bene_legionary

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by bene_legionary 4y ago
I couldn't get used to it at all. Every few minutes I kept increasing the volume or decreasing the screen brightness, and at first I never realised why until I looked at how I rested my hands on the keyboard. A few days after I got the
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by bene_legionary 4y ago
I really doubt it happening today or in a years' time. There's digital implementations of games but they don't have the same feeling as playing the game by hand. I'd pick up a card or draw something from a drawstring bag
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by bene_legionary 5y ago
Compared to Windows, the notifications for trying Safari are nothing, and switching browsers aren't so much of a hassle. Microsoft actively tries to push you to Edge in the settings and a to get a Microsoft Account at start up. A coupl
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by bene_legionary 5y ago
I think Pleco's developers are more focused on improving the dictionary than porting it to computers (they have an Android version too), but it would be very nice to have a computer version that can look up words if you right click the
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by bene_legionary 5y ago
Being anonymous is a big part of this. There is very little consequence of being controversial online if you're just another person posting (and not, say, a celebrity where your presence means something offline too). The most might be
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by bene_legionary 5y ago
There is the CCP. They've gone around indoctrinating everyone for 70 years that Mao was the messiah, Xi is Peter the apostle carrying on his vision, and western democracy doesn't work. Removing that would be a huge shock to the Ch
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by bene_legionary 5y ago
It depends on your definition of Chinese and ethnicity (and I don't mean to offend anybody at all, just for the sake of an answer), but Taiwan is a very real democracy. Perhaps if the KMT won the civil war, there might be democracy in
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by bene_legionary 5y ago
Now I don't know enough about 'dialects' in the sinosphere but I think that a dominant 'national' language is an expected outcome of globalisation. For example, French threatening to wipe out Occitan, Corsican and B
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by bene_legionary 5y ago
I can't answer your question (I left China at a very early age), but I think that it's a shame that the Taiping Civil War isn't widely known as things like the Russian civil war or even the Chinese civil war. People might hav
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by bene_legionary 5y ago
Even Sun Yat-sen, who worked his whole life off trying to bring democracy to China in the chaos of the civil wars before WW2, decided China wasn't ready for democracy. Dr. Sun's successor state of sorts, Taiwan, did manage to carr
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by bene_legionary 5y ago
To be fair, the annexation of Tibet happened at a time where China was irrelevant on the world stage having come out of WW2 and a civil war almost completely ruined. Tibet wasn't recognised internationally as a country at the time beca
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by bene_legionary 5y ago
Although it can be highly disruptive to the local environment. So can most power generation plants, but usually indirectly.