Dr. Moose

you don’t lift 800+ million people out of poverty by concentrating all of the profits among a small few.

This is false attribution.
There’s no way to verify how other political system would have worked for China. Maybe it would have worked even better? Taiwan for one is richer, stronger and happier than China per capita so does that mean dictatoriship -> democracy is a better system? Do you see the flaw in this attribution logic now? So, unless you have a time machine…

Their cost of living is leaps and bounds better than ours.

Crazy how effective this propaganda is. Median Chinese salary is 5 USD/hour. Now 5x every chinese price you see to get really cost and revisit your comment.

as a tiktok user — can confirm.

China isn’t the hellscape that we’ve been fed through the media

China has been really showing off hard in the past few years, especially on tiktok. Chinese cars are winning and every single person on Tiktok knows about Chongqing. So I don’t think this is as apt as it used to be.

I’d love more cultural exchange with China but it’s really up to Chinese themselves. Literally all west media and apps are blocked in China. So should we converge on a clear propaganda app which is litterally named after the little red book of communist revolution as our “honest cultural exchange” source? Does anyone seriously think that’s a good idea?

We have Lemmy, Mastodon, the whole Fediverse, bluesky, Telegram, Nostr — the free options exist already, it’s up to Chinese to get some balls to meet us midway.

IG reels are utter garbage for the most part but Youtube Short would actually be good if Youtube had the balls to separate it from Youtube itself as it’s always limited in that regard.

Just proving US government right tbh.

So, US said: “TikTok is too powerful and has too much influence” and then people continue to be influenced. I kid you not, most trending rednote tiktoks right now are about price comparison between China and US with topics like: “veggies are like 2$ in China when they are 6$ in the US” with absolutely zero awareness of how economies work:

• median hourly salary in the US: 27 USD
• median hourly salary in China: 5 USD

Chinese vegetables are more expensive.

You could attribute this to people just being financially stupid but I think there’s definitely some truth from US government pov that China has a lot of propaganda power over US citizens and I say this as non-american myself as it’s quite apparent as a 3rd party observer.

Personally I still think low level laws that protect privacy of all americans is the way to go but America will never sacrifice free market money like that.

.ml is garbage lead by legit garbage people. But, open source means we can take lemmy code made by garbage people and repurpose it for good. Unfortunately it seems like Lemmy image is forever stained by those people and the network will never be adopted by normal people fully.

People hating on this but as someone who codes on the road I’d legit buy it if not the price tag. The vertical space is incredible!

That will never happen because it costs resources to pursue infringement.

Maybe if we eventually reach the stage where AI is basically running all law related issues so everyone can afford it? But if that happens then we’re already in a post-copyright world.

I genuinely don’t understand people defending copy right on Lemmy. It’s a bad system that’s made for wealth hoarding. Out of 1,000,000 copyright conflicts only 1 them protects actual people. The rest 999,999 is there to hoard wealth for the rich.

It’s good that Llama was trained on copyrighted stuff even if you hate Meta and Zuckerborg.

Reddit is not federated, not transparent, not open source. Dumb take my dude.

Yes, thank god .world exists and a reminder to donate!

literally no one but extremist anti-social tankies were using Lemmy before .world happened.

If .ml didn’t exist Lemmy would be reddit-level huge already.

One famous example is Corning which mostly does kitchenware and then also huge military contracts for military equipment. But then of course every single US company takes on military contracts from Ford making engines to Singer making sewing machines and guidance systems during cold war lol

So OP is absolutely right. American companies will dip into everything that makes money which is really not a problem tbh and that’s how capitalism is intended to function just a bit funny given that one company makes kitchenware and bullet proof glass for mil vehicles.

Calling Tencent a “web and gaming giant” is really deceiving here.

It’s one of the biggest tech conglomerates in the world. Tencent invest into literally everything: games, social networks, entertainments, cloud computing, finance, AI, other investments… Tencent owns WeChat, Tencent Cloud, Tencent Healthcare just to name a few and helps CCP with surveilance and censorship through these ownings (tbf they don’t really have a choice, they’re based in China)

100% they are involved in military too so this classification is very much justified.