China’s National Defense Minister Li Shangfu has been missing for weeks. Now, he’s under investigation for corruption and out of a job
Probably getting fired and/or arrested for corruption if I had to guess. Just a thought though.
Language is a social phenomenon, yes.
The nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific absolutely fucked over the people living there. But not all radiation is the same. There's no way this wastewater affects them whatsoever unless they do a pilgrimage to Fukushima Daiichi and start drinking the pre-diluted water.
This is completely ridiculous.
In Minecraft, the immersive game owned by Microsoft, Russian players re-enacted the battle for Soledar, a city in Ukraine that Russian forces captured in January, posting a video of the game on their country’s most popular social media network, VKontakte.
These authors clearly know nothing about Minecraft. Wow, some nationalists re-enacted a battle on their private Minecraft server. Woe is the world! All of Minecraft has been infected by Russian dezinformatsiya!
A channel on the Russian version of World of Tanks, a multiplayer warfare game, commemorated the 78th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in May with a recreation of the Soviet Union’s parade of tanks in Moscow in 1945. On Roblox, the popular gaming platform, a user created an array of Interior Ministry forces in June to celebrate the national holiday, Russia Day.
Defeating the Nazis is good, actually. And commemorating that is also good, actually.
Yes, we live in the Information Age. We've been living in it for decades now, NYT. Nationalist zealots are going to post. They're going to make reactionary content. It's nothing new.
These countries don't get polled much, so it's hard to get a number. There's that famous Harvard survey showing extremely high satisfaction with the Chinese government though. Opinions on these countries are going to lean negative within the western internet ecosystem. For example, the vast majority of Chinese people are posting on Weibo, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, etc. etc. rather than Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, and Facebook.
BrikoX you posted Radio Free Asia. 💀
Users can be banned, and if it's a persistent and draining issue for admins after a couple weeks then defederation would actually be understandable.
This single user's plan does even involve using Hexbear. Lemmy.world would have to defederate from all other instances to prevent this person from trolling.
Please read and respect the rules of the community instance in which you are posting/commenting. Please try to keep the dirtbag lib-dunking to hexbear itself. Do not follow the Chapo Rules of Posting, instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric
You have been proven wrong by quotes and logic!
Exo-skeletons are cool, but this isn't a news story so it doesn't really belong here.
iridaniotter
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No, projects like the Fediverse require initial protectionism. If you let megacorporations into your project, they will dominate and gain control over how the protocol develops in the future. Google Chrome's huge share of users has enabled it to get dangerously close to locking other browsers out of most of the Internet (the Web Integrity API shenanigans are just the start). Chrome also removed support for JPEG XL, killing that attempt at a standard and enshrining its own WebP. It's called "Embrace, extend, and extinguish".
If the Fediverse actually wants to grow, it must unite against this. Otherwise we will end up with a couple hundred thousand Fedipact hardliners and millions on Facebook 2. No progress will have been made.