• freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      This is the exact same behavior of the British that has been going on since before the first Opium War. Merchant class owns papers, they want China to give up all their wealth, they write articles in the paper to incense the state and push for a war of domination.

      The more things change, the more they remain the same

    • CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      I know it's a liberal show, but it still baffles me that they continue to be anti-Chinese and even go so far as to paint Mr. Burns as serving "red Chinese masters" (their words).

        • CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          It was the Pie Man episode. Season 15 episode 19, "Simple Simpson", apparently. Mr. Burns blackmails Homer to pie the Dalai Lama for his - as he says "red Chinese masters".

          Most Simpsons seasons were anti-nuclear and anti-Chinese in more than a few episodes. They sorta phased out the anti-nuclear stuff in recent years, but the anti-Chinese stuff stayed. Even later seasons have at least one episode with some snide joke about sweatshops or oppression. They got moderately less racist, though.

          • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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            1 year ago

            China has always been the acceptable target for racism in the west. They might not do the Mickey Rooney "Breakfast at Tiffanys" thing anymore, but they've never stopped saying bad things about China. And it will only become more prevalent over time. We're probably going to start seeing depictions that make ww2 depictions of the Japanese look tame.

  • Soviet Pigeon@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Since May, according to Microsoft, Chinese hackers have been secretly accessing data from the State Department and Commerce Department, among other targets including Western European entities.

    Shut the fuck up. Its not Chinas fault, that Microsoft miserably failed. Whoever of the whatever-department decided to put their stuff in to the microsoft cloud was an idiot. How the fuck could this happen at the first place. This remindes of Solardwinds, when their password "solarwinds123" (What a secure password!) has been spotted on their Github repo.

    MSA (consumer) keys and Azure AD (enterprise) keys are issued and managed from separate systems and should only be valid for their respective systems. The actor exploited a token validation issue to impersonate Azure AD users and gain access to enterprise mail.

    (source)

    They had one fucking job. But no no, its not their fault, its China! Dont look at us, our cloud products are still great. And please dont forget to put 20 layers of snake oil on your computer

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      It's a good gig, great pay, easy work, solid hours, you get to practice your creative writing skills and write whatever horror stories you want...only job requirement is a lack of ethics.