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This reminds me of one of the best bits from the Xanth novels, where the male unicorns peacock for the female unicorns by leaping in the air and landing horn-first in the ground, then see who can balance like that the longest.

Which is second only to the part in the same book where the main character is taking a shit in the woods when a harpy shows up and he has to try to run away with his pants down, unwiped, while the harpy is shouting abuse after him

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/10/1005263835/new-report-details-firsthand-accounts-of-torture-from-uyghur-muslims-in-china This is the first result when I typed in “uyghur firsthand account”
I’ll read it when I get home in a few hours unless you have another source(s) you’d prefer.

It’s very easy to say this, because it means you can just reject any evidence to the contrary as “not good” or “biased”.

Accusations of genocide aren’t a fucking game. It’s either happening or it isn’t. Either the evidence is good or the evidence is bad (and all evidence is biased) So give us some good evidence.

It? I sure hope you aren’t talking about a human person.

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas evidence 😔

So it’s just the browbeating for me today then?

Pretend all you want that you’re “just asking questions”
That’s pretty much exactly the same as the Israeli line

vibes of a genocide denier

doesn’t change facts.

What facts! I’m still waiting for one. We can go round and round all day but until you show me something to center this on it’ll be a waste of time. In 30 years even your ABC will quietly walk back their claims of genocide and I hope when that happens you will tell the people around you not to trust the same sources that lied to you.

There’s no racial component to it at all

That’s a pretty bold statement to make. Have you seen the west?

Are you or are you not genociding the people of mars right now?

You see that’s kind of where the problem is. You can say there’s a genocide and I can say “where” and that gives me the vibe of a genocide denier. I’ve looked for evidence, I’ve asked for evidence, but the best I’ve ever gotten is a satellite image of some prison in China, some (AI padded) mugshots with no context, and some thorough browbeating by very serious liberals.

Let me put this another way. I’m of Jewish descent. My great aunt was in a camp. I’m not trying to “deny” any genocides, but what should my standard of evidence be? Particularly when there is a clear incentive for western media to create false narratives about their enemies, and have done so before?

If you have something to present that I haven’t seen, I and the other “tankies” are wide open to engage with it.

Wouldn’t say “dead” just put on the back burner. They’ll get their way eventually just like they did with net neutrality. (Responding to the article headline not you exactly)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity

Google is pushing for websites to implement this software that talks to your TPM (trusted platform) chip on your computer and has it attest to the state of your web stack. Then, the website gets to decide if that’s okay and can deny you access if there’s any “funny business” such as ad blockers installed, or you’re using a browser they don’t like, or maybe even running an os they don’t like. We’ll almost certainly find ways around it for a while, but it’s going to get better (for them, worse for you)

I think this is on their eventual roadmap, somewhere just after not allowing anyone to log in without a verified WEI check for “”““security””“”

Then you can stop all the YouTube rehosting sites like piped by baking in little 1 pixel changes that uniquely identify the account that ripped the video. Netflix and others will do this as well too try to stop piracy.

They’re going to go scorched earth on this, I just know it. The Internet will become as bad as cable was and this is the turning point.

I’m coming into my 30s now sort of going the opposite direction you are. From my perspective I’m realizing that I missed out on creative expression until now because I subconsciously realized it wasn’t a “practical option” that I couldn’t afford, so I’m waking up to the fact that I’ve lived my life up to this point as a STEM bro type missing out on a huge spectrum of experiences, and it makes me feel robbed.

I want to live in a fucking treehouse for a month, with a rope ladder, and a Zipline.

I liked the roses and it’s my neck that hurts

Thanks for the warning, didn’t know that was a thing!

Oh really? I didn’t know they made it without. I just checked mine and it says it has >100% of all the b complex vitamins in a serving (2 tbsp). I do live in the US but I got mine online.

Once you discover nutritional yeast it’s hard not to get enough B12.

When people complain about vegan diets lacking in x, y, or z I always point out that our diets are culturally balanced, as well as being balanced by the addition of vitamins to staple foods. If we all became deficient in say, iron, we would start fortifying iron in our water, flour, salt, rice etc, while at the same time we would culturally move towards eating more black beans and spinach than we currently do. When an individual removes a food group from their diet, it’s only reasonable that you will have to intentionally rebalance your diet in other places. This isn’t a deficiency inherent in a vegan diet.

If you have to supplement a vitamin or mineral that’s just part of your diet, so don’t @ me with your natural=good nonsense.

The point is that the western sequence of events is incorrect on the face of it.

https://tiananmensquare.carrd.co/