And I was trying to get you to understand why the comparison is apt. Google acted as an arm of the US government and was stealing data that it shared with the US government. Additionally the infrastructure it planned to install in order to increase performance in China was suspected of sending non-Google related data to the US government permanently.

Wikipedia is banned for similar reasons (and also spreading misinformation as fact, but you aren’t ready for that conversation.)

Brother it is 100% open source. whatever part you failed to review was not something you could not review. You can fully compile it and self-host. It has no binary blobs required for it to function.

I’m sorry whatever ‘team’ you think you’re on is literally incompetent.

I know of only one country that actively messes with people in foreign countries.

The US, who frequently kills and kidnaps leaders and politicians of sovereign countries without a declaration of war?

Granted, they’re mostly Chinese, but still. Chinese foreign police stations have been well documented.

Oh no, its been infected by sinophobic propaganda that’s easily disproved and is entirely illogical.

Google why google is banned in China.

This is just racism btw. FOSS software is FOSS software regardless of the race of the people doing it.

If you’re living under capitalism and not investing in any way, that’s not really some noble act, it’s you voluntarily staying broke and dependent on others in the future.

I’ll let you know when I magically have spare money in the worst global economy since the great depression.

Should at least have some form of retirement fund going so you don’t have to leech off the taxes paid by the young when you’re old.

No one checks their 401k often. Most people don’t consider that investment given its a scam they likely won’t ever cash in.

What about investments?

Doesn’t affect 90+% of people, and the remaining population frankly doesn’t deserve privacy since they don’t have anything to complain about.

Loading prepaid debit cards at gas stations sounds like a rough life. I’d like to think that I’d have more conviction for privacy if it came to that, but everyone has their line I guess.

Genuinely not bad unless you’re a complete shut-in. It’s also how the bottom 20% of Americans deal with online bill pay and interact financially with the digital world.

Ppl say this with such conviction but what about your bank website?

Prepaid debit cards exist. Load money at any convenience store. You can even get a routing number/account number for it so you can direct deposit to it. You call a number to check your balance or lock your card.

What if it becomes industry standard and you have no other options?

There’s no such thing on the internet. Most lemmy instances with a captcha use hcaptcha or similar since its cheaper (free, in fact), as an example.

The CCP doesn’t exist, but for the CPC:

The Great Firewall was a good idea but its implementation is overall detrimental to China and the wider world, disallowing collaboration and allowing western audiences to have very little idea of how China actually operates besides apps like rednote which have a ‘wink and a nod’ agreement to bypass it.

The speed at which the upper classes are growing compared to the development of poor areas isn’t good, especially as we enter a lull in the available construction labor pool and it would be much better if we utilized the overabundance of labor we have now to ensure less labor is needed as the population shrinks overtime. This could be funded by moderate tax increases to corporations, especially those who have made most their money via exports.

Cliques naturally form in any place where there’s multiple humans and certain cliques in government appear to be harmful and allow corruption to flourish. While Xi has been great at fighting corruption especially compared to previous party presidents, this will end and the party has no concrete anti-corruption measures especially at the lower levels where corruption actually flourishes. If Xi loses the upcoming election or takes his retirement there likely would be a pro-western push, and with it much more corruption at all levels of government the same as the last pro-western push; I would love to see measures that eliminate that risk.

The current citizenship process is flawed at best, and should offer a path for non-citizens and people with greater than 4th gen ancestry to get citizenship without having to essentially be the next Mao. Especially given the One China attitude which encompasses many different distinct regions.

No, just the reframing of normal prisons as eradication camps when international observers have visited them as well as complete fabrication of data is false. No international group has ever found evidence of the US’ allegations that China is committing genocide.

We know what genocide looks like in a police state thanks to Israel. It looks like livestreams and constant video coverage. It looks like tens of thousands of refugees making their way out of a tightly controlled border. It looks like direct testimonials and actual victims with verifable residency in the area.

It does not look like US and Turkey born people claiming vague and unprovable family members totally disappeared. It does not look like AI-Generated log books from a province that went digital before the claim was made. It does not look like pictures from a drug rehab being passed off as an extermination camp. It does not look like claiming a crackdown on terrorists funded by the US and Turkey, as revealed in leaked CIA documents, is a racially motivated extermination campaign.

China (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) where the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other predominantly Muslim Turkic minorities are being eradicated by the Chinese Government. Death toll is inconclusive due to strict control of information by the Chinese government. There’s been an 84% drop in natural population growth rates in predominantly Uyghur regions. Another point of importance is the consistent (relative to anywhere else on earth) surplus of human organs for transplant in China.

None of this is true btw.

Except one side actively, happily, one could say gleefully shared they were making a doomsday weapon with effectively indiscriminate targeting.

That’s why I never leave home without my napalm and child flaying device.

Do you have any evidence whatsoever ‘the bad guys’ were developing GAN AI based image recognition drones despite the extremely low ability for low powered image recognition models to accurately identify toast, much less people in camouflage in a crowded visual environment?

Proper directory sorting and manual meta data hint entry is literally the number one way to make jellyfin behave properly. If you’re on linux kRename (available on flathub) makes this relatively painless.

Series (premiere year) [imdb or other db id]/
                             Season ##/
                                   Series Name - S##E## - Epsiode Title.ext

Works 99.9% of the time. As long as you have either the imdb id (mostly normie anime will be fine with this) or an anidb plugin or similar for the obscure stuff it’ll work 100% of the time.

This also allows easy searching of individual episodes outside of jellyfin, should you find an episode that somehow got corrupted or otherwise is just not what it should be.

Bonus: If you take the time to do this (literally 8-10 hours max for a collection of tens of thousands of episodes of shows) your library becomes much more portable as any competitor to jellyfin and any addons will now just automagically detect everything properly.

The one that leads to worse outcomes is pretending liberals are reasonable people and won’t just implement fascism themselves to prevent socialism.

Most .world users are just reddit users that got banned. And reddit has always been liberal to far-right.

How’d that work out for the native candians again? how many mass graves under public schools have been found? how many native women go missing every year while the RCMP chalks it up to voluntarily going missing?

You already do. Try voting for anything that upsets the actual owners of your country and suddenly you will find out who has the monopoly on violence. I’ll give you a hint, it’s never the working class.

…This is the exact opposite of the student movement. The Protestors were pro-capitalists.