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it’s kind of wasteful to be super speculative on things that arent that serious but i really do seriously believe there is a current op happening on tankiethedeprogram that started shortly after iran war, at the least succeeding the ACP takeover with botted likes or stray commenters. i’m seeing explicitly ultra takes about PRC with 20 upvotes in comment section which could mean nothing but seeing as space has always been relatively small and never big tent it’s a bit out of character. not to mention random anticommunists or liberals. absolutely not serious, does not change the fact that the war is continuing as it has been and iran is battering israel and usa, but yea. theyre trying to foment stuff or at the least engaging in minor pollution in the comments, and i do think it coincides with the big push that yankkkees are somehow winning + the consistent posting of war footage the subreddit does
note to add i still dont understand why the mods have not yet added the same autobot word recognition features shitliberalssay had or even the old deprogram sub on things like ‘uyghur genocide’ with masterlist of sources. sure the removed comments are fine, but they dont really do anything to contest the claims, which again is okay purely for a curation standpoint on having a space on a hostile website but like, i think they could do it
dude, kim jong uns daughter is so fucking cool
swagful
i would feel so swagful if i was her this kids awesom
Serious question: how many of you would have been confused if I had titled this thread ‘Numerous British & U.S. authorities banned a prosemitic film for its Communist bias’?
im glad i love people
it really makes everything worth it in the end
There’s this movement on the vegan subreddit that wants to eradicate animal suffering in general by eradicating all predation and uhhh it was my sign to go outside for a while
Sometimes i wonder if my mom would’ve hit me/beat me had I turned out to have been more rebellious. She used to hit our pets and initially tried spanking me until it became obvious it was ineffective. I was extremely compliant with her and would only raise my voice once every few years, so if I had been…“normal” I really wonder if she would’ve lost control at some point…
rumors from
that iran is considering allowing oil tankers through the strait of hormuz denominated in yuan. can anyone confirm?Soon
the “World” baseball classic has to be the worst pseudo-world tournament. The “Israel” team is 99% american players lmao, just 1 player in the roster was born in Israel. It’s basically a tournament where half the countries are just americans larping as italians, israelis, australians, etc…
This is all major league sports. Most of the players are never from the city they play for.
How demanding would a “Translate this comment” feature would be on lemmy?
I am currently studying sustainable development, and I choose to study China for the topic, Beijing in particular. Unfortunately, the sources I found are parroting “China bad!!” narrative. Are there any good sources that tells the truth instead?
Here’s something interesting that shows just how timely this topic is:
This was just discussed at the latest session of China’s National People’s Congress a few days ago:
China to drive full green transition and build a Beautiful China during 15th Five-Year Plan period
It really seems to be one of the top priorities for the Chinese government at the moment.
Some general articles:
China’s green development: A model for global sustainability
China’s Sustainable Development and Green Economy
Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality China’s Plans and Solutions
Evaluating China’s Sustainable Development Policies: A Comprehensive Review
Green is Gold: Clear Waters and Green Mountains are as Good as Mountains of Gold and Silver
Eco-Tech Revolution: China’s 2025 Blueprint for Sustainable Innovation
China, South-South Cooperation and Supporting Green Development
“Greening” China: An analysis of Beijing’s sustainable development strategies
China’s Green Ambition: Forest Expansion, Energy Efficiency, And Bold Carbon Goals
China’s sustainable development evolution and its driving mechanism
China’s Green Development in the New Era
And for Beijing specifically:
Sustainable Development of the Economic Circle around Beijing: A View of Regional Economic Disparity
Sustainable Urbanisation and Community Well-Being in Suburban Neighbourhoods in Beijing, China
The Modernization Logic of Green Development in the Beijing Ecological Conservation Area: A Review
A decade of historic struggle against air pollution in Beijing
Actually there is a ton of scientific literature on this topic especially from Chinese academia. I had to stop myself from going too deep down the rabbit hole because i’d be giving you far too many specialized papers to read otherwise.
I wouldn’t mind tbh. I’m studying Chinese system and how to incorporate into my country—reality check: We can’t as long as those comprador crony capitalists with theocracic characteristics keep occupying the government.
are you pinoy… 🥺
Sorry, I’m from MENA (can’t give more info to save myself from our govt). It’s very sad that we’re living in a world with majority of corrupt senile men and women on the helm.
In that case the best advice i can give is to get a good translation software so you can read Chinese academic papers, because the best resources you can find are all written in Chinese. Good English language sources are hard to find, since there is a big anti-China bias in the West even in academia.
Would using Baidu for the search help me?
Probably. Anything but Google honestly, because Google is extremely curated to almost exclusively display pro-Western sources. Yandex is usually my go-to alternative.
But the language you search in also makes a big difference. Even on Baidu if you search in English you will probably get a lot of English language results, and English language sources are going to be dominated by a pro-Western bias.
Yes there are good sources to be found in English too but the numbers are stacked against you with so much garbage out there in the Anglophone media. On politically charged topics i mean.
Whereas when i search in Russian on Yandex for example, i get a set of results with noticeably less of them reflecting the Western narratives. It’s just a matter of overcoming the language barrier, which is fortunately not too difficult nowadays.
And of course you are more likely to get serious scientific articles if you search the actual scientific journals and academic publications rather than some propaganda piece put out by an NGO or a think tank.
Thank you comrade!
What a goldmine, thank you comrade!
“China is moving towards green energy, reducing their pollution and reliance on fossil fuels, but at what cost?..”
Replying because I’m also interested. Hoping to boost this a bit
Literally this. Even my supervisor wasn’t fond of my choice. He told me to choose Tokyo, Seoul or Singapore instead.
Your choice is great. None of those cities have made as much progress as fast as Beijing has made compared to how things used to be there just 20 years ago. Even western media had to admit how drastic the difference in air quality is nowadays and how much of a success story Beijing has been in terms of cleaning up the environment. Even the water is so much cleaner nowadays and there are countless parks and green spaces. You can literally see it: https://english.beijing.gov.cn/specials/livablegreenbeijing/index.html
It’s one of the most liveable cities in the world now. I know a lot of westerners are infatuated with the more flashy, hyper-modern cities in China like Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chongqing, and so on, but for me the urban planning in Beijing is just on another level.
Not that it needs to be said but I commend Iran for making the US-israel aggression the whole world’s problem by impeding the free flow of fossil fuel. If the world wants to sit by as it happens, at least they will have to actually feel uncomfortable rather than just saying that they feel so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DL9E40eEfY this is highly interesting not for the video itself but the pro-iran comments, one of which literally says that any attack on american soil will be a false flag. i’m shocked, honestly, this creator is sort of a populist who has no really hardline takes but makes stories on the unappealing aspects of usa that unify his viewers but i never anticipated this outlook from any of them.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
good bot. extends some grass for it to chew
utterly bizarre way to organize the data in reverse chronological order but the fact that the amount of people who believed they were far better off increased over the yrs? loco
I made a joke in the work group chat about wanting to punch out the teeth of our prime minister thinking it was the cool colleagues group chat but it was the general group chat lmao
Tying to push the bounds of acceptable discourse? or trying to get fired in your last days of work?
