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Some Chinese company decided to sponsor the local pro basketball team here and instead of thinking: ‘good for the team’, the media is al like: ‘SHOULD WE BE CAREFUL FOR CHINESE SPYING?’. Like, surely it is the utmost importance for China to be able to spy on a mediocre basketball team in a country that doesn’t like basketball.
I think it would be hilarious for Chinese companies to just start sponsoring tons of sports teams in the US, no strings attached, just money. And watch the American people implode with paranoia of their own making.
How do westerners fall for cold war propaganda? Read a textbook
Their textbooks are also full of red scare propaganda. From the moment they are born they are bombed with red scare propaganda, its fairly hard to get out of that indoctrination.
Many also choose to pretend to believe it when though they know it’s not true because it gives licence to their hate.
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An absolute fuck ton of it disguised as something new (by changing a couple words) from the moment you’re born until something pulls you out of the circle of influence.
I hope this happens in my small town it would be so funny
Oh my gosh, how have I never put this together before???
Red Scare + Yellow Peril = Orange Squirrel!!!
Went down to the US for the weekend to visit gamer friends. I’m driving in a school zone and slowed down as a result, there were y’know kids everywhere crossing the street. A USian then speeds behind me, barely avoids plowing into my back, then slows down to hang out of the car, yelling about how slowing down was bad for their dog. Then at the next few lights they tried to ram and brake check us, again hanging out of their car yelling slurs and murderous threats.
White americans are so fucking absurd, I grew up there and they will all kill if you even look at their ridiculously abused pets the wrong way. Like a friend was bit once and got pepper sprayed when she tried to stop the dog. Not saying Canadians are much better (in a lot of ways we’re worse and more mask off with our racism), but USians are a special kind of unhinged. I constantly have to remind myself that just about every single white person in Canada or the US is descended from someone that killed to live there
“Guys, I’m not Korean. I’m SOUTH Korean. Get it right, I’m one of the good Asians.”
-Bootlicking Chan
A year ago I wouldn’t have thought I would be going out regularly with new trans friends. I’m so grateful for that. Every day I relate less and less to loneliness, although when I do feel lonely now the loneliness is more extreme.
I feel you 100%.
Once again, death to the Zionist Entity.
alternate thumbnail (CW: Zionist being blown up)
I just want to thank the comrades here for your links, your summaries, your curation, your analysis, your opinions, and your memes.
You make the Internet a better place.
A new week.
We are having a party event this week. Looking forward to it. It’s supposed to be better weather this week too but this is still Belgium, so I’ll believe it when I see it.
And, most importantly, it is labour day on Wednesday.
very hyped for labour day
Are you going to do anything special? Lots of marches and activities going on.
im going to the ptb event in brussels
Had to delete my previous account cause it was too close to my public profile as a producer and I don’t wanna dox myself
But that also means I probably can’t link my music here either 😭 a sacrifice I’ll just have to make cause living in the imperial core is gonna get even more dangerous in the near future
Keep in mind that many of your comments are likely backed up on archive.org (and possibly similar websites, or even Lemmy instances that federate with Lemmygrad but don’t synchronize account deletions). If it’s important, the safest option is to create an account with a different name and pretend like you’re a new user
I also probably should have nuked all my posts and comments too 😰 whoops, didn’t think about that
those are all supposed to be deleted when you delete your account, but there’s no guarantee that all federated instances do so as well
Well I didn’t say anything wild on any other instance and I mainly kept to lemmy so I think should be ok
I think archive may be looking at hard times soon idk how their appeal is going
I hope you all have a nice week :D
if that’s true, why did you post this and then delete it
- that clearly wasn’t me
- the person filming should have known better than to put something in the way of a walking capybara
Ah I see so the turtle is at fault for just eating and should make space for the capybara
no, the cameraperson is at fault for placing the turtle in front of the capybara
Also I found the .
I’m not sure what you’re talking about
The . Is gone this is so sad
And a merry happy weekend to you as well!
Cute little cat snake!
You too!
Cute
you too Oppo!
THE ONE PIECE IS REALLLL
Idk if you know who the youtuber is but they are pretty cool he is openly anti cop and pro Palestine and refused to make content on the one piece live action because it released during the writing strike
had no idea, im definitely checking out his content
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
You 2 oppo :D
Awwww 🥰🥰🥰
I just encountered a man on Twitter who has a suspiciously bloodthirsty and fast responding audience despite being a literal nobody with nothing to his name. Bots or is the right wing reactionary brainrot just that strong?
Just that strong sadly. I don’t think I’ve ever seen actual bots, or that many, just really, really sad idiots.
In what can only be described as a quarter life crisis I have decided to get a buzz cut and dye my hair blonde lmao
So youre basically eminem?
Communem
The Collective farm’s spaghetti
Tennis ball looking
Just now?
Yeah lol. I’m sorry you have to meet me this way.
heh
that one regular show episode
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This day 206 years ago comrade Karl Marx was born. 🫡
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We stand in the shoulder of giants!
Historical materialism wouldve been developed regardless but damn did he accelerate the development of this theory by decades.
The HelloChinese app is fairly good, i’ve been steadily learning characters for over a month now.
There is some free software on which I occasionally provide feedback, and I decided to go to the developers’ forum and submit my feedback there. This time my feedback was about typos, which for a coder should be the easiest thing in the world to fix. (Am I wrong?) I reused somebody else’s thread on the same problem, to which the designers had happily attended earlier, until I contributed to it. This was their reply to the typos that I found:
You can submit a pull request with corrections.
First of all, no, I can’t, and second… can they seriously not figure out how to take notes from others? Why do I need to submit a ‘pull request’ for a typographical error? What is the g‐ddamn point in handling this issue bureaucratically? I mean, if these were professionals who worked on this for a living, then yeah, I’d expect them to act grossly incompetent. But when it’s volunteers doing it, that’s something else.
At least they try to work on this software on a regular basis. With nearly all professional game designers, it’s pump and dump. For example, I submitted requests to Nightdive Studios and Bethesda Softworks for some very simple fixes: implementing some unused sounds, implementing some unused animations, restoring a few sounds (which I happily provided), implementing some unused text messages, and implementing an NPC sequence. None of those except for one could be described as ‘ambitious’ for a coder. Do you know how many of my requests they implemented? Zero. Zero of my requests.
I was not the only one screwed over either. A couple of years ago I saw somebody describe a level that crashes when a player touches a certain spot, and I saw an employé explicitly acknowledge it. It’s been two years, and yep, the crash is still there; anybody can trigger it simply by moving into the spot. Judas Priest, this is the kind of shit that a modder could fix and yet somehow the professionals can’t be bothered.
Must be a bureucratic mess to not even bother fixing simple stuff, or the devs are overloaded with work from other projects, or they are just lazy af.
Especially on Bethesda, like i bought F04 last week and the game is barely playable, they even made a “next gen patch” last week but i still can’t play above 60fps because dialogue breaks.
Speaking as a FOSS maintainer, typos should be trivial to fix as long as it’s in a language the devs are fluent in. The kind of up front work you mentioned putting in to your tickets is practically the platonic ideal of a good issue.
Speaking also as a corpo codemonkey (like the people at Bethesda), management and product consistently — through short-sighted hair-brained schemes and giving zero shits about what actually goes into making a software product — raise a shit ton of barriers to getting even simple things done. This leaves little choice but to make quick but shoddy ways of implementing features to meet the deadline, which in turn creates tech-debt which is itself a barrier.
I could understand the “just make a pull request, bro” response if someone comes in demanding a vaguely defined feature that seemingly no one else has expressed interest in. We’ve used that answer several times for issues raised for Lemmy. In your case though, the response seems unwarranted.
It would be cool if indie devs were immune to this but I’ve had early access devs argue with me about why they shouldn’t have to fix bugs which broke the main questline in their game etc. Generally am pirating that shit because fuck Eaccess
Oh wow, that is awful. I thought that these designers were being difficult for neglecting some aesthetic issues, but refusing to address game‐breaking bugs? The only excuse that they have is that they are so tired from work or family life that they don’t feel like jacking around with their projects. In which case, it would be better to officially put them on hold rather than arguing with people. Otherwise, it’s a waste of time for everyone.
Yeah I then found out other people had the same issue and had even been told to turn on cheats in response to bugs in a survival character permadeath game lol
Am I wrong
Only if it is translated and they use the original english as the “key”, i.e. changing the English breaks the translations. Otherwise it is very easy.
