swiley @swiley@qoto.org

Just discovered SystemRescueCD moved from Gentoo to Arch. Top 10 anime betrayals.

https://palladiummag.com/2021/10/11/the-triumph-and-terror-of-wang-huning/

So there's this guy called Wang Huning, and he's the main ideological mind behind modern China. He's the advisor for Xi Jinping and is the main influence in the creation of Xi's policies, including the belt and road initiative and the new common prosperity campaign.

The reason he has these views is because he visited America and saw how degenerate it was. He was originally a Liberal sympathizer, but then realized that the neoliberal globohomo destroyed America's culture and social order, causing despair and civilizational collapse.

"Wang recorded his observations in a memoir that would become his most famous work: the 1991 book America Against America. In it, he marvels at homeless encampments in the streets of Washington DC, out-of-control drug crime in poor black neighbourhoods in New York and San Francisco, and corporations that seemed to have fused themselves to and taken over responsibilities of government. Eventually, he concludes that America faces an 'unstoppable undercurrent of crisis' produced by its societal contradictions, including between rich and poor, white and black, democratic and oligarchic power, egalitarianism and class privilege, individual rights and collective responsibilities, cultural traditions and the solvent of liquid modernity.

Afterwards he abandoned Liberalism and shifted far to the right, seeking to eliminate all degeneracy from his country. He eventually ended up gaining more power in China and is now advising Xi on how to remove the poz.

This is why anti-monopoly investigations have hit China’s top technology firms with billions of dollars in fines and forced restructurings and strict new data rules have curtailed China’s internet and social media companies. It’s why record-breaking IPOs have been put on hold and corporations ordered to improve labor conditions, with “996” overtime requirements made illegal and pay raised for gig workers. It’s why the government killed off the private tutoring sector overnight and capped property rental price increases. It’s why the government has announced “excessively high incomes” are to be “adjusted.”

And it’s why celebrities like Zhao Wei have been disappearing, why Chinese minors have been banned from playing the “spiritual opium” of video games for more than three hours per week, why LGBT groups have been scrubbed from the internet, and why abortion restrictions have been significantly tightened. As one nationalist article promoted across state media explained, if the liberal West’s “tittytainment strategy” is allowed to succeed in causing China’s “young generation lose their toughness and virility then we will fall…just like the Soviet Union did.” The purpose of Xi’s “profound transformation” is to ensure that “the cultural market will no longer be a paradise for sissy stars, and news and public opinion will no longer be in a position of worshipping Western culture.”

China is shifting REALLY far to the right and nobody seems to be freaking out about this.

Is it time to rejoice, or should we be shocked and appalled as good liberal individualists?

Stolen from another social network:

> When you've written an academic paper, the best practice is to hire a troupe of singers and dancers to rehearse and perform a full-length show based on the paper. Ideally this should be on a dock by the ocean, in full view of passing ships. No work is really sound until it has been subjected to a pier revue.

mastodon: how to block instances, federating blocklists, how to mute threads, how to block keywords
misskey: how to animate markdown, how to be notified when people use keywords

@swiley let's go brandon

#DOFH excuse #30:

Upstream vendors have declared that no open source software can be used alongside their product.

"Children Wrongly Given COVID Vaccine Develop Heart Issue Say Family"
Go in for flu shot, get adult dose of "vaccine" and are now dying of heart conditions. hmmmmm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2toX-AwQDuY

also I want one of those so I can put it on my room door and never go in there again

@chjara Check this out: a radio transceiver built solely from 7400 NAND gates, all biased into linear mode and used as analog amplifiers. https://archive.org/details/hamradiomag/ham_radio_magazine/Ham%20Radio%20Magazine%201975/11%20November%201975/page/n19/mode/2up

@lynne
I remember long ago in the #bitcoin-dev irc chat they were discussing whether to explicitly support MSVC compiler and it's annoying unique flavor of C++, a quote that stuck with me was:

"Building windows software on windows is like building iPhone software on an iPhone"