British defence minister Grant Shapps accused China on Wednesday of providing or preparing to provide Russia with lethal aid for use by Moscow in its war against Ukraine....
The reason behind the husband’s death is equally uncertain, except to say that he died in prison in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) when serving a sentence for the “crime” of accessing overseas websites, one of six men from the same village to leave this world in similar circumstances....
Source: Radio Free Asia, aka the CIA, who have obvious material interest in smearing China as much as possible. China may have problems but the bias here is pretty overt.
The sourcing is nebulous by their own admission and the phrasing of the entire article is overtly negative and inflammatory. It could be entirely made up and we have no way to prove it true or false.
I don’t believe a single word the CIA says about China and neither should anyone who is interested in the truth.
The history speaks for itself. China is less of a threat to other countries in the world than the USA is. Your idea that they’re some international boogeyman that’s going to take over the entire world and doom humanity is just you repeating “China bad and scary” State Department propaganda.
Even with China’s human rights record being what it is, they don’t export war across the entire world.
The “data privacy” argument is bullshit and the people pushing for this law know it. That’s what is being sold to people but it is not why this TikTok ban got passed. It got passed because American social media companies are pissed that TikTok is outcompeting them for the attention of young people, and because the US government has a heavy hand in what algorithms are allowed to push on Facebook and Google and others. A good portion of Facebook’s initial funding came from government sources.
“Data privacy” is just an excuse. Lobbying from the intelligence agencies and social media companies is why it’s really being enacted.
You have guessed right. The US government had a massive hand in the creation of modern social media, such as a significant amount of funding for Facebook during its startup phase. The intelligence agencies are mad that they can’t pull data from TikTok or influence its algorithms, on top of the American social media companies wanting to kill off their foreign competition as much as possible.
This bill has nothing to do with data privacy because if Congress cared about that they would’ve banned other platforms too. It’s about control and unfair competition.
Yep. The PS4 and Xbone are both very close to off-the-shelf AMD APU’s as far as I remember; you could buy very similar processors for desktop use. Emulation would require a ton more power than the original chips, and the original chips are so close to desktop processors that it’s more efficient and feasible to reverse-engineer the proprietary API’s those console chips use.
The American South is a diverse and beautiful coalition of Black, Latino, and working-class white people being held hostage by right-wing extremists and their propaganda.
Fair, but I think it’d be way more fun if we drove away the right-wing nutjobs instead of letting them win. They don’t deserve the natural beauty of the South.
An Indian trade union that operates at multiple ports across the nation has refused to load or offload ships carrying weapons to Israel, days after the announcement of New Delhi sending Hermes 900 “killer” drones to Tel Aviv.
We absolutely can, but “organizing” doesn’t mean the same thing to a Democrat as it does to me.
The largest suggestion in this article is: “call out the people who suppress voting and call them vote suppressors”. Words have near-zero impact on the people passing these laws.
Peaceful methods simply will not work anymore. They’ve been tried for decades and the Republicans do not care. Their only goal is winning and in many states they have won in a semi-permanent way by redrawing districts and suppressing nonwhite votes.
Hmm, gee, I wonder why the two “separate” parties agree so strongly on so many things. It’s almost like they get bribed and controlled by the same people…
If you need advice that particular kind of DIY, feel free to post here and tag me or DM me directly. Hopefully I can be very helpful to some of you folks who either can’t afford to pay expensive mechanics or want to learn on your own....
If it’s a traditional lead-acid battery and is also the original factory one, just replace it. Lithium batteries are great as they save a bunch of weight, but they’re expensive and don’t handle the cold as well.
UK defence minister says intelligence has evidence of Chinese lethal aid to Russia in its war against Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
British defence minister Grant Shapps accused China on Wednesday of providing or preparing to provide Russia with lethal aid for use by Moscow in its war against Ukraine....
In China, where authoritarianism is justified by redefining the term, a woman has reportedly been beaten to death during interrogation after accusing police of murdering her husband (dominotheory.com)
The reason behind the husband’s death is equally uncertain, except to say that he died in prison in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) when serving a sentence for the “crime” of accessing overseas websites, one of six men from the same village to leave this world in similar circumstances....
US labor official calls on companies to exit China's Xinjiang over forced labor concerns (www.reuters.com)
Cross posted from: feddit.de/post/11708590...
Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld
Have you ever held a switch? Its long, flat and the controllers suck. Awful dpad and bad sticks....
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Biden’s Attempt to Get Tough on Netanyahu Quietly Failed (jacobin.com)
Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively. (streamable.com)
Full original video from Taki Udon
Lunchables (beehaw.org)
Pornhub Pulls Out of Texas (www.404media.co)
Archive link: archive.ph/Tol6G...
Alan Pope: "Multiple genuine-looking scam cryptocurrency miners and fake Bitcoin wallet applications have been published in the Snap store since 2018." (popey.com)
I used a sentence from the article as the title since I felt it represented the actual issue better, let me know if I should change it....
Indian union refuses to load Israel-bound weapons shipments (thecradle.co)
An Indian trade union that operates at multiple ports across the nation has refused to load or offload ships carrying weapons to Israel, days after the announcement of New Delhi sending Hermes 900 “killer” drones to Tel Aviv.
Nature Has Value. Could We Literally Invest in It? (web.archive.org)
We Cannot Out-Organize Voter Suppression (www.democracydocket.com)
On Immigration, Trumpism Is Now Democratic Common Sense (jacobin.com)
The NFL is an Abusive Workplace (www.currentaffairs.org)
As Super Bowl Sunday draws near, it’s important to remember the systemic labor issues that plague the nation’s most popular sport.
To anyone in this DIY community who has a motorcycle or a car: (beehaw.org)
If you need advice that particular kind of DIY, feel free to post here and tag me or DM me directly. Hopefully I can be very helpful to some of you folks who either can’t afford to pay expensive mechanics or want to learn on your own....