Is there like some dark implication to this story that I’m missing? Because I really want this to just be a happy story about a cute baby seal showing up in an unexpected place, but I’ve been burned so many times by “cute animal stories” where it’s like “actually this implies that something terrible happened/is going to happen to this animal”.

I already read the article. I basically stand by my comment. Also are you seriously calling me a tankie for pushing back against a piece of obvious sinophobic fearmongering? Because I’m an anarchist, not a tankie 🏴🏴🏴

Damn bro hook me up with your acid supplier, mine is obviously far weaker.

I gotchu covered bro

The only thing in this article that even remotely contradicts my summary is

He said he said (sic lmao) seen “the full spectrum” of approaches – from cyber-attacks to “people who are infiltrated into programmes, get the information and bring it back”.

which yeah, I’m sure a nation-state like China is doing cyber-attacks on our institutions as all the big nation-states do, and no nation-states should be doing that (or just existing at all 🏴🏴🏴), but like…all your scientific artifacts should be available to the public regardless of nationality anyways, i.e. academics have no business keeping secrets. So unless they’re going and making life Hell for researchers, I really don’t give a fuck if China’s national security apparatus is antagonizing USA’s national security apparatus because I see any national security apparatus as enemies of humanity.

Otherwise, the article is just sinophobic fearmongering about Chinese people gaining knowledge at scale.

Banning USian social media services doesn’t stop people from wanting sites like these, nor does it protect you or your community from the impacts that these services have on the rest of the world that will unfortunately affect you.

Like why exactly do people even want to be a part of these panopticons when the negative consequences are so severe? Because I think that people mostly do understand that they are sacrificing their privacy and autonomy to these platforms, but how can we get people to understand the seriousness of these sacrifices?

Not a defense of USian social media websites BTW. I think we should burn these sites to the fucking ground. But while they’re active, I don’t see how banning your community from interacting with and monitoring them is a good idea.

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Wait wut? This article wants me to be upset at Chinese students for *checks notes* going to school at our universities and applying the knowledge they fairly learned in their home countries? And I’m supposed to consider this “stealing technical knowledge”??

Why stop at one when you could stop at just zero and not use a compass?

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I was already “over” Reddit and fully invested in Lemmy by the time RIF went down, but RIF actually going from 100% working to not working…I actually watched it happen. That was surreal. I think that’s when it really hit me that I’m not considered economically viable anymore.

Ah. Thank you for clarifying ❤️

Sorry but I am completely 1000% confused about what you’re trying to say and the sincerity/sarcasm of this post. I’m autistic and my social battery is drained today, so I’m really not able to read through the irony if it’s there.

For what it’s worth: I’m not sure that I really want the Democrats and Republicans to learn to “compromise” because, as history has shown, they’ll compromise with each other to ratfuck anarchists, leftists, and the working class all day every day. And since both parties are liberal parties, and liberals basically exist to provide a palatable pressure valve for the capitalist class to stifle radical movements…I’m not interested in compromising with them either. Like I don’t want to compromise with liberals, I want liberals to stop being liberals.

Left during the purge of 3rd party apps.

Yup, whenever I can!

The quiz nailed the fact that I’m an anarcho-communist. I think my numbers “suffered” a bit because there are questions where I personally hold beliefs about which choices are easiest to implement, but I also believe that a collective of reasonable people could make some other choice and implement it in a liberatory way. In particular, I’m not against planning certain segments of the economy (e.g. electrical power distribution) as long as we do it with the continuous consent of the people and we don’t kill people/collectives who go their own way. Similarly, I’m pretty staunchly anti-markets, but I’m not closed to the idea that reasonable people could live happy lives under genuinely anarchistic market socialism if for some reason a community chooses to continuously consent to that mode of living.

Thanks. It’s a reference to this guitar speaker, which has ended up on a bunch of metal recordings. Ironically, it’s very “not vintage” sounding, very modern and mids-heavy. 🤘😈🤘

I mean I upvoted. If I gotta see it, so does everyone else 😆

Like literally unlicensed literal dentistry? Sorry if I’m being naive but my social battery is drained today.

To whomever created this: it would have cost you zero dollars to not bring this abomination into the world 😆

alternative lifestyle things

Can you elaborate? I’m autistic and not getting the euphemism. DMs are open if it’s too dark for Hexbear 😣

Put the lead back in next!

I give it under a year.