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Yep. There’s a tendency to single out China’s bad behavior for stuff other world powers (including the U.S. for sure) also do.

A great example is China’s meddling in Canadian politics these last few years. An ex-RCMP official pointed out that a lot of other countries do it, including allies. He singled out Russia and India, but also the U.S. (I mean, how could the U.S. not try to influence their neighbors’ politics.)

But China makes the headlines, every single time.

Active users in the last six months. It will drop off when the usage peak is no longer included in the six-month period.

It’s certainly more portable than a flamberge or partisan.

“Meng did nothing wrong, let her go with a quiet whisper not to come back”

That was absolutely not my read on it here. It’s describing a realpolitik situation where Canada is on shaky legal grounds since they are not a signatory to a foreign embargo, and thus overreach their strict legal obligations to please an ally. The suggestion of letting Meng go isn’t about her being right or wrong; it’s about what’s the savviest move Canada could have made here that would have neither pissed off China nor the U.S.

Simply refusing to act on behest of the Trump Administration and giving plausible deniability why isn’t defying them. It’s a neutral political move. The consequence of not doing so is what we’ve since experienced: deteriorating relations with a major foreign power with no gains in return with the ally we tried to suck up to.

the rest was just tooting China’s horn

Is that what we’re calling reporting on facts that don’t completely feed the “China bad” narrative, now?

Bold of the media to assume Space X is gonna get anywhere near Mars any time soon.

That counterpart, according to Ortis, briefed him about a “storefront” that was being created to attract criminal targets to an online encryption service. A storefront, said Ortis, is a fake business or entity, either online or bricks-and-mortar, set up by police or intelligence agencies.

The plan was to have criminals use the storefront — an online end-to-end encryption service called Tutanota — to allow authorities to collect intelligence about them.

Wait, WHAT?

We hate cars so much, we’ve come full circle to parroting fossil fuel industry propaganda against EVs, I see.

I’ve been reading “Trump is gonna be done any day now” articles since he started gaining steam in the 2016 GOP primaries. Fucker’s still free and currently leading the incumbent president in presidential polls.

The state of public transport in Montreal makes me so angry. This city used to be an examplar of public transit.

“Battle not with penises lest you become a penis.”

Better to brush after getting up to remove any bacteria and plaque buildup. And then right before bed, floss+brush.

Sure. Disney’s main problem is streaming. It can’t possibly be the quality of what they produce. I mean, it’s not like they own half of the valuable entertainment IPs in the world, right?

I don’t believe this is classified but

“Not sure, might be spilling nuclear secrets here, but fuck it, I really wanna reply to this Lemmy comment.”

Yes you can, with one caveat.

According to Stephen Krashen’s input hypothesis, compelling, comprehensible input is sufficient to acquire a language. That means input that you find interesting and that keeps you engaged, and which you can understand at least in part. That evolving sweet spot can indeed take you from complete newbie to fluency without ever speaking.

In my experience, though, being able to speak with other native speakers is a huge source of motivation and creates its own compelling input. So I wouldn’t discount that.

I personally know someone who went from no English to being able to converse just by watching The Simpsons.

How about you tax billionaires and do both.

The clearest proof that the God of the New Testament doesn’t exist is that He was unable to formulate the Bible in such a way that it wouldn’t get co-opted by people with an agenda that runs contrary to His central message of tolerance and compassion.

They’ll just make their own chips with blackjack and hookers.