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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Whenever you hear about those “the world is getting better and better every day, nearly a billion people have come out of poverty in the last X years” statistics, just know, all of those people were pulled out of poverty in China, by their (kinda) socialist government.

    Few people if any come out of poverty in capitalist countries and countries imperialized from the West (rather, as many people fall into poverty as get out of poverty).

    Socialism is pulling people out of poverty, feeding them, housing them, give them healthcare, etc. Capitalist nations keep the global south poor in order to exploit cheap labor.

    It’s about trends and direction. The USSR back in it’s growth days pulled 300 million people out of poverty. This is a core feature of communism, to feed, house, and heal, every single person.



  • Developers find some pretty good use out of it, but it’s not useful for fully building applications or anything. More like helping debug simple problems and predict reasonably easy code.

    Regular people are using it as grammar checkers, but since it can explain grammar rules more thoroughly than other tools can, it’s more useful for learning why some rules exist.

    I use it to summarize long articles. Right now I’m using Kagi the most for summarizing websites into small paragraphs so I can see if there’s more details I would like to read about in the article. Kagi actually has some good search features too, and it can summarize the top findings into an explanation. It’s a great starting point to search non-political and mostly non-controversial information.




  • Please keep your eyes open in the future to the media also using these terms. For example, every single time a peaceful protest gets pushed by the police into going violent. See how the media uses extremely charged verbiage during those situations.

    Or how about every single time China or North Korea or Russia is brought up. No matter what the news story is about, they will always be labeled the bad guys. And sometimes they are, but sometimes they’re not.

    Notice how the media will always talk about their “regimes” compare to our “government”, their “worker camps” vs our “prisons”. By the way our prisons also do force labor, and also torture people. How come our prisons aren’t worker camps? Or torture camps?

    You’re going to see this if you keep watching osely, Communists have been talking about politically charged rhetoric for a very long time. We started calling out the government for using biased language long ago. See: Michael Parenti, for starters.


  • I think you’re negative votes speak for themselves, but this is pretty obviously showing that there is Media bias.

    I mean obviously it’s nearly impossible to prove that the media is not biased, what would a test for that even be? But showing where similar events get wildly different coverage does lead towards evidence that the media is biased.

    Now, of course, the media can’t cover literally everything equally all the time. But let’s be honest, we know where the military lies, we know what the government is saying in official speeches, and we know what the media is pointing to. When everything lines up, it’s pretty fucking obvious.