They get a cut.

“it’s genuinely crazy…”

Yeah

I agree with a few of his criticisms of Hakim’s video. He failed to establish why the eyewitness reports that side with him are more credible than those that disagree (calls them fabricated but didn’t seem to support that) and put too much emphasis on the Chai Ling interview without showing that she was a leader or massively influential in the protests. He claims that the will of the people was subverted but doesn’t justify that within the video.

That said, I think reacting to and critiquing the video isn’t worth much if you don’t at least attempt to tackle the death count. Just throwing out that some estimates go as high as 10k without judging them at all is worthless at best. If 10k people died then I think it’s pretty obviously a massacre.

Yeah federation gets confusing. A user from one instance posts on another instance and you view it through a third instance.

I might be misreading your comment but the user is from .ca and the post is in .world.

Once as a teenager at an MtG event my phone died and I needed to call my parents so I asked a random guy if I could borrow his. Not only did he hand it over, but he told me I might need to step outside to get a better signal. Sometimes people are chill and trusting.

I’m pretty sure you have to enroll yourself but are legally required to do so (but it’s been a while since I turned 18)

“cognitive restructuring” is such a dark phrase.

To be honest I don’t think this is a very good metric. It’s a combination of something good (number of people insured) and something bad (debt per insured person).

As an example, if you increased the number of people with insurance, and reduced the debt per uninsured person, you’d expect this to happen.

Not to say that things have actually gotten better, just that we should use more meaningful metrics.

28, but 32 is also good

“inconvenient” is my biggest problem with it. Just use a single format for every work and add some html classes so I can scrape it easier.

It’s not. Works by various authors have different html formatting that make it very difficult to consistently scrape. Splitting works into several pages makes it impossible to send them to pocket (or FOSS equivalents). It sucks for anything other than reading in their website.

The unpleasant reality is, Russians, like the Chinese, have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. Their people are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.

The libs are not ok.

At that point it’s not a re-education camp, it’s just an education camp.

Do you think this is the type of idiot who doesn’t realize this includes Obama and Biden or the type of idiot who actually thinks they’re tankies?

Say the line, Parenti.

A tankie is someone who supports the Soviets sending tanks to stop the Hungarian revolution and other other use is made-up bullshit.