Also a good point, this isn’t to knock products like the Fairphone since they’re offering extremely long product support windows, which should drive down demand for new devices and reduce their carbon footprint.

You don’t lose $327 million in ONE QUARTER on product development. Who are they fooling with this?

Hot take! I think it’s bad when anyone does it, not just China. Crazy, I know lol. I understand that these are the things that come with running a country but that doesn’t mean they are ethical, or even the only options.

Thank you for validating the fact that I am pointing out real things that are actually happening and not just saying “nuh uh” like others have been doing.

One celebrity giving an annual performance isn’t really convincing to me. What about the limits on children under 18 from participating in religious activities? The restrictions on unauthorized religious gatherings? The demolition of religious sites? The requirement for religious leaders to register with the state? The reduction of teaching traditional languages in favor of the Chinese language? These certainly seem adjacent to cultural erasure to me. These policies all have a chilling effect and make it less likely for non-CCP approved cultures to prosper, and I see no way that is not deliberate.

That makes sense on its face, Chinese imperialism typically takes the form of cultural erasure to promote social harmony and homogeneity. If they want to assimilate the Uyghur peoples then I imagine they would do it economically through changes in their material conditions and jobs, and the CCP clearly has no issues with violently forcing populations to do things they don’t want to.

Thanks for the report :)

Edit: Y’all can downvote me but what I’m saying is objectively true, just look at Tibet. China promotes the Han Chinese culture as the standard through their policies and restrictions on personal freedoms and expression. Didn’t think this would be a hot take.

Can someone “both sides” this issue for me, I keep seeing all this shit saying it’s obvious China is committing genocide and another pile of shit saying the opposite. I feel like 90% of my understanding of the issue is based on propaganda from one side or another.

If any of these become a reality I am fully prepared and willing to commit acts of-

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Fun setting, concept, and animation, but the overall writing quality is extremely poor. Significantly worse than the pilot, especially when it comes to the exposition.

Oh, I’m illiterate whoops

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I don’t think she didn’t trust him, I think she wasn’t programmed to care about him and only saw him as a tool instrumental to her escape. Since he could no longer help, she didn’t care what happened to him

I have a tiny whisk instead of a regular-size one, and I have convinced myself it is objectively superior in every way

They do exist, they just aren’t popular because an OS is basically useless without a preexisting userbase

I live in Grand Rapids, MI where the tap water is 2.4 ppt PFAS. I buy reverse osmosis purified from the store for $0.50 a gallon for drinking, and will continue to do so until I get my own place where I’ll install an under-sink one

I liked that game a lot too, but it’s nowhere near the quality of its predecessors in terms of longevity.

Dead by Daylight.

Objectively pay-to-win garbage that survives purely off novelty, but god damn if it isn’t fun at the highest level of play. Once you’ve paid for all the content, there are very few games that allow that level of variety and character customization.

Of course Linux is better for custom, purpose-built hardware. That’s like, its main advantage for the commercial sector.

For Nvidia I would recommend Pop!_OS since it makes things really easy. Either that or Debian with KDE. More mainstream = more users = better support.

Waiting for it to have Wayland support and then I might switch lol.

I think it’s already a great system, its philosophical foundation of being built around user freedom is fantastic. It just has a few things that are definitely still problems for desktop users. Namely,

• Sensible defaults
• Proprietary driver management
• Distros needing to distribute software in their repos instead of authors doing it themselves
• Too many competing application formats, each with glaring issues
• Inconsistent theming with GTK vs QT (mostly app developers’ faults tho)
• Both popular display servers have huge issues
• Lack of manufacturer support for hardware (this will come with time if Linux continues to become more popular)
• Incompatibility with existing standards, especially Microsoft products
• Lacking proper professional applications for things like video editing that actually work consistently
• Gaming anti-cheat compatibility
• Generally being easy to break the whole system on accident
• Power consumption on mobile devices

I guess that’s a lot, but it’s still a great system ha.