Can we get a “number of false dichotomies in political spectrum infographics” record going?

Also, Chinese script, even simplified Chinese, is significantly harder to master than English. I for example can speak Mandarin fluently (as a Chinese person in Canada) but can barely read or write it, and no you don’t just “pick it up” if you can speak it because there is zero correlation between the spoken language and written script, it’s all memorization of every single character. I would have to actually take classes or something to learn to read and write Chinese, which I am definitely considering doing.

Actually, English is technically my second language since I was born in China (long story, left as a young child so wasn’t my choice), and after having learned English and become fluent in both reading and writing it, I keep asking myself “how the hell can you be fluent in speaking English and not be fluent in writing it? If you know how to say a word you know 90% of how to write it unlike Chinese.”

So, sorry anglophones, even if China had the same literacy rate as the US, it would still be more impressive (not of the intellect of Chinese people or any racial bullshit like that, but the effectiveness of their education system and socialist ideology, which English speakers are fully capable of implementing as well with no excuse not to.)

I also find it difficult to respond to a comment without writing a mini essay, not because I lack succinctness, but I find it lackluster to respond to a comment I think should be corrected with only the correction and zero justification or context.

I’m in the exact same boat. Good on you for prioritizing yours too!

I’d be lying if I said I’m not filtering by all-federated at least in part because of the myriad of animal communities I don’t know about, namely the niche cat ones dedicated to cats doing just one thing, or maybe I’ll find a community super enthusiastic about an animal species I never really knew I wanted to learn about.

So do these people go seeking out communist users specifically to harass them? Or was this the result of a debate directly with them?

They have clearly never actually met a rat because they are awesome animals. Way more intelligent and friendly than anyone give them credit for. Amazing survivors in the wild, amazing companions too.

Pretty much. But it’s also nice to be able to discover new communities from the federated view.

Button meme:

1. Free speech must be upheld at all costs

2. If you say you support Russia you should be killed

Wait seriously? They doxxed someone? If you can do so without further throwing the victim under the bus, could you elaborate or provide a link to the incident?

Remember: the corporate meetings and university lectures are the tip of the iceberg of the kind of data Zoom has on people.

Zoom is used by teenage couples to call each other and hang out, which might turn into discussing sexual themes as teenagers dating often do.

Zoom is used by general-care doctors when their patients describe the rash on their anus.

Zoom is used by psychiatrists and therapists talking to their patients during some of the most vulnerable and precarious times of their lives.

Zoom is used by lawyers talking to their clients in all kind of cases, criminal, civil, divorce/family, inheritance, etc.

Zoom was used by actual fucking courts to hold actual fucking criminal trials. Like bruh the fucking US judiciary department couldn’t have self-hosted one of the many open source and E2EE solutions?

The fact that they can do this with no oversight or regulatory bodies intervening is utterly ridiculous. Zoom has probably some of the most sensitive data of people’s lives. It is not a social media platform where people know that they shouldn’t put too sensitive information on, it was literally intended and marketed for people to use for sensitive communications. They shouldn’t even be keeping any amount of data after the call ends, IMO, but using it to train an AI (to presumably sell later) is utterly morally bankrupt, and so are the regulatory agencies and lawmakers who could have intervened. Fuck you Zoom, fuck you FCC/FTC/whoever handles data privacy in the US. You want to ban TikTok because of its “national security implications” but don’t bat an eye when it’s a US company doing something far worse huh? Not implying I like TikTok, but TikTok doesn’t have access to live court trials or doctor-patient discussions.

Yes, we shouldn’t have used Zoom in the first place. But that ship has sailed and most people were forced to use it against their will if their company/university/doctor/lawyer/judge decides to use it, and/or they did not realize the terrible data security/privacy implications of using it. It’s entirely unhelpful to victim blame and go “well you shouldn’t have used Zoom then! Sucks for you” as I see so many people in the FLOSS/privacy community doing. Additionally, that also does not address the actual societal/legislative issues of them being allowed to keep that information and use it for profit.

Thank you!

Hey I bought a coffee from Starbucks the other day. You heard it here first folks! Starbucks is now an official supporter of Marxism-Fennekinism and his weird communist furry worldbuilding and short stories!

Nah the title is accurate. Because, as we all know, everything bad in East Asia is China’s doing. No exceptions. Ozone depletion? China. Korean War? China. Vietnam War? China. Nuking Japan? See, a common misconception is that Oppenheimer invented the nuclear bomb, but it was actually Mao Zedong, and he forced the Americans at gunpoint to take credit for its invention and so far only two uses in war.

Well they banned Hexbear preemptively, so

Absolutely! The joke is that “freeze peach” sounds kind of like “free speech,” so it’s become a meme to mock the (usually far right) people who claim that freedom of speech should be upheld at all costs, including human decency, and that things like racism, sexism, LGBTQ+ phobia, hell even full-on Nazi propaganda should be unrestricted on the internet.

Not even liberals. What the US considers liberal would be considered very conservative, even in other Western countries.

Where should my annual $3 charity budget go, now?!

Linux foundation, GNU/FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, Lemmy development fund, Lemmygrad server fund! Just to name a few!

To also live in a coffin.

Just on Television?

So this is where you went. Makes sense. I missed you!