scrolled past and saw one for almost every subthread.
Post about western achievements are often taken as granted (except maybe curing cancer), while eastern ones are scrutinised to the smallest of details.
Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’
opossumo@lemmings.world 1 day agoWhat are you on about?
Nearly every upvoted comment is in praise of this. Only 2 comments warn caution about Chinese data.
Why do people need to lie and pretend China is this big victim being picked on.
Binette@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Tja@programming.dev 20 hours ago
Not Eastern ones, Chinese specifically. Japanese or Korean science is generally trusted, but dictatorships have a tendency of making shit up to look better. We’ll believe it when we see it.
China has plenty of achievements, but also plenty of bullshit vaporware. We’ll see which one this is.
futatorius@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Show me any post about any technological advance that doesn’t have critical comments in the thread.
HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
You don’t suppose there might be reason people don’t trust the news coming from a country with no freedom of speech or press?
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Yeah yeah, “you can’t believe it until Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk confirm it”
futatorius@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Smells more like bootlicking to me.