Chinese governments like speech that is friendly to China. US governments like speech that is friendly to the US.

We call it censorship when a government censors self-criticism, but a big part of that calculation hinges on how much criticism a government is subjected to at any given moment.

If you’re seeing a lot of Chinese criticism - and a lot of second-order “China is censoring the criticism!” stories - that’s more often the result of a national media push to divorce the US public and economy from China. If you’re seeing a lot of US self-criticism and resulting domestic government backlash, that’s more often the result of a divided US populace that’s lost sight of it’s Overseas Enemy Cold War fixation.

The day Trump leaves office, you’re going to see a tidal wave of “China Bad!” articles slam into your news feed, like the Red Sea after Moses squeezes it shut again. Then we won’t see “US censorship!” hand-wringing until the political scene starts polarizing again.

Really depends on what is in the pill and what happens if you get the formula wrong.

Oh no. Now the US will have to conduct mass surveillance illegally.

Mentioning that Robinson waves an Israeli flag is antisemitic.

The government is gearing up to join in.

I would love to support Zack Polanski, but the British Press just told me he is being puppeteered by Jihadi Extremists, the Yellow Menace of the Far East, and the insidious hand of the Radical Transgender Communist movement.

Really is gross that Brits will be 100% on-board with home grown racist bilge, only to shit themselves the moment they get a whisper that an Evil Foreigner might be involved.

Knee-jerk terror of foreigners is the reason Robinson’s running roughshod over the whole fucking country. But of course the only antidote these fuckwits can come up with is more of the poison.

I’m more annoyed at how many Brits seem unaffected by Robinson’s brand of mob violence right up until they think a Russian might be involved. It’s nativism coming and nativism going. Nobody seems to want to grapple with the problem of local white Britons being absolutely out of pocket.

I spend all my sick days and a non-negligible number of vacation days on the kind of chores you can only get done during work hours. Back when we had “Work From Home”, I would also squeeze these tasks in during my lunch break.

I don’t want to burn sick time for a doctor’s appointment (I need to save those for when my kid is actually sick), and I sure as hell don’t want to use up a “vacation” day for it.

Well, good luck with that. My retired mother-in-law helps a lot with my son when he’s ill. And we can juggle my son between our individual sick-day allotments such that I haven’t run out yet. But yeah, eventually they’re all just “hours to spend that my boss won’t gripe at me for when I use them”. That’s meant dipping into vacation days when I needed to justify not being on the clock.

It’s why you’ll see some Chinese guy with dogshit taste paying an $80k premium to bring in a Cadillac SUV or Mercedes. Literally just conspicuous consumption on steroids for some folks.

But you have to balance this out with the realization that half the population of China doesn’t even own a car, much less some gawdy Americanized abomination. These sales figures are still just a drop in the bucket compared to 4.8B rail trips taken in the country last year. If you’ve got the spare coin and the extra real estate and you live out far enough that owning a car makes sense, then why not own a Tesla Y over a BYD? But 28k units sold in a year represent a rounding error on a rounding error compared to the total transportation budget of the country at large.

Surely my corporate overlords will respect me if I couch my objection in paleoconservative language.

Oh, what’s that? I’m still being shoved into the trash compactor and squeezed for all my surplus labor value, even though I’ve dangled this nifty religious icon in their face? Oh well… I guess my office is just Woke.

I’ve just been reading this article over and over again since the 1980s. We’re way past whimsy and on to scammy pseudo science

Write a letter to ITER and tell all those PhDs they are stupid.

Nobody at ITER is promising to commercialize this technology at scale any time soon.

Do you understand how Federation even works?

Christ. Go back to Reddit with this shit

On a minor plus side, if you dope the walls with mercury, it transmutes to gold, in commercially viable amounts!

There’s literally a startup promising to exploit this. Although, how they’re going to get a commercially visible fusion reactor started remains to be seen

$5 says they put it back inside the next month

Using someone’s random Lemmy server address as an insult

You’re new here, aren’t you?

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