Meta a VERY short leash was reasonable. While I believed them to be full of shit, I think extending an olive branch and allowing them to be part of the Fediverse at large was a worthwhile effort.
They have however put almost no effort into being a good part of the Fediverse. They've implemented minor features and sharing, just enough to say " technically we're working on it."
Now we can see them directly blocking. Now maybe in a few days they'll say "whoopsie", but I think this clearly shows they truly have no interest or intention of being part of the Fediverse.
I'm not surprised by this. I fully expected this. But I was willing to give them a chance. Maybe they didn't deserve that chance. I think they've certainly forfeited it now.
I’ve always assumed Meta’s investment in Threads’s ActivityPub compatibility was purely to show the EU, “Hey look, we’re trying to follow the open standard.”
Threads’s ActivityPub compatibility isn't available in the EU. European Threads profiles cannot enable ActivityPub federation.
I wrote this blog recently about what the Fediverse is and why it is so awesome, together with how I created a monster to automate our Friendica TROM page and my personal account to post everywhere (Facebook, Twitter, TROM Live, my Live). Yesterday we had a really great TROMcast with the people behind Friendica and Mastodon, and Disroot.org. And I want to write a brief “beginner guide” to Friendica, because I love Friendica :). And the people behind the project are super friendly.
First of all, make an account to give it a try.
There are many “instances” so you can choose whichever. I personally recommend venera.social. It works great and the guy behind the project seems like a very nice human. Register and wait for approval. I know, it seems like a pain in the ass to wait for approval, but trust me on this. It is going to be a fast approval and they do that so that they keep these instances nice and clean. Your account will be approved 100%.
Tweak your account.
After you are approved simply go through your settings and set up stuff. It is a lot better than Facebook and easier to grasp and very clean. You can choose to block content based on language, words, you can choose who can see your posts and such. It is up to you how you set this up. Take it easy. No rush. You don’t have to do anything if you don’t want to, and you can do any changes in time. It is your baby dear.
Start to follow people and organizations.
This is what you are there for. But how can you find them? Don’t be like a hungry bear that goes into a house and wants to eat everything it finds, and if it does not find much, it goes away. Be a nice, civilized, and sane bear and you’ll get to eat in that house very good food and not get fat. For starters you can follow us, people from TROM. Sasha, Shas, Aaron, me, Alexio and more importantly our TROM page. Then look through our contact list and add more people. Let it grow slowly and organically. In the contacts settings, you can search people based on interests (keywords). Let it grow slowly and I mean that. You may be used with Facebook and the crazy of influx of information that engulfs your entire life. This is a way for you to start as brand new and meet new people. It is like moving from New York (facebook) to a small nice village. You’ll see, life is better there ;).
The awesome part that keeps me personally there.
Friendica opens the doors to pretty much any Federated network. Say you find a Mastodon account in the wild. Copy the url to your Friendica search bar then simply follow them. Do the same for any other Federated network. Now you can interact with these people (send private messages, see their posts in your feed, comment to them, like, share, etc.).
Follow websites!
Yah! You can. Pretty much any website (since most have an RSS feed). Copy our videoneat.com url, or tromjaro.com, tiotrom.com, bigworldsmallsasha.com, trade-free.org/directory, or any other that you like, into the contacts page and just follow. You’ll get to see the posts in your feed whenever these websites post new stuff. How cool! You can also tweak the settings for each such website, individually. For example you can set up how frequently you get updates from them, if you want to get a notification when they post something new, or format how the posts should look like.
At times, if these websites support it, you can see their entire articles in you feed so no need to go to their websites. I recommend you select “fetch information and keywords” so you get to see their posts as a summary and link to the original article. And lastly, you can select to auo-reshare any of these websites’ posts on your profile if you wish. Or as your own posts.
Follow Twitter!
If you have a Twitter account, now is the time to never use twitter.com but use it through your Friendica. Go to Settings – Social Networks and click the Twitter tab. Connect to your Twitter (easy, a few seconds). Now you should choose “allow posting on twitter” and “import the remote timeline”. Why? Because now if you want to follow someone on Twitter, simply copy their twitter url, the entire thing, into the same contacts page and follow them. And you’ll see their posts in your timeline. Easy.
You can reply to these Twitter accounts from Friendica and interact with them from there. Super cool. I already follow a few Twitter accounts and works great.
Follow Facebook pages and more!
You cannot follow people/pages from Facebook in a “native” and interactive way, but there is a way you can do that when these are public. Go to our RSS-Bridge service here. Search for Facebook Bridge | Main Site. Now click “show more”. And add a Facebook page name that you want to follow as I showcase bellow. “username” is the page name.
Now click “Html”. You will be redirected to a new page where you can see the posts of that page as such.
Right click the Mrss and then Copy Link. That’s all. Now you have the RSS link of that Facebook page. Go to your contacts page and add it there. Then click “connect”. Same as adding any contacts or websites.
And that’s how you can follow Facebook pages or public profiles. Use that RSS-Bridge. You cannot comment/interact with these, but well…at least you can follow them. I suggested to Friendica-friendy developers to add the RSS-Bridge as an addon to Friendica, so that if you want to follow a user/page to be as easy as pasting the facebook URL into the “add new contact” form, and the rest is magic.
Follow the entire internet!
Follow Youtube, WordPress plugins updates, Wikipedia daily article or “did you know?”, VK pages, Vimeo, photos from Unsplash, you can even follow Twitter users and pages without an account or even follow hashtags….you can follow Telegram public groups, or when new stuff is added to the BitTorrent network (like say you want to know when a new episode from whatever documentary series you like, is available on torrents). Follow Sub-Reddits, or even PornHub; follow the latest releases on FDroid and sooo much more. I am telling you, this RSS-Bridge is amazing and you can use it as a proxy for connecting your Friendica to pretty much the entire internet.
So yah…slowly you can add up as much stuff to your friends/follows as you want. Create a stream of what you love from the entire Internet.
Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and the like, thought people that they should be spoon fed. You wait for them to feed you, and that led to a world where what you consume is always what these platforms are feeding you. And they do that based on their own interests, not yours. And you end up being unable to control that spoon ->>
It takes a bit of time to move to a place like Friendica. But not as much as you might think. However, you have to get used to feed yourself. Grab that spoon. Choose your food. You will see that it makes a huge difference in the long term.
Friendica is amazing and one of the unique features is that it works with all of the other federated protocols + twitter + rss. It means, I can follow anyone out there (almost), and engage with the...
Since the text is from 2020, some information is no longer up to date: The connections to Twitter and Facebook are closed, instead there are now connectors to Tumblr and Bluesky
Like if I install a connector for Bluesky, then does that allow me to just subscribe and see bluesky content in my friendica feed? Or does it allow me to post onto friendica posts found on bluesky? Or does it allow me to post onto bluesky my posts on friendica?
If I understand correctly, all three are possible, but I don't use it myself and only know these instructions in German. Here are the most important paragraphs (automatically) translated:
"Friendica allows you to make various settings. You therefore have the choice of whether and how you want to use the connection to Bluesky.
Even if the connection to Bluesky has been established and your contacts have been imported, this does not mean that all your Fediverse posts are automatically visible on Bluesky.
Friendica gives you the freedom to decide how deeply you want to integrate with Bluesky.
[ 1 ] ‘Publish to Bluesky by default’ - if this option is activated, every post will also be visible on Bluesky
[ 2 ] ‘Import the remote timeline’ - if this option is activated, all posts from the accounts you follow will be imported.
[ 3 ] ‘Complete the threads’ -
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If I understand correctly, all three are possible, but I don't use it myself and only know these instructions in German. Here are the most important paragraphs (automatically) translated:
"Friendica allows you to make various settings. You therefore have the choice of whether and how you want to use the connection to Bluesky.
Even if the connection to Bluesky has been established and your contacts have been imported, this does not mean that all your Fediverse posts are automatically visible on Bluesky.
Friendica gives you the freedom to decide how deeply you want to integrate with Bluesky.
[ 1 ] ‘Publish to Bluesky by default’ - if this option is activated, every post will also be visible on Bluesky
[ 2 ] ‘Import the remote timeline’ - if this option is activated, all posts from the accounts you follow will be imported.
[ 3 ] ‘Complete the threads’ - if this option is activated, all comments on your posts and those of your contacts will be completed with additional comments.
Your connection to Bluesky is now established. Your timeline will now be filled with posts from the Fediverse and Bluesky.
You can now interact with your Bluesky contacts. For example, by entering a comment without opening the Bluesky app or browser window."
I just signed up for friendica. I found it was slow as hell and I couldn't find content. I posted a question in one of the most popular groups, and I got no response.
Also, their "forums" aren't really forums. They're just a wall.
Honestly, friendica seems cool, in the same way Facebook seemed cool in the early days, but if we're remaking social media for the fediverse, can we try to remake Myspace instead?
SpaceHey is a retro social network focused on privacy and customizability. It's a friendly place to have fun, meet friends, and be creative. Join for free!
I forgot about spacehey! I made an account and never got around to setting it up. Shame it's not part of the fediverse, though! Myspace had that part where you could, like, post a random letter or something that wasn't confined to your friends. I can't remember what it was called. I just remember Mrs. Abnorman Punkrockwell used to post open letters. Lmao. Anyway, it would be perfect for integrating into Mastodon, and Myspace groups would be perfect for integrating into Lemmy.
Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized Instagram competitor. On Facebook, the company is labeling links to Pixelfed.social as “spam” and deleting them immediately.
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Bluesky user AJ Sadauskas originally posted that links to Pixelfed were being deleted by Meta; 404 Media then also tried to post a link to Pixelfed on Facebook. It was immediately deleted.
Pixelfed is experiencing a surge in user signups in recent days, after Meta announced that it would loosen its rules to allow users to call LGBTQ+ people “mentally ill” amid a host of other changes that shift the company overtly to the right. Meta and Instagram have also leaned heavily into AI-generated content. Pixelfed announced earlier Monday that it is launching an iOS app later this week.
Pixelfed said Sunday it is “seeing unprecedented levels of traffic to pixelfed.social.”
Isn't free market economics essentially about stripping government restrictions and regulations, specifically enabling this kind of commercial foul play by removing the legal tools to prevent it?
Basically the opposite of how everyone expects it to work.
I get called cranky or asked why I'm in a shitty mood even if I'm having a wicked good time because I don't feel the need to show other people how I feel. I'll smile when I feel it's appropriate, I'm not gonna plaster a smile over myself just to make you feel better about yourself.
Then you haven’t used it. The Reddit stream of 100% hate towards TikTok without understanding it is a very bad take. It provided a ton of momentum in recent US social movements.
Ya it's literally the easiest way to get a quick video on something you wanna learn. Not to mention (unlike other platforms) you get a friendly face that teaches it to you
Because there's no critical thought about who is delivering that information to you, where they got it from, what biases and/or agendas they may or may not have, etc...
If you are learning about the world through 15 second videos of a random internet stranger talking about a subject, then you are going to end up with a fucked up (and just objectively incorrect) worldview. But I guess it's OK because they have a friendly face.
You comment as if me reading your 15 second comment isn’t the same. Who are you to judge if unknown viewers think critically? This is a cringe take carried over from reddit
they can but usually don't, when tiktok was pretty new I became a nazi because of it and I stayed that until I saw how the government (any and every government) is a corrupt force that lies to you amd hurts you in other ways
You just need to train your algorithm, my tik tok always show a lot of interesting educational stuff. I can't remember the last time I saw any kind of soft porn there, my Instagram on the other hand is always shoving big and hard gym booties on my face.
I'm simply engaging with reality. The funny part that this is openly admitted, but here we have you pretending it's not the case. commondreams.org/news/mitt-rom…
A conversation between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Republican senator offered an "incredible historical document" showing how the U.S. views its role in the Middle East.
This doesn't prove your point at all, there are plenty of other media outlets that were and still are reporting on Gaza. If you spent time outside of the brain rot app maybe you'd know this.
What number of people found out about it from tv and what number found out on tiktok? I wouldn't be surprised if the tiktok number was higher. I don't know why you're so sure it isn't
I dunno... I was informed a lot on TikTok. Like, 2020-2022 I had a whole lot of "I was X years old when I learned this..." thanks to Black and Brown creators who got a voice on TikTok that was lacking anywhere else.
All news agencies in my country have a tik tok account and regularly use it to publish exactly the same news as they do on their newspapers or on TV. I don't see how watching that news on tik tok is any different that turning on the TV and watching it there.
This is actually a good point. Last time I said something good about China I was attacked on lemmy for it being censored. As if that doesn’t happen here
There is no contradiction here, because the communists, with their customary candor, acknowledge the necessity of stifling speech they deem to be harmful. It is the liberals, those self-appointed guardians of unfettered discourse, who are engaging in hypocrisy. They wax lyrical about the sanctity of free expression, only to abandon their lofty principles the moment their narrative falters.
Where and who are these communists you're referring to?
I asked like this, because it's generally a hallucination, as communists have no real power over others, anywhere on this planet. So, it's a logical impossibility that you could have experienced any kind of censorship done by communists.
How to say you don't have any clue about China without saying you don't have any clue about China. If you genuinely want to learn about China I can recommend this book, but we both know that you don't redletterspp.com/products/the-…
And how have the Vietnamese and Cuban governments censored your speech lately? And what reach would you say they have on social media?
I'm sure you can figure out how google works all on your own. The reality is that no society practices free speech absolutism, and the only question is what type of speech gets censored. I urge you to spend a bit of time educating yourself on the subject you're attempting to debate here instead of wasting everyone's time.
China provides a powerful example of what socialism can achieve. Not only is the Communist Party of China committed to Marxism, but it is a leading force for the development of Marxism.
Oh, I understand China enough to know they aren't communists. Communism isn't "Whenever the state does things" or "Whenever the state gets bigger".
I’m sure you can figure out how google works all on your own
I'm sure I can, however, I cannot see any large levers of power either of those governments have over people not inside of their national borders.
And, to be honest, I'm not sure how much either of them are "communist", since communism requires a stateless society in order to be considered "communist".
If you understood China at all then you would know that they are in fact communists. But it's very clear that you have an incredibly superficial understanding of the subject.
I do know what communism is, and I also understand that the fact that we live in a world dominated by capitalism that nations led by communists must exist within. Seriously spend a bit of time educating yourself instead of clowning around here.
If you understood China at all then you would know that they are in fact communists. But it’s very clear that you have an incredibly superficial understanding of the subject.
Ok, I'll bite. What makes you think China is a communist state?
I do know what communism is, and I also understand that the fact that we live in a world dominated by capitalism that nations led by communists must exist within.
How does one have "nations led by communists" that are fully state-capitalist societies?
Seriously spend a bit of time educating yourself instead of clowning around here.
Oh, I have spent a LOT of time educating myself... Its the main reason I understand that China hasn't even been socialist since the 1970s or so, Russia hasn't been a socialist society since the late 1910's, and the way of the socialist revolution never starts with "Making a state bigger", because it almost immediately gets usurped for a new set of oligarchs that love using socialist words.
Ok, I’ll bite. What makes you think China is a communist state?
China is a socialist state that established the dictatorship of the working class, and that's governed by a Communist party that represents the interests of the working majority. Socialism is a transitional stage where the workers hold power in society, but capitalist have not yet been abolished. That's precisely the stage of development China finds itself in today.
How does one have “nations led by communists” that are fully state-capitalist societies?
I wonder what goes through your mind when you say state capitalism. Capitalism is a system where the means of production are privately owned, and people who own the means of production exploit the workers who sell their labor to increase their wealth. In contrast, state owned industry does not exist to create wealth for a capital owning class, and the work that's done has direct social value.
Oh, I have spent a LOT of time educating myself
It's quit
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Ok, I’ll bite. What makes you think China is a communist state?
China is a socialist state that established the dictatorship of the working class, and that's governed by a Communist party that represents the interests of the working majority. Socialism is a transitional stage where the workers hold power in society, but capitalist have not yet been abolished. That's precisely the stage of development China finds itself in today.
How does one have “nations led by communists” that are fully state-capitalist societies?
I wonder what goes through your mind when you say state capitalism. Capitalism is a system where the means of production are privately owned, and people who own the means of production exploit the workers who sell their labor to increase their wealth. In contrast, state owned industry does not exist to create wealth for a capital owning class, and the work that's done has direct social value.
Oh, I have spent a LOT of time educating myself
It's quite obvious that you have not based on the fact that you don't understand the basics of the subject you're debating.
China is a socialist state that established the dictatorship of the working class
Weird, because I don't seem to think there's any of the working class liberated there, like at all?
Just more capitalism. When do you think there will be some working class liberation there?
I wonder what goes through your mind when you say state capitalism
I imagine a system that is capitalist, and ran fully by the state, at the best of oligarchs. Which is exactly what China is.
Capitalism is a system where the means of production are privately owned, and people who own the means of production exploit the workers who sell their labor to increase their wealth.
Yep, China ticks all of those boxes.
In contrast, state owned industry does not exist to create wealth for a capital owning class, and the work that’s done has direct social value.
Ah yes, we should let all the people of China know that all that wealth is actually theirs, and they are fit to u
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China is a socialist state that established the dictatorship of the working class
Weird, because I don't seem to think there's any of the working class liberated there, like at all?
Just more capitalism. When do you think there will be some working class liberation there?
I wonder what goes through your mind when you say state capitalism
I imagine a system that is capitalist, and ran fully by the state, at the best of oligarchs. Which is exactly what China is.
Capitalism is a system where the means of production are privately owned, and people who own the means of production exploit the workers who sell their labor to increase their wealth.
Yep, China ticks all of those boxes.
In contrast, state owned industry does not exist to create wealth for a capital owning class, and the work that’s done has direct social value.
Ah yes, we should let all the people of China know that all that wealth is actually theirs, and they are fit to use it as they deem fit, even if Xi disagrees.
It’s quite obvious that you have not based on the fact that you don’t understand the basics of the subject you’re debating.
Get back to me when China actually liberates anyone in the working class.
Weird, because I don’t seem to think there’s any of the working class liberated there, like at all?
That's because you're utterly clueless on the subject and speak out of ignorance.
Just more capitalism. When do you think there will be some working class liberation there?
It already happened as a result of the revolution. One only has to compare the development path of China to actual capitalism states to see that it's socialist. These kinds of things do not happen under capitalism.
90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2…
Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024
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Weird, because I don’t seem to think there’s any of the working class liberated there, like at all?
That's because you're utterly clueless on the subject and speak out of ignorance.
Just more capitalism. When do you think there will be some working class liberation there?
It already happened as a result of the revolution. One only has to compare the development path of China to actual capitalism states to see that it's socialist. These kinds of things do not happen under capitalism.
90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2…
The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. nber.org/system/files/working_…
From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) semanticscholar.org/paper/Chin…
From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. data.worldbank.org/indicator/S…
By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/a…
Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. worldbank.org/en/news/press-re…
In fact, we can directly compare to how things are progressing in India to see what capitalist path of development looks like.
I imagine a system that is capitalist, and ran fully by the state, at the best of oligarchs. Which is exactly what China is.
It's not, and if you actually bothered to learn about China you'd know that. You can start by reading the book I linked above.
Yep, China ticks all of those boxes.
It doesn't as you can clearly see above. The problem with trolls such as yourself is that you just continue to repeat nonsense confidently and refuse to engage with reality.
Ah yes, we should let all the people of China know that all that wealth is actually theirs, and they are fit to use it as they deem fit, even if Xi disagrees.
The fact that you think that Xi runs China unilaterally once again shows just how ignorant you are on the subject. You don't even understand the basics of how a political system works.
Get back to me when China actually liberates anyone in the working class.
They already have, but you don't care about actual facts of the situation because they don't fit with your demagogy. Bye.
Over the past 40 years, China has lifted nearly 800 million people out of poverty, accounting for more than 75 percent of global poverty reduction in the same period, according to a new report released on Thursday.
Are you trying to make the argument that Marxism isn't Socialist? I think that's a very silly argument, Marxism certainly isn't Anarchist but it is Socialist. The USSR operated under Marxist notions of Socialism, based on public ownership and central planning, something the PRC is based on today (though with their own characteristics).
I don't think Kronstadt is a good example for your case. The Kronstadt mutiny happened during the Russian Civil War, while the Red Army was fighting off the Tsarist White Army, as well as 14 Capitalist countries that had invaded in order to destabilize the new Socialist State. Secondly, it was headed by Stepan Petrichenko, who had 1 year prior tried to join the Tsarist White Army.
Furthermore, Kronstadt was reported on by Western Media 2 weeks before it had happened, with enthusiastic support against the Socialist State. The "strike" involved arresting 300 Bolshevik officials, and threatening to execute 23 of them. Among their listed demands? Freedom of anti-Communism and purging of Communists from the factories and millitary. After it failed, Petrichenko fled and joined the White Army, finally fulfilling his goal of proving himself as a good anti-Communist and worthy of fighting to reinstate the Tsar.
Do you have a better example of an actual strike being slaughtered, and not a mutiny in the middle of a Civil War that was led by a Tsarist for the purposes of dismantling Socialism?
Again, can you explain how it was a labor strike when they arrested 300 Communists, threatened to execute 2 dozen of them, all at the command of someone who wanted to reinstate the Tsar, whose demands included purging Communists from the government and millitary?
Secondly, you're confirming that you don't think Marxism is Socialist. No Marxist has ever claimed that you even can abolish classes instantly, nor that the USSR managed to do so. Abolition of classes is a global phenomenon.
What of Marx have you read? I don't think it's a good idea to argue from a position you haven't studied.
"Lemmy" isn't one thing. Every community on every instance is different so you didn't get censored on "Lemmy" you get moderated in a specific community. Lemmy itself (the software) is censorship proof meaning you are free to launch you own instance, as you have done, with your own communities and post there and no one would be able to censor you and it would federate to any linked instance to your subscribers.
I didn't use it explicitly but the memes that filtered out of it into other platforms were great. Tiktok and it's initial music focus ruined short form video memes in my opinion
And the text-to-speech voiceovers. I don’t know why I detest those so much, but for some reason it just sets my teeth on edge. Like nails on a chalkboard.
I find it funny when people get upset that a meme template gets used in a novel way. These aren't religious texts that are immutable, memes evolve over time.
Bad take. We're in the modern world of information warfare: expecting every citizen to be immune to psychological trickery from a nation spending tens of billions to research and test ways to trick them is unrealistic and unreasonable. There's people with PhDs in human psychology spending their entire time and untold amounts of compute power trying to stoke the flames of division and push misinformation and you think we should allow it?
The US government isn't in charge of one of the largest social media platforms in the world. US corporations are absolutely doing this as well, but that's an argument for more regulation not to grant China free reign
The US government isn’t in charge of one of the largest social media platforms in the world. US corporations are absolutely doing this as well, but that’s an argument for more regulation not to grant China free reign
US-run social media apps are pretty much now just arms of the US surveillance state, functioning both as pro-US propaganda machines, and tools to spy on the communications of the entire world.
For example, the most popular social media app in India for example, is facebook. The US controls the main method of news and communication for a country much larger than its own.
Yeah, and...? Does that mean we ignore the one under CCP control because... why? It's not fair?
Also, I'm not questioning the data as it's clearly about when they began collecting data, but that chart looks a little... sketchy. Like you pulled it from your Great Aunt's Facebook feed in 2014. Where is the data from? That does not appear to be any kind of valid source I'm aware of in the corner. When was this made, and how much has changed since then?
Agreed that the chart looks hilariously fake, but it’s a real image from a 2013 leak by Edward Snowden on PRISM. I found that original image in this Guardian article: theguardian.com/world/2013/jun…
The Wikipedia article includes more discussion and context on the leak.
Like you pulled it from your Great Aunt’s Facebook feed in 2014. Where is the data from? That does not appear to be any kind of valid source I’m aware of in the corner.
They're slides of internal US prism program documents from the 2010 US global surveillance disclosures that Snowden and Assange exposed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM#Th…
When was this made, and how much has changed since then?
There's no reason to think the US government has stopped any of these programs. If anything, given the massive DoD budgets, they've increased.
The panic over Russian disinformation that followed the election of Donald Trump often relied on a source now known to have been fraudulent, Hamilton 68.
The US most definitely uses its surveillance and propaganda system to influence the public. This was all exposed a long time ago.
The thought that Russia influences AOTUS is a conspiracy is probably one of the more bonker things I have ever heard though.
For sure stories were made up but anything short of of acknowledging that Russia has financially supported and heavily influenced everything about the current administration is pure conservatard garbage.
Seven and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country’s forty-fifth president—first dismissing him, then embracing him as a source of ratings and clicks, then going all in on efforts to c…
I am not sure what you were trying to express with that. Half the articles show how Trump has supported Russian interests to the detrament of the international community.
It is clear you have not even taken the time to read your own articles. I am guessing you push so much conservtard bullshit it is impossible to keep up with the lies.
There is no doubt Russia heavily influences Aotus. Just the simple matter of bank rolling him demonstrates all you need to know.
US corporations are absolutely doing this as well, but that’s an argument for more regulation not to grant China free reign
Exactly this. This is their only argument against it, and it's trash. Yeah, no shit, we know they are all doing it. Yes, we all agree that they should be dealt with as well.
expecting every citizen to be immune to psychological trickery from a nation spending tens of billions to research and test ways to trick them is unrealistic and unreasonable.
Trying to scrub all properganda from our lives is also impossible. Better to get a balanced media diet from a variety of sources.
That's hard when people smarter than you are being paid billions to study and test exactly how to keep you addicted to their media platform. And if that doesn't work, they'll just buy your preferred media platform and devolve it themselves.
The good news is that the main contingent of people upset about TikTok getting banned have willingly rotted away their attention spans (ironically, through TikTok) to do anything meaningful about it. The moment they realize being mad takes effort they'll find something else to do.
"Wah, the other ones do it too!" yeah, no shit, and they should also be regulated. I don't think anyone here believes otherwise. Maybe, just maybe, it makes sense to prioritize the one that's under the control of a foreign adversary.
And even if you don't prioritize it, this is the one that we currently have the opportunity to regulate, so why would we refuse that just because we're not doing the same thing to the other ones RIGHT NOW? Once again allowing perfect to be the enemy of good.
Do you see now how that's not a real argument?
It's like if a student got caught cheating on a test, and complains that they shouldn't get an F, because "everyone else was cheating too." Were they cheating? Maybe. Is it relevant? Not at all.
Why on earth would the US government regulate its own propaganda and surveillance programs? Their goal is to control the narrative world-wide, and force-feed the world pro-US foreign policy positions.
Also, the US are the ones telling you that tiktok is doing the same thing that their companies are. You should take anything a serial liar says with an extreme grain of salt, and distrust it by default. There's no evidence that Chinese companies are doing what the US companies are.
Just to name some highlights. These really could never gain traction on FB, enough to catch my attention. And then, lo and behold, we have Black and Brown content creators putting out good knowledge for those who just didn't know...
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