In a competent administration, this would be inspiring.

No it wouldn’t. It’s always been a dumb idea to get around public mass transit.

Sucks to be in Texas, the Silicon Valley alpha testing hub of the US.

Linux guy whipping out the “Actually, it’s a feature not a bug” line is very funny.

within three to five years

That’s tech speak for “never”

The technology, developed by Borui Kang Medical Technology (Shanghai), is designed to restore hand-movement capabilities in individuals suffering from paralysis.

Specifically, the system targets patients with quadriplegia resulting from cervical spinal cord injuries, enabling them to regain hand-grasping ability through the use of a specialised glove.

Incredible technology, nonetheless.

But crazy to think this would be a commercial public service any time soon

There should be a law against OS updates more frequent than once a month

broadcasters aren’t the press

:-/

“You can say whatever you please, but we reserve the right to make sure nobody can hear you”

The problem is that it definitely feels like something a libertarian tech bro would try.

It’s also not entirely false, or at least without precedent.

Richardson has a unique and progressive way of running his company. To update an old adage, Richardson is putting his bitcoin where his mouth is. His platform pays its 250-plus employees in bitcoin. He takes his pay this way too. The company has opted for the bitcoin standard to both show commitment to the cause and streamline payroll for its global workforce.

Unironically. But only on the condition they bring back Google from 2011

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Cherokee_War

Excited to see smear campaigns that become increasingly surreal and disturbing

The actual Europeans were not always that horrible

Trying to explain this in Cherokee.

If Spain doesn’t get in line on the Iran War, I’m confident we’re going to start getting stories about how we need to liberate Catalonia soon enough

This is very similar to the Native American genocide.

The one where Colonial European settlers were literally marching into Indian communities and massacring them?

The country known for acting solely in the interest of the ethnostate.

Glances at Japan

None of that matters.

This is not a fact based discussion, it is a Two Minute Hate.

Once we’re done here, we’ll be off to posting Iranian girls in bikinis while screaming “This is what Islam took from us”

Don’t the US, Canada, and Australia have similar laws?

Yes, but all these countries have politicians who say they feel bad about it

Historically, it’s been a largely regional split with Cantonese in the West and Mandarin in the East.

China’s been something of an outlayer in supporting as many languages as it does.

I’d rather that than a disappearance state with cardboard walls

Would be crazy if South Korea had a massive, brutal police state or a long history of improvised slums and ruthless exploitation of it’s citizenry.

Good thing we’re sanctioning North Korea to the hilt, guaranting none of those horrible practices become common place throughout the Western aligned Asian states

Had a friend’s son tell me, very insistently, that Kim Jong Un convinced everyone in his county that he doesn’t poop. Also, that he’s planning to nuke South Korea, and we need to do something to stop him.

This was a kid with very liberal parents going to a very liberal middle school.

Red Scare shit is already everywhere. But I guess we’ve got to keep cranking the hysteria up to 11

Then let people decide for themselves.

The more you learn about history, the more you realize you don’t know. Very difficult to “just teach history” when you’re talking about an unfathomable number of people making an unfathomable number of decisions with unclear cause and effect.

What you learn in school is a very high level and narrow reading of events, largely informed by documents and transcriptions preserved by the wealthiest people in a region.

The only thing that can ever come out of that kind of historical study is nationalist jingoism of one flavor or another.

This dumbing people down and telling them what to think isn’t helping anyone at all.

The purpose of public education history classes is to craft a shared national identity.

Dumbing down events and telling people what to think is a simple and effective way of achieving that end.