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by Veraticus 2y ago
I did read that line: the result of a company not complying is them being banned. Those apps are not accessible anywhere in China. If you agree that companies should not be above the laws of the country they operate in, doesn't the sam
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by Veraticus 2y ago
What a weird stance to take! What happens if apps refuse to self-censor or obey Chinese censorship laws? They are banned. So indeed, China does ban US apps. Twitter/X did not just leave China; it is blocked in mainland China and no one
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by Veraticus 2y ago
Uh, China has banned numerous US-based apps because they violate its censorship policies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma... That includes Twitter/X, so not sure what your YouTube vide
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by Veraticus 2y ago
If you believe that is so, why is it incumbent on us to accept China's businesses worldwide? Shouldn't we be banning them more to protest slave labor and concentration camps? No country has a right to do business anywhere and ever
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by Veraticus 2y ago
China already uses the same logic to ban American apps. People still try to do business with China, including other American businesses. And people will also continue to do business with America, including other Chinese businesses
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by Veraticus 2y ago
This doesn’t really seem germane to what is going on here though. An individual subscribing to mail is quite a bit different to Chinese spyware tracking and propagandizing citizens (without their knowledge or consent).
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by Veraticus 2y ago
Jewish conspiracy theories? Nice!
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by Veraticus 2y ago
Does China have the freedom to operate spyware and propaganda outlets worldwide? Is that articulated in some statement of universal human rights I missed?
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by Veraticus 3y ago
Quite the opposite. Israel owes its existence only to its willingness to fight tooth and claw for that existence. The UN has never shown even the slightest willingness to police or enforce any of its resolutions. (Also I think you’re referr
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by Veraticus 3y ago
Anything! Israel has gone to the UN before and the response is radio silence. Oh, except for literally anything Israel itself does, which results in waves of censure and resolutions condemning Israel and its existence. Given the UN’s histor
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by Veraticus 3y ago
In what sense does your quote confirm that Israel is engaging in collective punishment? Israel believes it is rooting out Hamas and that there is an embedded civilian component to its operation (which is unequivocally true). This is the pro
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by Veraticus 3y ago
Uh Hamas and Iran have been in bed together for decades: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/10/09/middleeast/hamas-iran-isr... That you don’t know this seems to indicate you might know less about this con
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by Veraticus 3y ago
This is untrue. See articles like this: https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/4/21/fatherhood-fin... > Today in China, gestational surrogacy is illegal for everyone, regardless of sexual orientatio
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by Veraticus 3y ago
Israel does not view its current military operation as collective punishment, so certainly it would not go to the UN and ask for its permission to do something it does not think it’s doing. Leaving your disingenuous framing aside, yes, Isra
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by Veraticus 3y ago
Iran is funding basically the entire terrorist campaign against Israel: https://www.acfcs.org/unraveling-a-complex-web-a-primer-on-h... So yes, it is trying as hard as it can to not just delegitimize Israel but destroy it.
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by Veraticus 3y ago
Is anyone saying this? It seems like the vast majority of comments are in agreement the refugees should be fed. If anything most people here seem to basically agree with the Houthis.
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by Veraticus 3y ago
The UN has never censured Palestine, Gaza, or Hamas. Not even once — not as a response to any of the terrorist attacks against Israel or any of the intifadas. In fact, in response to the first intifada (which resulted in hundreds of Israeli
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by Veraticus 3y ago
They also have demanded death to Israel and Jews though. They’re a cat’s paw for Iran, who don’t really care about Gazans except as they can be used to delegitimize and destroy Israel.
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by Veraticus 3y ago
I have a husband and family. Same-sex marriage and adoption is illegal in China, but not anywhere in the US. I can’t speak to public attitudes, but I would assume that they are correspondingly worse in China.
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by Veraticus 3y ago
I’m gay, so I feel like my quality of life in any of those places would be quite a bit worse than in the US.
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by Veraticus 3y ago
Basically one of these three things: 1. Extreme anti-Westernism, 2. Extreme anti-Americanism, 3. Extreme contrarianism. The usual result is you believe that all the sources that agree about how awful life in Russia, China, North Korea and s
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by Veraticus 3y ago
So just a bunch of marketing fluff? I can use GPT4 literally right now and it’s apparently within a few percentage points of what Gemini Ultra can do… which has no release date as far as I can tell. Would’ve loved something more substantive
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by Veraticus 3y ago
Do you have, like, prior evidence for this statement, or is it just LLM cult stuff?
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by Veraticus 3y ago
Since the civil war in 2007, it's just Hamas; the PA governs the West Bank. Do Americans have some amount of individual culpability for the actions our government takes on our behalf? Even when that government is unpopular or not suppo
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by Veraticus 3y ago
What is the government of the Palestinians in Gaza?
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by Veraticus 3y ago
Most people (and models) still use 1.5 because of hardware and performance issues with SDXL.
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by Veraticus 3y ago
They’ve really lost the thread over there. Very happy with my move to Lemmy.
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by Veraticus 3y ago
Golang is responsible for some of the biggest open-source projects out there and has a huge share of developers working in it. Lost… what exactly?
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by Veraticus 3y ago
I've been using Golang professionally for about a decade. In that time the only place I've ever needed to use a tree map was an interview that specifically called for it. Whose usage are you trying to optimize the language for? Go
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by Veraticus 3y ago
I entirely disagree; defects are created by complexity, not repetition.

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