The only gross or surprising thing about censorship on TickTock is that it's consensual. I think it's ironic that neoliberals have conditioned Western "consumers" to to accept things getting worse as just "it is how it is", and the CCP has swooped in to take advantage of us that way.
Uhhhhhhhh! The Nazis did this. anyone who disagreed, caused trouble, or eventually was Luke-warm to National Socialism was seen as "sick", "degenerate", or " deranged". This was a classification that meant death for some, exile for others, and terror for anyone who witnessed your fate.
Online debate is a waste of time. You can somewhat short-circuit the bad-faith stuff by arguing values instead of facts or policy.
For example, if you say that the State has no right to remove trans kids from their parents, you've made a legal argument that's vulnerable to all the bad faith and you may even be technically wrong. However if you argue that you trust parents to decide what's best over the State, there is nothing to argue about. Bonus, you might actually get some real talk out of reactionaries.
However, the company said it had found no evidence to date that its Azure platform and AI technologies were used to target or harm people in the Gaza Strip.
A lawyer wrote that statement. I read between the lines that M$ has a don't ask, don't tell policy in regards to war crimes.
GIMP is not low effort. If you can 'quickly assemble' memes, it's because of previous effort. (I'm studying to be someone who can quickly assemble memes in GIMP)
That program has a unique UI philosophy. Does it resemble Photoshop? I've never used that.
I wish I could read complete Aeschylus plays, but the loss of the Library of Alexandria was only the terminus for great ideas, culture, and mathematics if you ignore the existence of ancient writings of the East. Some of the best ideas were absent from that library before it caught fire.
You can find podcasts called "slow news" or something like that where they present the days news in the language your learning but take care to speak slowly and enunciate.
There are workarounds to almost every issue you may have. You can run Windows in a VM for software that requires it, or dual boot. M$ Office can be ran in a browser now. There is no reason to buy a license, just DL windows10 direct from M$ and never register, all they do is lock you out of some display options and add a watermark to your desktop.
The Nazis, upon whom the empire borrows much, have an interesting management style. The theory was that leaders set goals and allowed subordinates a free hand in achieving these goals. Some of you may find that attractive, but there is a fatal catch. The subordinate is only "Free to Obey", to achieve goals, never to set them. Even worse, responsibility is delegated with the tasks, so failure is the subordinates' fault. It's never a bad objective, scarce resources, or bad information; the people making the decisions are shielded from responsibility.
Now back to Dedra. In her exit interview with Krennic, she explained how the ridged order and information control caused her to digg into places where she was not allowed, just to get the information she needed to pursue Axis. Nobody would have faulted her for arresting Luthin if he had survived.
Had all of her misdeeds come to light under the auspices of success, she would have been praised for her cunning. She was constantly stymied and blocked by different organs of the Empire, set to cross purposes by pride, ambition, or stupidity. Decisions made by the likes of the Emporer or Director Krennic are what made Luthen's long anonymity possible.
Dedra didn't doom the Death Star, she was on the verge of saving it. And she was fighting the Empire as much as the Rebellion.
Living proof that fascists don't work food-service. Or maybe food-service workers are immunized against fascist ideology. Either way I hope 47 gets 86'ed.
He was still a one-man rebellion fighting for himself. It wasn't until the funeral that he decided to throw his will to life into the furnace and give himself to rebellion.
He made a decision on Fraxis to either die by Luthens hand or by the Emperor's. The loss of Maarva made him so ashamed and angry that in the desire to make up for it, he made a suicide pact. That's not the same man who jumped into the water and swam for his life.
Why does it have to be a desert island? I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.