Shit is lining up with 9/11 really well in that aspect. The US was getting alerted by the Russian FSB well before shit went down and were like "lol nah that can't be real you dumb KGB guys". The Israeli gov is using lessons it learned from the US and Fascist Italy/Nazi Germany in false-flags and just lying about very important bits of information.

Thank you for a really good answer. I wasn't aware of the Talmud or most of that stuff.

Pocket Casts isn't on Android. I kept hearing it brought up when I was looking to replace DoggCatcher and went with Podcast Addict. Took Google so long to finally allow people to manually add feeds from URL. Which was why I never really used it unless just wanting to stream an old ep of a listed show randomly. So when they added that ability, I was happy to see they seemed to be kind of supporting it seriously. But I was already moved to PA and am glad to not gone with Google.

I liked their original Listen app for being ridiculously bare bones and no ads or anything that requires more data. But they killed that long ago. I am not sure if Google just loves to create trust issues with users. Or if they just really have self esteem issues and can only act in dramatic ways that don't make sense.

Seems more like a lesson learned from all the people the US placed in Gitmo without even a secret trial. And at least China had the argument that they literally did have many spread out terrorist attacks from more radical believers in the Uyghur communities inside China. I think that both the US and China handled shit bad as fuck. But until the US fully shuts down Gitmo and returns it to Cuba, and ends all of our black sites. Then it isn't exactly something that the US has any real right to talk any shit about just because it is China. We are beyond the level of tyrannical, we are just better at controlling the narrative and have somehow been allowed to just dictate what other nations are "good" and "evil".

China is doing more to un-fuck their bad choices, as they have made sure that folks that shouldn't have been mixed in were able to get jobs and technical/vocational training/school. The US never put any tiny amount of even PR level shit for helping Muslims we grabbed up and tortured while being held without any level of legal protections. There are some folks that might just be kept forever at this point as they are afraid that those people might become actual terrorists after being treated so badly while innocent.

Does that mean China gets a pass? No. But the US has done far more in the past 40 years to create the very extremists and terrorists that we keep seeing pop-up. We have done more to create suffering on a global scale since the end of the British Empire. We just hide it better and our gaslighting is top notch from media to trade. Just because we have "freedom of speech" doesn't mean we aren't tyrannical.

If they were to have tried to retroactively charge anyone. That shit would be immediate lawsuits from every dev. And I would hope that all of them would manage to not let it be turned into a simple class action situation. Make them go to court in every possible state and for each dev/studio. Bleed them completely dry and force them into bankruptcy bad enough for the source code to be acquired and open sourced. And after the company is done, then bleed the entire C-staff and anyone that approved this fucked up move. But not just financially bleed either. Got to set some real fucking examples about fucking around. Maybe even make it fun for the devs that would've ended up paying the most, and let them drive a knife in their backs for every charge that the devs would've been charged.

You are thinking about it all wrong. You see such amazing innovators like him have figured out the ouroboros of capitalism/consumerism. First you figure out a trend/fad that you can manage to fill/do well enough to get big. Then you do everything possible to milk that shit for everything while it is peaking. Then once basically saturation is hit, you don't try to just do lame shit like "just focus on realistic sustainability." Fuck no!

You instead take your time on the up-swing to plan how to again innovate by going all-in on making not the original thing the new thing. Start really getting the idea of the old thing to seem lame/boring/frustrating at best, or maybe show that it is unhealthy/damaging at worst. Then push for how much better whatever the thing before the current thing is by using the mass consumer/corporate amnesia to paint the old thing as being 100% new and cool. Though you can also point to it as being a old/retro idea in concept (hit them in the "feels"/"member berries"), but just make sure to change wording and/or anything and everything that are just the most surface level to show how innovative you and your ideas are.

Once the new-old thing becomes the new-old-current thing, you just keep on swallowing that tail feeding that ouroboros by prepping for going back around again!

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Though I am sure that he did make sure to put as much of the "earnings" he got paid (both as the CEO and as a shareholder) to buy up as much newly cheap as fuck commercial spaces as possible. Given how many places went out of business or didn't renew leases to cut costs during the Covid years. I am sure they were able to acquire a lot of spaces in order to be ready for what they (and really many people) thought would happen after all the restrictions/legal liability of being back in a office setting went away. Just wasn't prepared for so many larger companies to see office spaces as being mostly a big cost that had been cut.

I personally like that it seems so many people are at least getting to work from home if they do function better there. Though I am kind of glad that I don't work in a field that would mean I had to work from home. I would be way to annoyed at the feeling of never leaving the office (even if I were able to only do work things in one room and leave the rest of the house to non-work life). I also do worry that not being physically around other workers will make it easier for companies to much more quietly purge staff without anyone noticing. Which would be perfect for controlling the narrative and keeping workers more isolated and much less likely to even flirt with the idea of organizing.

Even with all that, I do imagine that the comfort of being at home does really help a lot of people work much better than the office. So maybe this guy will just get fucked and lose a lot of money. Landlords are leeches anyway.

The article does mention that they haven't fully confirmed that he was actually on that plane. And that there was a second one also with them. Even if he was listed on the one that crashed, it is possible that it was a ruse. Wouldn't be the first time someone that is a pretty big target pulled the old switch-a-roo for their own safety. But also just possible he didn't, and is now dead. Given the situation and his very public show of hate for the leaders of the Russian military. I doubt that any answer will fully ever be considered "true" as even super simple parts to the whole conflict are all sus.

Seems like they could pretty easily hit the shops that are being brazen enough to buy them and then provide shoppers. Go in an start placing the owners in jail, as they are the ones that should be held accountable. Not the low-level workers, but the very top.

From what it sounds like, the blocks are just on devices of the children in similar ways that parental controls more or less already work. So I would imagine that the parents could have ways to grant access in similar ways that can be done on Windows. A request to be allowed to use something gets sent to be approved by the parent, and give a window of time to use it. The night-time default setting of 10PM to 6AM isn't does make sense if trying to push for kids to sleep (though I have always had issues getting to sleep before midnight and would be annoyed not being able to kill time online). Also seems that they are asking for the input of the people currently. So things like homework should very much be something that gets brought up by those that submit concerns/ideas to the officials.

I am not a fan of super controlled restrictions on accessing the internet. But I also think that while more things are being put online, there is a big difference between knowing how to use something and it being just always demanding your attention. We are seeing that hyper use of social media is causing so many to further feel outcast and depressed. Especially since so much of the stuff posted is fake shit to make other people think that the person posting stuff is living such a "good/cool/wild/elite/etc life." Just attention seeking stuff and placing the vibes or super surface level shit above real things/knowledge.

The internet has become so much about consumerism and pushing for making us have shorter and shorter attention spans. Ads plastered everywhere and the rapid forcing of rapid fire AI generated content masking itself as humans. Rumors and click-bait shit are used to encourage reactionary sharing and acting without having ever read/watched the piece. So many of these things are already causing adults of all ages to believe nonsense. So many young folks I interact with can use the hell out of their phones and apps. But they don't actually know how to use actual computers or even know where their files are. Just assuming that the devices will automatically do everything for them. Even real computers are being dumbed down to just copy phones/tablets and ads keep invading into the OSes themselves. Always online is really becoming a much larger issue than just parental controls. But this rant has gone on longer than I ever meant for it to. Just so much capitalist/consumerist shit being placed before any actual learning or putting people before profits.

I like both the 2nd and 1st ones on the 2nd row in that order. Still looks similar to the app we lost, but the new colours are good for showing that Sync is still about doing the same for Lemmy. The bottom row is more noisy to me but as long as it isn't that last one (sorry it does look a bit too much like some kind of fascist symbol) I am good with what you go with!

Agreed. Like I said, I just get cagey whenever "patriotism" is used in education/laws. Obviously my life as a US citizen and our constant attempts to whitewash our history is a trigger for it just meaning to lie about things. lol, a real motherfucker to get past. But it is why I did feel like expressing it here to see how others might see it. Thank you for not attacking me for putting it out there as I was worried I would just be super downvoted and misunderstood. And I mean that too, just being clear since I have been told I sometimes come across completely wrong/sarcastic in how I write things.

The best solution would be to just pay all of their people correctly. That goes for everyone down to the "lowest" level staff. It is however a very Disney thing to do while trying to paint the folks they need in order to run an entertainment media company as the assholes.

Not sure what exact examples of what they mean by "Patriotic Education" and would like to see what ends up being put to paper. Because I think that sometimes it seems like the better phrasing would be focus on learning about Civics and making sure kids are learning to care about that stuff. As it seems to be something that most folks in the US don't really understand at all. Which is why we are getting more and more elected officials that don't actually know what their office is for or how it is supposed to function. At best they know that they can run on wild shit to get clout. After they win it is chaos in trying to purge or change things that aren't the issues and they don't understand. They just try to look at whatever stuff the last person of the opposing party did and just go hard on reversing shit just because.

But if by "Patriotic Education" they mean creating a system of just propping up a Chinese version of what the US does with our "exceptionalism." And just focuses on ignoring the failures or more problematic parts of their history. Then it seems like it would be a bad shift to right-wing conservatism. Which could be used to undo the gains in building towards socialism and internationalism. In that the focus of building solidarity and brotherhood between nations as each figures out how to build socialism in their own ways based on their masses is just turned into nationalism.

But I am going with the first paragraph as the goal unless we see that the second one is what plays out. As there are already too many times that what China is trying to do is twisted by either misunderstanding or outright lies. As a person in the US I tend to get nervous when a huge push for "patriotism" being taught. So that is why I worry about the possible meaning of using those words. As it is a very imperialist headspace if done how we have done it.

Would certainly be much better to go super fast with as little time to freak out. Rather than to be sitting in the dark trying to not wast air on panic attacks while waiting to even be found (let alone rescued). Would suck to know you were found, but then run out of air before you could reach the surface. Though I am glad that they didn't also implode into the actual wreak. Still super close.

From the little I know (which is admittedly not a lot) China did seem to be sliding towards revisionism during the late 90's through the aughts (I think the aughts were maybe the bigger issue). In that there was so much deep corruption at all levels. Which is certainly something Xi has made a point to both acknowledge and began dealing with. I read somewhere last year or so, that it really caught the US intelligence agencies with their guards down when Chinese intelligence agents were starting to do things to show off that they knew who was in the pockets of the US and the West. I think that the issue with what has become known as "Dengism" is that the push to allow a bit of bourgeois stage of development for catching up with modern industrialism and whatnot was given too much freedom. Which allowed for folks to claim that China is socialist in name only (I really didn't mean for that to be a pun so sorry for that). It is awesome to see that the party and the current leadership is being so focused on correcting the mistakes. While also making sure to keep pushing for advancements as China is getting closer and closer in closing the remaining gaps in technical and industrial processes.

I just personally hope that they are able to push for getting the 996 stuff removed. I know they did rule that it isn't constitutional, but it is still (from what I can gather) a thing that is a mindset and just kind of expected in various industries. Which being fair to China isn't just a them thing, as it is in Japanese and Korean cultures too. But that is all just my opinion and I am not Chinese, and haven't been there or worked there. So I am willing to yield to being super wrong on that and really all the above.

I have thought about it, and I like that you agree that it could be helpful. Though I am not sure I can handle being a mod. Though I guess it would be more of an issue if it got high traffic. lol

I am really not looking forward to the massive reactionary hate to stuff like this the second a news article highlights even one bad actor. The for-profit "news" outlets will all run similar pieces about how "dangerous" it is now, and will most certainly be busting out charts made by Google and Apple. Which will of course leave out the fact that both companies already have constant issues with bad actors. I don't have anything that uses iOS, but the Play Store has been filled with predatory and fake versions of apps for forever. And it is the mainstream users that are always installing these apps that are spamming them all them time. While at the same time never ever questioning if anything is wrong.

Kind of like how those same people used to just live with a half filled screen of IE toolbars and just thought it was just "new features from Microsoft". Same currently goes for Chrome and Chromium based browsers and the spam extensions. I daily see spam browsers that have been installed and taken over the default. And the folks that are coming to have their computers looked at just never ever noticed. Most of them come in for completely unrelated issues (though some are as their PCs are slower), and are really shocked when I stop and point out how they might have been giving info to scammers.

Didn't mean to write so much and rant. But the main point of agreement with you is the first paragraph.

You are likely correct on the fact that normie users are pissed off. One of my co-workers (that always reminds me he doesn't use Reddit aside from if he needs to sell or trade PC parts) wouldn't stfu about how it was stupid and "all just about some power-tripping mods" all because HardwareSwap was considering going longer and he was trying to list some parts (due to a different freakout reaction over needing to downsize his PC to have money in savings after a mass purge of some leaders at work). He was mildly okay with it at first because the automods thing being impacted by the new API stuff. All that "okayness" was completely right out the window after that specific thing was adjusted by Reddit.

So while he isn't a normal day to day viewer of the site, I imagine that most of the "I don't pay attention to politics/policies" users (which I think of as the bulk "normie" mainstream users) are not far behind his sentiment. I did ask if he tried other options, like big Discord servers like LTT/GN or other big PC based YT channel fan servers. Or even forums of those channels/sites. He just wanted to removed about the amount of users being so low. Which I also reminded him that r/HardwareSwap was tiny at some point too and there were smaller subs that he could at least try as they would have higher traffic while the big ones were down.

Protests are supposed to make people frustrated and cause normal operations to be messed up. But in the US, we are just taught to hate anyone or groups that dare protest in ways that impact daily functions. We are told that the only "correct" protests are to be in a pre-selected spot out of the way of everyone else. Or maybe a one-off march with speakers just saying how things are wrong and have people cheer and then leave. And reactionaries are supposed to be the ones that everyone supports because they are (like the majority of people/users) "not hear for politics and don't care." They are also the main thing stopping new unions from forming. Which does seem to line up with how much Lenin was correct in speaking about no revolutions are going to win if those folks can't be won over. Which requires being fully ready and willing to be lashed out at, and stand firm in keeping up the effort and care about them no matter what.

Thanks for this post! It also now makes me wish that Lemmygrad (and really all instances of Lemmy) had an "OutOfTheLoop" community. It has been a big favorite subreddit of mine for awhile. Even if lots of the topics are drama things, but they are still weirdly interesting to read.

A lot more folks in Taiwan actually do consider themselves Chinese than something else. Even the party that fought against Mao's faction and set up shop on Taiwan is more about staying Chinese than being an independent nation. The only folks that are die-hard about being a completely independent nation are the ones that stand to get paid and protected by the US and our military industrial complex that is constantly rolling up on the borders of other nations and make points of playing war games on those borders. But then act like the nations that those games are meant to scare are the assholes for arming up.

Also I seem to always hear that Puerto Rico might actually be kind of past the point of believing that becoming a state would really help. They are constantly left to fend for themselves when huge storms wreak everything. I am willing to bet that the only reason that they are a colony of the US still, is that the US mainland would just invade and put them back down again. Also Hawaii has a fuck ton of native folks that hate that they are a state. They were more or less invaded and enough non-natives came in and those folks wanted statehood and overthrew the Hawaiian government. They already had been turned into the main hub of the Pacific fleet before being a state. So they kind of didn't really get a choice, and were already overthrown. So it isn't like they could've kicked the US and our greedy capitalists out. They would've just been put down and just kept a colony.

And all that isn't even touching on the lack of choice natives that were already living in what is now the US had. Statehood pushes were made by folks that just showed up and claimed land and were given it by a government that really didn't have the authority to issue those claims. So China doing everything it can to push out their water borders in order to force the US and our allies farther away isn't anything other than proactive defense of their own region. Does it mean I always support their choices? No. However it is avoidable if the US were to stop acting like it gets to pick how other nations are allowed to do anything.