Here’s another thing I noticed. A little farther down, it mentions they interviewed “dozens” of people, and that this represents a significant portion of all available testimonial evidence. Of course they attribute this to the Chinese government trying to keep information from getting out.

Here’s the thing: there’s absolutely no way they could be that successful in keeping this hidden. Just look at Gaza. It’s tiny, literally walled in, and israel all the best tech for oppression and surveillance (it’s like their whole thing) plus the infinite money glitch via the USA. And still, we have countless videos of the horrors perpetrated against Palestinians. Xinjiang is HUGE, and there are something like 10 million Uyghurs. Stuff would absolutely get out.

Thanks for your contribution, the world West largely disagrees but neat!

FTFY

This is from 2019, but is one of the few articles I found actually listing countries, instead of just saying “51 UN member states” with no further detail. Do take a look at the respective lists. No conclusions are drawn, but it’s interesting nonetheless: https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/which-countries-are-for-or-against-chinas-xinjiang-policies/

So right off the bat, the executive summary goes

Since 2017, under the guise of a campaign against “terrorism”,

So this “terrorism” did actually happen, I’m not sure why it’s in quotes, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2014_Ürümqi_attack

Note the reference at the top to another incident only one month earlier. Unfortunately there were several more.

This tone certainly suggests a foregone conclusion, but anyway. It goes on to describe various abuses, do they amount to genocide? They sure wouldn’t if israel was the perpetrator, but I guess when it’s China we can throw around the G word no problem. Perhaps I can give it more scrutiny later, gotta work now.

I keep wondering about this. Like I hear people use it to write emails, for example, so I’m thinking, I have information in my brain, and I need it to go to someone else. I can input that information into chatgpt, and have it write an email, or I can input that information into an email. Why add an extra step? Do people actually spend that much time adding inconsequential fluff to their emails that this is worthwhile? And if so, here’s a revolutionary idea: instead of wasting vast amounts of resources fluffing and de-fluffing emails, how about, just write a concise email.

I really don’t think China is committing a genocide on the Uyghurs, the story just doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Realistically though, who has passengers? The 32 passenger seats are there to make you feel important, not carry people.

I would be concerned about Boris wrecking a perfectly good foyer. Maybe put at the end of your street, leaning on a tree, just make sure the neighbors know what he is, but not who put him there.

The decision to build a stadium that is completely inaccessible without a vehicle, even if you are staying at a hotel next door, is the point.

What’s the craziest one you’ve heard lately?

Designed to accommodate a 24-pack of beer, of course.

I watched a mini documentary once on the people who do the work destroying unsold clothing, and recycling some of the fibers. It’s pretty insane.

Ah yes, the “all audience” button makes it make sense.

My point was simply to remind Americans who might be reading that gerrymandering is indeed just regular old corruption, and should not be thought of as “just the way things are” or some such.

I know a lot of Americans have been tricked into thinking that the country is some sort of model democracy, although most of those probably aren’t on lemmy, and the orange pedophile has done a marvelous job of demolishing what was left of the USA’s reputation…but anyway, just hoping to nudge people in the direction of helping with that fight.

There’s an apartment building across the street from where I live, and sometimes the maintenance guy decides to spend his weekend blowing every single leaf on the property. He’ll be at it for hours and hours non-stop, and yes, it makes me wish I could delete leaf blowers from existence.

Right, so it’s a huge problem, regardless of how you understand America.

Good for the states that have made it effectively nonexistent, but because the issue is left up the individual states, the more corrupt ones are able drag the rest into fascism. Great job, y’all.

It really is an unsafe product. And on top of that, it’s controlled by a hostile foreign power.

I guess if they banned it, certain people would be up in arms about auThoRiTariAn cEnsORshiP or something.

It’s capitalism. Policymakers aren’t just fixated on GDP because they think it’s neat. The dominant economic system is based on infinite growth. Our whole society is organized around making line go up, for the benefit of a few oligarchs, at the expense of the entire planet. That is the problem.

“We must place true value on the environment and go beyond gross domestic product capitalism."

FTFY, Antonio.

Looks so cozy!

0% chance that’s legit.