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Tsk Tsk. No religion in China, that'll get you on a list.

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Probably a false equivalence to the prisoner population, as if China doesn't have any prisons and it wasn't an entirely different issue

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Take a look at my nick. Yes, that's a Chinese name. Are we doing the Jewish antisemitism thing?

As an Asian: I have never once met a single other Asian who thinks the pooh meme is racist. Even the Chinese pro-CCP crowd understands it's targeting Xinnie specifically. I've only ever heard the 'racist' take from white folks defending Xinnie. Thanks for your concern guys, but there's really no need

They were willing till prosecute, jail, and drive their postmasters to suicide, what's a $5 fine?

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Yeah, lemmy is insanely illogical on this topic. Services cost money to run, and the average user is not going to self host anytime in the foreseeable future. I have yet to hear anybody offer a vision of how things might reasonably work without ads OR subscriptions.

I'm trying out the game. Honestly, a simple tutorial / intro would go a long way towards flattening out the initial difficulty curve. Having to go into a wiki to learn the basic concepts of wands and spells is not my idea of a good time.

Doesn't Janeway do both?

That was hilarious. Blackhat crackers - 0, bureaucracy - 1

And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

Start paying for stuff. Subscriptions, etc.

No, somebody speculated it's to comply with the EU. The rest of us are speculating that it's to push up their market share.

Posts like this reveal how many people believe every word a megacorp PR dept announces

It's a review where the reviewer hasn't played it yet and is asking readers if it's worth playing. Why...

Better salmon than some toxic chemical, I suppose

I'd like to see what justifications the pro-Israeli camp comes up with for this one.

“Any allegation that fake stamps have been purchased at a Post Office is extremely serious. The implication of such an allegation is that one of our postmasters, or a member of their staff, has obtained fake stamps and have chosen to sell them to customers rather than selling legitimate stamps that have come from Royal Mail’s secure printers.

“This is why we insist that any customer who thinks they may have purchased a fake stamp from a Post Office must produce an itemised receipt so that this can be looked into further.

Fucking ass covering bullshit. Just ignore the most likely reason, which is that your readers are malfunctioning, and avoid investigating because who the fuck keeps receipts for stamps?

WTF. They smashed his window, and as he was trying to escape he hit one of them by accident. For that, he's now facing murder charges?