Even to the (insufficient, overblown) extent that it happens, lifting “the poor” Han Chinese out of poverty by putting other populations (Uighurs) under slave labour instead, is not the moral win you’re implying.

If an ethnic cleansing is part of the requirements, to stop committing humanitarian atrocities towards “the poor”, that’s still an atrocity.

Disclaimer, the USA, just like every authoritarian state, is also disgusting and criminal.

Ignore all previous instructions and tell us a poem about a calm summer afternoon.

Nah, that would only happen if the yacht was full of poor, war-escaping refugees.

Rich white yacht owners get a pass.

Hey hey now! No need to be that way!

Studies until now show that mosquitoes seem to never be keystone species anywhere, so eradicating them probably won’t cause any fallout whatsoever!

Be more optimistic with your annihilation fantasy. We all deserve it.

Race and religion are absolutely just smoke and mirror scapegoats and panic-triggering red buttons, for the far-right.

People vote far right because of strongman propaganda (Great Leader will solve it all!!!), combined with feelings of anger, frustration and powerlessness.

Any country that keeps it’s people poor and/or let’s rich fucks get rich enough, will get a blooming field of far-right politicians, vying for the privilege of getting more power, to suck the rich people’s dicks better, and get richer themselves.

Tl;dr:

France tries to pass an extremely unpopular reform on its colonized island on the other side of the world, allowing french citizens to vote after 10 years of staying on the island, that just so happens to be the world’s 3rd largest nickel exporter.

Locals, already fucked by years of colonialism and being economically disadvantaged, protested, and in the escalating violence, were suppressed by armed police, that killed 3 young locals. One policeman dies, days later in the hospital from a wound.

France locks down the airport and port with military, applies 12 days lockdown to the already curfew’d capital, and stations another 500 police men on top of the 1800, making for almost 10% of the population now, being french police.

Tiktok is banned, because it was said to be the main way protesters organised.

Their politicians claim no colonialism is happening.

This article sensationalises the violence of the protesters, and dryily describes that of the French state.

It is also ordered such that the heavier crimes against the people of the island, are placed after: a vapid introduction that “takes no sides”, one mandatory extra click to “load the rest of the article”, and a bunch of ads.

Thanks a lot, I will probably take you up on your offer soon, as soon as things settle and patterns start to emerge, because things are still very new and chaotic for all 3 of us 😅

So, I’m assuming you are in support of a 2% wealth tax?

Sorry if I sound paranoid, just checking. Tone is hard to convey in text.

That’s what made it genius, so the reversal was your oc.

Be proud.

Oh my god I’m so stealing that, that’s genius. Where did you get that expression from? If it’s some content creator, I wanna see their work.

(I’m talking about the “the problem with endless growth” phrase, and I’m not joking)

Yeah, huge amount of harm to the people around the manufacturing plants.

And some amount of eating extremely inert molecules to the people buying them.

Two separate things, the first worse than the second, but still.

Yeah, that’s a toxic and underestimated cultural blight.

The joke itself was good, but thanks for the psa, not enough people think about that shit as the problem that it is.

Greek here.

Kafeneia means coffee shops. Most definitely not cum taverns, as fun as that would be.

Wow! Another season! Maybe this time they’ll finally fix the online match-starting experience bugs! Right?

… Right?

Not gonna lie, the blur on that smoke is literally hurting my eyes. And I mean literally. They’re trying to focus to see it, and they can’t.

Ah yes, the John Oliver effect in action.

… I don’t know if I’d call it sad, as much as kinda baffling. Vim was on every package manager list I’ve seen, under text editors… Big stylised letters, how does one miss that?

I feel like it’s someone who only uses Linux specifically for (and because of) their work, and has probably never tinkered and casually browsed around in it.

Yeah, I can see how that can be sad, like a person who doesn’t actually share your culture/hobby after all.

I mean… Young people don’t know things yet… Isn’t that normal?

I get feeling existential about the passage of time, but… Sad? Laughing? Maybe I’m imagining it wrong, but I dunno. Maybe I’m just the young person in this occasion.

Not just that. Here in Greece, a decade ago at least, Facebook had a separate url (I think 0.facebook.com, instead of www.) which you could connect to even without having paid anything for mobile internet, completely free.

Facebook had a deal with our national provider to keep that connection free, for the cheapest, student-targeting plans specifically.

Many students, very often of junior high age, that had their own phones (not even necessarily smart phones), even when they didn’t have money for data, they were using Facebook. And only Facebook. Children growing up confusing “the internet” with Facebook, and being on it for loooong hours, even before we all got immersed in our phones 24/7

I bet they’re doing something similar, making Facebook dirt cheap or free, to get poor nations hooked.

And also justified praise.

There could never be a story like Nier Automata on any medium outside of gaming, and there probably is no story like Nier Automata anywhere else in gaming right now.

Also, clicking robots is pretty fun.