You can’t say bad things about the government in China.

This might sound like an absurd restriction of free speech, but consider that it’s also considered highly illegal in germany to loudly ask for the abolishment of democracy. Many far-right groups do this, and the Verfassungsschutz (basically a kind of special police force) keeps a close eye on them because of that, calls them “verfassungsgefährdend” (going against the constitution). Monarchies like england had similar laws around 1900, where you could say everything except talk badly about the monarchy in power. That was known as the “english liberalism” because in many other countries, you could say even less. China does the same today, just that instead of the german constitution or the english monarchy it’s the Communist Party.

you’ve clearly never had a hot cousin

This is why your testes are “immune-privileged”, meaning your white blood cells are not allowed in there.

crazy. yeah it makes sense on second thought, i guess, like there’s some fuckery with the immune system of the mother not entering a child in the womb or sth. yeah it makes sense that that applies for sperm too. then, i wonder, what keeps infections at bay?

yeah i’m guilty of it myself, i just posted politics article this morning, unfortunately. i guess i shouldn’t have done it.

As an initial stopgap on the way to a socialist economic model, its got merit

the way i think of it is that ubi is a bandaid solution. it’s not perfect but you still need to apply it, otherwise you bleed out and die before you have a chance of reaching a proper hospital.

Anarchist

anarchism only works with the right kind of people, i’d say. which not everyone is.

By the way, what is this phenomenon on Lemmy? Let’s say people are reluctant to read and comment on old posts published just a couple of days or a week ago, but with new ones, it’s a completely different story. What kind of psychology is this? Or it seemed to me?

In the default lemmy feed (in browser view at least), posts only show if they’re younger than 3 days (72 hours). So older posts typically get ignored, so nobody wants to comment there because nobody will read these comments anyways.

VLC’s gonna be up there with ffmpeg and yt-dlp