iie

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I go by “test” on live.hexbear.net, or “tset” or “tst” or some other variant when I’m not logged in.

We watch movies on the weekends and sometimes also hang out during the week, you should drop by.

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iie,

{I had no idea about this syntax|Wowee oh boy cool I wrote some small text above the big text}

iie,

here was Zenz’ “bad math” — it’s so egregious it had to be deliberate:

  • His claim was that 80% of net IUDs in China were applied in Xinjiang.
  • “Net IUDs” means "IUDs put in minus IUDs taken out"
  • That number can be zero or negative, and it approaches zero at equilibrium
  • Dividing Xinjiang’s net number by China’s net number does not give you a valid percent. The number is meaningless, it could be negative or even a division by zero.
  • Putting a percent symbol next to that quantity was almost certainly deliberate fraud. I can’t see how you would sit down to do these calculations and not realize the problem

It makes sense that Xinjiang’s net number of IUD placements was higher than China’s average, because the net rate per capita is going to be much higher in a developing region than in developed region where people have had IUD access for decades and the net rate is approaching equilibrium. Zenz twisted the numbers to make it seem like an astronomical number of IUDs were being applied in Xinjiang.

iie,

Help us send these children to live in a juvenile prison away from anyone who cares about them or their future.

iie,

Thank you for your service and get well soon 07

iie,

It wasn’t shown from the victims’ perspective though. It was just “look how big America’s dick is, ooh rah”

iie,

We benefit from having actual humans digest the experience of being alive to express it back to us. We benefit from a dialog where artists shape and are shaped by their cultural moment. Human art is group therapy. If we cut that loop and replace it with an algorithm that remixes and regurgitates past art, I think we lose something important, we lose part of the feedback loop of how societies understand themselves and evolve.

iie,

It’s so cathartic to see someone actually give a shit about how students process information.

all this stuff about working memory and anchoring to the familiar is great

iie, (edited )

Also Tainanmen. Athough fatal clashes did occur on Chang’An avenue and elsewhere in the city, in which hundreds of civilians and a smaller number of soldiers died, witness testimony from numerous western journalists and diplomats and student organizers themselves who were in the square all night, has indicated that no one died in Tiananmen itself. A Spanish news crew even filmed crowds of students walking out of the square at the end of the night. The Tiananmen Square Massacre is a stunning example of a “big lie repeated often enough.”

The first link is a comprehensive article. I can link more on request.

iie, (edited )

:::spoiler spoilered to avoid spamming Some important context for why things turned so ugly after two months of peace, and why a false narrative took hold in such a coordinated way afterward, is that the CIA and its cutouts were openly present. For starters, 30 year CIA veteran James Lilley was appointed ambassador to China on April 20th, five days after the start of public gatherings in Tiananmen, which were initially to mourn the April 15 death of Hu Yaobang. Gene Sharp, who literally wrote the manual for how to start nonviolent color revolutions, flew in for 9 days and observed mysterious efforts to drive the protesters to violence — an intelligence asset only partially aware of the project he was involved in. The CIA was embedded with the protesters “for months” according to the Vancouver Sun, steering and equipping them. Voice of America was broadcasting disinformation to PLA military bases claiming some units were loyal to the protesters and were firing on other units, and claiming Deng Xiaoping was near death — literally attempting to whip up a military insurrection. This was a committed US effort to topple the Chinese government, using the momentum of the USSR dissolving and Hu Yaobang’s death. :::

iie,

make wild accusations about people that want to disengage to bait them back in to defend themselves

ok.

iie, (edited )

on further thought, I’ll just add that I think we’re both defending ourselves and then taking each others’ defenses as attacks to defend against, and it’s a vicious cycle.

I still feel hurt over db0’s two posts tbh. It’s not even the meme, it’s the witch-hunt feeling of that meme being broadcast across all of lemmy to a receptive audience we cannot talk to.

I’m sorry I stressed you out and put you on the defensive. I actually felt the same way. I don’t think either of us intended it. From one communist to another, I hope there are no lasting hard feelings.

iie,

our only defense is not getting divided, which is why this stuff scares me, seeing how easy it is.

I’m optimistic though, I think the red scare stuff is harder in real life, when people are in a real situation with other real people instead of alone at a screen.

iie, (edited )

the more we’re defederated, the less we’re able to defend ourselves when a meme like this gets blasted across the fediverse.

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