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China #1

Best friends with the mods at lemmy.ml

If you're reading this, I'm already banned.

  • Me_irl

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  • Third parties don't win presidencies... they win city councils, state legislatures, and governorships first. That's how political movements actually work. But posting about it on Twitter is probably fine too. #socialism

  • China: Hong Kong democracy activists face 10 years' jail for Tiananmen Square massacre candlelight vigil

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  • It was the next day, not hours after. The tanks were doing patrols, not cleaning the rebels off their treads. This was all after the massacre.

  • China: Hong Kong democracy activists face 10 years' jail for Tiananmen Square massacre candlelight vigil

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  • It's about remembering the bravery and the thousands that died. He's a symbol.

  • China: Hong Kong democracy activists face 10 years' jail for Tiananmen Square massacre candlelight vigil

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  • What impression did you expect it to make? Dude repeatedly stepped in front of a parade of tanks, climbed up on one, then jumped back down in front of it. He had to be pushed away by others at the end. Were you expecting a blood bath? It's pretty well known that he wasn't killed.

  • Cape Coral, Florida

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  • Just with more hurricanes.

  • "China is a superpower, but we know nothing about them. Can you name 3 alive chinese people right now ?" Question leaves guests embarassed on french television

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  • Doesn't make him less of a shill.

  • A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

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  • Fantastic fucking album.

  • you need this reminder

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  • I've been looking to grab a ricoh for a while now and never pulled the trigger. The monochrome might be the one that takes me over the edge.

  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • Yeah, Christine was tough as shit. She did just fine.

  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • I had a bike that I would ride on the side of the highway to get to town and spend the $8 I got for my allowance on some soda and whatever toy struck my fancy at the Eckerds. Sometimes my parents would let me rent a video game from the Blockbuster, which would always be Chrono Trigger. On Friday nights we would go to Pizza Hut and I would get a plastic cup that was a tie in to whatever kids movie was out at the time. Usually I'd have some Book-it stars to turn in to get my free personal pan pizza, which was always pepperoni.

    There always seemed to be a fair at the fairgrounds. When I was old enough, I started working the parking lot in exchange for a free ride bracelet, and then I'd go in and ride The Zipper till I puked up my nachos. My friends would all meet me there, though we had no way to communicate where we'd be, we always found each other. Sometimes there would be a girl I liked, and I'd walk next to her and make small talk and that would be good enough.

    I didn't watch a lot of TV. Sometimes a show like Sliders would come along and the family would all settle in to watch it, but for the most part, visual entertainment wasn't a big part of my life. There were free weekends where you'd get premium channels like HBO or Showtime and I would use blank VHSs to record movies. Some of them had 8 hours worth of recording time on them, so you'd have to label them with really small writing so you could read Captain Ron, Ghostbusters II, Backdraft, and Power Rangers Movie. I read more than I watched, and I played outside more than inside. Goosebumps and Animorphs over The Hardy Boys and The Babysitters Club. Encyclopedia Brown is still the goat, though.

    The Florida summers were hot, and the winter's temperate. I wore shorts with cargo pockets because no one really cared, and I could carry extra stuff that I always seemed to have a reason to drag around.

    Church was something you did because it's what you did, but no one really took it that seriously. That would change in my teens, but for most of my childhood it was really just something to do on a Sunday to have an excuse to socialize. I used to volunteer to clean up after the whole bread and wine thing we did once a quarter because the bread was fresh and the wine was welch's grape juice, and I could eat all of the bread and drink all of the juice. My pastor liked black people.

    We had swimming classes, which were put on by professionals that, when I look back on it, were probably 16 year old kids with their lifeguard permits. I remember someone jumped into the pool and landed on a girl that was swimming under the water, and her collarbone broke. That was the only time those 16 year olds were put to the test. We just kept swimming while Christine was taken to the hospital.

    All in all, it was different, but the same. I have good memories, and bad, and some that make me feel a certain kinda way. I don't wish I could go back, but I'm happy I got to enjoy them the first time around.

  • Grand Theft Auto LM Edtion

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  • Sweet, an Audio CD Free of Soundtrack!

  • Exclusive: Better China ties can help regional peace, security, Vietnam's top leader says

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  • Yeah, this won't end well...

  • Would conservative audiences believe a targeted mis/disinformation campaign about AI being capable of helping men become pregnant?

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  • It would be so much easier to convince them that AI was turning you gay.

  • Judge Reopens Trump’s Lawsuit Demanding $10 Billion From IRS - The New York Times

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  • As if conflict of interest was ever a matter that the Supreme Court cared about...

  • 'Poison seller' Kenneth Law who sold toxic chemicals online to people across world admits aiding suicides

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  • Parents are the first line of defense, period. They have the first chance to bring the child up in a loving, caring way. That doesn't mean showering them with gifts and affection, that leads to its own problems, but it does mean taking the fucking tablet out of their hands more often, or, god forbid, not putting one in their hands in the first place. And don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say that these parents did that, I'm sure they have their own sins they are guilty of, but you are right, we aren't getting better parents any time soon, but the problem isn't that they aren't getting better, it's that they are actively getting worse.

    And no, I'm not saying that anyone who can't meet my standards deserves to lose their child. That's just some bullshit you made up to try to prove a point you never had in the first place, which is just Strawmanning me with a touch of ad hominem. What I'm saying is that parents can't just foist the blame on to others when it's their failing that caused the bulk of the problems in the first place. I have plenty of empathy. My parents had to work their asses off to raise me and my sister in a way that let us both come out alive. I empathize with the parents that lose their children to circumstances beyond their control. War, accidents, illness. That's where empathy lives.

  • 'Poison seller' Kenneth Law who sold toxic chemicals online to people across world admits aiding suicides

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  • Fuck that. Blaming the person who provided the drugs is like trying to sue a rope company for providing the rope. You fucked up and didn't pay attention to your kid, and your kid is dead now. That isn't Mr. Law's fault, that's on you. You should have been a better parent, full stop. The "He was such a happy boy" bullshit is just cope. You know you ignored your child. I don't give a fuck how harsh that seems, I'm tired of bad parents blaming society because they didn't want to do the work.

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    36 Pedophiles/enablers voted AGAINST a Child Marriage Ban that passed in Oklahoma.

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  • Spoilers vs NSFW is something that has been a problem for such a long time, and it's so crazy that no one has ever bothered to implement a simple second checkbox that blurs things the same way as the NSFW checkbox, but doesn't hide spoilers from your feed. The spoiler tags on text are fine, but you can blur an image with a spoiler tag, so you have to mark it NSFW. Such a strange thing to have left out of online communities for so long.

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    36 Pedophiles/enablers voted AGAINST a Child Marriage Ban that passed in Oklahoma.

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  • You are oversimplifying a solution that doesn't exist.

    That said, it would be great if there weren't a new porn community every other day. I tried the blocking thing and got tired of it. Now I filter out NSFW even though it will block some posts that aren't porn, it's better than being flooded. Still not sure how to go about getting rid of those creepy communities that fetishize celebrities and their bodies to an unhealthy degree but don't post "porn" so they don't get filtered, not to mention the asshole accounts that just don't tick the NSFW box on their posts.

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    36 Pedophiles/enablers voted AGAINST a Child Marriage Ban that passed in Oklahoma.

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  • Right there with you. It's wild to have porn on here at all. I get it, "Sex Sells", but Christ, there are other places to find it. The internet is full of it. You don't need to browse this feed for it. All it is is either posts from porn sites, or self promotion for onlyfans accounts. There is nothing of value. Just get rid of porn on the fediverse entirely.

  • Reddit's CEO calls his company 'the fuel' for artificial intelligence

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  • Which is why when I left I salted the earth.

  • Photography @lemmy.world
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    Downtown Portland

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    I'll let the man tell it, himself.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    You have a time machine with a single round trip. You hate everyone. And you are lazy. What is the least you can do to completely screw over the world with your one trip through time?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Captain Kirk's final words were, "Oh, my," and I love that.

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Question about Steam Deck vs Gaming PC

  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on blackout: It's expensive to run a company.

    www.npr.org /2023/06/15/1182457366/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-its-time-we-grow-up-and-behave-like-an-adult-company