Fisting for Freedom

It’s 100 guys, I don’t think anyone is especially concerned.

Genocides are ok if they’re “domestic affairs”? That’s a bad case of brainworms, kid.

Edit: more accurate quote

You’re looking too narrowly. By getting devs to cater to whatever gets rolled out in Blink and v8, google extends the power they have over the whole ecosystem by making any browser that doesn’t follow them look “broken” (as opposed to, not slavishly following everything google does).

It also increases the difficulty of making a competing browser engine by adding tons of complexity (for questionable value), only further entrenching google’s dominance. But at least you get some stupid new CSS3 behaviors (that people will bitch about not working in Firefox or Safari) so I guess it’s worth it.

China’s system led to invasions, wars, and mass murder. China’s system has no way for the citizens to do anything about it. The US system does, and citizens have forced change repeatedly throughout US history.

And to reiterate, the US government is not perfect and still does bad things. But it’s entirely better than China’s.

The US didn’t take over Tibet and resettle Han Chinese there (that’s genocide, deliberately destroying a culture ). The US isn’t committing a genocide on the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The US isn’t imprisoning and executing Falun Dafa adherents.

The US allows us to make changes for the better. We can stand for office and become ta source of change, we can band together as citizens to make change. Our system isn’t perfect, but it is dramatically better than China’s, all your cynicism aside.

I have free speech rights under the constitution. That’s not the case in China.

Don’t shift the goal posts - there’s a huge difference between the countries, and China is strictly worse.

Yeah, also maybe we could get rid of election apps.

Everyone who uses Chrome (or Brave, Vivaldi, Arc, or anything else that uses Chromium as a base) - you’re helping google extend their power over the open web, and those helping them do this.

It’s a small thing, but Google’s power over the web derives from each of the the millions of people who continue to make Chrome the standard that webdevs cater to.

As an American, I can say that my government sucks for invading Iraq and Afghanistan and face no repercussions. I did so before those wars and have done so repeatedly since.

As a Chinese citizen, I can be arrested for singing a song about Hong Kong. Or saying that Tibet isn’t China, or that Taiwan should be left alone. God forbid I ask about what’s happening in Xinjiang. Or what happened in Beijing in 1989, or why the Great Leap Forward resulted in so many deaths of my countrymen. Or practicing Flaun Dafa, or whatever else.

Nobody is saying the US is perfect: the US has its problems, we can and should be better. But China is never honest about their shit and punishes people who are. China’s markedly worse than the US.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

China is markedly worse than the US, though.

He announced the rebranding in a tweet sent last Saturday in the middle of the night. You know, like any competent business person would.

They’d benefit by letting Russia get stomped to death, then taking Siberia for themselves.

A Reddit spokesperson declined to comment about this year’s edition of r/Place, telling Polygon via email “redditors are going to reddit.”

Honestly, that’s probably the best response he could’ve given.

Ukraine started it by attacking the bridge, which is never ever ever ever ever used for anything other than transporting holiday makers and fuzzy kittens to Crimea for rest and relaxation. Russia was forced to do this, and also the church was secretly the biolab where NATO scientists are working on reanimating Hitler’s head and attaching it to a killer robot body to rape and murder Russian civilians in their villages.

Oh, sorry. Ignore me, then.

Why does Russia hate the Global South?

I’m not sure about that. The trend in the industry overall has been towards separate designers and specialized fab operators, in part because the capital costs and expertise for running a modern semiconductor foundry are incredibly high. ARM, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM anre all fabless. Samsung makes their own chips, but they’re essentially ARM reference designs. Apple’s expanded their own in house design team, but even with their enormous piles of money don’t want to take on the risk of running their own fabs.

Then look at Intel’s constant stumbling towards newer process nodes vs the guys who do contact work. AMD and IBM spun off their chip manufacturing into GlobalFoundries, and AMD now uses TSMC for their CPU cores and chiplet packaging. Even Intel is talking about using TSMC for producing some of their chips.

(I know technically Intel now counts as a contract foundry, but all of the major names that were part of the IFS announcement have backed away. I’m skeptical)

Yeah, desecrating people’s religious texts or symbols is an asshole move, but that’s the point - they’re being assholes because it reliably gets a rise out of large swathes of the Muslim world. If everyone just ignored them, they wouldn’t bother anymore.

That doesn’t really seem like a problem, except maybe for the Russians.