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My work macbook won’t even let me mount an external storage device, but it doesn’t seem to care about my nextcloud client running in the background. Sorry for my blasphemous behaviour my cyber security comrades 🫡🥺

I agree that there is a spectrum and that Facebook is certainly on the extreme end of the spectrum. But it’s not the topic of this thread that places them there. This thread is about performance based layoffs, something that is incredibly common in the tech industry. Most have quotas for “bad evaluations” and PIP that they target every cycle. It’s a dishonest approach and I don’t think I should have to explain how absurd it is to that these quotas exist. This is what I was speaking to in my previous comment and this is why most of these companies are “unprincipled” and belong somewhere on the “bad spectrum”, in my opinion.

In my experience, this is pretty much how the entire tech industry in the west operates. I’m sure there are some exceptions, but those exceptions can’t hire us all.

Based weather app! Death to Fahrenheit!

If you’re into this sort of thing

I am to a degree. I’m particularly drawn to essays critical of bourgeois class collaborators who larp in the mainstream media as leftists such as Zizek.

the anti-Chomskÿng ☭

Lol

Holy shit. We’re back to this? Do you also think that the ghost of Kiev will lead the Ukranazis to victory?

He just banned his opposition from running in them. Certainly not the same thing.

I’m not sure if this was done on purpose, but you’ve just echoed the same criticisms that the western msm always directs at China. Each and every one of these examples is projection, whether or not you agree that China deserves the criticism.

1. Take a drive through rural USA or Canada. I think that you’ll find China isn’t the only one struggling with this. China has prioritized equal development while the west continues to let its rural towns and villages fall further into poverty and disrepair.
2. China used to have several cities in the top 10 for the worst air quality. Now they have none. China leads the world in renewable energy research, development, and deployment. The USA has placed large tariffs on Chinese made EVs and renewable equipment. The USA is doing its best to ensure our demise through climate change.
3. Why is this a problem? All countries experience slowed population growth or even decline as they become more developed. What’s so different about China that they can’t simply increase immigration like other developed nations? What is actually different is that their economic system will allow them to transition low skill, manual labor industries to automation without increased unemployment that decimates the working class.
4. This problem has been solved. The CPC popped the bubble. Some developers that didn’t heed the warning went bankrupt. The state has said that they will fund purchasing the finished, unsold units and use it for affordable housing.
5. The west’s three letter agencies are the most invasive on the planet with their massive web of data collection and backdoors. The USA holds the largest population of prisoners on the planet while having about 20% of China’s population.
6. This one feels a bit out of place since it’s not really something that the west’s msm mentions. As a supporter of China, I do wish that they would do more in this area, but their non interventionist policy is likely an important factor in their ability to challenge western hegemony today. The arts, while important, isn’t something that people have the time to care about when living in extreme poverty. It makes sense that they prioritized economic development above this. Meanwhile, the west is doing its best to replace artists with LLMs and generative AI.
7. In what way? Because they don’t have legalized gay marriage? It’s silly to project the values of a society that has been at the top in terms of economic development on a society that has just reached the middle to high stage. As Marxist, we have to remember that everything is a process. I’m certain that as China develops, so will their culture, and as a result, so will their policy on LGBTQ+ rights. However, in the meantime, we should also understand that just because state policy may not take LGBTQ+ rights into consideration much at this time, that doesn’t mean that discrimination against this group is a massive problem. Sure, Obama/SCOTUS legalized gay marriage (yes it was that recent), but there are still those in the country who will refuse service to members of the community and the state has completely politicized the issue using the msm to promote a culture war.

I struggle to come up with any criticism that the west directs at China that isn’t projection. The entire subsidies narrative is completely absurd. When China invests less in an industry it’s “China’s state capitalism can’t keep up with the free market”. When China invests more it’s " China’s unfair state capitalism is disastrous to international markets".

All this suits the Chinese Communist Party well. Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has expressed the same ambition as the company, to overcome American sanctions with locally developed technology. The state, already Huawei’s biggest customer, also supports it in other ways. To spur the development of the semiconductor industry, it provides subsidies and invests alongside Huawei. The company and the government both own stakes in Focuslight, Everbright Photonics and Xuzhou B&C Chemical, for instance.

But Huawei’s relationship with the state is often misunderstood. The firm is not trying to indigenise its supply chain to comply with government directives. Rather, for Huawei and many other Chinese companies, self-sufficiency has become a commercial imperative because it is their only means of survival. Its investment decisions are market driven. This separates it from sluggish state-owned enterprises, which formulate their business plans based solely on state policy.

They don’t even bother to add paragraphs between their contradictions anymore.

The problem with liberal democracies isn’t that representatives are elected, its who those politicians represent. It’s not the working class, except when it is and those politicians get Salvador Allende’d 💀.

But I suppose the question is whether there is that much demand for EVs?

Remove the tariffs / open up the market and you’ll find out. I suspect that there wouldn’t be a need for these tariffs if the demand wasn’t there.

Vesktop works for me

Fingers crossed they don’t decide to shoot themselves in the back of the head 🤞

The genocide of the Palestinian people must continue because it’s good for business. Nice of you to try and normalize war crimes. Very cool.

Every one of these sources is a dead end. They all point to other news articles that make similar baseless claims or webinars on YouTube (?!). Or worse, they cite themselves as evidence.

No evidence?

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I’m not claiming these sources (all of which, but especially the third one, rely on other, specified sources) are necessarily trustworthy, etc. But evidence is absolutely being claimed.

Yeah. Claiming there’s evidence and actually providing evidence for such claims are completely different. That’s the whole point.

If you’re referring to the article that this is written about, then yes. The burden of evidence is on those making the accusations. In this case, the IOF is accusing Hamas of rape without any evidence. The MSM is acting as a mouthpiece of the IOF, by reprinting their statement without any due diligence.