facow [he/him, any]

UN troops will almost certainly make it worse

That everyone finds racist jokes funny except white women who get performatively offended. So a nice double helping of racism and sexism

The freer the market the freer the people!

Sounds like Israel needs some personal finance lessons.

Step 1) make a budget

Step 2) cut down on avocado toast

Step 3) stop buying bullets, bombs and missiles to indescriminately use on civilians

Works for me

https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/xinjiang-china-kampf-gegen-terrorismus-und-separatismus-ld.1753509

" - They confirm that what happened in Xinjiang was the result of “massive Islamist terror between 2010 and 2016” with “twelve separatist-Islamist movements” active at the same time. - They remind that “in 2016, extremist Uighurs declared in an ISIS video that they planned to ‘drown Han Chinese in a sea of blood.’” And that “they began recruiting young Uighurs as fighters from Afghanistan and Pakistan in southern Xinjiang”. - All this “almost led to a loss of control by the central government”. As a result of this “Beijing felt compelled to respond with undoubtedly excessive measures to curb the terror and regain control. The internal security of all of China was at stake. It should also not be overlooked that the Uighur population itself suffered from the terror.” - Beijing’s response was “a transitional phase” between “2017 to 2020” where “Beijing was forced to declare a ‘state of emergency’, move military units to Xinjiang, and establish a strict discipline regime.” - Since new Party Secretary Ma Xingrui, who has been in office since December 2021, the goal is “a return to ‘normalcy’ as quickly as possible”. They write that “the various camps established during the peak of the fight against terror have now been largely dissolved” and that “clear signs of a return to ‘normalcy’ are evident. In the regions visited by the group, police street checkpoints are clearly no longer in use.” - They write that “among the Uighur population, the modernizations initiated by the central government in education, medical care, and employment clearly receive noticeable sympathy. […] With the introduction of fifteen years of free education (kindergarten, school, and vocational training) for young Uighur men and women, the state has initiated a new development boost. Additionally, initially in the southern part of Xinjiang, there is state-subsidized healthcare. […] This is complemented by regionally divided and adapted development aid and resource allocation from the wealthier eastern provinces of China. This is evident in modern vocational training centers in each Xinjiang county. Students receive 200 yuan monthly in addition to free education to support their parents. State-sponsored settlements of modern branches in the agricultural and industrial sectors, which must employ almost exclusively Uighurs at nationally valid minimum wage standards, are intended to help solve the employment problem.” - They write that even though “the travel group could not ascertain general discrimination against the Uighur language and culture, in Xinjiang, as in all areas of ethnic minorities with their language and script, the main language of instruction in schools from secondary level is Mandarin. The native language is always offered as a subject in compulsory schooling.” - Their conclusion: “If the human rights situation continues to normalize demonstrably, the EU should initiate dialogue and reconsider the sanctions imposed on China due to Xinjiang.”"

Incredible bit

Don’t forget learning about systemd and then immediately deciding you actually don’t like it and would prefer something else

bens_tek.md 🍄👀

Non Western countries competing with each other to produce commodities for practically nothing

Non Western countries competing with the west to produce high tech manufactured goods

I don’t know about this one chief

Extremely rare W from TERF Island

My partner really likes watching a mukbanger as like random mindless background videos. I’ll never get it, watching anyone eat is gross as hell and mukbangers especially so.

I’ve never had a problem with them and I really like the Facebook container feature for when I have to use Messenger to contact friends

Do you know what liberal means or do you think it just means Democrat?

I use PIA because it’s cheap as dirt. I don’t use their client and I have it setup so exclusively my torrent client uses it. It works for my use case because I’m pretty much just trying to avoid nasty letters from my ISP. I wouldn’t trust them with any of my regular traffic because they’re sketchy and there’s got to be a reason they’re so cheap.

Although I would consider what your usecase for a VPN is - ie what attack vectors are you trying to protect against when using it for regular traffic? There’s arguably very little a VPN does to protect you on public WiFi and also opens you up to new risks

“Western philanthropist” vs “Russian Oligarch”

Haha that would be Microsoft just shifting money from one pocket to the other. GitHub, Azure and (effectively) OpenAI are all Microsoft

Jellyfin app (at least for Android) can play in external video players.

Shouldn’t need one if you trust your seedbox provider to not log. And even if you don’t trust them you’d need to find a VPN to trust more and they’re almost all super sketchy.