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  • Interesting read. I'm not sure what to think about the Uyghur matter given the sheer amount of incoming info. I've tried to be critical of this article, so I believe I should make my analysis clear here:

    • There are three sides in this story: interviewed people, UN report and the Chinese government.
    • It talks about the Chinese authorities denying or condemning various statements, but notably doesn't offer any further explanation, while the other two sides get to explain themselves.
    • The article states that the Chinese government released personal data and imagery, but doesn't mention a reason. This seems to attempt to give the impression that doxxing her was the intention, but she lives in the US and for all I know that info could be intended as proof of non-stated facts.
    • Some mention family members being detained. The alleged reasons for their detention are not made explicit. I tried to learn more about this in a linked article, but all it stated was that "reasons including ...", which is a phrasing that indicates hiding of information, and thus a high risk of bias.
    • "The report demolished Beijing’s counter-terrorism framework" seems to be a purely personal judgement, as the report didn't deny that countering terrorism was indeed the goal of those efforts.

    Overall, I think this article might be biased towards one end of the story, and is explaining the facts in a way that intentionally pushes a non-objective narrative. In particular, I found it problematic that the article is challenging the statements issued by the UN report, which constitutes higher-quality evidence than testimonials.

  • You can look at the modlog to what posts have been removed and why. I routinely disagree with Lemmy* users from the entire political spectrum, as I find it more important to offer good arguments than to suit my views on anything. Anyway, you're welcome to co-moderate with me if I can trust you won't do any of the things you mention a mod could end up doing ;)

  • Don't worry. As stated in the rules, no posts will be removed over politics, and I will not personally intervene for anything not stated in the rules. I've made the community on Lemmy so people from many instances can post there and feel safe. I believe it'll be beneficial for all communities to have an environment to just share well-informed knowledge rather than attack each other :)

  • Yeah, although I've realized I enjoy the meal more if I don't.

  • Superficially it doesn't look like it. But recent stats indicate that an increasing share of the male population in Spain sees feminism as an "oppressive" (???) movement. I've myself checked (I'm Spanish) that many male and female friends of mine show such opinions in private, even if they don't generally show them, and the tendency is increasing.

  • I was being sarcastic, yes. For some reason, people are just accepting that narrative (hey, people have different versions of the facts, I can understand that) without even questioning whether it makes sense at all.

  • So, Russia has troops inside the power plant, and they are apparently holding workers at gunpoint so they keep producing electricity. Ukraine, as expected, has decided not to attack those Russian troops and endanger the rest of us in the world, while stupid Russians are shelling their own positions and halting the production that they themselves are attempting to keep going. They are probably not stopping even when the prospect of a nuclear catastrophe is pushing international forces to act, as Mr Zelenskyy has many times requested, probably eventually expelling Russian forces from the area. As stupid as they are, they don't realize that the attacks they are performing only benefit the military interests of Ukraine, and not their own... Thankfully, that Chinese official has stated that "all parties [...] exercise maximum restraint”, and by "all parties" we should of course understand they're referring specifically to Russia, just like the article states in its title, as they are clearly the ones performing the attacks.

    Edit: /s, for the sake of fuck

  • And yet the far-right incels will complain... Unfortunately Spain is seeing an increasing anti-feminist push.

    Edit: the right-wing parties voted against this law. The general feeling among the right wingers in Spain is that such feminist laws are unnecessary or excessive, which I feel is a dangerous position.

  • Made me laugh, nice. But as I said before, this unhealthy friction between instances is pointless.

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  • Cool! It's nice to have our own meme formats here on Lemmy!

  • Refrigerators can actually work as electric heaters: they produce a lot of heat at the back side in order to extract a bit of heat from the inside. If you leave a refrigerator open, heat will just flow back in and the refrigerator will convert almost all its input power into heat.

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  • The last sentence seems stupid to me. That's the same shit that's already going on with homes, with renting slowly surpassing buying as the main way to get your hands on one.

  • I'd say it doesn't. Free will only exists when one's actions can't be reliably predicted by anyone else, but that doesn't depend on or affect oneself.

  • We all love lemmy tho

  • Can confirm, even in the north of Spain the temperature has been unbearable for the last few days. News of deaths from heat are still going.