Thrawn

@Thrawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First thing this is all purely personal opinion viewing stuff from outside and as a general interest in world history.

  I am an American but I have lived outside the USA for a couple years and no it wasn’t on a military base.

  So with that said my personal interpretation is that China is still largely the same China as in ancient times and has decided to take several large chunks of both Communism and Capitalism and add those to the far far larger just continuing to do/be the same as they have for thousands of years.

  To put it a different way, it is a case of fix what they feel was/is broken and keep doing all the things that work and from their point of view China has kept itself as one of the largest Nations in history for one of the longest times of any country.

  So on the bad side you have things like them being willing to be extremely repressive is terms of censorship. Or the oppression of minorities they don’t fall in line enough to the central control of the government. Or minimizing stories that damage their reputation like mining issues.

  On the good side they seem to be able to at least partially consider long term large scale society value. At least from the point of view of engineering. The USA by comparison seems to exclusively only consider short term value. Often in terms of weeks or a financial quarter and occasionally the few year duration of a presidential or Senate term.

  China also seems to care about improving the average life of it’s citizens. This is a big deal and probably the most “Communist” thing. However that also goes along with them seemingly not just allowing but being perfectly happy to have some people have truly horrific lives as long as the baseline average is improving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ill take suggestions for cleaning up the verbiage and credit you when I post a v.2 but wanted to get this one out there on this Friday morning⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Safety. It improves visibility when pulling out and with backup cameras you lose no visibility pulling in.

  I’ll gladly take that trade every time.

  The only way that might not be true is if your vehicle has an insanely large/long nose. If it does you shouldn’t be driving it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of world has work but no jobs? Black Panther poster circa 1971⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of those kids if things like parks and walkable safe cities increase economic health overall but it doesn’t go into the specific pocket of a capitalist in a direct way they can see. Plus the general kick the poor attitude from the same group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you even old enough to remember number 1?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Flip version of 11. The Perl flip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t be a problem. G includes the West Indies places like Trinidad which has plenty of food that originated in India. So not the full list of all Indian food but it is perfectly real and not some crappy fusion restaurant knock off.

  Results of the British colonial era bringing a lot of people from India after ending the official slave trade and still wanting people to work plantations. So they switched from literally slavery to the not quite but still awful indentured service. The British would get the lowest social groups in India that functionally couldn’t own property in India to sign contracts for many years of work in exchange for a 1 room shack and a micro plot of land of their own.