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This was the statement I was responding to:
It’s basically an island that all the wealthy capitalists ran away to after China imposed economic democracy.
Here was my response :
Wealthy capitalists, if they’re not based in the US, have moved to [Singapore (or Switzerland, or the UAE)], not to Taiwan.
Where was what I said dishonest or irrelevant?
Edit: reorganized for legibility
I was saying that the billionaires were not moving to the island of Taiwan.
You’re talking about US Empire, which, as mentioned in my other responses in this thread, is irrelevant to the physical movements of billionaires.
Even if Taiwan declared itself to be US Empire island #76, it would not change the fact that billionaires did not move to the island of Taiwan.
An intermediary.
A native of a colonised country who acts as the agent of the coloniser.
I don’t get the point you’re trying to make.
I said the wealthy capitalists went to not!Taiwan because the billionaires in Taiwan were already there.
Who is or is not a comprador has nothing to do with where wealthy capitalists relocate.
I think I see what you mean about Taiwan as a proxy state for the US.
I don’t think they see themselves as that, but they do basically owe their continued independence from China to the fact that the US values them as a pawn in the battle for global power.
I read that. (I literally mentioned features not being paywalled in the original comment.)
If the key doesn’t unlock features, what does it unlock?
Do you get a little thank you message from the devs when you enter it in? Does it add a “Supporter” tag next to your name on the app settings?
The practice exists in both software and games of adding paid cosmetics (e.g. Discord or Deep Rock Galactic) that don’t change the core featureset but allow users to pay more to support the developers, so I think it’s a valid question.
What does the $100 server key unlock (besides “supporter status”), since features aren’t paywalled?
US empire and wealthy capitalists aren’t the same thing, although their interests sometimes align.
All the billionaires in Taiwan are Taiwanese.
Wealthy capitalists, if they’re not based in the US, have moved to those places, not to Taiwan.
I was talking about the wealthy capitalists
It’s basically an island that all the wealthy capitalists ran away to after China imposed economic democracy.
The post on… the opensource Lemmy community for self hosters. Is that the one you’re talking about?
The marketing claims it’s “a gift for your family”.
Not a single comment in that first link mentions family members using it.
Here are the comments from the “people listing their use cases” you mentioned:
My issue isn’t the app itself or it’s users.
It’s the claim that it’s “a gift for your family”.
I think you’re thinking of Singapore (or Switzerland, or the UAE).
So this Thanksgiving, give your family the gift of memories that last forever!
What is this marketing?
I cannot imagine a single person who would want this for Thanksgiving.
Most people under the age of 30 use social media now to “preserve memories”.
The people who care about journaling probably have physical paper journals and wouldn’t want an app.
And the people who would want an app… would probably already have installed this themselves.
They’re not asking whether it’s literally true.
They’re asking why it feels like there’s less.
That’s a subjective, but still valid question.
Or buy this version and then upgrade the storage yourself.
We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.
General
- Disabled internal Chromium Embedded Framework services that utilize Google API integration. These were enabled by a configuration change required to continue updating the Steam Chromium framework but are not necessary for usage in Steam.
Desktop Mode
- Fixed some client and overlay popups not saving position when moved.
That’s the whole update.
Whoever came up with the idea of sharing them as a gmail-clone is a genius.
Are you talking about this part? If so, what I was saying was that billionaires moved to either the US or the three countries I mentioned.
That means the billionaires from China also did not move to Taiwan.
You can also look at the wiki for Taiwan’s billionaires. Only one was born in China and not Taiwan (Hong Kong, specifically), and I’m pretty sure he moved to Taiwan way before the events we’re taking about in this thread.