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The paranoia is strong with this one.

Except I said literally nothing about America in the original comment. I feel like the exact opposite mentality is also very prevalent on Lemmy. If you say anything bad about China (or Russia, North Korea, etc.), you will immediately be met with “well what about America huh???” There’d probably be more actually constructive dialogue if every post criticizing China wasn’t immediately met with whataboutism.

Likewise, those same people will criticize the West for doing something and then praise China for doing the exact same thing. There was literally a comment in a thread about China just a day or two ago about state surveillance where someone was like “actually state surveillance in China is good because it benefits their citizens so it’s a-okay” while then criticizing the West for state surveillance.

It’s basically just my team vs. their team mentality.

EDIT: actually, I’ll put it this way: in the many, many threads criticizing America or Europe, I don’t often see someone randomly bring up China. In contrast, in threads criticizing China, I always see someone criticizing America or Europe pretty much out of nowhere.

Given how many tankies are on Lemmy, it was really not obvious at all that you were agreeing with me as opposed to saying “ackshually it’s not a utopia, but it’s working on becoming one and America is shit for xyz reasons so you can’t throw stones at China.”

Can’t really say for the older devices, but I have a recent Pixel, and its battery life in my experience has been pretty close to my old (but still newer than OP’s) iPhone. Maybe I just use my phone differently than most people, but I never had amazing battery life with iPhones.

And when you don’t take drugs or drink alcohol or whatever?

Yes, if you are part of the mostly culturally homogeneous majority, hold no views that the state has arbitrarily determined are verboten, are not in some way part of the many groups that have been arbitrarily determined to be verboten (such as increasingly LGBT individuals), are fine with a leader who is set to rule for life, are not below a certain age and unable to get a job in the ruthless job market, live in a city rather than a rural village with poor future prospects, are fine with widespread surveillance in said city far beyond most of the West (UK might give them a run for their money here), are male, and so on, I’m sure it’s a lovely place to live.

Using America as the example is just funny. Did I say anything about America being good? America is an utterly dysfunctional state. Ironically, it seems both the Chinese govt and Trump’s admin agree that gay people shouldn’t exist. Pretty sad given that things had been trending in a positive direction for LGBT people maybe 15 years ago in China.

You could probably sell your phone and get an older Pixel for pretty much nothing if you wanted to swap now.

In other words, force gay people to have straight marriages. I’m sure those will be functional and healthy relationships that aid the state. Not like that hasn’t resulted in numerous suicides.

To put it simply, this is just ignoring reality and trying to stamp your own superficial views of society over it.

Ah yes, the socialist utopia.

Apparently even the venture capitalists are like “maybe there’s a bit of a problem” now.

I like the idea of NixOS and Guix System, but to recommend them to someone new to Linux is crazy.

It’s like 20 years old, with stable releases for over 10 years. How old does something have to be for you lol?

I literally got to the final area in Tales of Berseria and Paper Mario: TTYD and just stopped lol…

It’s even worse because I’ve played through everything before that in TTYD like four times.

Problem with PeerTube is the content is pretty scattered and there’s frankly just not that much normal content. There’s relatively a lot for like Linux stuff, but other than that there’s not a ton. Also, there’s no way to compensate people, so hard to attract content creators (this is both a plus and a negative tbh).

Other problem is that, like pretty much all fediverse stuff, it’s possible to wind up on an instance with a bunch of Nazi content federated to it. Of course, since YouTube has Nazi content, this isn’t really much different.

I’ve heard this from Chinese people lol, usually in the context of it being good for safety.

From what I understand it’s still worse in China (which IMO is worth noting), but yeah, western countries are continuously expanding their surveillance networks too (and paying extremely sketchy companies to help do it).

You’re talking about surviving without X. Well, we survived without washing our hands, showering, brushing our teeth, etc. for 99% of human existence as well. Better be consistent in your beliefs and return to living as a hunter-gatherer in the woods.

Should stop washing your hands or showering regularly if that’s how you decide whether something is important.

I like how one of her first actions is something this idiotic. Truly amazing.

This is a fucking idiotic question. If naturally our bodies heal ourselves without issue and thus “natural immunity” is better than vaccination, then why do so many people die from illness when unvaccinated?

I suppose eradicating smallpox was a mistake. We should have just let 20-30% of those infected die instead of eradicating the disease through “unnatural” vaccines.