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- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 1 hour ago:
I mean, GDR is one tiny country but that goes for both sides of the equation. China would be able to surveil mail with the full resources of the Chinese government.
- Comment on Putin's adviser warns Russia risks new civil war and internal collapse of the nation 10 hours ago:
Third collapse of Russia if you count the Russian Empire.
- Comment on Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Netanyahu 3 days ago:
They're not pussies; they're authoritarians trying to get political clout.
- Comment on Plant Protection 5 days ago:
I mean, given that humans now cultivate them en masse they are succeeding given that the task is to reproduce.
- Comment on German government approves largest minimum wage increase in its history 6 days ago:
Me before reading the article: From the current conservative government? How many babies are they gonna sacrifice for this.
Me after reading the article: Oh.
Germany’s CDU/CSU-SPD government has approved a two-stage minimum wage increase. In the first stage, on January 1, 2026, the national minimum wage will increase from 12,82 euros per hour to 13,90 euros per hour.
In the second stage, on January 1, 2027, the national minimum wage will increase again from 13,90 euros to 14,60 euros per hour. The increase was initially suggested by the Minimum Wage Commission in June and is the biggest in the history of minimum wages in Germany, which were only introduced in 2015.
- Comment on Spain recognizes the ‘pain and injustice’ caused to Mexico’s Indigenous peoples 1 week ago:
Wow, holy (not unjustified) China hate boner.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 1 week ago:
In war, if it's not an ally it's an enemy.
Uh... no?
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 1 week ago:
So the US is a threat because... it might not help Europe? That's not really how the word "threat" works, setting aside how Russia isn't even a military threat to non-Ukraine Europe in the first place assuming the EU's mutual defense mechanism holds.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 1 week ago:
The fundamental philosophical error here is assuming that all forms of simulation are computational or mathematical.
Uh... that's literally what a simulation is.
Counterexample: your dreams are a form of simulation (probably). So I can literally disprove this take in my sleep
But dreams aren't simulating reality as we observe it; they just kinda do their own thing. Your brain isn't consistently simulating quantum mechanics (or, hell, even simple things like clocks) while you're dreaming so this is a moot point.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 1 week ago:
US "allies" haven't gotten the memo yet, US enemies aren't going to interrupt America while it's killing itself and non-aligned nations don't give a shit. Human rights abuses are almost never the real reason for sanctions, just like the US didn't invade Iraq to spread democracy.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 1 week ago:
US "allies" haven't gotten the memo yet, US enemies aren't going to interrupt America while it's killing itself and non-aligned nations don't give a shit.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 1 week ago:
The US is an existential threat to Canada and countries in the Americas that MAGA has bones to pick with. Maybe also Iran. The vast majority of the world is mostly safe, because America has no interest and/or capability to start shit there. For your Germany example, Hitler made it clear exactly what he wanted to do in Mein Kampf.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason 1 week ago:
If you're really worried, streaming copyrighted content is legal in most of the world, but really the only risk involved is when torrenting (and even then only in certain cases), in which case just use a VPN. In other words, it's not a crime if you never get caught.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason 1 week ago:
It's one more consequence of
the currentcopyrightregimebeing self-servingly catered to business owners.Copyright was invented by Brits and spread worldwide by Americans; if it didn't cater to business owners they wouldn't have done it.
I don't have a solution to this without either (a) exposing yourself to ruin or (b) consciously killing your interest in any commercial creative medium.
Or (c) piracy.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason 1 week ago:
More seriously, WTF Crunchyroll? There's literally no reason not to pirate anime if they're not even going to bother with subtitles.
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 1 week ago:
You can say Nestle on Lemmy. That's what we're talking about right?
- Comment on Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops 1 week ago:
Free markets are a myth. Every country on Earth regularly interferes in the market to align it with its interests; China just does it more. That's still not communism, because you can't have billionaires (or private property in general) under communism. China under Mao was communist, but under Xi? No way. The Chinese government exerts significant control over its economy, but the primary driver of economic growth is still the private sector. China isn't doing anything fundamentally different from what any Western capitalist state could do if they got their act together for five minutes.
- Comment on Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops 1 week ago:
First, what's a "communism?" Second, China is capitalist as hell; it's just capitalism under an authoritarian regime rather than under a democracy.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 2 weeks ago:
Hmm... It's an adoptive family dynamic, but I think you'll like Anne Shirley. You can watch the recent remake or the original anime depending on preference.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 2 weeks ago:
I did and he's based as fuck. Your point?
- Comment on mercy merci 2 weeks ago:
Killing spiders is a scam by big fly/mosquito/insert insect of choice.
- Comment on Are there communities online where artists share their art for free / donation? 2 weeks ago:
Presumably they'd just upload it on their social media platform of choice nowadays?
- Comment on Carrot 2 weeks ago:
I mean, that's reason to wash it, but I don't think there's a medical argument for peeling. Could be wrong though, but I've never heard of this being a problem ever.
- Comment on UN experts say U.S. strikes against Venezuela in international waters amount to ‘extrajudicial executions’ 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Carrot 2 weeks ago:
You peel carrots? Why‽
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 3 weeks ago:
Now I wanna learn how to teach crabs to read classical Latin.
- Comment on Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia 3 weeks ago:
What?
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 3 weeks ago:
If you had a hundred small Reddits talking to each other like one big Reddit, oh and with fewer fascists and no ads.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 4 weeks ago:
Upload posts to appropriate communities.
- Comment on Back in June, Trump quietly shuttered the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions 4 weeks ago:
Quietly? Now that's just slander! When Great Leader President God-King Trump needlessly endangers Americans, he does it with gusto!