SeeingRed [he/him]

I uninstalled the YouTube app on my phone and I just watch it on Firefox with Adblock. The slightly worse experience also makes me not use the site as much.

I was near a US embassy today and there was an “Iran protest”. But it primarily consisted of brand new flags, and mass printed signs which either praised the US for having troops in their country or said “MIGA”… It didn’t make any sense.

The 12k dead line was placed unironically next to a made up low-balled death toll for Gaza as if it was comparable.

There were israel flags as well in the crowd.

Also the police seemed to keep a much more respectful distance compared to the times I was there for Palestine marches. Also no drones overhead.

I imagine the water will both help to cool the panels and the panels will help to shade the water. This will mean more power and less energy absorbed by the water. I’d like to see if anyone has studied that in detail to understand the larger impact of that sort of co-benefit.

The concept of geeks often felt like it was tied up with aspects of oppression. The concept of simulated ethnicity is an interesting perspective on it. This ties in with the liberal mentality that your “class” is tied up in the aspects of culture that you subscribe to and surround yourself with (e.g. the tv shows you consume and the activities you participate in define your position in the class hierarchy). It’s a false front on reality. Geeks are outcasts socially, but they still reify capitalist relations in their perceived superiority to non-geeks. Framing this as simulated ethnicity calls it out as being artificial and an attempt to benefit from the racial stereotypes without taking on the same negatives those stereotypes come with. It shows the desire to gain the perceived benefits of oppression without the actual consequences of oppression.

Apparently this memorial was originally supposed to be unveiled in 2023, but after the Canadian government invited a Nazi into their parliament for Zelenski, they delayed it’s unveiling.

Also, they have had the memorial up for nearly a year with no names on it, and more than half the 550 names they suggested were directly affiliated with Nazis. Now they are considering art to symbolize things instead of actual names… I wonder if the people doing this ever realize that maybe they are barking up the wrong tree.

I noticed that youtube hasn’t let me change the speed at all recently on my computer. They show the typical speed control, but it doesn’t work and shows 4x speed premium.

That being said, I have a browser extension that just lets me speed up the video with a keyboard shortcut to whatever speed I want, so it really doesn’t matter.

So instead of a straw hat it’s a helmet with a brim? Not only have the coopted a modern day epic about revolutionary liberation and tearing down oppression, but they can’t even get the symbolism correct. It’s truly sad. I see some people being excited about this as a wave of revolutions, but i haven’t been able to dig in enough to understand how many of these are just attempts at colour revolution.

I’ve only visited China, and my chinese freinds haven’t talked about this issue before, so all my experience is from the chinese internet. I would be interested in a more in depth analysis if it exists.

I’ve only seen one person on Rednote talking about trans issues openly, and they were careful to make their content primarily in English. They claimed that making the content in chinese would get them more online harrassment which they didn’t want to deal with. It’s not that everyone is a problem, but there are enough of them to make it very unpleasant. While transition can be legally done, requiring surgery as others have pointed out, it is still difficult socially.

This same creator had one video where they pointed out that younger people are generally more accepting, but not universally so, and older generations are rarely understanding or accepting. That being said, they do make it clear that the culture is shifting, it’s just going to take time.

Regarding same sex couples, it’s a mixed bag as well. The media has to skirt around explicit relationships much of the time, but will include very heavily coded characters. There was the legal case a year or so back regarding the rights of same sexual couples as it relates to their children. There was a post here on lemmygrad about this a while back. The relationship was not considered legally relevant in that case, but they did rule in favour of the children being of both parents because one acted as a surrogate. There’s some hope there, but it’s a long, long way to go.

I’m hopeful that we’ll see things change in the next few decades as in Vietnam and Cuba, but that’s just vibes. It could be better, but it’s certainly not the worst in the world.

Does Germany have centrifuges to refine uranium for power plants still? They may be refining and selling to other countries. This could be a response to the recent reduction in natural gas supply from Russia.

This could be for bombs, but it could also just be capital taking advantage of new conditions.