None of your business.

Xi has focussed his efforts mostly in Beijing. The Shanghai clique is no more, and standards are declining accordingly.

Please don’t assume everyone commenting here only has a very blurry view from afar.

Xi already failed to build a legacy with his zero COVID policy, and things are rapidly getting worse economically. Fighting a war is traditionally a good way to distract the people, especially if it’s Taiwan. I doubt it being unpopular or people dying phases him much. He’s a dictator very much like Mao, who couldn’t care less about millions of dead Chinese people. For them, it’s all about power, not about his people. The CCP isn’t interested in bettering their living conditions at all.

If Trump makes it again, the chance of worldwide chaos is scary high. Russia escalating the European conflict, China reaching for Taiwan, and we’re not even halfway through the list.

Working for me, but I get that error, too, occasionally. Maybe try again later?

She’s still doing science, though.

It absolutely is sexual assault. Hope he gets his just punishment. If you do that, say, on the street, you’ll get arrested and sued. Time to treat public persons accordingly.

Maybe stitch something to their jackets. I dunno, a star maybe?

Lemmy.ml… why am I not surprised?

We drive on the left. Source: my driver’s license :)

Yup, we drive on the left side ;)

I browse shit on Amazon Japan, and the sizes are in inches, eagle heads and football fields. We use the metric system here, Amazon!

You tell em to let it die, yet call it “sublem”.

You tell em to let it die, yet call it “sublet”.

I originally intended to uninstall RIF and only use (old) Reddit (with RES) on my browser at the end of June, but these additional changes make it look like they’re desperate for money, and old.reddit won’t stay alive for much longer, anyway.

So I bit the bullet, got settled on Lemmy and Mastodon and really like it.

The very idea behind the fediverse is the “old school internet” I experienced back in the late 90’s, when people were still idealistic and thought the net would bring us freedom. What happened instead was the commercialisation of everything, algorithms to optimise engagement and attention, data collection and sales, the global spread of outrage peddling and fake news, and ultimately, the total sellout of twitter and Reddit. Late stage capitalism.

I’m here to stay.