Would be great to have other mobile apps fill the gap, so that the devs can focus more heavily on the main site instead of Jerboa.
Ah, makes sense. Yeah it still exists on my instance. Hopefully the underlying bug gets resolved, since it's now wasted both of our time :)
That comment did not start the conversation, it was a response to the comment above it, which directly mentions glass.
Noam Chomsky for example is accused of the same thing for the Pol Pot genocide, though at the time he was right for the same reasons
It's also a valid opinion to criticize Chomsky for his reaction to the Cambodian genocide.I can't recall all the details of how things went down, so I have no comment myself, but I do have other criticisms of him.
It doesn't make him a fascist, or a Nazi/Nazi sympathizer. That would detract from what I have to say about the people who actually are, since that's a separate conversation. Same goes for the devs perhaps (but that's also a separate conversation).
I don't see how getting the police involved and getting these people in the criminal justice system is going to do anything for them. My understanding is that the services available aren't equipped to provide what's needed, and everything is on a huge waiting list.
The people who need the help are often alienated from society and refuse what's available, cause the best they can imagine is grinding away at a minimum wage job in return for rent (maybe) and groceries. I can see how they would find doing drugs in a tent more appealing than that on a fundamental level, though neither are a dignified way to live.
Anyone in the city who does not own property is affected by this housing crisis that has been going on for a decade. If cheap rents existed, then you could get maybe just a bit more than rent and food from your minimum wage grind and it wouldn't be so alienating. Criminalizing posession and use of drugs makes no progress toward these fundamental issues. It's bad for the city on all levels imo, unhoused, "average citizens", cops, and so on...
They're gonna move away from we sockets within a couple of weeks, from what I hear
What "Great Man Theory" does to a person
Do they expect lemmy.world admins to police 25K people across 700+ servers? I don’t think that’s how it works.
I think that the expectation is that lemmy.world needs to show a good faith effort to moderate users coming from their instance. I'm not sure whether they have or have not done this, since it is not my home instance.
I would caution against putting so much faith in them both so strongly. They both favor American establishment liberal politics, which is transparent to many due to the fact that a lot of Americans agree with those politics, and that they appear very reasonable in comparison to whatever tf Republicans are up to on a given day.
It's not a bad thing that they tend to have a very dry and straightforward tone, but all outlets are biased, and it's important to remain critical at all times if you want to have an accurate picture of a current event.
If those markets demostrate such a level of hostility compared to China, is it worth it?
I don't think there is a clean comparison here since the historical context is significantly different. The PRC is much more developed and stable than the USSR or 50s era PRC was. History also would have turned out much differently if the USSR and PRC didn't split in the 60s. In my opinion that was what really put them on the path to their economic troubles in the 80s, obviously the Iron Curtain was probably the larger factor overall, but that is to be expected in the political climate of the time.
For the moment they are dependent on China, but China has a vested interest in fostering that relationship rather than exploiting it, I would say. They are much stronger together than divided, and they surely can both recognize this from recent history.