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[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Truthfully, people only put up with pocket because Google is worse. It does have a silver lining in that it shows Mozilla's true colours which we should never forget or let them forget. They're still Western libtrash bordering on fascism, but ✨open source✨. Even ignoring their political stance, the even worse thing about them is the fact that they are a for-profit corporation posing as a nonprofit. They treat their developers like shit just like Google, have an internal attitude of management knowing better about the direction of their software than the people writing them just like Google (their devs have repeatedly spoken out against Mozilla's direction to no avail), their management still hoards the organization's capital and there is a massive wage disparity between the CEO and board and the workers just like Google, they barely pay their workers while management makes millions not including bonuses just like Google, and their position in open source allows them to leech off the free work of community contributions not to mention direct donations from people who don't know any better. Mozilla is bourgeoisie trying its absolute damnedest to convince you they're not. They are not leftist in any capacity, a lot of the developers and other proletarians who work for them are I'm sure, but certainly not the organization. Pray for the day when we have a truly leftist and libre software group and Mozilla dies along with Google.

 
 
 
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Newspeak rant (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
 

Anyone who's studied the George Orwell novel 1984 want to explain to me what the fucking point of "newspeak" is and why it's not a strawman "we're gonna make the commies seem like supervillains and do random stupid shit for no reason" type trope? Because when has any prominent figure in socialism or communism ever suggested dumbing down language? Give me an example of a commie language reinvention please, 1984 is supposed to be the definitive manual on what happened under communism isn't it?

Also detecting a hint of racism in that plotpoint because there really are real languages that evolved naturally where the positive and negative expressions are indeed structured as good, not good, very good, very not good, etc. Is it trying to say that people speaking those languages are bad at expressing their thoughts because it's not how English does it?

Actually, Chinese is kind of like this with its use of pre/suffixes. Chinese is also one of the best languages for poetry and literature. Source: Native Mandarin speaker.

Crossposted from my Mastodon

 

Personally, I think she shouldn't be on YouTube for a completely different reason. The internet is actually unsafe for children that young and there are a lot of disgusting pervs on YouTube. You're not supposed to be on social media till you're 13, and I think even that is too young, a safer age is probably 15 or 16.

And as we've seen here, if you're from a country the west hates, you're a target. Even if you're a child. Not against people in the DPRK posting to YouTube, obviously, but for their safety it should be limited to full adults only.

Wait, I thought those were banned! The west would never lie about countries they hate!

 
 
[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I upgraded his ban from 15 days to permanent because clearly a 15 day ban is not going to do anything to prevent him from coming back with the same behaviour. Also very likely he was intentionally saying all that to get a rise out of everyone else, which constitutes trolling which is a no-warning ban usually.

 

"The Western Corporate Media often claims that “North Korea prosecutes (or even executes) its people for watching South Korean dramas.”

It’s hard to ascertain if that’s actually the case, as fake news about North Korea is the norm. The only allegations of this phenomena come from unreliable defector testimony of known liars (like Park Yeon Mi), who are rewarded for telling hyperbolic lies; or from dubious South Korean sources like the rightwing Chosun Ilbo.

These hyperbolic claims are then amplified by right wing anti-communist organizations (like Liberty in North Korea) and the US MSM.

However, contrary to these dubious claims, we can ascertain with certainty that South Korea does prosecute people for screening North Korean films.

In fact, it’s not an exaggeration to say that much of what South Korea accuses North Korea of doing can actually be attributed right back to South Korea. In other words, these claims are projection—not cinematic, but psychological."

Seriously, SK is projecting more than the projectors that were used to screen DPRK shows.

Better yet, you're not forced to download the entire history of every torrent ever to download one torrent. And you don't have to host every torrent ever to host one torrent.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, can I get a preprint of that counter-paper you're submitting to the Lancet?

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Interesting how the libs are way more doubtful of this than the China leak one, despite this one coming from a major western biomed journal.

Nature approves.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Holy crap never expected people in the modern Czech Republic to be so comparatively based! Always assumed they were like modern Poland.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Might have transferred it through China, Russia, etc

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