china is a bit like Yugoslavia before the end: lots of different ethnicities being forced to be together. letting a country made up of Chinese people exist in parallel to china keeps a flame of hope alight for those 51 non-Han Chinese ethnicities that were forced to be part of continental china. and China has struggled immensely with multitudes of local kingdoms and warlords throughout its history so it is afraid as its people are very aware of this past through historical dramas

God willing

well, have burner social media accounts as well

you can support. it’s just your politicians holding back the access to land for new development to satisfy some voters and backers that make a lot of money through property price increases. if there was really any will to solve the problem politicians would have relaxed land use regulations

that might be sus as well… better keep an alternative one that you don’t use and make sure the account is gets sufficiently old and then you just say that you just lurk

American libertarianism is just a form of nationalism mixed with a strong dose of “don’t nose into muh life”

agree, the inclusion movement went too far into dictating how people should behave and cancelling people on the basis of any perceived offenses and that gave electoral leverage to the current president

Grok will round up physics constants and pi as well… nothing will work but Musk will say that humanity is dumb

Lemmy only. No other social media, especially stuff like X or Mastodon

that’s why there is Ikejime, the japanese method to dispatch fish

Yoko Taro talking about weird shows a healthy deal of self awareness… +1 respect in my book

SCOTUS ignored common law practice and decided to go literal with the interpretation of a document written 200 years ago

because Dems allowed gerrymandering to go without protest

this

yep… jet engines do not need to worry about knocking as they have no pistons

tetraethyl lead - if used - is only for piston aircraft, not large commercial jets

Event Horizon… terror in space? Worse the Alien? can’t be.

but it is haunting and PTSD inducing, very well made

America… I remember seeing “value packs” of Tylenol containing 300 pills… that’s their idea of freedom… to allow people the choice of slow and agonizing suicide by liver failure

like “The Producers”

exactly this