While the feminist message was not meant to be subtle, there are plenty of subtle messages that people still haven't figured out yet. At it's core, Barbie is about identity and existence.
It's not that deep, but it is a bit more complex than at first glance.
Pssh. Everyone knows that the lead actress whats-her-name takes herself super seriously and would never, ever, say or do anything just because it's funny.
My point is, when the NSA and US intelligence had essentially full access to Huawei's infrastructure and private documents, as shown in the leak in 2014, they could not produce the smoking gun that that proves Huawei had allowed the Chinese government any kind of backdoor access, nor did they claim that until 6 years later, and again, without any presentable evidence despite full access to Huawei's internal infrastructure besides "take our word for it", so forgive me for doubting the Trump administration's honesty during the middle of the US-China trade war.
I'm not saying that the backdoor doesn't exist, but I would like to see evidence, logs or leaks that proves unauthorized access, before making any kind of conclusion, otherwise, it is all just conjecture and not "have been caught having them in their devices.”
Otherwise, remember the Bloomberg story on the "spy chip" on the Supermicro motherboard a few years back? To date, nobody has ever produced examples of a Supermicro motherboard with this "spy chip" after years, but Bloomberg has never retracted that story as far as I know.
So...what if the railroad companies take the money and then do absolutely nothing, like what happened every single time this has been tried? What is there to hold them accountable this time?
Developing alternative frontends like Artemis at this stage of Kbin development is really putting the cart before the horse. Compared to Lemmy, kbin is much more different than reddit due to is micro blogging capabilities and other Mastodon-like feature, such as boosts, that it is difficult to straight up port a reddit app to Kbin. Development wise, Lemmy is also much more mature, as the backend was already separated from the frontend and Jerboa exist as a reference app, where as far as I can tell, Kbin didn't have a reference app, or even a backend API at the time.
I'm not a programmer, but it seems to me, in retrospect, that the wise thing for Hariette to do is to join the Kbin dev team, contribute to the main repo, and make Artemis the reference Kbin app instead striking out on her own on a custom implementation and running her own instance at the same time. It's sad that she appears to be burnt out right now.
This is one of the reason that I think the @L4s@lemmy.world bot should have retired a while back. !technology@lemmy.world already the biggest comm on this platform that it doesn't need a repost bot from reddit, and having it around inevitably turns this community into a duplicate of r/technology which is more tech business and privacy than it is about interesting tech.
However, you can say that this is also an advantage of Lemmy over reddit, since if you don't like the content of !technology@lemmy.world, you can always use another technology comm like !technology@lemmy.ml or start your own, instead of making something like r/truetechnology or something like that as on reddit. (This is also the reason why I don't think community merging is a good idea on the server side.)
It would be absurdly funny because of how out of place she would look here, which is analogous to something like, what if a sentient plastic doll from a parallel universe somehow ended up in the real world, right?
While the feminist message was not meant to be subtle, there are plenty of subtle messages that people still haven't figured out yet. At it's core, Barbie is about identity and existence.
It's not that deep, but it is a bit more complex than at first glance.