Either never or upon birth, depending on where you live.

I mean if you jizz into the outlet you might get charged
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an ocean vessel flying around

I’m choosing to make this my reality now

Yeah my comment is more about the procedure than the effect. Like I don’t think there’s gonna be an official proclamation like “Elections are hereby cancelled”, they’re just gonna come up with enough ways to “cancel” undesirable ballots that it’ll be like the election never happened. I.e., more of what has been done before, but done harder. IMO, going this route would be harder for people to call out because it’s systemic and “quiet”, and USians have zero systems thinking skills overall.

They’re not gonna cancel elections. They’re just gonna make it so only rich white people can vote and only fascists can run.

Yes, Democrats are largely warmongers too, but that they ran the table against his handpicked candidates shows a clear repudiation of his policies and governance.

The Republicans and Democrats are basically uniparty on foreign policy and regime change. People are opposed to the thousands of ways he’s ruining our bags. Americans have not suddenly gained a conscience with respect to the atrocities our government commits outside our borders.

Donald’s misadventures in Venezuela resulting in the deaths of Americans, on an American airliner, for no good reason, would have a profoundly negative effect on his intentions toward warmongering.

Maybe Donald’s intentions for all of three seconds, but not the rest of the AmeriKKKan political apparatus. Life has no value in the US.

IMO it depends on if you are interested in the language or culture, or if you plan to be in contact with Russia or Russians. For example, do you plan to translate Russian? Do you plan to read Russian-language literature?

Will that be offensive?

Bigots deserve to be offended.

Many people HATE Russia and the language.

Not your problem if people are prejudiced against Russians for the actions of the government that lords over them. If you want to learn the language, go for it.

I mean I’m not sure how a collision would have stopped or even delayed regime change in Venezuela. The AmeriKKKan government barely even has to manufacture consent anymore for their atrocities.

Like this year started off with the deaths of 64 innocent people in AmeriKKKan airspace, mostly USian citizens, due to military incompetence, and we’ve basically forgotten about it. USians clearly don’t care whenever the military is the cause. Or basically ever unless it fucks someone personally.

LIFE IS A DEATH SENTENCE 🤘👿🤘

Not a defense of Chomsky because fuck him, but he claimed he was an anarcho-syndicalist, i.e. not a tankie. Not everyone who sucks is a tankie.

Chomsky’s got a lot of explaining to do 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

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.

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.

Left during the purge of 3rd party apps.

Put the lead back in next!

I give it under a year.