This implies the existance of ethical gooners.

Sir this is a-lemmy. We all hate Microslop, rich people and cars here.

Well at least she wasn’t wearing blue or green.

In any society, some sections would be having ‘good times’, and wouldn’t want the status quo to change. Other sections wouldn’t be having a great time, and would be asking for change.

Centrists then might be people who want some changes, although people who don’t want any change often also call themselves centrists since (1) different sections would be asking for different directions of change, so staying put might seem the middle ground, and (2) it’s more respectable than admitting the current system benefits them and they don’t want it to change.

Also centralists are different. Centralisation / decentralisation is the debate over how much power national governments should have versus local governments.

Centrism is okay during good times

Good times for whom?

Cowbee means economic imperialism - using the resources / wealth of another country for yourself. So invading another country would not, by itself, be imperialism.

I think this definition is a bit reductionist, but it’s a good starting point to ask ‘is this war for profit or some other reason?’.

Yes. A group of US companies have bought Tiktok US. Tiktok elsewhere is still owned by the Singaporean / Chinese company.

True, but it would only work in the US, no? Tiktok itself is still Singaporean, and they don’t care about Israel’s crimes being revealed.

How does the sale of Tiktok’s US operation to a US consortium affect a Palestinian?

… an account that appeared to have the same username was still visible on TikTok in Australia – but not in the Middle East, when Al Jazeera checked in different geographies.

Either she got banned on the real Tiktok - and this has nothing to do with the sale of Tiktok US - or she and Al Jazeera are using US Tiktok in the Middle East (but why?).

Cuba is a threat to the United States?

???

Yeah, this is most likely about oil.

I’m a huge fan of Xiaomi’s phones (for the hardware and pricing) but let’s be honest their software isn’t exactly their strength. To be fair, it has improved in recent years.

In principle yes, but isn’t a relatively neutral authority that includes countries like Russia and Qatar better than Israel being allowed to bomb Gazans as they like?

Yeah I find GPL to be ironically non-free because it removes the right for anybody to use the code as they see fit, basically adding a restriction on the developer.

Sometimes, in order to protect everyone’s freedom, you have to put some restrictions on freedom. Like ‘you should not stab people’, or ‘don’t drive on the wrong side of the road’. I guess this is similar.

But also check who legally ‘owns’ your work. It could be the government, your university, or whoever funds your work. They might have rules on licencing.

Both have issues:-

• Euro - for other countries to use the Euro, they need to have Euro stocks. For this, the EU needs to (1) run a deficit, and (2) manufacture something of value to the rest of the world. But the EU won’t run a deficit, and its manufacturing sector is collapsing.
• Yuan - China does not want rich foreigners speculating on their currency and causing financial crises, so they have limits on how much (digital) yuan foreigners can own. They do loan yuan to foreign governments, but those are usually given for specific projects like a dam or a railway line.

China has been selling US treasury bonds over the last year.

It depends. By default, it uses a weaker encryption than WhatsApp. You can turn on e2e encryption, but not in group chats.

On the other hand, it has multiple FOSS clients, will work on pretty much any platform, and has a great UI.

If you want a fairly secure chat app that your grandparents can use, then Telegram is perfect. If you’re sending highly confidential stuff, then no.

It’s also suitable for project groups, because of the better tools (and moderation bots) available to the mods.

The country that loses a war is the one that is forced to make concessions. Right and wrong have nothing to do with it.

To translate from one language to another, you need to know both languages very well, including puns, idioms, etc., and have a deep understanding of both cultures involved. A word for word translation will rarely do; you may even have to come up with new jokes / references to replace ones that don’t work in the target language.

If you have read translations of manga by, say, Rumiko Takahashi, you might have seen footnotes explaining all the puns and references. And even this is not ideal, since it breaks the reader’s flow.

And wtf is Neptune doing in second place.

Pluto and the Kuiper belt.

Note that Saturn is relatively close to Jupiter, while Neptune is far from any other large planets. So while it is smaller, it dominates a much larger part of the solar system.