yogthos

yogthos, 1 year ago

It’s simpler than that I suspect. Unlike children in Gaza, he sees US soldiers as being human.

yogthos, 1 year ago

Old enough to remember how Kiby was crying crocodile tears at the podium when the war in Ukraine started. Now he’s busy tirelessly defending Israeli atrocities with not a tear to shed for the victims. This is the famous rules based world order on full display.

yogthos, 1 year ago

Imagine saying that a genocidal apartheid state is “one of the only semi-sane governments in the area”. Meanwhile, US support for everything Israel has been doing since it was formed is the sole reason for Israel being what it is today. The only thing US brings to the world is horror and suffering.

It’s pretty obvious what genocide Joe should do. He should pack up and leave. It’s that simple. Instead, this senile sack of shit is dragging the world in tow WW3 right now. US and Israel deserve everything that’s coming to them.

yogthos, 1 year ago

Nah, I’m pretty sure people in China are feeling pretty good about their country’s development:

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. www.nber.org/system/files/…/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) semanticscholar.org/…/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b…

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2…

By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. www.nytimes.com/…/china-poverty-xi-jinping.html

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yogthos, 1 year ago

indeed

yogthos, 1 year ago

I think the most newsworthy part of this is that UK monitors private communications of British citizens. The person was making an obvious joke within a private snapchat group of his friends who knew this was a joke. There was no threat and no hoax because this was a private chat where everybody had context that this was a joke. This is what life in a dystopian surveillance state is like.

yogthos, 1 year ago

Yeah that’s a good point, there’s plenty tax evasion the oligarchs can do domestically.

yogthos, 1 year ago

and then you have the liberals claiming to be the left while pretending we’re not living in a class society 🤡

yogthos, 1 year ago

This is precisely why I’ve never found Chromium based browsers to be of much relevance. These are just skins on top of the rendering engine which is the core of the browser and that’s entirely controlled by Google. People kept ignoring this and now we’re in a situation where Chrome and its derivatives dominate the market to the point where sites no longer care whether they follow W3C specs as long as Chrome renders them. We’re now back in pretty much the same situation we were in the days of IE.

It’s depressing that people were unable to understand where things were going until Google started doing blatantly evil things. The only thing that was keeping Google in check before was the fact that it was lack of market dominance. Google is an ads company, and there is a huge conflict of interest with them being the gatekeepers to the internet.

yogthos, 1 year ago

Sure, in terms of underlying functionality WASM or even plain Js can do everything Flash did. What I’m talking about is lack of tooling and accessibility for non technical people to create content. Macromedia Flash was a really easy to use tool that anybody could quickly get started with and make something. You didn’t have to have any programming knowledge at all. Maybe we’ll see newbie friendly tools built on top of WASM someday, but currently there’s really not much happening in this space.

yogthos, 1 year ago

Gdevelop is very nifty, but yeah it’s complex enough to be intimidating for somebody with no development experience. I think the beauty of Flash was just how accessible the tooling for it was. Anybody could get started with it in minutes.

yogthos, 1 year ago

And it’s the root cause vast majority of the time.