Semjaza @ Semjaza @lemmynsfw.com

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More complex than just that, don't forget:

Massively competitive education-work culture, where everyone is regularly publically ranked against each other.

Sudden doubling of house prices over the last 15 years.

Schools and work places making perpetual crunch a thing and hiring in intrepid young go-getters to replace burn out.

Wages stagnating for first time since Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms.

Yes, machine translation is 100% why this occurred.

That user is saying it in a more conspiracy sounding way, but isn't factually wrong as long as you replace "given" with "sold".

The publicly built and operated Internet infrastructure was cut up and sold off in 94 by Clinton to telephone companies at very friendly rates.

Governments send money to their fellow top people, by accident if not design.

No, being in London doesn't mean you're rich. But if you live in Greenwich you don't get anywhere near the M25 to get to your state school.

They are by the law courts with sentences like these.

I chose that cartoon to show how a large portion of Americans saw MLK and the less innsurrectionist Civil Rights arm.

Loving it, Voyager is great to use.

Would like a way to pull up a list of instances federated and defederated with my own.

Also, an easier way to get a non-voyager link to a comment to then post for people.

My trouble with both of these might be faulty user errors.

The person you're replying to may be much further to the left than you give them credit for.

The lesser of two evils is still evil and deserves to be called such. The US is not a benevolent nation.

If their school journey required driving along the M25 their school, was, odds on, a posh twuntian egoscape. They're from money and benefit hugely from the system, but don't see it because of all that hard work they have done at some point sucking on their silver spoon.

Us British plebs don't need to drive along the capital city's outer ring road to get to the local state school.

Oh, I thought targeted at oil industry specifically was what you were asking for.

They also spent 3 days disrupting one of the largest petrol company sites in the UK a few years back. Very little media coverage, no care from the general public, no result.

The big march on Washington style disruptions at least gets something. Even if you complain.

You're right as far as road fatalities weren't systematically collected by the Yank government until 1960, 7 years after the last state made driving licences mandatory. But, we have material such as this 1930s Reader's Digest on road accidents and safety, and if I thought you were much more than a troll I might see if anyone's done an obituary analysis for the 1920s - 1950s on road deaths... But:

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We in Europe forget that you yanks can get fired for things like a car break down or a protest stopping you from getting to work on time.

You should probably get some workers rights protests. Consider strikes.

The blockade power stations and airfield quite often.

But those ones barely make news, let alone front page news.

Also major motorways outside a large city is much more like marching your protestors down main street in Birmingham, US or marching on a capital city, getting those city centre shut down for Blacks and Whites alike than sitting in a Blacks only eatery.

Unshockingly I have found that it's very hard to make an LLM be critical of LLM and AI in general.

That means no big platforms, but instead smaller niche sites.

If big US tech companies exist, we can't have a wild and free web.

Two points:

• Can you unban abortion and harder drugs then please?
• Gun/ammunition banning/control has been shown to drastically reduce mass murders and shootings. Similar to how needing a license to drive a car has dramatically increased road safety.

The US has shown itself to be a bad faith actor, and support misinformation and propaganda over reality.

Letting that run wild is not healthy for society.

Musk having a platform to spout lies and slander against the UK and the EU demands a response.

I agree with everything you said except this bit:

China banned that shit, and China has been successful partly for its detachment from US far-right propaganda.

China loves US far right propaganda, the amount of Chinese people reeeeing about DEI or wokeism or the LGBTs, and fellating the South African Nazi who inherited wealth from an apartheid labour emerald mine and (for some reason, still) J. Lopsterson is kind boggling.

The common view in China is that the US is too progressive and needs to clamp down on minority rights and immigration... The mind boggles.

But yes, also fully fuck US social media and tech monopolies.

But the EU had taken risks so far as we think when push comes to shove we'll be on the same side as the US, ignoring that the US still seems to think realpolitik is an appropriate course of action. Never trust a realpoliker to have your back.

You're right in saying 汉语 and 粤语 are different.

But then, when I lived in China I had teachers tell me Japanese and Korean were really dialects of Chinese because they used to be written with 汉字... 🙄 Imperialism gonna imperial...
Though due to that cultural imperialism lots of Cantonese's unique vocabulary is being replaced by the Chinese equivalent, and even the grammar is changing to fit more closely. =(

Various 粤语 speech is still just about the norm in the UK amongst the Chinese diaspora, though more the 粤海 variant of Hong Kong, due to our own imperialist history. But that is changing with more recent waves of PRC migrants.

Thanks for sending me on the deep dive on 粤语, 广东话，台山话 and finding out about 粤海, and the ambiguity in the meaning of Cantonese.

Edit: what language would you prefer to use with someone who spoke both Mandarin and English fluently as second languages?