One of the multiple lemmy newcomers that defederated from us; in their admins' words, because we apparently "deny certain genocides".

@[email protected] what "genocides" would those be exactly ?

literally lmao

Like the school year started three days ago here in and there have now been several examples of "abaya" dresses being stopped despite not "being abayas"; and the reverse as well (and of course there would be; they're fucking casual dresses, I'm fairly certain you'd get a different answer on whether one is or isn't even from fucking textile experts or something). Often with the deciding factor being the color of the skin of the person wearing it.

The whole thing is a racist trip; along with a sadly common recurrent theme in french politics to divert the national attention when other shit is going on

I'm French and actually he's bang on the money, it's entirely about racism under the bullshit cover of "secularity"

"die anyways" ? how so ?

Exactly; this just needed an emulator like goldberg

Bethesda games usually don't go for heavy DRM stuff (beyond the basic steam DRM), because it impairs modding (especially injection / nonofficial modding, stuff like SKSE for skyrim)

Please, if you don't read it the view counter doesn't increment and I don't get my weed money from Xi

The real answer is it is, among other things, an economic tool

The alternative was having the big US techs invade china economically, along with the mass propaganda from capitalist entities (chief among them the US, always pursuing efforts to destabilize China) that would have followed

You don't speak to actual Chinese citizens often, do you ? basically all young people there have VPNs, and nobody cares. Like, at all

We're just terminally online and upvote each other

Though I'll admit those stats here are a bit suspicious

let's talk about the current genocide the CCP is carrying out

The one the UN can find no evidence of ?

Here, educate yourself

Llama is a widely available LLM (like chatGPT) that you can run on off-the-shelf computers at home

This is a bit pretending to be a bot that has malfunctioned, and it's a good one

1989 Tiananmin Square Massacre

Reality is calling