If people weren’t as stupid, they’d already be ignoring fox news.

The solution to misinformation isn’t censorship, it’s for people to be better educated. Are we supposed to ban every conspiracy theory website? If so, who gets to decide what is the truth and what is “misinformation”? The same type of government organization that is now banning books in florida? No thanks.

Meanwhile, you can use an instance that has them defederated.

This post is on lemmy.ml, an instance whose owner decided to continue federating with lemmygrad.ml for… reasons. Go visit lemmygrad.ml and you’ll understand why.

If your comment (the top-level one) was supposed to be sarcasm, you need a /s tag because there are people actually being serious saying that “it’s a conspiracy, couldn’t be any other possible explanation” stuff.

But also, the “hostage” thing is not entirely false, just very exaggerated. They only take your family “hostage” if you are like a leader of a protest or something. But I doubt they care if you are just some forum user that has no followers and “protesting” online. They got too many dissidents within their jurisdiction to care about those abroad.

Well I, as a former citizen of China, do “speak out” against CCP as in family discussions, in online forums, and sometimes with classmates in school, but I don’t “speak out” as in actually participate in protests. Demonstrations just isn’t my thing. Protesting against CCP gets you labeled a “race traitor”. I mean honestly, with all the racial problems in the US, and having to deal with my abusive family, I really don’t have to energy care about CCP anymore. It’s dead to me. I view China just like how an anti-fascist German view Nazi Germany. There’s no point of protests. It’s beyond anything a protest can fix. Like… why do I even care, it isn’t even my country anymore.

Edit: Also, it isn’t a conspiracy that ethnic Chinese (I’m gonna use the term “ethnic Chinese” because this applies regardless of citizenship status) people don’t “speak out”. People just value “Social Harmony” more than being correct. Like if you live abroad, why care about what happens back in China? Most ethnic Chinese people who lives abroad don’t really feel welcome in their new country, so why be against your former country if you aren’t even sure if you are actually safe in your new one? You don’t end up in a situation where you have no safe harbor in the world. Ethnic Chinese people living abroad believe China will accept them again in-case their living situation abroad goes south, so they don’t want to get on the bad side of the Chinese government. Like what happened with the Chinese Exclusion act in the US more than 100 years ago, and also the Japanese Internment Camps. Maybe you disagree with the thought process, but that is what most ethnic Chinese people think.

An actual funeral

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Is that Islam + Arabic writing + Anime art style + Target logo + Fighter jet Freedom bird? + lemmynsfw.com? 🤔

Can’t relate. It’s 20231231 for me.

Edit: Also this format is superior for file sorting. All files are chronological.

In your time format: 010124 goes before 123123.

You could have 4 files dated: January 01, 2002; June 11, 2001; July 21, 2004; December 31, 2003

In your time format the files would be sorted like this:

010102
061101
072104
123103

It’s 2002, then 2001, then 2004, then 2003. What a fucking mess.

In ISO 8601, there’s no such issue.

Before you reply saying theres a sort by date feature, yes I know, but file creation date isn’t the same as when the data is actually recorded. You could be inputting that data from a piece of paper in 2005 after the data being recorded in the years prior, so the creation dates would all be in 2005. Also, sometimes when copying files, the dates randomly reset. Putting the date in the filename ensures it wouldn’t disappear due to OS shenanigans.

"This instance has been seized by The US Department of Defence due to threats to national security"

Cars don't rip you apart molecularly, unless you get into a crash. A teleporter will rip you apart every time. This isn't a discussion of the "safety" of teleporters, it's a discussion of what consciousness is.

lemmy.fmhy.ml?

Edit: I mean this one isn't gone forever, they're just gonna have to get a new domain. I'm guessing it's Vlemmy like someone else already said.

For a ship, yes. For a living organism with consciousness… I’m not so sure.

Every person has the right to Food, Water, Clothing, Shelter, and most importantly… a Gaming PC. Gamer are being oppressed and politicians are already trying to take away our GPU rights. That must stop!

A well regulated Gamer Group being necessary to the security of a free Gaming Society, the right to own Gaming PCs shall not be infringed upon!

Nah, only Lemmy. I don’t like the Mastodon system where you follow users instead of communities. Like why would I want to follow some random internet strangers I don’t know, instead of an actual community of people with similar interests to have a meaningful discussion with? Any Twitter-like system where you follow users is just not my type of platform to use.

Much easier to search for “Technology” and have a full community instead of finding a Mastodon User equivalent of LinusTechTips, which is just one person. I’d have to search for every tech person to get all the tech stuff. I prefer just one community for everything.

I also don’t have reddit addiction syndrome anymore.

Now I have Lemmy Addiction Syndrome…

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You love licking Xi’s boot? Lmao