Alcoholicorn
@Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
- Comment on Call of Cthulhu 14 hours ago:
Why does the clam have runes on it?
- Comment on Political Views 2 days ago:
I dont have any evidence, but I 100% believe Engels invented Stirner for Marx to get mad about. Everything we know about the guy reads like 1800s satire.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 4 days ago:
.world wasn’t blocked.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 5 days ago:
IKR. I want to know what kind of spicy take got it blocked.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 5 days ago:
I went to Mander, since .ml is blocked in China.
- Comment on Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations 6 days ago:
NATOpedia is a great resource if you go in with an assumption of a pro-western bias, but a source of truth lmao.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 week ago:
No, because the lowest-level voter typically has less direct knowledge of higher level politician or policy than the guy who has to work with them.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 week ago:
I don’t think tiered representation is bad if 1: every person’s vote is equal regardless of zip code 2: you have instant recall and can just have a representative replaced if they vote against their constituency wishes.
- Comment on TikTok appoints ex-IDF solider as its 'hate speech manager' 1 week ago:
TikTok IS spying on you.
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No more so than any other social media app, and as someone who lived in America at the time, China having my data was far less threatening than America having my data.
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Tiktok duplicated their server infrastructure just for America so no American data would leave the country.
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They hired a bunch of natsec ghouls and boosted what they wanted boosted and censored what they told them to censor since 2020. Tiktok isn’t Chinese propaganda, it’s American propaganda.
But it’s true that the evil CCP is no longer communist: just totalitarian crony capitalist.
The CPC’s tendency to favor the working class over capital suggests otherwise; they’ve raised a billion people out of poverty, while India is a net exporter of food but still has children dying of hunger-related diseases. When a baby formula factory in China killed or sickened a dozen babies due to greed and gross negligence, they took the executives out back and shot them, and opened the market up to foreign imports. When the same thing happened in the US, nobody went to jail and the US didn’t even approve EU imports of formula because that would hurt the profits of the company that had just murdered literal babies.
I would never call China a utopia, but you have to actually understand a thing if you want to make meaningful criticisms of it.
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- Comment on TikTok appoints ex-IDF solider as its 'hate speech manager' 1 week ago:
This is the natural progression.
They started hiring a bunch of natsec ghouls when Trump tried to ban them in 2020, and increased it under Biden when the dems jumped on the “tiktik is spying on you! Evil CCP is turning the youth into communists!” Bandwagon, and started algo boosting right-wing content under Trumo II.
- Comment on South Korea's Yoon resists questioning by lying in underwear 1 week ago:
Is there a som obscure rule youre only allowed to arrest former presidents while they are wearing pants?
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 week ago:
Ok, but that doesnt answer my question.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 week ago:
And America is anti-Russia, so why would they support America’s attack dog?
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 week ago:
wtf are russian billionaires doing supporting America’s attack dog in the middle east anyway?
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 2 weeks ago:
SIXT and TURO. Maybe price out renting the big truck from Lowe’s/home depot. Or a haul. Both might be cheaper than hertz/enterprise depending on your area.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
Right now, the Chinese government has effective eminent domain powers which allows them to acquire property for which to build public infrastructure, both expressways and high-speed railways
I’ve heard people claim as much, but at the same time, Stuck Nail Houses exist, I’m not sure how to reconcile the two. I think it’s that their eminent domain is limited to property that was purchased after a certain point, so if it’s property your parents owned since the 80s, it’s literally easier for developers to route the highway around your home than win that lawsuit, but if they bought in like 2010, they can just give you a similar or better property, or the cash to buy one, and that’s that.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
India has a billion english speakers. Bit they do tend to their own sites/fb
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
It means they need to run more trains.
Sold out trains still sell standing tickets, which let you pick seats if available. I’ve seen old ladies choose to stand so they can all be in a group.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
Oh, you dont think Lockheed skimmed off the top of the Apollo program?
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
Reality: Trains in China go pretty much everywhere and are often sold out days in advance.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 2 weeks ago:
Moderation.
- Comment on Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s 2 weeks ago:
Hadrian’s firewall
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
I mean tresspass laws designed to prevent newly freed black people from “just existing” go back to 1865.
- Comment on Idibiks Oiho 2 weeks ago:
Theres no genuine 山 in 2025, its a cheap chinese 山.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 3 weeks ago:
I hope youre prepared for what managing bamboo entails.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 3 weeks ago:
Other measure for mosquitoes when you have stagnant water you cant put fish in or remove, such as the water that pools in banana plants and bird baths’ mosquito bits. They’re like small rocks carrying a spore that kills mosquito larva, and it seems harmless, at least it is to frogs.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 3 weeks ago:
A country competing with Japan for the highest suicide rate cant be described as working for a lot of its inhabitants.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
?Its very typical at sit-down restaurants, they bring you the check, you write the amount you want to pay (tip), sign, and leave your card on the tray, they bring back your card and a copy of the check.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Nobody will care, but a lot of places, including all public transit only take cash.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 4 weeks ago:
That price doesnt include any data, and seems to be way more expensive than getting local esims. They seem to massively upcharge for the networks they use too. Here its 11USD for 30 days@10GB/day, but the silent charges 5.50/GB on the same network.
