That genuinely got me for a second before I clicked on the video lol. I was like “Wait what? Why would Warrior Cats release a statement about Assad?”

Greetings comrade!

Hot take: Even if they did steal tech from US companies, who cares? I don’t just say that about China supposedly stealing from the US, I think corporate espionage in general is by no means unethical, for either side and any other party. I’m against patents and trade secret legislation as a whole, and even most of the noncommunists on Lemmy claim to also be against them, so I ask you what makes this different? When we get corporate infighting like this, the consumer (AKA, us) wins as more competitive, improved, and better tailored options pop up especially for niches that the original did not serve very well. For the vast majority of human history, “stealing” of technology and unrelated parties taking and modifying it was not just common, it was inevetable. If you invent something, start selling it, and someone else decided to imitate it and also start selling it, up until just a few generations ago that was seen as a normal part of the development process and no one would have batted an eye, and it led to improvements in the technology, including some of the most important inventions from the pre-capitalist age. The phenomenon of corporations withholding technology for profit with the backing of the law is an extremely recent thing, and why should we be defending it in any form again?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-wikipedia-idUSN1642896020070816

Even Western sources admit that the CIA and FBI meddles in it. Can’t imagine why they miiight want to smear the USSR and Stalin right? The agencies that created the Banana Republics in Latin America, used Agent Orange on Vietnamese villagers, suppressed any sort of socialist thought and imprisoned US socialists during the Red Scare despite accusing the USSR of suppressing thought in the exact same way and violating the 1st amendment of their own constitution, and gave us MK Ultra and other horribly unethical experiments done on unknowing and nonconsenting test subjects?

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#did-the-soviet-union-repress-and-kill-millions-of-people

Consolidated sources refuting this.

The “Xi got butthurt and banned all of Winnie the Pooh in China” thing is mind numbingly easy to disprove. Just search the phrase on literally any Chinese internet service. If they still spout that claim, they’ve obviously not done even one minute of research or fact checking and are so clearly just blindly regurgitating propaganda (which they also accuse people who support China of doing, funny how that works) that all of their opinions on China can be safely ignored.

You know what I did when I first heard that claim? I went straight to Baidu and searched up Winnie the Pooh, in English even, and surprise surprise it returned results like any other search engine. And this was when I was still a liberal who didn’t like China.

Nah nah, wanted dead.

The fact that they’ve gone from not having 7nm at all to already being in mass production in a phone in this amount of time is unreal.

I’m wondering what the supposed environmental concerns were.

Envsci major here: golf courses are the worst fucking thing in a city short of an oil well. Approximately 0% of the plants there are helpful or even remotely suited to the ecosystem (especially one like South China) and worth preserving, it’s hostile to wildlife and pollinators, is toxic due to the excessive pesticide use, exacerbates soil erosion, and is generally a massive resource sink. Put some gardens with native flowering plants around those apartments or on the balconies, some native trees as well, and it’ll be worlds better than a golf course. Not sure about this one but speaking generally, an urban neighborhood with high density housing can actually integrate into the ecosystem and be sustainable if managed right, far more than golf courses can at least.

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Mythbusters once did an episode and determined that at deep ocean pressures, a human scuba diver without active air pressure from topside can be squeezed entirely into their helmet.

Then hippo by default 100%. The giant squid evolved under the immense pressures of the deep, it would die immediately if brought near the surface. Even if it didn’t, it’s relatively slow moving as far as animals go, again, evolved for the dark, cold deep where conserving nutrients is paramount to all else.

Private prisons is a pretty good term IMO. Private, as in the purpose of them is not to rehabilitate, but to generate profit for the bourgeoisie under the guise of rehabilitation. The inmates are private property.

Correct. Decolonization requires the destruction of Western governments as we see them now. Note that this is entirely different from destruction of the people, it absolutely does not entail eye for an eye, kill all whites shit like anticommunists/antidecolonizers keep strawmanning about, that would not be decolonization but reverse colonization/revenge, but the current socioeconomic structures and status quo need to go and societal priorities and paradigms need to be massively shifted, AKA a cultural revolution.

IIRC some of their RISC-V cores are already open source, including one made by a Chinese public university!

Think I can dodge a draft with this?

Only half joking… Not that I think we’re going to have conscription anytime soon but Canada isn’t the most stable right now (and it’s at the beck and call of the US which is even less stable) so who knows?

That’s the norm unfortunately. Immigration is not about the person immigrating, it’s about if you’re useful to the country. It’s also the norm that typically the only real way to be let in on a work permit long term is if they specifically need people in your field (usually highly skilled white collar work and/or jobs that they have trouble filling locally). Speaking from experience as someone that immigrated as a young child from China to Canada with parents that got in through this exact route. There’s a reason developing countries are experiencing brain drains, where do you think they’re going? Too often do I wonder if our lives would be better if we stayed in China since we’re not exactly doing superb over here, but I’m already a Canadian citizen, went through all of high school and university here, barely know how to read and write Chinese and am pretty far removed from the culture back there, so that ship has sailed.

Even though those same countries you mentioned literally frame their immigration programs as “look how much we’re doing for those poor people in third world (sic) countries! we’re such bastions of niceness and human rights!”

Honestly the economic situation in Canada definitely does not help. It’s hard enough for a neurotypical person here to live a good life it seems. I know for a fact that the uncertainty of my future here has aggravated my anxiety disorder (diagnosed, medicated which does help at least to prevent panic attacks, but frankly I don’t even know how much is actually anxiety “disorder” and how much is actual reasonable fear for how I’ll survive). Probably interacts negatively with my possible autism too.

Hexbear provides balance for sure.

I’m Chinese. Not even the “good” Chinese like HK or Taiwan either, so…