BlameThePeacock @ BlameThePeacock @lemmy.ca

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The train is for city folk to get between cities, rural folk can't afford it.

You really don't understand how "dirt poor" in America is still better than "dirt poor" in China.

Dirt poor in China literally means a dirt floor, and often dirt walls. Not dirty, but actual floors and walls made of hardened mud. No running water, no electricity, and backbreaking labour to scrape together enough rice to survive on.

Even a lot of employed Chinese people have it bad, there's a term they use called 996 in China. 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week. It's technically illegal but is a widespread practice for employers in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

Even homeless people in NA have it easier than millions of these workers.

Meta, no. Twitter, yes.

Twitter should be banned as well at this point. They have absolutely weaponized it, but not for government purposes, it's for Daddy Elon's purposes.

Meta is just allowing the hate content, they aren't prioritizing it to all users or something. My feed certainly doesn't contain any of it.

Facebook and You tube haven't been pushing Maga content, they're just allowing it to exist. The feed itself isn't set to give it to everyone or hide left-wing content for a default user.

Twitter is a different story, and should probably also get banned at this point. Elon is absolutely using it to push his own rhetoric.

Their middle class is one of the fastest growing in the world simply because so many people are still in poverty.

They have 140 million people (around 10%) that don't even have access to clean water, and about 20% that don't have access (any access) to the internet.

Even if you take into account PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) Chinese citizens, the median Chinese family is FAR worse off than the Median American.

The point I'm trying to make is in relation to the original comment that stated that both countries suck equally.

They do not suck equally, and it's not even close.

You can google these things yourself if you wanted.

About 90% of the Chinese population has access to clean water, which means around 140 million people still do not, and that's by China's own reported numbers and standards. It's probably worse than that in reality.

There are more Chinese people without access to the internet than the total US population, About 77% have access, and that metric does not measure households with internet, it's just people who have ANY access, including using a cheap phone only at public WIFI locations.

Of course there's a big difference based on location, some cities on the coasts are exceptionally wealthy compared to rural inland areas.

There's a train in Belgium with an open hole for the bathroom? What year was this in?

How does that make it any better that the Chinese government lets it happen?

Companies weaponizing algorithms for profit is different than governments weaponizing algorithms for all sorts of far worse reasons.

If you can't see that, you're a bloody idiot.

Please read my reply to the comment, it's not about data ownership, it's about weaponizing algorithms.

It's not about the data harvesting, please stop repeating this falsehood.

It's about how China is controlling the algorithm for polical goals. From pushing its claim over Taiwan to interfering with global elections by showing(or hiding) speicifc content to sway peoples choices.

It can be true. There are more Chinese people living on less than $10 per day than there are total Americans.

There are more Chinese people living on less than $10 per day than total Americans.

The median household income is close to 1/10th of the US amount.

The US poverty situation simply cannot compare.

Then you have successfully fallen for china's propaganda.

Living and working conditions in China for most citizens are horrific, far beyond even the worst problems we see in the US.

Source: have pooped through a hole in the bottom of a moving train in China, and also visited a foxconn jail factory.

Broken Clocks

I think we should just take a few southern states, break them off, and let the dumb people all opt in to living there if they want to be intentionally ignorant.

I voted NDP, I'm almost certainly going to vote NDP again, but unfortunately the NDP needs a leadership shake-up too. Singh is not able to to take the party anywhere, he's a great person and he should stay on as a MP, but he's not exciting to anybody in the other parties and the NDP has felt stuck for a decade now.

Step 1, figure out if any of your parents, grandparents, or in some cases great grandparents came from somewhere else. Many countries allow near descendents to get citizenship.

Half the population thought the US government was trying to kill them with a vaccine and a face mask while they coughed themselves to death.

You're absolutely right, people are fucking stupid.