SootyChimney [any]

The local officials (the mayor, legislators, and the president) where I live are all elected and I’m pretty sure that’s already more than what China has

I think what I said is still true.

There’s a lot of handwaving in your reply that China’s population are just ignorant and censorship exists therefore its bad, based on little info. All Western countries also have major systems of censorship on social media. The majority of people in China have access to the internet via unfiltered VPNs - they have basically as much free access to information as you do.

I was literally in that struggle thread (different account) - I wasn’t claiming you said certain things, I was commenting on what that thread was. Unless we’re talking about entirely different threads about the same thing.

Yeah, clearly wasn’t clear, my bad.

It was very much not sincere, but a parody of anti-russ nonsense, alas.

I have literally never heard of it happening anywhere else in the world. I never said American things couldn’t be talked about, but talking about it like it’s a ubiquitous practice, and then getting angry at people who don’t understand why it’s an issue, is just miscommunication, not a big disagreement. And miscommunications caused by America-centrism is a very tiring affair on the internet. Just prepend the post with “Hey Americans:” and there wouldn’t have been any real discussion.

The difference is atheists may be correct, but nowadays whether you’re religious isn’t, on its own, a huge prediction factor in how you affect others’ lives.

When your politics is lib or reactionary, when you’re racist, or nationalist, or just deliberately ignorant and loudmouthed about world politics, you are by definition actively and deliberately conspiring to make peoples’ lives worse. Those people affected are often minority groups, and/or friends, family and comrades. But whatever kind of human it is, it should be obvious why it’s personally important to us to oppose that.

I don’t think they’re arguing echo chambers can never ever be called for, just that Lemmy may be better off not as one.

Eh. This still remains clearly a product of Ameri-centrism in my mind: An America-only issue was being touted as a global problem everyone should be aware of, so everybody else in the world who has never seen or even imagined this weird shit will regard it as so uncommon as to not matter. And no, I don’t think one side was being particularly more ‘calm and patient’ than the other.

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You should honestly investigate how democracy actually works in China - You’ll find that they have far more votes and actual choices for their officials than you ever have, and the approval rate of the government, even when anonymously/independently surveyed, is almost certainly higher than your country’s.

I appreciate the honest tone. Is the dislike on politics threads emojis just emojis in general, or can we lay the blame on lemmy sizing bug?

I don’t think “US and Canada do it” is a very effective argument for something being safe or reasonable. The reality is - We don’t know what the effects are, and we can’t even be completely sure they’re doing what they say they are in the first place. The radioactivity may be low, but the presence of manmade tritium may well cause issues we don’t even realise, and as always we’re playing a gamble that “this number low so it’s probably safe maybe”. And that is undeniably a gamble, even if a low-risk one.

This is so upsettingly uncannily a Simpsons bit - Rich guy eats fish contaminated by radioactive nuclear plant waste water discharged into natural sources to prove it’s safe?

Let’s be clear, in the UK, parents can almost always leave behind over a million pounds worth before any tax starts kicking in. Not to mention the thousands of easy loopholes.

I suspect pissing about copying a mass of text into an AI to have a 70% chance of getting an actually correct answer is probably harder than pressing Ctrl+F

One always has to question the genuineness of that kind of criticism, it seems to just be bad faith or plain stupidity. How is working for the government any more slavery-like than working for a big company?

Ah, I see, what queer propaganda will be next? Picking your character’s name?!

We’re mainly waiting for you to say “Yes, I was wrong, Hexbear doesn’t shill for Russia/China/DPRK and call them communist utopias, and I guess tankies is kind of a meaningless term.”. I think that was the point.

“I want to remove our violent oppressors by any means necessary so we can be free and happy” - Bad violent leftist who ruins parties

“I knowingly sent material support for a genocide resulting in the deaths of 300,000+ people literally being gunned down in the street, oopsie doopsy everyone makes mistakes” - “Wholesome” “Nicest fucking dude”

ublock obviously should be installed on Firefox by default. But I seem to have a host of privacy add-ons that break few-to-no websites.

• Privacy Possum , which blocks certain tracking headers/js. Privacy Badger by the EFF is an acceptable alternative but I’ve personally found it doesn’t block quite as much.
• NoScript Honestly my favourite addon of all time. You can operate in block-everything mode and just allow javascript/HTML5 from sites you trust, or if you’re lazy then just operate in allow-everything mode and every now and then set crummy sites to untrusted (looking at you google tag manager). In block-everything-by-default mode, this add-on will break some sites, but the UI is so easy it’s a couple of clicks to trust all the sites in a tab and auto-refresh.

Be warned - If you’re not privacy conscious, you might cry from seeing the hundreds of sites that are running javascript on your machine without asking.

• User-Agent Switcher Really easy add-on to just leave on and misdirect sites. Never caused me a single problem, and in fact is useful when sites (looking at you Microsoft Teams) claim they don’t work in Firefox and refuse to load but actually work fine if you use this addon and pretend to be Chrome.
• Sponsorblock kicks ass. 30 hours of ads skipped in half a year.

And my personal silly couple ones:

• Wikipedia Vector Skin because I’m an old fuddy duddy and I like old Wikipedia.
• Cat-In-Tab because I’m also an old fuddy-duddy that likes whimsy sometimes. This is just silly but I like it.