TIL that British people also eat the classic Marmita.
Conducting research in China is harder than it has been in years because of an increased emphasis there on ideology and national security, an ever-widening scope of topics deemed sensitive, decreasing academic freedom and, until they were ended last December, the smothering effect of nearly three years of zero-Covid policies.
"Smothering" is not the word I'd want to use if I were a Yankee criticising China's covid response. Everything there is ironically what has been happening in the USA and one of the main causes of their new brain drain. Why would somebody pay tuition fees, go through their racist immigration process and receive a low wage that doesn't allow for a healthy life or even rent in order to go do study there, only to be a second class citizen?
Once their net migration drops enough they'll be facing a full on population decline. Can't wait.
I really like most forms of jazz, even the weird experimental/improvised stuff. Technically not a genre but I also really like listening to the entire soundtrack of indie games front to back. Since they're composed specifically to loop and not distract too much, they make for great idle tunes.
Please elaborate on what's wrong with the article. Proclaiming "biased bias" and quoting mystical nameless "mainstream scholars" ain't scientific.
And also explain who those Russian vacationers are who managed to singlehandedly declare two independent republics and a separatist movement. Might as well give me your Fantasyland timeline of the war against the DPR and LPR, because you are quite vague in everything you say and I can't read your mind.
A tiny Brasil inside a small ex-Brasil inside South America (which is shaped like a bigger Brasil) is genuinely funny ngl. Still hope whoever wants this irl to be forced to cut sugarcane for the rest of their long lives.
I assume you didn't read the second one, about your claim over the snipers. Go back and read again. And who started the Donbas war?
Cool, now it seems you're up to speed and are now aware that Ukraine already existed before 2022 and that it didn't all start because of Russia randomly. Now read these too.
fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes
snipers: https://brill.com/view/journals/rupo/8/2/article-p181_5.xml
Do your thing, reply guy!
And nothing happened before that that involved people being killed?
directly from the wikipedia page:
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. This event took place in the relative power vacuum on the immediate aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity and was the beginning act of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War.
Come on, study a bit. Have another one. When did this whole thing start again?
Imagine having a whole country just called "South," and I say this a somebody who occasionally wishes for Northeast independence. Just draw some lines wherever, it'll work out fine.
Yeah, there are spaces for it in every industry, which is why I think the analysis here is a bit simplistic to begin with. But in general, even in the FOSS area we are usually still subject to capitalist interests because the FOSS projects that get the most funding are usually those that are already useful to corporations directly or indirectly.
I noticed this a lot with Godot because they used to get plenty of grants to develop specific systems from proprietary gamedev corporations, probably because those corporations would then go on to use that as cheap R&D to copy for their own internal engines. It's really hard to de-capitalise industries under capitalism without nationalising the vast majority of it because the bourgies will learn how to use what is public to their own benefit. I always use Discord vs XMPP as a good example of that.
It's basically twitter.
This always comes up and I'm staunchly in this camp rather than the super security groups. Besides the basic "don't doxx yourself" and "don't admit to crimes" stuff for every online community I don't think there's any special harm to participating over here. If people are big enough to be an issue to the authorities, they'll probably be noticeable enough irl or in other websites too.
But obviously use a VPN always (even out of here), specially if you're in that one country where corporations are very free in what they can do with your internet usage data. ProtonVPN is partially free and Nord is very cheap.