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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes more sense if you position Ai companies as the speculators and chip makers as the actual tulip producers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If part of (be it sixth or less) a cultural minority is put into internment camps, such a big portion of one ethnicity to be criminals in any common means is so unlikely it’s clearly a state approved genocide.

  By what definition? Labeling all discrimination towards ethnic minorities as bad is something I would readily agree with. However, labeling all types of discrimination as genocide diminishes the definition of genocide and is lessens the actual genocides that have actually occured.

  Definitionally genocide requires the intent to partially or fully physically destroy a cultural, ethnic, racial, or religious group. According to the UN internment camps are not inherently genocidal, but can often be a precursor to genocidal actions.

  You denying it to be one is intentionally downplaying to make the issue seem less important and direct the discussion towards something else.

  Or, I’m just trying to be accurate. I’m also pointing out that there are inconsistencies in the way people lable genocide when it comes to geopolitics.

  As far as redirections… I don’t really know what you are implying, I haven’t changed my position on the subject, or attempted to bring in another topic the entire argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  His actual response was just as bad

  No idea of what’s been going on in Canada. POW camps don’t really count. Nor any camps where the goal is not the removal of an ethnicity or nationality from from a region. The question about Israel’s democracy is an interesting one that I need to ponded more!

  So your honor, my defense is an appeal to ignorance with a healthy side of “Nu-uh”.

  Also, the US is totally not a democratic government, but Israel…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you really want to defend holding any percentage of people in an internment camp based on their ethnicity?

  Did I say I was defending that… Or did I just say it wasn’t considered a genocide? Pretty sure I started the argument by saying i didn’t agree with all CCP policy, and that the treatment of the Uyghur people would be systemic ethnic prejudice, which is self evidently bad.

  Again, my point isn’t to nullify all criticism, just to point out that there seems to be a double standard when people speak about the same crimes carried by both democratic and socialist governments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Precisely the colonies that were gradually colonized in the 16th to 20th century.

  Those were colonized by Imperial Russia… You know the government that the Soviet union overthrew.

  Just like French and British colonies are still colonies even if they were colonized centuries ago, Russian colonies are still colonies even if they were colonized centuries ago.

  The difference being that the British and French governments were continuations of the same government that took those colonial holdings. Also the colonies taken in the 20th century now belong to the US.

  The eastern parts of the Russia only really ended up under Russian rule after the Transsiberian railway was built.

  The eastern parts of the Russia only really ended up under Russian rule after the Transsiberian railway was built.

  I mean that’s just factually incorrect. The Imperial Russian expansion east started in the late 15th century and had colonies at the pacific by the mid 16th century, and had nearly a million exiles alone heading east by the mid 17th century.

  The Trans-Siberian railway wasn’t completed until 1904, the same year of the Russo Japanese war where they had a battle over control of Manchuria with millions of combatants. Nothing you are claiming is historically correct in the slightest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that is the subject we are talking about. We are talking about to what extent tankies are similar to fascists.

  And my rebuttal proves that those qualities are not really unique to fascism nor “tankies” and are therefore redundant. You could have just as easily said governments do governmental things and would have made just as valid as a point.

  Temporarily, not. But anything that forces people to have to lose their national or thnic identity is genocide. We are not talking about any temporary internment camps here. (I’m not sure if temporary internment camps based on ethnicity have ever even existed…)

  And what proof is there that they are loosing their ethnic or national identity?

  Secondly even the most inflammatory citations about the interment camps do not claim they are indefinite, mostly claiming that they are held for 10 months to two years.

  Lastly, interning Japanese Americans during ww2 is an example of temporary internment camps based on ethnicity.

  If they do not support using a country’s military against its own population nor are fascists, how are they relevant to this discussion that is intentionally limited to those two groups?

  I provided several examples of democratic nations using their military against their own citizens. I have also already explained the reason it was relevant was because it disproves your claim.

  Uh… Read the news maybe? WTF kind of question is this? How is it a democratic country?

  Lol, do you know how a democratic nation is defined? Any country that derives it’s authority through elected representatives is a democratic nation. Just because those democratically elected officials are conducting themselves in a way that you or I do not agree with does not mean it’s not a democracy.

  Democracy does not mean “only does good” it’s an organizational hierarchy that reflects the political majority.

  No idea of what’s been going on in Canada.

  Ahh, so ignorance is your defense…great.

  POW camps don’t really count. Nor any camps where the goal is not the removal of an ethnicity or nationality from from a region.

  Wut? You do know that one of the main reasons for Nazi concentration camps were for pows…

  Is your claim that democratic countries are morally just in any action so long as they aren’t utilized solely for ethnic cleansing? Also… That would preclude the Uyghur internment camps as they are not being removed from China or Xijiang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think even if someone were to be generous and agreed with your view of current events, it would be considered annexation rather than colonization. It’s an important delineation as colonization requires a conquest in the aims of material extraction without benefit to the native populace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you referencing when you say current Russian colonies? Pretty much all Russian colonization happened in the 16th century in Siberia and central asia under imperial Russia. The only colonization other than that was in Alaska and in parts of northern California in the 18th century, while still under the imperial regime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes you think that USA is relevant here? I am not from USA. USA is not a part of China, nor the other way around.

  My point was that any specific economic policy or government style does not necessarily dictate the outcomes of the people it is in charge of. If this is similar to your belief, then I would question why you elected to make a statement that seemed to limit itself to a binary of fascist/“tankies”.

  1/6 on camps is a LOT. It does fulfill the definition of genocide.

  Again, that is using the most hyperbolic estimate. Also, I do not think temporarily holding a percent of an ethnicity in an internment camp is enough to call something a genocide. It’s definitely not great, and is systemic ethnic prejudice, but I don’t know if that would qualify as a genocide.

  The US put 80% of Japanese Americans in interment camps during ww2 and I’ve never heard that referenced as a genocide.

  What makes you think that USA is relevant here? I am not from USA. USA is not a part of China, nor the other way around.

  I think I explained in the last paragraph of my original argument that it was to provide relevant comparison of similar examples that were not fascist nor “tankies”.

  In your claim you said that you shouldn’t be a tankie because it led to bad/evil results. Would you also claim you shouldn’t be a liberal democracy because it leads to bad/evil results?

  Show me a democratic country where this happens. You’re giving me China and USA. And there’s also the Russia.

  First of all…how is the US not a democratic country? It may not be a great one, but it still has free and fair elections. If the US is not a liberal democracy… What is it?

  Secondly, there have been plenty examples of democratic countries having unjustifiable foreign and domestic policies.

  Just off the top of my head Canada has a brutal history of suppressing their native inhabitants that endures to the modern age. Both france and the UK also had interment camps during ww2. The UK committed a genocidal famine against ireland and Bengal as a democratic nation. Most of the worst aspects of colonialism were conducted after European powers transitioned out of absolute monarchies into democracies. South Africa and Israel both conducted an apartheid state in modern times, one going further into a genocide of Palestinians.

  And more than likely the nation you currently live in has materially or militarily aided the US in one of their unjustifiable wars in the middle East.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And now, when writing this… Argh. Uyghurs. You absolutely cannot compare it to what Nazis did, but if you compare it to what other fascist countries died then yes, that’s quite some consequence.

  You could also compare it to things “democratic” countries have done. America for one has had decades of segregation based on ethnicity and has had concentration camps for ethnic minorities, not to mention a genocide against indigenous peoples.

  If we are using that to tell how much like Nazis a nation is plenty of democratic countries are a lot closer to Nazi Germany than China.

  In the end, tankie is a type of a socialist, and one becomes socialist through a will to do good. Being a tankie is some EXTREMELY fucking ill-advised way to do good, because the result is indeed very very bad.

  I’m not claiming that China has never done anything that I don’t agree with, however if we are measuring their results, it’s hard to conclude that it’s ill advised. In the last 40 years China has lifted nearly a billion people out of extreme poverty and has done so with out endless cycles of wars.

  Meanwhile democratic nations in the West have seen more of their citizens slide into to poverty while killing millions of people in forever wars.

  But in the end, what’s being done to Uyghurs is just horror. Being thrown into a concentration camp and being subjected to various inhumane experiments is already on a very high level of evil to have to experience.

  Again, I don’t agree with a lot of the CCP policies. That being said, I do think there are some exaggerations when it comes to the Uyghur people, though based on their own information I would say there is a pattern of ethnic prejudice

  That being said, even if we use the most inflammatory information from western media and utilize the high estimate of 1.8 million ethnic minorities being put into reeducation camps. That’s less than 1/6th of the Uyghur population in China. Less than the 2 million people currently incarcerated in the US, of those whom nearly 40% are from an ethnic minority who only make up around 10% of the total population.

  This is not my attempt of a whataboutism, just trying to illiustrate that unjustifiable national policy is not unique to socialist or democratic capitalist governments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s honestly a pretty astounding medication that’s been proven to prevent rna viruses from replicating in cells, and has some pretty cool anti-inflammatory properties. The main problem is that it isn’t very water soluble and thus has horrible bioavailability. Basically, it would be as miraculous as people claim it to be if we can find a way to effectively deliver it to the treatment site.

  Right now if you take it it primarily just runs through your digestive tract because it can’t be absorbed into your blood stream. Which is why it’s currently only useful as a dewormer medication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that there are a bunch of studies that have proven that ivermectin can prohibit rna viruses from replicating in cell cultures to an impressive degree. The main problem is that ivermectin isn’t very water soluble, and thus there is no way to deliver the drug to the targeted cells.

  It’s what happens when you develop assumptions based on a study when you don’t really understand the relevant field of the study. It also makes it hard to disprove to people who have read studies that in their mind allude to it as an effective treatment.

  Is ivermectin an effective way to controll the replication of rna viruses in a laboratory setting? Yes, amazingly so. Does that mean we can extrapolate upon that claim and assume it would be effective to treat humans? Absolutely not.

  I imagine in the next 5-10 years ivermectine will be used as a treatment for rna viruses. However, that will require someone to find a way to turn it into an inhaled medication or some kind of nanosized medication that can be given intravenously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s what happens when practicing medical physicians forget they are not really researchers. The main problem is that medical schools do teach research, but just enough to give people a false confidence in their own abilities. Medicine covers so much information that medical school is basically just a series of introduction courses. Like with most positions as a physician, your real knowledge comes from what you actually practice during your residency and specialty training.

  I specialize in orthopedics and rehabilitation, I can understand the mechanisms and physiology involved in studies done over rna virus replication, but I wouldn’t feel confident in my ability to draw conclusions from those studies that are not explicitly stated in the study itself.

  From my understanding invermectin has show itself to have some promising potential for moderating rna viruses from replicating. However, it’s not very water soluble and so there are currently no effective means to actually get the medication to the affected cells. Which is why none of the studies done on cell cultures in a laboratory can’t be extrapolated upon and applied to people.

  Even if you are taking 100x the recommended dose, it’s mainly just going to travel through your digestive tract and cause more harm than good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rip lol⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m convinced divers just used it so they could sound even more elitist and like astronauts when they’re just dudes with a few grand and nothing better to do.

  Hey… Some of us just like blowing bubbles and hanging out with fish.

  It is pretty fun, but to be honest not worth the money if you have to pay for the training yourself, especially if you don’t live near a good diving spot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New JFK theory dropped!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t generally know that Irish heads are larger to fit enough explosives in them to just do that sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nerve-controlled prosthetics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… Prosthetic companies spend lots of money on marketing to make people think we’ve advanced a lot further than we have.

  Myoelectric limbs have been around for decades, and though the terminal devices have gotten more life-like, it’s arguable if they’ve gotten any more functional.

  Myoelectric limbs are just exhausting to use for more than a couple minutes at a time. You have to concentrate and flex individual muscle groups in your forearm to get a controlled response.

  I have patients with mechanical upper limb prosthetics that are a lot more functional than I’ve ever seen anyone with a powered limb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nerve-controlled prosthetics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically all prosthetics are “nerve controlled”, but what you are describing is called nerve integration. Which is possible, but very rare and mostly experimental when it comes to prosthetics.

  What she is wearing is called a myoelectric prosthetic, and they have been around since the late 70s. The myoelectric sensors require a healthy muscle group that the user can activate by flexing. This is a problem with a lot of amputees, as some may be missing from traumatic amputations, and the rest tend to attrify over time.

  Myoelectric prosthetic are not reflexive, and you do have to consciously flex the individual muscles to make the terminal end device function in a specific way, and it does take a lot of concentration and practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snow isn't real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t want you to know about the lost expedition of 1524. This map is the only surviving evidence of when the famous explorer from Genoa The Barone Giusseppe Palloncino took his high altitude hot air balloon over the entire northern hemisphere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Double Plug Experiment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen similar things with homes with water damage. One of the shitty things about water damage is that you have to redo a lot of the electrics throughout the house because it can cause corrosion. Corrosion in connectors in things like outlets increases resistance and can become a fire risk.

  I’m guessing the whole wall got sustained water damage causing corrosion in the outlet, increasing resistance, which caused it to throw off some heat. The heat dried out the plaster and prevented mold growth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People in China definitely don’t live scared to criticise the government, I’ve had plenty of Chinese exchange students and discussed openly politics with them and they have no problem doing so. In fact, people in China have a much better opinion of their system of governance than we do anywhere in the west:

  I think it’s kinda a more complicated subject than anyone’s presented in this argument. There are plenty of people who are afraid of criticizing the government, but they make up a tiny minority of the actual population and are more than likely ethnic minorities.

  The overwhelming majority of Chinese nationals have very positive views of their government, which makes sense considering the advances this government has made over the last 50 years.

  In my experience if you have talked to exchange students who are critical of the Chinese government, they are typically from Hong Kong, or from very wealthy families who would prefer a more hands off approach when it comes to the government’s involvement in economics.

  Queer rights need improving but are not horrible, people are free to have a relationship with whomever they want (though older generations may not understand it and may show prejudice)

  Thats a bit of an understatement. As an Asian dude I can attest this isn’t an issue unique to China but, it’s a problem in any Asian country where Confucianism was prevalent in their history. You may be “free to have a relationship with anyone you want”, just so long as you are not loud about it. You will face discrimination in things like employment and housing, and more than likely be disowned from your family. Though the only time the government will really get involved is if you participate in activism.

  and thankfully China has no threat of a right wing party taking away the rights once they’re earned!

  I think this is a common misconception held by westerners, who typically associate cultural conservativism with economic liberalism. While there may not be a party representative of the economic right, that’s really detached from the cultural mores promoted by the government.

  All Eastern countries are more culturally conservative than most all western nations. And the values that the west associates with leftism are not typically aligned with what a country like China views as leftist policy. In fact, I would say the current make up is more culturally conservative than they were in the late 90 and 00s when they decriminalized thing like homosexuality. They are currently going through a bit of a nationalist streak, and with that are more culturally involved with promoting ideologies like Confucianism.

  While I don’t think they will recriminalize the LGBT community, their engagement with more typical leftist economic policy is no real indication of that. In fact, I think the more they utilize nationalism to promote their economic policy, the more likely they will emphasize their traditional cultural values, making it harder for lgbtq citizens to thrive within their communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think one critique I would add is that your previous statement of it being a social normative is likely a lot more accurate than blaming the state or religion. There are a ton of different states and religions where monogamy is the social norm, and we can even see it reflected in nature as well.

  Different relationship types are just better suited for certain animals in certain situations. Whether monogamy is still the most successful relationship type for modern humans is likely subjective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, you can still do a blood test in conjunction with a field sobriety test. Its not as cut and dry as something like alcohol, but to be honest it really shouldn’t be anyways considering how much more dangerous driving while drunk is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up sheeple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no… They don’t even have waffle houses in Russia or the ocean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have a Secret... | JerryRigEverything [12:26]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehh… I’ve worked in the durable medical equipment field in the past and this video is a bit misleading. The claim that they’ve saved the wheel chair community over 2 million dollars is dubious considering they are enticing people to opt out of insurance benefits to go out of pocket for covered items.

  The scene where they were asking how expensive their insurance chairs were is framing their chairs as the cheaper option…ignoring the fact that insurance chairs are paid for by your insurance?

  I don’t know what community this is really marketing too? Most people with severe mobility disabilities aren’t exactly in the financial position to spend a couple thousand dollars just to get their “custom” chairs a couple months faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A job's a job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked with a dude when I was in college that used to buy broken TVs on eBay and swap out the guts, return them, and then sell the TVs to people on eBay.

  He was banned from a couple Walmarts around town because they caught on to what he was doing, but couldn’t actually prove he was doing fraud because we would also remove and re-solder the internal serial numbers back on the returned tv.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehh… We kinda missed the boat on that by like a hundred years. Even before the Haber process allowed us to allocate ammonia chemically, we had started to worse and worse famine pop up globally. We just have more people on earth than the natural nitrogen cycle can support through agricultural means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How possibly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was kinda my point about absolute equality. There will always be people with disabilities and therefore absolute equity and absolute meritocracies are mostly utopian philosophical concepts. Plus, if we’re doing idealist delights why bother with anything but luxury space communism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How possibly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes? I’m even friends with several queer people…shocking as that may be.

  I even know a few conservative leaning gay dudes, our gay district has a gaybar specifically for cowboys. Even they don’t hate or discriminate against flamboyant gay men. They might not seek their company or want anything to do with that particular scene, but they are still neighborly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How possibly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  disclaimed explicitly that I don’t believe that speakers who use the phrase “toxic masculinity” believe that masculinity per se is toxic

  And did I accuse you of doing so?

  while I was writing, somebody else left a comment that does indeed interpret it that way.

  Yes, lemmy has a pretty established history of harboring a lot of misogynistic users which do not reflect the thoughts of everyday normal people.

  I don’t think we should be moderating our own behavior to satisfy people acting in bad faith or to the temper of bigots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How possibly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imo an absolute meritocracy would first require a society of absolute equity. Otherwise how would you know if someone is actually more inherently better at something or if they just had more opportunity?

  I think meritocracies are a nice idea, but they’ve mostly been supported by societal elites throughout history because they know it’s easy to score when you’re born on third base.