Hello Jazzy, it’s nice to see you here. Hopefully your GNOME issue gets sorted quickly!

What is that thumbnail lol… hacker pepe

Well, luckily for you it’s not legal!

Fun fact: any stock car that is this loud has something called an “exhaust valve” or a cutout. It’s an electronic device that adjusts the sound of the exhaust. Responsible super car owners only open this valve on the track, or in other appropriate places. I hope they repossess his little toy.

I’m sure this will lead to something.

Lol I have this chair and remember thinking this was funny at the time

Same exact thing happened to Bally Williams :-(

This one’s so old the UI gives me nostalgia

Voting alone isn’t enough. Getting involved in local politics helps!

Many such companies

Everything in moderation

Everything in moderation

I avoid tankie communities because they’re basically useless. I’d say my bias comes from the people I associate with and the books I read.

But I am biased. We all are.

I’m joking, don’t worry. It’s like an inversion of the “furry spotted, opinion discarded” joke

My point is not that we shouldn’t be criticizing China. We should absolutely be doing that.

My point is that I feel people focus too much on China and not enough on the US.

I don’t align with tankies. I just have some sympathy toward China because I read a book about it lol

I’m just curious how many people are criticizing western countries poor privacy practices.

It’s almost like it’s a huge problem in basically every developed nation and we need to resist it as much as we can no matter who we are.

KBin user, opinion discarded

Yeah idk why people feel the need to post such things. “Hey guys the Marxist-Leninists on their Marxist-Leninist server temp banned me for talking shit about Marxist-Leninists”.

Like don’t get me wrong it’s annoying when that happens but does it belong on 196?

Be careful, you might make a neoliberal cry with this one

Yeah I’m not too jazzed about uncritical support for China at this stage. If you do even a little bit of reading about China, you can learn that they are not perfect and deserve criticism for these things.

I have a feeling the ML’s who ban for this do it out of fatigue. It’s all anyone wants to talk about when there are other things to learn from China too.

I’m not a tankie, for what it’s worth, I just like to play devils advocate to try and understand where people are coming from and find common ground.

If anyone wants to learn more about China, I suggest reading David Daokui Li’s new book “China’s World View”. It gives an explanation for westerners from a Chinese economist perspective on its goals and culture.