@marathon0 you speak just like a Chinese propagandist, everything you see couldn't be further from the truth, I wonder what are your incentives.
@marathon0 not calling an enemy by its name and pretending that the enemy that wants your destruction is your friend, leads to your destruction.
Ever tried to be kind to a bully?
They just see it as weakness, attacking is their nature and they know nothing else.
China is a dictatorship that is currently exterminating Uyghurs, among many other atrocities.
They are constantly extremely belligerent, they took Hong-Kong by force, they want to take Taiwan by force...
They support and enable what happens in North Korea, the human trafficking, mass murder of people, etc.
If you think American Imperialism is bad (and it is), Chinese Imperialism will make everyone beg to go back under the boot of the USA.
@worldsendless as long as zulip is self hosted, well free software is just better objectively, as long as the specific software is well written and works.
I recommend booting up a VPS somewhere and hosting a zulip instance so you can show them how it works and they can download the apps and try it.
@Pat looks like it was Trump who did the most substantial change
Is there a go-to place for open-source papers where I can read random stuff, maybe the most popular papers of the last month or whatever, I don't wanna go to traditional publishers.
@lucifargundam using over-complicated language to express what is effectively "no u wrong" makes me cringe, and no it was not always this way, it's only been this way since relatively recently, it used to be that people would accept they weren't intellectuals because there wasn't that much social credit and other kinds of resources to gain from it.
@tofunaor yea I panic and run away when I see a woman that doesnt seek my validation
Culture has been destroyed by allowing unintelligent people in the spaces that used to belong to intelligent people, without strict filters, white and blacklists, and tall walls, It is impossible to create a space free of stupidity, in the real or virtual world.
Used to be that all you had to do is tell the truth and people would filter themselves out.
Stick a paper saying BOOK CLUB on the door of a classroom and nobody that didnt belong there would enter, but now It's different.
@PawelK I'm sorry I just joined this instance because it sells itself as a scientific forum and I assumed you as a member of it would be an intelligent person.
@PawelK I dont think people buy gold as a commodity, people buy iron or grain as a commodity, they buy gold as money.
fiat currency has proven again and again to be unreliable and designed to be manipulated by the entity that prints it.
crypto is decentralized, has been under attack for years and remains strong and relies on the blockchain which is arguably the most reliable network in existance.
