It's OPs thing. He just got lazy this time it seems and scrubbed the soft Chinese propaganda title this time.
It doesn't. (Connect for Lemmy is still a great app though.)
Just curious, was there a recent event that happened that affects more than just you? Just curious, s'all.
So. I have had a decent amount of time to think about this kind of thing and I have just become very aware about what I consider private information. If something is super private, I take the appropriate steps to ensure absolute and super paranoid levels of security.
However, there isn't much that I could be blackmailed for because if there wasn't an absolute expectation of privacy from the start, I just expect most information to be public anyway.
Most "general human things" I still wouldn't care about. Someone has naked pictures of me they want to share? "Uh. Why?" would be my first question. I am not much different and any of the other billions of humans out there, so if you want to see those, knock yourself out. (I just won't go out of my way to make or distribute that stuff.)
You caught me going to a porn site on my free time where I had the expectation of privacy? Sorry, but many people do that and again, I'm just being human, so fuck off.
I think at the end of the day, I have seen (and done) so much stupid shit that it takes a lot to bother me. While my experience probably doesn't help you at this moment, it's fairly important to be aware of your own feelings in cases like this.
In the most kind way possible: If all else fails and you cannot rationalize the current situation, remember that very few people know or even care about you specifically. Sure, you have friends and family! If they are "real" friends, nothing can get in the way of that friendship. Family is family. The rest of the world? Bah. Fuck 'em.
Financial loss is another beast and a pain to deal with. Work with your bank and credit cards companies to resolve what you can, if that is the case.
Regardless, time fixes all so hang in there!
I'm in the US, but I suspect mail is fairly the same across North 'Murica. (The government would handle super-remote locations still?)
The only mail I get are either bills or trash. Packages usually don't ship via USPS. I rarely, if ever, send anything.
I wouldn't cry at all if it cost me $5 to send a letter every two or three years.
Just call it X-Twitter. It ain't twitter any more, and "X" is just dumb as fuck.
Voyager had it worse than Enterprise-D in general, but I am struggling to define "natural disasters" in this case. I'll need help with this as I am not an Enterprise-D expert, but I think I can explain more about what I think is proper context from Voyager.
Strange aliens that invade the ship are just aliens doing what they do. It's natural, but technically not a disaster.
Voyager getting pulled into the delta quadrant was an act of an entity and not really a disaster in the whole scheme of things. It was really bad, but limited in scope.
I almost classified a planet being destroyed by a dangerous power source explosion a natural disaster, but it's not. It's humanoids doing stupid humanoid things.
Voyager does have "Shattered", that seems natural and a disaster, but it's limited to just Voyager.
"Year of Hell" is so close, because time itself is keeping the imperium in a never ending cycle of wiping out entire civilizations, but doesn't make the cut because it was still the work of one crew and the "disasters" technically never happened.
"Friendship One" may be in the running because a civilization was "gifted" with matter/antimatter tech before it was ready. It was a mistake of pure chance that kicked off a path to the destruction of a society.
(Enterprise-D had a few episodes where they were saving planets from actual natural disasters though. As mundane as that sounds, some of those may come out on top by definition.)
Edit: To completely destroy my own attempt to set content, "The Omega Directive" may be it as the Omega particle was able to create subspace ruptures. It's perfectly and evenly tied with Enterprise's "Force of Nature" where warp drives were destroying the fabric of subspace itself. In that context, both win. Unintentional and unexpected natural consequences of one force of nature acting on another. (I just completed wrecked my own previous arguments, I know. Just having too much fun with this one, s'all.)
We can both be right.
I chuckled a little when I read that: "Thats not how social media is supposed to work..."
I was supposed to get popcorn, and you two were supposed to fight it out over the next 12 hours arguing about the same thing without realizing it. Pfft. There went my entertainment.
(Obviously, I jest.)
I have no comment on this particular political topic, but posting statistics without a source reference is bad form. Maybe it's not "lying" but it's misleading, intentional or not. Yes, you did post a source in proper context after you were challenged but it ended up making your original comment look worse. That is my opinion looking from the outside.
If you post data, just cross reference it a couple of times to reduce any friction later. Or don't. You do you.
I remember they finally were able to make a ball point pen all by themselves in 2017.
When I actually start seeing products that aren't contaminated with fake ICs or are actually grounded properly without hyper-strict foreign supervision, I'll change my tune. Until then, there isn't an article in the world that will convince me that China is actually innovating or taking steps to make quality products.
What the hell are you popping off about? All you need to do is go to Amazon or Ali Express to see the absolute plethora of Chinese product clones. Just search for a 3D printers, as a good example.
Yeah, I guess I am a bit prejudice against the bulk Chinese electronic garbage that is usually an extreme fire hazard. Maybe it's all the fake or counterfeit chips I have had to replace that has pissed me off.
Look bub. I don't give a flying fuck about China or the politics involved. Their manufacturing sucks ass and their actual their innovation is rare. If they copied products correctly, I would have a bit more respect for their business model.
If you want to go all-out tankie on people, maybe you should go back to your own instance.
That's great and all, but you missed the theme of this thread.
China has been the king of bulk products for years. Saying that recent investments will alter world politics in 25 years is a bit strange. Saturating markets is what China does best.
Yeah. The peddlers of homeopathic crap are the first ones that need to burn.