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A Chinese communist news site full of happy news is called Sixth Tone.

Another is China's official newspaper, People's Daily.

I love what I've read on there, but I tend to barely read articles. And please, if you spot an podcast in English on one of these sites, let me know!

It's started giving all kinds of reccomendation bs, including firefox extensions and shit. Wth? Is this new?

Westoids have suddenly started saying /kiv/, which alone makes me want to say /kiːɛv/, like my parents always said.

Neither is even the endonym, which is more like /kɪjiu̯/

Since a few days, im unable to watch any youtube videos with any foss clients(Tubular, NewPipe, etc...), is that a consequence of youtube starting to do ads injections ?

Edit : Libretube seems to work, thanks to thoses who mention it.

Any tips or ideas on choosing a final year project? I need to do a project to graduate from computer engineering, currently having a hard time finding what to do, I'm really in blank and have anxiety I don't know what I could do.

idk, I was thinking about this a lot with the Chapo interview and how completely fraudulent the coverage of Israel was. It feels like we shouldn't let liberals get away with this shit by burying it in the past and pretending they always held more "moderate" beliefs. Even I had forgotten about the "putting Jewish babies in ovens" claim and I'm really fucking online about this mythbusting stuff (ask me about any story involving the DPRK). I think it got overshadowed by the "40 beheaded babies," which admittedly there is more memory of because the WH has struggled to get Biden to stop lying about it.

There are some rare cases of people remembering these hoaxes, probably the best example being "Saddam's human shredder," where there is memory of how there was this hoax that mainstream news pushed and libs completely bought, while the next closest example, WMDs, is something that Democrats kind of just pin on Republicans despite Dems also falling for it/perpetrating fraud for it (just not for quite as long).

I've got easily another dozen examples off the top of my head, but you get the idea. It's sort of the cousin of the retroactive invention of reality that we see with cases like MLK, how people pretend northern whites were broadly on his side and ridiculous shit like that, or even that he wasn't still hated by whites throughout the country at the time of his death, and it was the long-term impact of the campaigns lead by himself and others that ultimately forced even most of white culture to acknowledge his side as being that of justice.

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Party_System

It might be wishful thinking. I might just be poisoning my brain with social media, but the absolute slop I've been reading on twitter for the past couple weeks is leading me to believe we may be witnessing the death of the Sixth Party System. Liberals framing recent events as "Working Class Joe" locked in a battle against the DNC Elites, calling publications like the New York Times and Axios fake news chaos agents. Long established alliances between institutions and constituencies seem to be falling apart in a way I have never seen before. It has been such a captivating dumpster fire to behold.

I know "Dems in Disarray" is a common election-season trope, but I have never seen this level of disarray in my life. This shit surely has to be cooked, right? Like this is boiling down to QAnon vs. BlueAnon at this point, with no tangible attachment to policy prescriptions, or even reality. We're supposed to re-elect an octogenarian genocidarie with a life-long political record of strangling the working class while building up the police state to stop fascism. We're supposed to not lose a single election until I'm 80, toothless, infirm, but still working overtime in 110 degree heat on an orange plantation in Yukon to pay my rent to Blackstone while waiting for all the Trump 45 judges to die?

Most policy distinctions on race, immigration, class, labor, religion, LGBTQ+ rights, bodily autonomy, foreign policy, the war on drugs, militarism, incarceration, and economic rights have been reduced to NOTHING but lip service for a long time now, and with the supreme court holding veto power over the other two branches, the era of pedantic liberal proceduralism isn't even a convincing fairy tale. Between the splintering of political constituencies and institutions, and the inevitable fait accompli which is necessary to bypass the impasse of the US's constitutional institutions, I really think this thing is toast. Am I drunk?

I find it irritating, but maybe I need to be more understanding about shit

Seriously

Who are we voting for this election?

Voting in a bourgeois democracy yada yada... But seriously if we all came together and went out to , who'd it be? I saw joke responses for Markiplier that seemed to gain traction on tiktok the same day, other comments here and on YouTube proposed Jill Stein(or it was just yt and my mind is playing tricks). Asking because I had had a discussion with my roommate (the other roommate that isn't the LL) and he said something along the lines of if I don't vote I don't get to complain, which i don't agree with but understand the sentiment. That and we discussed more of an importance of local elections rather than national. And idk I'm not one for caring anymore. If things were better and more hopeful I'd try but teeth hurt and it's not getting better, hair is falling out, body is weak, diet is shit, youth is gone, and I've nothing to show for it. So I definitely don't care anymore and more than likely won't participate myself unless I really see some sort of movement even then I'd probably walk into traffic before voting again.

For reference

Ideally one that is forward-thinking, gaming-friendly, and efficient.

They all seem to be either pointlessly obsessed with electoralism despite not even being able to convince their own friends and family to vote for them (like barely double digit total votes), TERFs (on terf island - surely not!), trots, or just so small that it’s just 1 person and their two sock puppet accounts on a Facebook page (also what is with the use of Facebook?!)

I don't want to miss out on any, like with Russo-Ukraine war...

Idk if North Vietnam had the same diplomatic relations. Was South Vietnam considered a seceded sovereign state at the Paris Peace accords?

From one retail worker to another. My most recent one was a lady who had the arrogance to comment on my weight who then yelled "fatso" at me when I ignored her and walked away.

They keep saying leftists won, but it seems to be coalition with centrists?

Is this just Western media calling liberals leftists again or did France actually elect a real leftist government?

I am on unemployment for the first time and they say I need to be filling out a form every 2 weeks saying I was looking for work. My question is how serious are these forms when I fill them out? Do they track down every place I tried to fill out an application for? I am super confused on how all this works and hoping a fellow hexbear can help my neurodivergent ass out.