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It’s just strong evidence that 24/7 footage of most streets is clearly widely available. Doorbell cameras have become effective universal surveillance that effectively anyone can view.

I appreciate we can agree on the NATO wrongdoings, that’s cool, thank you.

I’m not saying Russia never tortured or cremated anybody. Every party to this conflict has done that in the droves. But it’s disingenuous to imply that peace under Russia means exceptional mass torture and death squads. “Peace” before Russia invaded was 8 years of civil war where Ukraine killed its own civilians with artillery every day.

Elections under the Ukrainian boot are no good either. Democratic parties were (and are) frequently made illegal on spurious grounds, corruption is rife, heck, the elected president got ruddy coup’d not that long ago. We certainly hear of more publicised political killings in Russia than in the west, what the truth is I don’t know, but I think the chasm in difference of democratic ‘quality’ is a lot less than we care to tell ourselves.

I don’t see NATO wading into Ukraine wanting to torture and kill people.

NATO waded into Afghanistan and Iraq and killed two million civilians. NATO is funding and participating in an ongoing genocide. They’ve killed many, many more. Guantanamo Bay is an illegal torture facility, there are undoubtedly hundreds more we haven’t heard of. The downfall of its hegemony would see the lives of millions of people saved globally.

Russian peace means russian torture chambers and mobile crematoriums for Ukranian opposition. Followed by generations of autocracy.

What makes you say that? You must understand that’s a cartoonishly unreal accusation, right? Yeah, Russian democracy sucks, but not meaningfully moreso than Ukrainian or most Western democracies.

Fighting for the re-conquering and oppression of the eastern half of Ukraine (i.e. DPR and LPR), oppressing Russophones and continuing to explicitly deny the regions a right to self-determination. Zelenskyy already admitted they would not vote to stay part of Ukraine given the chance. That will not be a happy outcome for a lot of people either.

Interesting, I frequently heard as a UK child that “you shouldn’t like Che Guevara because he killed people for being gay”. Sounds like that myth may literally have originated as official disinformation propaganda.

Nobody here thinks Putin is a communist, he’s a capitalist bastard, but he is the lesser evil opposing the even bigger imperialist entity known as NATO.

How is it “good news” that the Ukrainian war will keep being supplied and enable people to keep dying pointlessly for a long time yet?

The only real '“good” development here would be one that sees immediate and serious peace negotiations; instead of throwing Ukrainians into a blender for the sake of global posturing while shouting “Putler”.

The trick is also that taxes (in theory) go back to helping you and people in need, while the stolen labour value just buys your boss their 900th luxury car

Not a popular opinion for Linux shillers, but I love GNOME. It’s quite simplified but does most what a normal person could want. And Gnome extensions can do basically anything a power use could want.

I think its main criticisms largely stem from saying it’s not very "Windows"y.

Well… then what did I lose in its creation?

Yeah, I’d be willing to do that to write a trillion pieces of ultra-advanced software that fulfils every possible need.

Then I’d monetise enough of it to live comfortably, and then do projects in my own time and actually enjoy them.

Then I have no idea what you’re referring to by ‘what google is doing to android and tried to do to web’ because as far as I know, that isn’t relevant.

What I’m describing is definitively not antivirus. Antiviruses use heuristics (and known checksums of bad things) to scan processes/files/network traffic/system calls for dangerous patterns. They’re not doing real-time checksuming to detect system corruption or malfunction, they’re not comparing known system files because that’s complex and hard to do, and seems to be what the company is claiming here.

I have no idea what Google checksuming you’re referring to but as far as I’m aware that’s a not thing they’re doing to android and trying to do web. Everything Linux (including Android) does some amount of checksums at certain points because they’re useful, but not real-time process checksums. I assumed you were surely referring to them requiring that apps get signed by their certificates, making everything subject to their approval. Which is different from realtime checksumming for integrity.

I don’t think this is accurate. What Google is doing is making the whole ecosystem depend on Google’s approval to be allowed to work.

In this case, they seem to be claiming they’re just doing real-time checking of processes as they run (presumably stuff like checksuming loaded libraries, looking for memory overruns, etc.), and so detecting certain signs of malware or system corruption.

To be honest, based on the announcement it sounds completely unnecessary, but I don’t think they’re at all doing what Google is doing.

falling prices

Oh no

GDP grew by 5%, although China’s population fell even faster than forecast

The unexpected strength of China’s exports last year made up for the weakness of other sources of spending

manufacturers are exporting more, notching a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus in 2025

China’s trade surplus is so large that it is already pushing the limits of what its partners can absorb

We’re exporting so much that we’re making tons of money!!!one

households … saved an even higher share of their income in 2025 (32%) than they had the year before (31.7%)… The average Chinese household stashes about one-third of its income, while Americans save less than 5%.

Households aren’t living paycheck to paycheck? They can save ON AVERAGE A THIRD of their income!!! Proportionally 6-fold more disposable income than Americans…

That leaves companies all along the supply chain earning less. Many feel they have no choice but to lower prices to unload inventory, eating into profits.

But the profits!! How will they be sustained with low low prices!!

When Beijing sets economic goals, provinces and municipalities compete for glory. Local governments pour money into industries, creating a flood of companies all fighting to come out on top.

Socialism creating the conditions for actually ideal market competition? Where are the oligopolies?! We need an Elon Musk to always win and take all the government money!

many everyday Chinese get by with bare-bones [cheap] health insurance or small [private] pensions, sometimes as low as around $30 a month.

This is meant to be an article on how BAD China is doing… All I’m hearing is

• Everyday stuff is getting cheaper
• Increased exports bringing in more money
• Households quite literally having more money than they know what to do with. But these savings are all kept in state banks, so instead it’s being spent on local government investment and local business subsidies.
• Everyone can afford health insurance and private pensions
• Companies feel pressured to lower prices instead of pointlessly increasing profits

Yes, deflation can be a problem. I’m not saying it can’t go wrong, but so far the western analysis seems to be “but line not go up, SO IT CAN’T BE WORKING!!!” while it works fine.

without needing to redesign cities from the ground up to be more walkable

Which honestly China is also constantly doing

Growing dandelion indicates soil? I think the dandelion growing in between my house bricks and on my roof would beg to differ!

I mean, that presentation is far from universal to ADHD. It’s not called “Trouble Sitting Still Disorder”, it’s got a name that succinctly references the most common symptoms, like… deficit in attention, and hyperactivity. Is that universal to and a full description of all presentations? No, but this is true of basically all complex disorders.

Nobody claims Tiananmen protests / deaths never happened (though none happened in the square itself), and people in China have democratic control over their officials at every level, at least as much as in the EU. There’s a fair bit of strawman and lack of research here. I’d suggest genuinely researching it instead of taking the ‘common knowledge’ at face value.

There’s a very good novel called Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, set ~1940, if you’ve not heard of it. It’s a long read, but the gist is - The American dream was not a thing, it was just that, a dream. Of Mice and Men had a similar theme.

People in America have been ever more under the thumb of the capitalist machine, which has always been extremely wasteful and punitive on the working class, even high corporate tax and state investment didn’t fix the issue, just ameliorated it a bit for some - neoliberalism is just another expression of the same fundamental problem.

And, as a European, oligarchs are a very prominent part of the ruling class, we’re just like, 95% ruled by rich people as opposed to America’s 98%. I’m a little shocked to hear you claim otherwise.

GOOD post

Unprecedented quotas of “I told you so” are being handed out among the FLOSS community

The USA kills innocent civilians en masse no matter who’s in office. Republicans are just more outspoken about it.